Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-06-20
Randolph Concluded.

n new plank t1OOr1ng has been lald
the covered bridge.
Justus Ketchum and wife OF Barre al
! at julius Lamson's.
A daughter was born Friday mornin
/ to Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Gage.
Mrs. L. G. Tilson is making a short Sc
| Journ with relatives in Northfeld.
Mrs. Mary Saxton and Miss maria Bee
die made trip to Royaiton last week.
Mrs. Carleton and her visitors from tn
West spent Monday and Tuesday in vii
Jamestown.
Mrs. A. D. Lamson and children from
Philadelphia are expected at "Idleton Cot
tage" Tuesday.
Mrs. ]. A. Fowler has gone to Glare
mont, N. H., to make the acquaintance o.
her infant grandson. 81
The Kings Daughters will meet with
Miss Name Moulton, Monday evening
June Oath, at o'clock.
Misses Eta and Nellie Harwood left
Tuesday morning for the West, where
they intend to spend their vacation.
Miss Hortense Peters has been in White
River Junction this week to see her moth
er, Mrs. Emma 8. Peters, whose school in
Olcott Falls has just closed.
Messrs. Charles Montgomery and Frank
Dufur, two members of the Boston police
force who have been passing short va
cation here, returned to their duties Fri
day.
A couple OF full.grown deer came into
Mr.. Theo B. Kendall's pasture MONDAY
morning and looked around the valley
for long time. They were in plain
sight from the back door and quite near
the house.
After completing another successful
millinery season, Miss Winnie Foster Is
again at home for a short vacation. She
soon returns, however, to Enfield, N. H.,
where she is to clerk in fancy goods and
shoe store.
F. T. Butterheld OF this place, who has
charge OF tine quarrying for the Randolph
Stone company, quarried entirely alone
one day last week, at the Wood ledge,
stone weighing &c, 240 pounds and contain
ing ZIG cubic feet, or thirteen perch OF
stone.
Mr.. Samuel Bass is raising this season
some OF the very finest OF strawberries.
They are of the Bubach and Marshall va
rieties and are large and luscious enough
to tempt body to make a pretense OF ty-
ing his shoestrings while passing by that
strawberry patch.
In spite OF the shower last Thursday
night, the ice cream party given by the
Kings Daughters proved quite success,
the receipts amounting to about $l5. On
account OF the dampness, the tables were
spread in the Cong'l vestry, instead Of on
w. w. Morton's lawn.
Mrs. Henry W. Tewksbury and her
daughter, Miss Mary, attended the COM
mencement exercises OF the Plymouth, N.
H., Normal school, OF which Mrs. Tewks-
bury's sister, Miss Helen Carr, is stu
dent. From Plymouth, Mrs. Tewksbury |
and her daughter went to Goffstown, N.
H., for few weeks.
'Phidn Bruce, who is something OF |
took a little stroll in his |
sleep the other night and walked through |
/ window, without stopping to remove
the screen, and fell eighteen or twenty |
Ieet to the ground below. Thus gently |
he awoke to find himself with
,wo broken ribs and several painful
bruises.
A Mortified item. in the Burlington
Free Press stated: "Electric lights were
urned on for the first time Saturday even
ng amid the boom OF cannon and band
music. Everything runs well and the peo-
Ole are perfectly satisfied with the light"
Hyde Park, little hamlet about half the
,ize of Randolph, voted to adopt electric
lights last week.
The board OF cattle commissioners have
ested for tuberculosis Irving Lamson's
nerd of twelve cows and condemned two,
llso w. w. Jones' herd of sixteen cows,
,ut all OF the latter proved sound. OF the
wo belonging to irving Chase, one was
Peter Sault's COW and the
,ne owned by r. T. Dubois were pro-
iounced free from any trace OF the dis
ase.
Monday morning, as Will Terry was
irving span Of mules hitched to heavy
wagon loaded with grain over the Main
treet railroad crossing, a freight train
hat was shifting back and forth unex-
,ectedly sent couple OF cars In his direc-
ion. Fearing that the cars would strike
he team before he could cross the track,
Mr., Terry endeaVored to hasten the pace
II the mules, and the animals started with
UGH jerk that meal bags and driver tum.
lied promiscuously from the top OF the
Dad. The mules then attempted to run
way but were captured before they had
proceeded very far.
In the list OF strangers this week are
ound the names of Mrs. Samuel Presley
II Lebanon, N. H., and Mrs. Ned Alexan-
Hardy of Morrisville, the guest OF her
on, Rev. v. M. Hardy; Heber Cady OF
Sorthtield, visiting Curtis Kent; Ozro
Winch and wife OF Northfield, with their
laughter, Mrs. d. j. Morse; Mr.. and
Mrs Chas. Hope OF Somerville, Mass,
riends OF F. H. Smith; Mr.. and Mrs. @.
]. Lazelle OF White River Junction; Mrs.
Marcia Gilchrist OF Northfield, guest at
J. e. Abbott's; VIM. Adams OF Boston, at
he home of his uncle, j. w. Burt; and
Mr., Isaac Treat of New Haven, Conn.,,
,uest at "Stoneleigh."
Saturday, John Stimets, who works at
he creamery, started to drive the Maple
wood team from the Center to the station
O meet the evening train. He
anne by the old road and one OF the
,orses gave him considerable trouble all
he way. At the top of the Herrick
ill. it became utterly unmanageable ana
Proceeded down that steep incline at
.aIlop. The road machine had been at
YORK on that part Of the highway and had
eft quite gutter by the side OF the road,
nd when the carriage struck that, 1t was
yerturned and it's occupants thrown out.
Neither Mr.. Stimets nor the lady who was
iding with him were at all seriously IN
nred, though the former, who held on to
he horses, was dragged several feet. The
arriage was badly damaged and one OF
be span cut deep cash In its foot.