Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-19
Fire bugs are valued at 900 apiece.


They also need more watching than car
pet bugs.
DR.. j. M. Ryder and family have moved
to Barre.
Will Bean has been at home for few
days latcly.
Remember the Worlds Fair lecture
Saturday night.
Miss Alice Baird passed Sunday with
her friends in Waitsfield.
Rev. V. NJ. Hardy and wife arrived
Monday
Miss Grace-not Miss Sue-Sanford
started for Chicago yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Lamson are spend
Ing little time in Albany, n. Y.
Miss Lissie Chadwick went Friday TO
Montpelier to remain over Sunday.
Miss Edith Abbott spent Sunday in
Mortified with Mrs. NJ. 5. Gilchrist
A furnace, purchased by the ladies of St.
Johns church, was placed in the cellar TO
the church building last week.
Drs. f. F. Upham and A. &. Bailey were
in Rutland the past week to attend the
State medical convention.
Irwin Chadwick, whose place during
his absence was filed by Carl Sault, has
resumed work at the depot.
Mrs. Margaret Smith takes charge OF
the LIST intermediate, while the regular in
strucgor, Miss Howard, is in Chicago.
Bicycling is steadily gaining ground
with the ladies OF West Randolph, and"the
wheels go round" in a lively manner.
Joshua Spear, who has been visiting
Ariston and II. +. sanford and other rela-
tives, returned TO his home in Boston,
Monday.
E. l.. Bass aud Hon. V. |. Spear are two
OF the sixteen Vermonters, who have been
awarded medals for agricultural exhibit
at the Worlds tair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson left FRIDAY
for New York City. Mrs. Richardson has
been staying for the past few weeks with
her sister, Mrs. j. W. Burt.
Miss Emma c. Pratt was in Montpelier
one nay last week TO consult an oculist
DR.. d. q. Kemp, who examined her eye
and fitted glasses to them satisfactorily.
Mrs. Pearson and her daughter, Miss
Hattie, of Cuttingsville have been visil-
ing their cousin, Mrs. A. b. Fish, anc
other relatives in West Randolph recent
ly. Miss Pearson is quite an expert rider
of the bicycle.
Last Thursday afternoon, two members
of the travelling gentlemen's fraternity re-
called the people on Merchants Row with
little choice music, which brought the
Chinese band at Chicago forcibly to the
minds OF the returned sightseers.
Mrs. H. Russell. accompanied by a son
ana daug hter, George II. and Miss Ma
bel, came last week to visit her sister,
Mrs. Matthews, land her daughters and the
family OF DIR. A. G. Bailey. Mrs. Russell
intends to spend the winter here but her
children return TO Albany.
Friday morning, Miss Louise Chase and
Miss Ethel Gould both of whom are t.
attend the EmarCnn Anbnol of
this year, went to Boston, Miss Chase
visited her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Daggett, Sr., before the commence
ment OF the school, which opened La:
Tuesday,
1h5 new millinery store opened Mol.
day with Miss May Buchanan OF Bethel in
charge. The store is very neat and pretty,
and the goods are tasteiully arranged,
while the hats and bonnets displayed are
certainly things OF beauty, calculated 10
give Joy to their weareis' hearts a. on as
the present fashion remains in force.
Vermont plants, judging from the num-
bers of belated specimens brought to this
office, seem possessed of a laudable am
bition to blossom and bear fruit 'if it !
takes all summer and part Ct the next
winter. Last week, W. S. Spear founu a /
ripe straw berry and few blossoms, whico
was quite find for this season o the
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the fruit for even boarding house short |
cake.
Mrs. Iickford has her fine assortment /
of fall goods nicely arranged in the north .
end of the Richmond block on Main street.
where she will remain until her old quar-
tiers in the Smith block are ready for oc-
cupancy. Ia the meantime, iDcendiary
fires, railroad disasters and the hard
times are not allowed to fill the feminine
mind with so much dismay as to exclude
all thoughts OF r new bonnet, and the or
ders for fall millinery are rapidly coming
in. b
The last OF a series OF talks on the
Worlds Fair by the pupils and teachers
of The High school, wss given Monday by
Prot. Wbitehill. These talks have proved
highly entertaining as well as instruct
i've, and second series is to be given la
ter, when these same 'stalkers" will exer-
else their powers OF conversation on her
topics connected with the Fair. Evident
ly the young people Of the High school.
unlike most OF those " no visited Chicago
last summer, have something more to tell
the world about the trip to that city beside !
the interesting fact that they blistered ,,
their heels.
The third and last HERALD excursion I
to the "White City" left this station Nom
day afternoon on the s.: IL train. Forty
one people compose the party, but the {
number OF people at the depot was nearer 6
ll, and as the hour of departure drew I
nigh, the confusion OF tongues that arose. 9
prepared the tourists in measure for the /
roaring OF that "neat little water power'' t
at Niagara. The excursionists from West
Randolph were A. r. Tewksbury, Fred e
smith, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. p. Thayer, Mrs 4
w. w. Morton, Robert Morton, Leonard d
Misses Kate Howard, Emma d
Ashley and NJ. NJ. Merrill, Mrs.A. B. Fish. o
Clarence Hodges, Alfred Webster and wife; !,
rom Braintree, Misses May and A. Farms I
worth and B. LOOMS, Bert Farnsworth AMI
2. !. Clafiin: from Royalton, Misses Louis. d
md Alice Parker Cornelis SticSney and =
lucy Denison; from Washington. AIRS
;. Bowles and Miss L. b. Roberts; trofa !,
'outh STAFFORD, Hon. :. r. Tracy and Mr..
3uell; from " bite River Junction. p. 4 .
Perrin and wife, Ii A. Perkins and wiff.
rom Post Mills, DR.. Il. II. Giiett and
riend; from Brookfield, Or Goodrich ar,,s +.
amdy, Charles Sumner and John Benz
AN: frcta Worcester. u sss.. Mr.. { x
'lgu.ov- lhi, excursion was due Ia efi- Is
ago Yesterday Haorning siad Is 10 renlifa g
D tnat city six 3 lys Next SstuFfiav