Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-23
south RoyaIton Notes.
MI SARGENT, Local Editor.

~ FLANDERS was in town last week.
w. will find screen doors and window
atPike's. n.
day night
cry for SALE
cbas, Buck OF Lebanon visited friends
here on Sunday.
uo,and Reynolds Of Bethel visited
,,;snds here on Sunday.
Regular meeting Of Rising Sun lodge
Ma + will be held Wednesday evening
May 9Th.
p.od Newcomb, agent for the Vermont
pibIe society, visited his sister, Mrs. Nye,
last week.
Miss Ala Day has returned from Ran
aainb, where she has been engaged the
past two weeks.
Camp No. IA, Sons OF Veterans, will hold
Ne regular meeting at the hall Saturday
evening, the Goth.
Mrs. Myrtle White Cow Of Barre visited
bsr mother and sister at flenry Whit
combs over Sunday.
The Laing Brothers are advertised to
utvp
church this Thursday evening.
Miss Matte Monkey, daughter OF Mrs.
NJ, Monkey OF this village, is visiting her
aunt, Mrs Emory, in Washington, D. G.
George Nye has been quite ill the past
usek with an acute attack of eczema, from
which he has suffered intensely the past
winter.
Mrs. Oscar Shaw and Mrs. Geo. Kimball
of Bethel visited their daughters here, Miss
Flora Shaw and Mrs. Walter Webster, last
Saturday.
Henry Osgood returned home last Sat-
urday from a trip in New Hampshire,
where he has been selling agricultural
implements.
JIG, Bennett is falling and his friends
are very much alarmed about him. Those
Who haze been with him think that he
can never be any better.
MS, Stone, state superintendent of ed
ucaton, held a conference with the school
board and teachers OF the graded district
last week Wednesday evening.
The time given for the Sunday Memoir.
| slssrTice next Sunday at the M. E.church |
inhelast weeks items in the HERALD |
should have read 10 o'clock instead of l.
Charles Williamson, proprietor of the
Lebanon House at Lebanon, N. H., was
guest of G. n. Woodard last week. He I
purchased horse of DR.. Fish while here. I
Several members of the Universalist So
ciety went to Bethel last Sunday to hear
Rev, Mrs East, wife of Rev. Mr.. East, pas
torotthe Universalist church at North
field.
Charles Cushman and wife of Lowell,
arevisting their parents, Mr.and Mrs. VAL
more Cushman. Mr.. Cushman is very
successful optician and has q large prac-
tice in Lowell.
Mrs, Gertrude Dewey is dangerously ill
at her fathers, Harrison Dewey's. Dr.Bur-
nett is the attending physician and DR..
Frost OF Hanover and DR.. Fish were called
to see her last week.
The personal property belonging to the
estate Of the late Oscar H. Davis will be
sold on the premises at auction at D. M,
Saturday, June 1st.
w Amos Emery, Administrator.
Mrs. Martha Libby, with her family of {
two daughters and three sons, who has
spent the winter at j. B. Durkee's, has i
moved to Barre where she intends to make /
apermaDent residence. Mrs. Libby has,
prior to the death Of her husband year
ago, resided in Chicago.
A ire set to burn brush and stumps on
the east side of the mountain called the :,
Elephant last week, extended to the west .
slde,which is covered with thick growth
o. trees, and burned over the entire sur
lace before being extinguished. The dam
age cannot be deter mined until it is I
known whether the young trees are de-
stfoyed or not.
Mrs Hannah G. Balm died at George w. 4
leonard's at South Tunbridge last Mon =
gay night at the age Of SO years. Mrs. !
BAN bad been aresident OF this village h
l0f Ihe past twenty five years until this
spring, when she accompanied Mr.. Leon +
afus people, with whom she had boarded b
II l9l lhe past six years, to So. Tunbridge. ! b
ols mad been IN feeble health the past four a
SSsafs, gradually declining until her death. h
ole ieit a son, Albert Balm, who is at pres il
M ,lt ~ the Northwest in the vicinity of
MsahiL0oa, and some distant relatives in
New hampshire and Rhode Island.
!. M Harrison Dewey OF this village has b
u his possessiona colonial script, represent is
iiug twenty snillings, numbered 1867 and 81
nsuea ny order of the Assembly of Con- a.
ascllcut, June |, 1913, and payable to the b
gvssessor by Treasurer OF the Colony Of n
vuuylnhesctlcut, June /, 1875, and signed by y
", mm' pitkln and George WILEY, Commit N
". u is well preserved and plainly legi-
.r MI, MI Dewey also has in his possession
a. a.. original roll Of company of IS militia
%sn,ol which his father, Ebenezer Dewey, B
VA orderly sergeant. They we're enrolled
W.. IN the Sd regiment of the colony of "
S rs hampshire in 1779 at Gilsum, giving :"
S SaMe OF the sergeant and corporals. 4.
" Dewey was afterwards made one y
Il fry sne lleutenants OF the company and in ~ ~
bb 0a, commanded the company at Skeens y
s sN Z Whitehall, N. Y. The roll bears ~
car sae names OF the company except the
ivvIrall s officers. The names are plain m
hsrllen on sheet of unruled paper, 8x13 M
ia a,1 ~ With marginal scroll surround it
sSS II sas sheet, done with ink. The sheet tt
'lONs extreme old age. 81