Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-13


We have spent our waking moments
irving all these things to dodge.
Edward N. Rising has been granted an
increase in pension.
Mrs. Lena Morian and son Harry have
gone to Norwood, N. Y, to live.
There are at present thirty-four men
employed in the Prince tub factory.
Friday, December 21st, the shortest day
in the year, will be little over nine hours
long.
Hon. j. p. Cleveland has been appointed
one of the deputy sheriffs for orange
county.
Hen. ]. p. Cleveland, Jr., now has his
office in the Dubois block, with J.D.Deni-
son, Esq.
J. Laroy Mann and F.. 7. Huntington
have purchased Blasius pianos OF Gould q
Nichols OF Barre.
IA. Anderson and family are occupy
ing a tenement in the A. j. Curtis
house on Main street.
Miss Kate Guptil has gone to Fitchburg,
Mass, to spend the winter with her SIS
ter, Mrs. Herbert Flint.
A. e. Lewis has left Norwich University
and is now student at the. University OF
Vermont, in Burlington.
Dennis Cassidy lately attended the an
nual meeting OF the masonic lodge IN 81.
Albans, OF which he is member.
There will be meeting Of the teachers
OF Randolph district at the Center school
house Saturday afternoon, Dec. p.
None OF our teachers attended the 45th
annual convention of the State Teachers
association, held in Rutland, Dec. 6th-Sth.
Mrs. G. O. Durkee, who has been caring
for her niece, Mrs. ]. l.. 5ault, during the
latter's illness, has returned TO Stock
| bridge.
Misses Nellie and Alice Hastings have
gone to Fitchburg, Mass, where they will
devote the next three months to the study
OF music.
! last week to have his hand caught by one
of the saws IN the screen mill and quite
/ badly cut.
/ Ed Hatch and family have moved from
the Chadwick house on Main street TO the
\ lower part of the Lamson house on South
4 Pleasant street.
Drs. A. c. Bailey and F. c. Angel have
rented rooms for an office in the Cush
man block, corner of Pleasant street and
Randolph avenue.
The postoffice department at Washing
ton has perpetrated upon this community
a licking good joke by sending two hum
. QI6u OHc-Ctul 5tdlIps W Dc Qio-
posed OF as rapidly as possible.
During the latter part OF last week, the
locomotives we're draped in mourning in
honor of Tom McSorley, one of the best
engineers on the Central Vermont, who
died at his home in st. Adams the 9Th
inst.
Mrs. JIG. Barttro, who has been visiting
relatives in Vermont and New Hampshire
and for the past three weeks has been STAY.
ing with Mrs. Junnicus Barttro, left here
Tuesday, going to her home in Dubuque,
Iowa.
The fish market has been moved to the
basement of the Bradish block, and the
cart now makes the rounds with fresh fish
and oysters ON Tuesdays and Fridays.
Henry Howe has gone out OF the business
and returned to Sharon, leaving Fred
Goodrich to manage the market by him
self.
The ladies of st. Johns church will
have a sale of fancy articles in q. A. r.
hall Friday afternoon and evening, the
14th. The sale will oIen at O'Clock, and
Hoped oysters, cold meats, rolls, all kinds
OF cake, tea and coffee, will be served from
$3.50 on.
The case of Maria Acosta against the
Comerford dramatic company, that played
here a couple OF weeks ago, will be heard
in the Washington county court next
March. Miss Acosta's case against the
company is for services renoered, and
pending the hearing, she has gone back TO
New York.
Thursday, Mrs. A. A. Smith drove over
to A. L. Deans to make a call, and as
she wns alightiDg from the carriage, her
dress caught In some way and she was
thrown heavily to tue ground, bruising
her head and knee and breaking the small
bone of her wrist. The bruised knee was
quite as painful as the broken wrist, but
both are nos, happily, on the mend.
Mrs. Frank Griswoid has returned from
a visit Of several weeks at the home OF her
brother, Mpior Shattuck, in Hatfield.
Mass; Clarence Emery, from quite a
lengthy stay in Washington, ID. C., and
Mrs. Rhoda Flint, from a trip to sevel al
points in Massachusetts,, her last stopping
place being Holyoke, where she sustained
a severe injury by falling and fracturfng
the bones OF her wrist.
Sunday, the 9th, was the anniversary Of
the birth OF John Milton, who came into
this world in 1908, to write paradise
Lost, = and tomorrow, the 14th. will be tie
anniversary of the death of Washington.
who departed this life in 1893 at the age of
81 years in order that the New World
might inaugurate its quadrennial hunt for
perfect president.
The northbound and southbound Green
Mountain Flyers over the Rutland d.
vision have been discontinued, brea King
up the connection between here aud Rut-
land by the morning trains. The best and
quickest way to reach that city under the
new order of service is to take the
evening train north, leaving Randolph at
D ~ ana arriving in Rutland at about 10
O'Clock.
The Montpelier Waterman Of last week
contained the following: "Hon. VIM. Ii.
Dubois spent Moaday in tuwn turning
over the Office and installing Col. fred +.
smith, the new inspector OF finance. into
hrs position. Mr.. DuBois has made :
most excellent officer, having had nearly
q lifelong experience in banks and BANK
ing, and has, in tue most courteous man
ner, turned over the affairs OF this DEPART
ment. MIR. Smith has established his Of
nee in the National Life Insurance build
ing and enters at once upon the duties de-
yolviDg upon him"