Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-11-28
South Royalton Notes
M. j. SARGENT, Local Editor.


MI. SARGENT, Local Editor.
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FoRSALE CHEAP.--One square piano. n-
ouire OF A. T. Nen, So. Royalton. ~
NJ. J. Sargent & Son will have the us.
ual stock OF Christmas goods opened W
next week.
Poultry sold the lowest here last week
chat it has for many years.
Mr.. Elliot Benson OF Springfield, Mass
arrived at his fathers last Saturday.
Ed Slack and wife have moved to Pitts.
field, Mass, to work for the shoe com.
pany.
Thanksgiving services will be held al
the Congl church this evening at 7:3(
o'clock.
Regular meeting OF Bixby post ard Re-
lief corps will be held Saturday evening
the 30th.
The ladies' OF the Relief CORPS will hold
their annual fair next Wednesday even
ing, Dec. 4.
The Graded school commences the win
Ger term next Monday, Dec. 2, with the
same corps OF teachers as last term.
Mrs Maria Griffith, who has been Wis.
ting friends here the past week, returned
TO her home in Sharon last Monday.
There is to be preaching service at the
Universalist hall next Sunday at 2:30 p.
m. A cordial invitation Is extended to all
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Foster are spend
ing Thanksgiving with their daughters,
Mrs. j. F. Shepard and Emily, at Exeter,
N. H.
Sheriff d. G. Jones was called to Wood :
stock last week to assist the jailor in
charge OF prisoners. OF which there are at
present fourteen.
The first cold wave struck the state last
Thursday night, sending the mercury
down to % below zero. Friday was cold
but Saturday was much warmer.
Mr.. Charles Black returned home last
Wednesday from trip to Iowa, where he
has been for the past four months on visit
to his daughter, Mrs Monroe Belknap.
Mr.. w. /. Fisher and Miss Esther E..
Waldo, daughter OF Albert Waldo, both OF
Royalton, were married at the residence
OF Rev. e. w .Sharp last Thursday by Rev.
j. G. Markham.
The lecture the first OF the course to be
given this winter, was delivered last Mon
day evening by Rev. Mr.. Smith of Mont
HCllCl w way 6OOo a1>AAohSS1 1ApANS5 -
Che weather was quite unfavorable.
Edward Foster and John Kibbee, who
recently moved tere, have leased the
Is practical miller, having been connect
ed with Henry Hayward, miller at Tnn-
bridge.
The publishers OF the many magazines
now published seem to be vieing with each
okh eor hon a. q nd n
teresting. The December numbers are
beautiful in illustration and attractive in
appearance.
In the primary department the follow
ing named pupils were not absent during
the fall term: Charlie CiogstoD, Minnie,
Pearl and Ruby Green, Nina Merrill, Goldie
Reynolds, Helen Southworth, Goldie and
Rix Tenney. Absent one day each, Ed
mund Freeman and Ella Moses.
Mr. Hiram Rogers and son, with their
families have located in Hardwick, where
they expect to make their future home.
They have resided here for the past ten
years and have made many warm friends.
They are pleasant, geniai people and such
as any place cannot afford to lose.
M. S. Adams lost one of his workhorses
last week by death. 1t was not valuable
horse, in the present tense, but one that
had been valuable to him. It was 81 years
old and its mate is 81, and there have not
been many working days In the past 10
years but what they have been in har-
ness.
During the fall term OF the grammar
school Laura and Lizzie Freeman, Bertha
Soper and Florence Hpaulding had q daily
average OF over 81 in all their studies. Gar
field Faneuf and Clayton Woodward had
no marks in the register. Minnie Monkey
and Lottie Prentiss had no marks after
entering school and Laura Freeman, John
Phelps, Florence Spaulding and Ivanhoe
Woodwork were absent ouly one day or
less. ALI were excellent In department.
The following pupils in the intermedi-
ate department have not been absent DUR
ing the fall term: Lula Brooks, Antoinette
Decoste, Luva and Stella Dutton, Florence
Faneuf, Bertha Reynolds, Mabel South
worth, Ethel Spaulding, Carl Day, Joseph
and Walter Foster, Walter Pierce, Ray
Southgate and Curtis Tenney. Absent but
Marion Wynn, Ray Ainsworth, Harold
Mather, Winired Hewitt, Wesley Porter
and Pearl Waldo.
Mr.. VIM. Benson, one OF Royalton's
worthy and respected citizens, passed
away iune ulOuudJ ~ LIS AOhiS AZ tAS ooueA
part OF the town, after q few weeks sick.
ness. He was first attacked with infiuen-
"a, which Frustrated him very much, but
with accustomed determination to battle
any disease he kept up and about until
about three weeks ago when he was
obliged to take his bed and from that
time he failed very rapidly. His sons,
Elliot and Curtis, and daughters, Ellen,
Abbie and Jessie, were at home at the time
OF his death. Mr.. Benson had lived in
town since early youth, his father, Lyman
Benson having moved here from STAFFORD
IN 1910 and bought and located on a farm
on which is located the village Of South
and was one OF Royalton's most
wealthy and influential business men at
that time. Mr. Benson was IA years OF