Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-01-09
South Royalton Notes.
M. J. SARGENT, Local Editor.


M. ]. SARGENT, Local Editor.
Magazines, weekly papers and period
Gals to yearly subscribers at the loves
rates and they are on sale at regular retail
prices by M. j. Sargent q Son.
Mr.. W. V. Soper has been i'll the pas
week.
Mrs. W. 0. Belknap has recovered from
the grip.
Miss Lewis has engaged to work TO-
Mrs. DR.. Fish.
Mr.. Sumner Chilson is still improving
but rather slowly.
Mrs. Frank Pierce is no better and is re
ported critically ill.
George Dewey closes his contract worl
at Bethel this week.
The Whist club will hold its next meet.
ing at j. A. Schontag's.
Dr. H. Carpenter returned home from
STAFFORD last saturday.
]. G. Ashley and G. P. Tarbell have each
purchased a new piano.
Rev. Fl. M. Goddard and wife visited in
Randolph last Thursday.
Archie Skinner has been very sick the
past week with pneumonia.
Miss Susan Lamb is expected home from
Hartford, Conn.,, this week.
Mrs James Pike has been suffering the
past week with rheumatism.
Mr.. A. G. Holman OF st. Adams was a
guest of M. s. Adams last week.
Mr.Gile and Henry Hayes OF West Hart
ford were in town last Monday.
Miss Maud Mcintosh returned to her
home in Exeter, N. H., Saturday.
NJ. S. Adams is making large shipments
OF lumber at this and other points.
Mr.. Edgar Reynolds is preparing to
build an extension to his livery barn.
wv. Bright suffered a relapse last week
but at the present time is improving.
Mrs. VIM. H. Martin is quite feeble and
does not seem to improve very much.
Drs. Fish and Burnett and c. P. Tarbell
have placed telephones in their offices.
Dr. j. Euclid Fish was called to Platts-
burg, N. Y, on business last Thursday.
Mrs. r. D. Grain and son, Ralph, re-
turned to Winchendon, Mass, Thursday.
The Graded school commenced the win.
ter term last week with a large attendance.
Will Clogston returned to Boston Mon
day, where be is engaged in drug store.
Miss Lizzie Adams is very much better
and hopes to resume musical instructions
soon.
Miss Della Cloud was with her sister,
Mrs. Geo. bearing at East Bethel, last
week.
The people who have lately put in fur !.
naces have had chance this week to test
them.
Ernest Hewitt has returned to Tufts
college, after spending the holidays at
home.
Miss Fanny Slack has closed her school
and is visiting her sisters, Stella and Mrs..
Lewis.
Master Borodel, son Of Chas. H. Wood
ard, has been ill the past week With ton.
sltis.
Miss Emily Foster returned to Exeter,
N. H., Saturday, where she is attending
school.
Miss Effie Kibbee returned to Tacoma,
N. H., Saturday, where she is engaged In
teaching.
Rev. S.G. Ayres is to exchange with Rev.
J. 0. Bennett to preach for the Universal
list society.
Miss Lucy Abbott has been confined to
the house the past week, suffering from a
severe cold.
Henry Whitcomb's little girl was seri-
ously ill last week but is now considered
out of danger.
Miss Flora Shaw will take vacation OF
a few weeks after Jan. 18th, returning for
the spring trade.
The engagement OF Miss Lottie M. Bos-
worth and Mr.. Edward Martin OF Lowell,
Mass, is announced.
The holiday trade was not quite up to
that OF former years but somewhat better
than was anticipated.
The lumber and mercantile business IS
almost at standstill on account OF the
bare and frozen roads.
Mr.. Samuel Slack writes home from CAL
ifornia that he has lucrative employment
as an overseer Of labor.
Mr., Christopher Hood is progressing
with his new house, 1t being nearly ready
Tor the finishing work.
Mrs. Neil, who has been visiting Mr.and !
Mrs. Hoyt Knight the past two weeks, re-
turns to her home this week.
Prof. Gardner gave reading at the
Cong'l church last Wednesday, under the
auspices of the Graded school.
Miss Alice Lamb returned to Bethel last
Monday to take charge Of the primary de-
partment OF the Graded school.
Leon Skinner will net return to the
Northtield military school until his broth
er, Archie, who is very i'll, is better.
About so attended the musical social at
NV. Woodward's last Wednesday even
ing. All report very pleasant time.
Mr.. o. H. Burnham returned to Hart
ford, Conn.,, Monday, where he has charge
Of large blacksmith shop in the city.
Mr.Stephen Smith of Royalton and Miss
Nettie Flint OF Wales, Mass, were mar
rled last Thursday by Rev. H. M. Goddard.