Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-11-19
south Royalton Notes
". j. SARGENT, Local Editor.

last InuTsudN'
Miss Annie Sawyer is visiting friends
in Bridgewater.
Rex S. A. Parker will preach here next
sunday at p. m.
Mrs. Clara Whipple was quite i'll with
pleurisy last week.
Miss Emily Foster is visiting her sis
ters in Exeter, n. n.
Mrs Mary Vose Of Pittsfield visited her
son, George Vose, Friday.
George Shepard OF Providence, R. Wis
tied nis father here last week.
Mrs C. Bean is reported tn be in town,
at present at the Center village.
Henry DYKE and family have returned
to their home in Massachusetts.
II. NJ. Tucker sold several fire extin-
gushers in the village last week.
DR.. E. ]. Fish was in Montpelier last
Tuesday attending the legislature.
il. Bacon OF Chelsea and A. N. King
Of Tunbridge were in town Monday.
Mrs. Emily Rowell Crsndall returned
home last week from a visit to Boston.
Miss Kate Fleming of Franklin. n. H.,
IS visiting her sister, Mrs. Elmer Doyle.
There was no rerceptible change in the
condition OF Sumner Chilson last week.
Mrs. Barnard OF Burlington visited her
daughter, Mrs. j. NJ. Shepard, the first OF
the week.
Matthew Keves OF sharon. a we'll know
and prominent farmer, died at his home
last SUNDAY.
Miss Jennie Godfrev, teacher in the
Grammar school, visited her home in Ran
d olph last week.
Dean & Clark Ladies' Minstrels had a
small house at Woodlands hall last week
Tuesday evening.
Miss Ella Richards, daughter of Samue !
Richards, OF Buzzard's Bay, Mass, re-
turned home last week.
stoughton and Dewey are laying thu
b rick foundation for the new residence
w. H. Martin is erecting.
wv. Waldo has his creamery building
erected and covered and is pushing 1t to-
ward completion as fast as possible.
J. .Belknap has been putting in an ad-
ditional water supply and bath room IA
eilities at his residence the past week.
The Village Improvement society held
special meeting last Friday evening and
voted fund for sidewalks in the village.
Thomas Dearborn OF Chelsea has had
the manipulation OF the reins guiding the
So Rovaltop and Chelsea stage the past
three weeks.
Mrs.John A. Schontag is engaged in the
preparation OF an opera to he given in the
near future and it is reported that she has
selected MiCard's.
The Wide Awake Dramatic Co. OF Ran
coph is to present the drama, 1.-THE Great
Diamond Robbery" at Woodlands hall
next Saturday evening.
Lieut. Harrison Dewey is suffering from
an injured knee, caused by fall when de-
scending the chamber stairs at his home.
He is confined to the bed.
The Graded school scholars held large
Unattended sociable at the school build
ing hall last Saturday evening. The fall
terms OF schools close Friday.
Dr.Keith OF Barnard, who has been dan
gerousy i'll at the home OF his sister Mrs. |
Fred Graves, the past wear, was taken to
a hospital at Utica, N. Y, last week.
Mrs Marcia Drew Dutton returned |
home to Wilton, N. H., last Tuesday. Her |
husband, Rev. Chas. Dutton, who has been |
quite i'll since early fall, is improving.
The Shepard Family commenced its fall
concert tour Monday. The route will in |
clude the towns in Vermont and New
Hampshire on the Connecticut river
Miss Alice Brownell, who has been at
home attending her sister, Eva, who has
been very i'll the past two weeks, returned
TO her duties at the postoffice Monday. -
J.v. Bridgman OF Boston, one OF the
Oldest travelling men on the road and at
present in the employ OF the Standard
Clothing Co., was in town last Tuesday.
The Christian Endeavor society is to
give a sacred concert at the Cong'l church
next Sunday. The preparations seem to
assure a concert of more than ordinary
merit.
The citizens have been agitating the
prscticability OF having electric lights in
the village, the power to be furnished bv
the engine and dynamo at j. w. Waldo's
creamery building. The plan is feasible
aud ought to be fsvorably considered.
George Rusznak, Young man and one
OF the town poor at the town farm, is re-
ported to be dying OF consumption. He
has informed his friends here that he was
hired to leave his native land, Sweden.
because be was not suitable in appearance
and mental capabilities to be part OF an
family, to which he belongec.
de has been in this country for IL or 10
years and is quite intelligent and indus
.rious.
The annual inspection of Orville Bixbv
post was held Saturday evening. Sixty
.hree members were reported in good
standing. One member, Harry Bruce OF
sharon, died during the year. The three
Kindred associations were reported :
good condition. No deaths, except the
1ne reported by the post, and no severe
y knesses, oply the illness OF Mrs. Geo.
lhurston, we're reported by either organ
zation. The post has paid SIC and the
sorps ana Sons of Veterans IS each for
'harity. The post, corps and Sons OF Vet {
rams will hold their annual election OF
'thcers next month.
The death OF Mr.. Edison Bixby OF this /
.Illage, which occurred at his late resi-
fence Tuesday evening, after sickness
which confined him to his bed for four ;
weeks, was not unexpected. He had been ,
i'll health for the past II years, suffer !
ng from brain trouble. Mr.. Bixby was I
me OF the towns best citizens, upright !
nd trustworthy, and had held offices OF :
rust to the satisfaction of his constitu-
nts. He was a native of Brookfeld but
lad been a resident of this town for SO
ears. His first business was the purchase
nd sale of potatoes in company with Mr..
IS. Hackett OF this village, whose daugh- =
er he married. The partnership eontin-
ed until the death OF Mr.. Hackett in
Sbo. Afterwards he continued In the
BUSINESS for short time and then en-
aged in the furniture and grocery bust
less with ID. C. Jones. Tnis partnership
las dissolved in 1887, after which he re-
NAMED in the iurnitur business for three
ears, when be sold out. Since that time
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