Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-13
South Royalton Notes
M. ]. SARGENT, Local Editor.

ms D. Dah0hCls AOCnA EulUOrs
Henry Osgoed spent lastweek at home
George Nye is gaining and Is able to b.
about the house.
Levi Pierce closed his work for M. H
Hazen last Thursday.
G. P. Tarbell has had 100 cords OF stow
wood cut this winter.
Rev. E. W. Sharp went to Putney OF
business last Tuesday.
Mrs. John Markham is reported better
but not yet able to be about the house.
Regular meeting OF the Sons Of Veter,
ans camp will be held Saturday evening.
Miss Turner OF Chelsea was the guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Bingham last week
Mr.. Corson, lineman for the New Eng.
land Telephone Co., was In town Friday
Mr.. j. W. Bright suffered relapse last
week and has been confined to his bed
since.
Miss Georgia Shepard is recovering from
her recent injury and is able to walk a
short distance.
A delegation from the Sunday schools
here attended the Sunday school conven-
ton at Bethel last Sunday.
Several OF the memuers OF the Universal
list society attended the festival at Tun.
bridge last Wednesday evening.
Horace Jones left here for Haverhill.
Mass, Thursday, where he intends to
make his future home and is to engage in
carpenter work.
Rev. Chas. Flint supplied the pulpit at
Barnard and East Barnard last sunday
and will continue to do so until the pastor
is convalescent.
News was received by relatives here last
Saturday, OF the death OF Mr.. Har-
rison Golf OF Lebanon, N. H. Mr.. Golf
was quite well known in this vicinity and
visited friends here often.
Mr.Edgar Watkins met party here last
Wednesday to negotiate tor the sale OF his
farm, which is PROBABLY the largest ana
most valuable in this vicinity, consisting
otabout 800 acres.
The delegates and alternates from Or
vile BiXby post to the q. A. Il. ehcamp-
ment at Rutland this week are A. B. Rand
and Cyrus T. Goodwin and from tue Re-
lief corps, Mrs. Sadie Chadwick and Mrs.
Jennie Hewitt.
Mrs. M. j. Miller AID Mrs. Louise Cook
returned here from Chelsea last Monday
and went to Bethel to visit their brother,
VIM. H. Hartwell. They will return here
to visit friends before returning home to
Hartford, Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Shepard were greeted
by houseful OF friends who attended
their annual social last Tuesday evening
and were royalty entertained. After So
cial hour, they were invited to refresh
ments, after which social games and dane
ing occupied the attention OF the party till
La. N.
The rainstorm OF last Thursday red uced
the snow TO thin scale Of ice in the high.
ways, making it difficult to get about with
teams The streams were considerably
swollen and the banks were overlooked
between here and Chelsea so that the stage
driver was unable TO get through with ex-
press and mail. The lumbermen were
compelled to keep their teams idle during
the WeeK.
The sale and transfer OF real estate
through the agency OF brokers the past
year, altho' small in this immediate vicin
ity, gives promise OF a greater prosperity
in farming interests and an increase OF
the business the coming year, as this ~
TEN OF transactions in real estate is meet
ing with favor and is likely 10 be univer.
sally adopted by those DESTROYS OF dispos.
lng OF or acquiring lanQeQ properly, anu
it will result in substantial benefit to
the community wherever adopted, as the |
majority of the sales are made to nOn-res-
idents which will tend to increase the val.
ne OF real estate and the grand list and
bring to the state worthy class Of citi-
zens. 1t is reported that one firm, Dear
born & Co., of White River Junction, made
sales OF over $4,000 worth of real estate
in their immediate vicinity last year.
There we're II deaths and ~ births in the
South Royalton Graded school district for
the year 1895.
DEATHS.
Seymour Durkee, Jan. 20, aged 70
Mrs Lucinda X. Poole, Feb.5, SO
Horatio G. Blake, Feb. %, IS
Mrs Jane Buck Reynolds, Mch. 5, IS
Mrs Esther Riddall, April 26, So
Mrs. Susan H. Jones, Mays, so
Mrs Clarissa Cowdery, Aug. 8, 76
Mrs. Louise Lamb, Oct. 8, 81
VIM. Farnham, Nov. 5, 70
BIRTHS.
Daughter, Jan. 2, Mr.. and Mrs. Q. E.
Button.
Daug Feb. 10, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Doubleday.
SoE, Feb. 10, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Adams.
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