Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-05-31
South Royalton Notes.
M. ]. SARGENT, Local Editor.

NJ. y. OAhGENT, Local Editor.
There are eight horses and colts he
ing trained by Fred Graves and OPP Burn
ham at Riverside Park.
Mrs. Alice Bathrick was not quite SC
well last week.
States Attorney Fred Southgate was in
town last Saturday.
Mrs. j. w. Waldo has been quite feeble
for the past two weeks, some OF the time
not being able to sit up.
Mrs. Harriet Hutchinson OF Norwich is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Bean.
Miss Day, sister of Mrs. Chas. Hutchins,
is falling fast and is very low. She is with
her mother in Exeter, N. H.
%. H. Burnham has sent his horse Free.
stone to Waterbury, in charge of DR.. Il. g.
Hooker, for few weeks.
M. S. Adams has received large num-
Der OF orders for lumber the past two
weeks, indicating revival of business.
Mrs. Walter Hubbard lost pocketbook.
either Thursday night or Friday morning,
containing sum of money.
Owing to the stormy weather. the con.
cert by the colored Jubilee Singers re-
ceiyed a small attendance. Ii was worthy
of a large patronage.
When in need of Screen Doors and Win.
dows call at Pixies
The new Asbestus Pie Plates TO be used
ia the oven and on the stove as a mat are
for sale at S. M. Pixies.
The Braintree baseball club and the So.
Royalton club played a game here last
saturday, the game standing "a to- in
favor OF the Braintree club
The recent rains have thoroughly satur-
ated the earth, which had become very
afy IN this vicinity, assuring good grain |
crop.
The building used for the creamery sep
arator was taken down last week and |
shipped to Middlesex.
Mr.. and Mrs.smith and son of Hanover, /
n. h., are visiting at DIR. Fish's this week 4
Mr.. Smith has fine large specimen of
mastiff.
Between 65 ana rs witnesses were sum
moned to appear at the county court at
Woodstock, Monday and Tuesday of this
week in the case of the State VS.. L.C.Dick-
erman.
The executive committee has changed
the time OF the Septemb Der meeting from
the 18th and 18th, to the 18th and 18th.
This was deemed advisable so as not to
conflict with a meeting at Waterbury
and the Agricultural fair at Bethel
Two newspaper trains passed over the
G. v r. r. last Sunday morning, leaving
W. X. Junction at 1927 a. m, one distrib-
uting the Boston Sunday journal, which
arrived here at 500, and the other distrib-
uting the Boston Sunday Globe and Her
aid, which arrived at S:1S.
Last Saturday evening, James Buck
drove INTO the village and after making a
few purchases at the store, hitched his i
team in the shed at the nj. +. church while
he attended church meeting in the yes !
try. During the pending of the meeting
some one stole bag of meal out OF his
afaf no
ted in our midst. The property of those
bringing teams into the village should be {
as secure while in the sheds as when at
homeland entire immunity from pilfering a
OF this kind must be assured to them IL :
is source of much confidence to know /
that we have so capable an officer as Sher- a
III d. z. Jones. In this instance, owing to 4
his prompt action,the stolen property was t
restored to the owner before midnight and
the offender was brought under cogni- s
zance of the law.
A serious accident and one which came p
near being fatal TO several persons, occur ii
red at 5. M. Shows on Broad Brook last
week Wednesday while raising a barn for Il
Arthur Densmore. There were twenty or N
more persons at work and the frame was
nearly all raised, when, in raising a heavy r
stuck OF timber, large number took a po b
sitlon on the same cross stick and plank 2
near the center of the frame. The founda-
lion on which they were standing gave
way, and eight of them fell to the ground,
! distance of about twenty five feet. For n
unately only three received broken bones iIc
II other serious injury. Mr.. Churchill had L
IN arm broken and received a wound on
he head from which he was unconscious in
or twelve hours. His son had broken sc
wrist; John Spaulding, three broken ribs.
fred Rowland had his face badly cut and vi
bruised, and several others received lesser
INJURIES. =,