Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-03-26
South Royalton Notes
M. ]. SARGENT. Local Editor.

DR.. Euclid Fish was at home over Sun
day.
Lester Ashley is visiting relatives il
Rochester.
Will Clifford moved into Mrs. Jane
Culyer's tenement last week.
Louise 8. Woodwork is less seriously
i'll than was reported last week.
Mrs. White returned to her home at Il
Fl. Whitcomb's last Wednesday.
Mrs. Alice Dodge Kibbee of Worceste
Is visiting her parents for few days.
Cadet Leon Skinner, accom- panied by
friend, was at his home over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C.P. Abbott visited friends
at Hartford and West Hartford last week
Mrs. Nellie Whitcomb Leonard visitec
her brother, Henry Whitcomb, over Sun.
day.
Miss Flora Shaw is to return from Bos
ton this week with her new spring MILL.
merry.
Mrs. B. L.Moody returned from her Wis
it to her old home in Waterbury last
week.
Mr.. Eugene Blake Of Greenfield, Mass,
visited his mother, Mrs. r. w. Blake, over
Sunday.
Mrs. R. w. Blake is reported not much
better and the symptoms are no more
favorable.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Doyle have been
confined to the house with the grip the
past week.
Mrs. W. H. Martin, who has been in
quite feeble health this winter, does not
improve much.
Bixby post and Relief corps will hold
their regular meeting next Saturday even /.
ing, March 2Sth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Wheeler and Mrs.
Chas. Patten and son OF Sharon visited
relatives here Saturday.
Miss Blanche Sewall, one of the Normal
girls, spent Saturday and Sunday at her
home on Royalton Hill.
Rev. Mr.. Blackman, pastor Of the Cong'l
church at Bethel, was guest OF Rev.
Henry Goddard last Saturday.
Will and Perley Belknap and Henry
Manchester attended the funeral of Lewis
Talbert at Woodstock last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sargent OF Ludlow, who
have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. n.
NJ. Goddard, returned home last Saturday.
The New England Telephone agency
set up nice oak booth at the central Of
fee in Sargent's drug store last Thursday.
We hear OF two properties sold recently
by Dearborn & Co, the Vermont farm
agency one for $500 and the other for
$500.
Mr.. o. H. Burnham's family Is prepar-
ing to move to Hartford, Conn.,, where
they are to make their future home and
will leave in few days.
Prin. W. c. Hopkins OF the Graded
school returned last week from his vaca-
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in Sharon the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Tenney gave re.
ception to large party OF their friends at
their home last Friday evening, who were
very Hospitality entertained.
DR.. Fish is soon to ship ten bushels OF
northern seed corn to relative in Oregon,
large farmer who Is to try the culture OF
it in that soil as an experiment.
Mrs. A. p. Skinner returned from New
York last Monday, where she has spent
the time since the death OF her son Archie,
in January with her sister, Mrs. Furnam.
Miss Hannah Fee, sister OF Robert Fee
and Mrs. James Griffin, who has been In
the employ OF Henry Clark at Philadel-
phia for several years, is visiting here Tor
a few weeks.
Mrs. Benjamin Day is failing slowly
and is suffering very much from the ef-
fects of being confined to the bed inces-
sanity at her advanced age OF 85syears.
Her friends entertain but slight hopes Of
her recovery.
The friends and acquaintance Of Mr..
George Wales OF South Barre, who grew
up to manhood near this village, were as
founded upon receiving the news OF his
great misfortune in the arrest OF his son
for incendiarism and other severe crimes.
"The Spy OF Gettysburg" thrilling
military drama Of four acts, will be pre-
scented by the Dramatic club OF So. Royal
ton next Monday and Tuesday evenings,
March 80 and 81, under the management
of the Sons OF Veterans. There Is to be
social dance after the entertainment Tues.
day evening.
ton brought suit against N. +. Wheeler
Of White River Junction for the payment /
Of sum OF $40 guaranteed to the associa-
tion against an excess OF indebtedness I
above receipts for the meetings held BY
the club in 1894. The case was heard be-
fore Justice Emery OF Royalton last Mon.
day, who rendered judgment in favor OF
the plaintiff. j.. j. Wilson for plaintiff; F.
Il. Cox OF White River Junction for de-
PENDANT
Mr.. Lewis Talbert, whose death oc-
CURED at Woodstock last TUESDAY at the
home OF his father at the age Of 40 years,
had been confined to his bed for nine
weeks and had suffered very much from
exhaustion and difficulty in breathing.
He had seventeen attacks Of hem0rrhage
OF the lungs during the time and re-
CURED an attendant the whole time. HIS
flesh had entirely wasted away, leaving
him mere skeleton. He had many warm
friends in this village and vicinity who
mad found him genial, gentlemanly. so.
cal and kind citizen, honest and upright
IN all affairs OF life and in his untimely
Death they are mourners. He was mem
Der Of the Masonic fraternity and connect
ed with Rising Sun lodge. After the fu-
I neral his body was placed in the tomb at
woodstock to remain until spring, when
u will be inferred with Masonic services
by the Masons Of his lodge.
The press report of the miraculous cure
oy Mr.. Newell while at Randolph the 18th
and 18th must have been the product OF
mental alteration or the reporter was un-
uef hallucination. 1t certainly was
not the result OF an K ray examination,
~ was so intensely exaggerated 80 far as
the cases from this village were con-
cerned. There is but one person who now
seiialms to have received any benefit that
tthey realize at this time. The case that
mas created the most. interest is the
Dewey child. Her father and mother
claim that she was benefited by the treat
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