Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-30
West Randolph Locals.

ton.
E. A. shattuck was in Mortified on
Saturday last.
Mrs. Geo. Spear was among those sick
the first Of the present week.
Mrs. B. w. Wilcox of Bristol is visiting
her sister, Mrs. E. A. Thomas.
Miss Ruth ID. Holman of West Hartford
visited this place Wednesday.
Harry C. Allen Of Wells River was one
of the guests here over Sunday.
Miss Bessie Webster passed Sunday
with her brothers in Mortified.
Mrs. c. n. Benedict of Barre was the
guest Of Mis-. E.. E. Bsgley last week.
Miss Florence Brooks, 'e5, Wellesley
college, is at home On a short vacation.
n. Wheatley of East Brookfield made a
business excursion to this village thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j.. Blodgett of Lyndon
vile arrived in town Friday for a short
stay.
Mrs. Chas. II. Brown Of White River
Junction is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Mcbride.
Mrs. Mary Blodgett made a short visit
last week to former friends and ~neighbors
in Mortified.
Mrs. Z. e. Bruce from Bellows Falls has
been staying recently with frienos in
West Randolph.
Miss Lena Chase, who had been spend.
ing the preceding week here, returned
Saturday TO Roxbury.
H. C. Loomis, Worcester, Mass, was
among the visitors in West Randolph dur
the week just past.
Chas. Richardson n wife OF Water
bury, en- route to Boston last week, stop
ped over one day at Mr.. Thurston's.
Frank F. Sault returned the 22nd from
Oakdale, Mass, where be has been work.
ing for about a month in a box factory.
Mrs. Mead and daughter came from St.
~Johnsbury last Saturday for a weeks va
cation at their home on Randolph Ave.
The many friends Of Col. X. J. Kimball
of Brooklyn, n. Y, were pleased to see
him once more in town, If only for a few
days.
Dufur d Hutchins were in Bellows Falls
last week TO establish a branch agency OF
the New York Mutual Life Insurance com
pany.
Fl. ID. Abbott of Williamstown has pur-
chased the house on Maple st. formerly
owned by G. M. Howard and has moved
into IL.
Geo. Hutchinson, an employee in Sails
bury's mill, cut his hand quite badly Sat
urday; the third accident OF tAe kind that
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Among the social events of the past
week were two very pleasant whist par
ties; Wednesday evening at Royal Til
sons and Thursday evening at Z. W. Hay
wards.
DR.. and Mrs. E. o. Blanchard entertain
ed the choir of the Christian church and
Rev. Mr.. Morrow's class, about forty in
all, at their pleasant home Saturday even
ing.
Bluebirds have taken up their abode in
%brookline; wild geese, in Vernon and
Brattleboro; robins, in Westminster, but
West Randolph seems to have been pre-
empted by crows.
Miss Lottie Muzzy, daughter OF Con-
ductor Muzzy OF White River Junction
and well known in this place, started
Monday from st. Adams for Ohio, where
she intends to reside.
Miss Maud Haskins returned Wednes-
day of last week from her trip to Boston
and New York and Monday started for
Barre, where she will remain until the
season for new spring bonnets is over.
A hearty vote of thanks was given last
Sunday to DIR. T.. o. Blanchard, superin-
tendent OF the Christian church Sunday
school, for the very handsome oak desk
which he placed in the Sunday school
room.
V. /. Spear OF the State Board OF Agri-
culture says, 1.-THE croakers and fault-find-
ers at home have don more damage to
Vermont in the past ten years than has
anything else And who will say that he
is not right2-Bristol Herald.
DIR. II. II. Mcintyre, executive commits
sioner from Vermont for the Worlds
Fair, was in Montpelier lately to superin-
tend the sending OF the first cubes of gran
lite, marble and soapstone designed for
the stone sample exhibit in Chicago. The
next samples will be sent April 10th.
Improvements are being made in the
Wheeler block. now owned by FIT. Hunt |
ington. The north room on the ground
tioor has been rented by A. ID. Pratt for
his rubber stamp and job printing busi-
ness, and the room above is being provid-
ed with skylightand other appurtenances
belonging to a hrst-class photograph gal
lery and studio.
Claude Hill, who once spent a year at
Randolph Center on the Roweli farm,
which his father then owned, and who
was a prominent member OF the local base.
ball club, has been sentenced to four wears
in the State penitentiary OF California.
de was convicted on two charges OF EN-
bezzllng money, receiving three years
for the first offense and one for the sec
ond.
Charles Blodgett was brought before
Justice A. A. Smith last week by States
Attorney Stow, on the charge of abusing
his team. The case was adjourned to
April 9th, after a jury was drawn. The
complaint was made to the States Attor-
ney by citizens of the town, and not by
the branch of the State Humane Society,
the Argus and reports to the contrary not
wit~hstanding.
Last Sunday was Palm Sunday, celebrat-
ing the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Good Friday occurs on Friday of this
week, called Holy Week because il is the
anniversary of the last week Of Christ's
life. Next Sunday will be yesterday.
called a "moveaDie feast, y for the reason
that 1t does not always fall on the same
day OF the month, nor even in the same
month. The rule for finding it is this:
Easter day is always the first Sunday af-
ter the full moon which happens upon or
next after the t~wenty-first day OF March;
and il the full moon happens upon q sun /
day, Easter-day is tie Sunday AFTER
This year the full moon happens on Sat
uroay, April 1st, and SO yesterday viii
he Sunday ApriI oud III