Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-15

Mrs. n. i. DUBOIS mas Deeu on JnS SICK
list this week.
Fred n Miss May Bradish were il
Montpelier the 9th.
Julius Lanison and wife give a whis
party next Friday evening.
j. w. Hobart and wife were in Hanover
and Lebanon, N. H., over Sunday.
Mrs. Geo. p. Wood has a niece, Mis-
May Capen, staying with her for the pres
emit.
Four OF our young people attended thu
drama and dance at Gaysville, Thursday
evening.
Center soil and slid gently into Wesi
Randolph last Friday.
Mrs. o. j. Stowell OF Putney, grand lee
turer of the o. +. s., was in town Monday
the guest of Mrs. Samuel Bass.
Hon. Crosby Miller of Pomfret has beer
spending a few days the past week witt
his daughter, Mrs. II. H. Mcintyre.
We "Deestrick Skule' will open in W
Cong'l yestries Friday evening, March "a
at 7.30 o'clock. Ye bills will be seen later,
III. w. Smith has returned from New
York, but Miss Minnie stopped at Fitch
burg, Mass, to visit MIR. and Mrs. Nelson
Olmstead.
Albert Gay was called to Gaysville Mon
day by the serious illness of his mother,
who is suffering from a severe attack OF
pneumonia.
Ed. F. Smith of South Royalton and his
successor in business, MIR. Pike, formerly
of Johnson, were in the villiag last week,
buying new furniture of Salisbury Bros.
DR.. E. o. Blanchard is attending the
Vermont State Dental Convention at st.
Adams this week. Mrs. Blanchard is Wis
iting friends in Burlington and St. Al
bans
The Junior exercise comes off next Fri
day afternoon. Only "A speakers-but
then the days are continually growing
longer. The essays are to be reviews Of
the new books lately added to the High
school library.
Will Allen is thinking of opening a
meat market before very long. From the
number OF markets, one would Judge that
West Randolph lived by meat alone.
Clarence Mann, who was clerk in Mr..
Thurston's a few years ago, will take Mr..
Aliens place in the store.
Carroll L. Flint, W. T. sparhawk and d.
Z. Putnam were home from Dartmouth
over Sunday. Mr.. Putnam has been and
is now on the sick list but expects to
go back to Hanover before very long.
The others returned to the classic shades
of Dartmouth the first OF this present
week.
At the Edmunds Club, l.. l.. A., spell
ing school last Monday night, Clarence
Hodges and Harry Ford were the leaders.
Mr.. Hodges side won, Miss Nina Carpen-
ter having the honor OF spelling down the
entire school. Fred Mcintosh, who was
the champion of the other side, stood his
ground manfully but in vain, a member
OF the fair sex, as usual, was going to have
the last word.
Charlie Lewis, a young boy who has
been working In Salisbury's mill during
vacation, cut his hand on a circular saw
last Thursday. The forefinger on the left
hand had to be amputated and the thumb,
middle and third fingers were badly man
gled. The wounds were dressed at DR..
Scott's surgery, and the injured member
is now dong well.
Mr.. Harry Knapp, the popular and eff
ficient clerk in f.. A.. Thomas store,
was married Thursday, March 9th, in
Greenwich, N. Y, to Miss Louisa Fischer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Knapp reached here Satur-
day and are to housekeeping
the last of this week in the Rising house
Weston St. The young couple have
the congratulations and good wishes OF
many friends.
A. E. Bass entertained about thirty OF
his friends with drive whist last Saturday
tNSnlnB. htlFtsuL1cHbb OF SdnQMlCheH,
coffee and ice cream were served and a
most delightful evening was passed. Mr..
Geo. L. Penniman and Miss Jennie God
frey scored the greatest number OF points.
The "boobies, " no doubt, feel sufficiently
chagrined and out OF respect for their
feelings, the curtain falls.
The Ruggles Street Quartette gave us a
most delightful concert last Friday even
ing, by far the best OF the season. II was
'linked sweetness and the audience, by
enthusiastic applause, endeavored to draw
ii out as long as possible. The selections
were good and their voices, of unusual
cultivation, blended perfectly. "Bonnie
Mary, Maid OF Glengarryp charmed every
one. The members of the quartette ex-
pressed themselves as very much pleased
with the programs gotten up by w. s. s.
Buck, Randolph's job printer.
No. 6, Dog River Valley bridge, near
Montpelier Junction, was burned about
$50 Monday afternoon. The local passen-
ger south and the Chicago limited express
north did not clear it in time and were a
number OF hours late. The night express,
81, the morning mail, No. So, and the
Boston mail north went around by the
way of Montpelier and Wells River. The
train arrived in st. Adams about 10
a. m. The railroad officials, with a large
force of men, went Immediately to the
anu ulIeSbGu the putting IN OIL Tres
sci work, which, it was expected, would be
completed in time for the passage OF trains
Wednesday.
DR.. r.. q. Motion certainly deserves a
prominent place among our enterprising
men since he is the first to pro-
vide his house with the modern hot-water
system of heating, and his store with that
indispensable adjunct to a successful bust
ness, a National Cash Register. Both were
purchased after thorough investigation
and are the best of their kind made. The
heater is the Palace King, manufactured
by Russell & Co. of Utica, n. Y, and is
certainly a great success, holding the tenn
p%erature in all the looms at exactly IS
no matter what the weather. We have
never seen a more perfect system of heat
ing. The register, too, is the best that
has yet been invented.
w. w. Seymour, son of c. c. Seymour
this place, and r. Jackson nave lately
to the business in Lynn, Mass,
conducted for the past three years by
and Morse, which partnership
was dissolved late last year by the death
Mr.. Morse. Mr.. Seymour, who was as