Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-07-27


e. @. Brown, proprietor of the Wilson
House, Bethel, was in town Tuesday.
Mrs. Edwards and daughter of Barre
visited at A. A. Smiths the oath and 18th.
Miss Winnieford Foster visited her
many friends in East and West Bethel last
week.
Mrs. Harry Denny intends TO 20 very
soon to New Mexico, for the beneht OF
her health.
A supper viii be served at the Baptist
chapel this Thursday evening, from six
O'Clock on.
Mrs. Seavey and daughter Gertrude, al
50 Mrs. Smith, of Dorchester, Mass, are
at j. H. Lamson's.
MRS. .A.Smith and daughter of Brook
line, Mass, were with her sister mrs.A. j.
Foster, over Sunday.
Mrs. Bailey Pinney of Crawford, Neb.,
and Miss Kate Cole OF Bethel visited at f..
A. Thacher's last Saturday.
Mrs. Abigail Robinson of Aurora, H.,
is visiting her niece, Mrs. B. F. Chadwick.
Mrs. Robinson came yesterday.
Our bridge has become veritable tenn
pie Of fine arts under the artistic hands of
Barnum II Bailey's bill posters.
Mrs. Della Badger Try, who spent last
summer at Willard Gays, died July 18th,
at the home Of her sister, in Topeka, Kan
sas.
The painters have been working this
week on the houses OF Hon. w. Fl. Du-
Bots, DR.. M. L. Scott and w. f. Wedge
wood.
Rev. g. w. Morrow will be home Satur-
day morning and will preach in the Chris
tian church vestry Sunday morning at the
usual hour.
Mrs. Hiram Bean went Saturday TO So.
Royalton to see her sister, Miss Sylvia
Whitaker, before the iatter's departure
for Rutland and Hoosick Falls, n. Y.
Monday, MIR. and Mrs. A. X. Lane,
Sherman and Horace Moulton and John
Dubois went to Lanesboro. The gentle
men took their fishing tackle with them.
Frank Flint, formerly a blacksmith in
this place but now Of Mount Pleasant,
Mich, also arrived last week, Homer
Young, at one time tonsorial artist
here.
Galen 3. Fish reached home the 18th,
coming from Chicago and the wonderful
Fair. Monday, he went to Rochester to
attend Mrs. Edna Chafiee- Mobiles sum
mer school.
Pearl Bean drove last week from his
home in New Jersey to West Randolph,
where his wife, who came some weeks ago,
has been visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Hiram Bean.
Paul Dillingham;, son of ex-Gov. Dill
lingbam, Merrill Evans, Jr., and Miss
Eva Evans accompanied MIR. and Mrs.
Evan Evans on their return from Water
bury, Tuesday.
+. A. Shattuck expects TO leave the lat
ter part Of this week for the West and dur
ing the month or more that he is to be
away, will visit the cities Of Buffalo, Chi
cago and Bloomington.
Mrs. VIM Nutting, whose late husband
was an organ builder in Randolph many
years ago, and daughter, Miss Lucy, were
guests at the Maplewood last week. Their
present home is in Bellows Falls.
John Moses and daughter. Miss Emma,
also Miss Nellie Bigelow, left here on the
evening train yesterday. Mr.. Moses and
daughter were bound for the Worlds
Fair, and Miss Bigelow for Fairhayen,
Washington.
Yesterday morning, ITO tickets for
Montpelier were sold Al this station, and
six car loads OF crowded but happy hu-
manity went through here on their way to
those scenes so graphically depicted on
the billboards.
Mrs. Bickford and Miss Gertrude are
enjoying carriage ride througha part Of
the State, stopping to visit friends in
Middlebury and Brandon. Miss Winnie
ford Foster has charge OF the millinery
store during their absence.
Hon. James Hutchinson returned the
goth from his Western travels. During his
absence he visited Duluth, St. Paul and
Minneapolis, Mimi, Chicago, ILL.,, and
Randolph, Wis, but came back more than
ever persuaded that Randolph, VT, and
particularly the West village, is the best
place in which to live. Miss Mary Hutch
inson remains in the West for some
weeks longer.
Tn, Store and LIVING rnnn,e Il, he Smith
block, now occupied by Mis-. Bickford ARE
to be made into two nicely arranged stores.
and the one in the south end of the block
will be used by Messrs. Drew q Leonard
OF Fairfax for the drug store which they
expect to open here about August 10, and
the one adjoining by Mrs. Bedford for
her millinery business Messrs Drew x
Leonard have dealt in drugs for many
years, and intend to fit up their new store
in the best manner possible.
Thursday, Robert Morton and Fred
Smith, on their bicycles, covered the dis
lance from here to Burlington in 10 l-2
hours, besides stopping for breakfast and
dinner on the way. Starting at half past
four in the morning, they reached the
Queen City at three in the afternoon, max
ing what is considered unusually good
time for older and more experienced rid
ers. Cycling is hereafter to be made easy
by the invention OF Hartford man, who
has discovered that Safety bicycle can be
run by compressed air at the rate of one
mile minute without any labor on the
part of the rider. His invention is this:
A cylinder is attached to the rear wheel,
and the man from Hartford claims hat
the pressure is sufiicien. to run the ma
chine for a distance of 10 miles on a level.
When coasting down hill, the valve of the
cylinder is closed by means OF an arrange
ment on the left handle bar, correspond
ing to the brake on the other side, and the
motion OF the wheel is made to refill the
cylinder with compressed air.
A very serious accident occurred last
Monday, late in the afternoon. Mr..
Charles h. Burke, an Invalid, from Brock
ton, Mass, had been staying at the Red
Lion Inn for the last two weeks. That
afternoon, Mr.. Battles, the proprietor of
the Inn, took him for a drive to the Cen
ter. As they were returning, between 5
and o'clock they met Mr. Frank
Ketchum ALSO driving, near the O'Connell
place, Just above j. w. Burt's. Before the
two teams had passed each other, Mr.
ct ctruCr his horse NTH he a. y