Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-23
Randolph Concluded.

house BY 2 hard cold.
H. e. Thatcher and wife have gone [
Bakersfield to spend the summer.
The Good Templars meet this evening
the 23rd inst, in the g. A. X. hall.
Mrs. Q. @. Written has returned froi
her trip to Fortress Munro, Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Kinney Of Royalto
are visiting friends and relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Adame gave smal
party last evening at their home on Fale
street.
Newell Fisk has moved into the Elmer,
Steele house, last occupied by Georg
Frank Grove, who has been sufferin.
from severe attack OF pleuro- pneumonia
Is reported to be little better.
! W. B. Wall il away this week on bust
ness trip, taking In Burlington, Yer
gennes, 81. Adams and Montreal.
Mrs. D. N. English OF Brookfield ant
Mrs. Carrie (French) Wallace OF Everett
Mass, are staying with Mrs. G. D.French
E. N. Rising il building an addition
containing . summer kitchen and wood.
shed, to the rear Of his house on School
street.
The woman's auxiliary Of Grace church,
Randolph Center, will be entertained by
Rev. and Mrs. Homer White tomorrow
afternoon.
All members of the Volunteer Hose com
pany are hereby notified that there will
be practice meeting next Wednesday
evening, May 10Th.
Mrs. Anna Mccall and Miss Ralston ar
rived from New York, Friday, and Mon
day, Mr.. and Mrs. James N. Mccall
reached elm Cottage"
Mrs. l.. 8. Morian, who has been in Nor
wood, Mass, the past winter, is again in
Randolph and has resumed dressmaking
at her rooms on FaIes street.
Hon. and Mrs. J. W. Rowell were in
Burlington, Tuesday, and on their return,
the Judge stopped at Montpelier to attend
a session OF the supreme court.
The merry, go -round is now located at
Bellows Falls, and Herbert Allen has been
hired by the proprietors to relieve Mr.. M.
L. Chadwick, who is in quite poor health.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Smith and child
of Stanstead, P. @, are staying with Mr..
and Mrs. w. @. Cushman. Mrs. Smith,
who Is sister OF Mrs Cushman, intends
to spend the summer here.
Tuesday, the 18th, the recently chosen
Portsmouth, N. H., were inaugurated, and
the city council was organized by the cleo
tion of John K. Bates as president
On account of illness, Hon. Henry Bal
lard Of Burlington has been obliged to
cancel his engagement here, as Memorial
Day orator, and the services OF Rev. Virgil
William Blackman Of Bethel. have been
by the Post.
The annual meeting OF the Vermont Bap.
list Sunday school association is to be
held in Bennington, June 4th-6th, and
Mrs. W. c. Cushman will read an essay
before the convention on the subject OF
How to Keep Class Together"
A memorial service will be held at 2
o'clock Friday afternoon, May 2ith, in
Memorial Park, at the tree planted in
OF the late Mrs. Willard Gay by
The W. G. T. U. An invitation to attend |
his service is extended to the public.
A hen belonging to Salmon Williams OF
Roxbury, fred by an item which appeared |
n last weeks issue OF this paper, extoll- |
ng biddy that had laid an egg measur-
ng and inches in circumference, has
beaten that record all hollow and pro-
luced one measuring 8 and iDches
The Souvenir Book OF Randolph is
Meeting with a ready sale both at home
nd abroad. The history OF tits town
rom its first settlement to the present day
S related in a bright and pleasing way,
The Early Medical Practitioners Of RAN
olphp will be found especially interest
ng.
The annual meeting OF the Ladies' Aid
ociety OF the Christian church took place
asst Thursday afternoon at Mrs. John W.
'owell's, and the following officers were
lected: Mrs. George Haradsn, president;
irs. Charles Tewksbury, secretary; Mrs
ohm w. Rowell, treasurer. The mem
ers OF the executive committees were all
s-elected.
Miss Wicomb, the head trimmer at the
homas millinery store, started Tuesday
light for her home in Laconia, n. H., in
,sponse to a dispatch announcing that
er father had been thrown from a car.
age and seriously hurt. Miss Wilcomb
as severed her connection with the
homas store and will not come back to
andolph.
The High school boys have an Athletic
[eet at Manchester's park Saturday after
DON, beginning at o'clock. The list of
xteen events will include long and short
ms, jumps and hurdle races, and to those
taxing the best RECORDS at the meet Will
e given the honor OF representing this
,hool at the Dartmouth Interscholastic
eague, which meets in Hanover, N. H.,
lne 9th.
Rev. F. w. Hamblin, formerly pastor OF
lis Methodist church, died Monday at
is home in Enosburgh Falls after long
i'd painful illness. The funeral took
ACE at O'Clock yesterday afternoon, and
memorial service Is to be held in the
1urch later. Mr.. Hamblin was much be-
wed by his people during his passionate
ere and was considered very eloquent
reacher.
As few conservative people still con-
nue. to call this village West Randolph,
sspite the fact that tho postofiice depart
ent no longer recognizes any such place,
ould it not be we'll ON June list to turn
yer new leaf and drop the West alto
ether from our speech and writing, and
hereby put q stop to much Of the dire
infusion that now prevails. With re-
lrd to our change OF name, we are in
bout the same predicament as the boy
hose parents forebore to provide him
it'll Christian prefix that, when he had
rown up, he might make selection to
lit himself; and then after his choice
as made, his friends and neighbors per-
sted in calling him Club" as long as he
we'd.