Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-04-12
out Royalton Notes.


1t was a right smart winter day we had
last Friday.
DR.. Bisbee OF Montpelier was in town
Saturday.
Miss Clara French has been engaged as
bookkeeper at the shoe factory.
Mr.. Seymore Durkee is confined to the
house by sickness.
Henry Paige and wife of Bethel visited
Mr.. Clement Drew's people last week.
4 Chef. Sanborn has sold his farm to Hem
ny 0sgood.
Mrs. Allie Dean and son are visiting her
mother here.
Mrs. Phebe Hackett is slowly falling.
Mrs. Susan Jones is very much better
and able to be about the house.
Mrs. Scion Buck is improving. Mr.Buck
returned to Chicago, Monday.
Arthur Faneuf returned home from Gu
ba last Monday.
Considerable sugar will be made this
week.
VIM. Martin is in Boston this week on
business.
The Ladies' Aid OF the Universalist So
ciety will meet with Mrs. HI. M. Double
day, Thursday eve, April 20.
The Universalist society will give an en-
tertainment May /.
O. G. Harris has just opened his new
stock of millinery and trimmed hats. He
has an experienced trimmer from Minne-
spolis.
Rev. Mr.. Beeman, presiding elder, preach
ed at the NJ. K. church last Sunday.
James Bingham is tomove onto his
farm this spring.
Don Cowdery is at home fiom Saratoga.
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liver the address Memorial Day. The SER
vice is to be held at Royalton this year.
]. M.Shepard Of the Shepard Family has
engaged the Braman Family Bell Ringers
Of Philadelphia, and win combine the two
this season.
Mrs. C~larissa Farmer, an old resident of
Royalton, died last Monday of pneumo-
nia, at the age of 50 years. She was sick
only four days.
Mrs.A. C.BeaD has presented Bixby Post
with a large group of prominent g.. A. r.
men-Gen. Hugh Henry and his depart
ment staff of 1s92-in all, twenty-one. 1t is
an excellent picture 24x26, taken in Wash
ington, ID. C.,during the national encamp-
ment.
Ed Smith is in Boston this week buying
furniture and crockery for the So. Royal
ton and Park Houses. He is repairing the
So. Royalton House, putting in bath and
wash rooms, and papering and painting
the rooms throughout.
Lyman Hayward, Chas. Hayward and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Doubleday desire to
express to their neighbors and friends
their heartfelt thanks for the kind assist
ance during the sickness and burial of
their mother, Mrs. George Hayward.
Arthur Whitman sent a letter to his
mother in Bombay in Feb. 1892, which was
returned to him March rs, 1893, from the
dead letter office. 1t Lore the postmarks,
London, Hamburg, Bombay and Hong
Kong. 1t had travelled the entire distance
at a cost of two cents.
The funeral of Mr.. A. b. Wall was held
last week Wednesday at the Methodist
churcn, Rev. Mr.. Wilkins of Bethel otfici-
ating. There was a large attendance of
relatives and friends, among whom were
his children, Chas. Wall and wife of this
place, Herbert Wall and wife of Keene, n.
H., Wm.Viail and wife of West Randolph,
his sister, Mrs. Eliza Soper of Mortified,
Mr.. Howe and wife, Capt. Howe and sis
ter Of Northfield Henry and Edward Soper
and daughter of West Randolph, Will So
per OF this place, Henry Kenyon of North
field, Mr.. Holman, Mr.. Willard Gay and
Mr., Edward Shattuck Of West Randolph.