Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-12-17
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DIR. H. II. Mcintyre was about town
Tuesday.
Mrs. Emily Tredo has gone to SPRING
field to spend the winter.
Mrs. N. ]. Whitehill has been staying
with friends in Peacham for day or two.
The Dartmouth college students will ar
rive the 23rd, when the Christmas recess
begins.
Mrs. Anna Vaughn, who has been in
Manchester, n. H., some little time, is
again at home.
Miss Minnie Davis, the guest of Mrs.
Edgar Salisbury, has returned to her
home in Norwich.
Mrs. Mary w. Munroe of Boston and
Mrs. Wheelock of East Montpelier have
been visiting at ID. Z. Goding's.
There are unclaimed letters in the post
office for Mrs. Jas. Lenox Banks, Miss Ina
B. Dana, A. Bes de and |. q. Heath.
Miss Anne Dubois and Miss Allace
Chase are expected from Smith college
next Wednesday for the holiday vacation.
Professor Whitehill was called to Top
sham, Saturday, by the death of his sis
ter, the funeral service being held the
next day.
Royal White has moved from the Nor
ton house on Merchants Row to tene-
ment in Dana Spooner's house on Wes-
ton street.
e. l.. Soper went Monday to assist his
brother, the marble dealer at South Roy
alton, in setting monument in the STRAIT
ford cemetery.
The Methodist Sunday school is pre-
pairing an elaborate cantata for Christ
mas. The exercises will be Thursday
evening, Christmas Eve.
Az,
birmingham, Mass, Monday to remain
with her parents, MIR. and Mrs. Increase
Chamberlain, through the holidays.
Miss lisa Lamson goes soon to Brook
,yn, at the invitation of Mrs. A. B. Chan
dler, to enjoy the greater advantages that
the city offers for the study of music.
Mrs. Emma S. Peters and daughter,
HOrtense, have arrived from st. Johns
bury, the academy, in which Mrs. Peters
is teaching, having closed for three weeks.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Heath and daughter, Mrs.
o. ID. Greene and daughter and Mrs. Ed.
Arnold, of Bethel, were in the village day
before yesterday on a shopping expedi-
ton.
Dorothy, the little daughter of w. B.
Gates of Burlington, has had slight at
tack of diphtheria but is now well again,
and no other cases are reported in the
family.
Rev. II. NJ. Douglass OF st. Johpsbury.
during his stay in town this week, is be-
ing entertained at E. I. Huntington's.
Mr.. Douglass will officiate next Sunday
in the Baptist church.
The ladies of st. Johns church will
have their Christmas sale and supper in
the Edison hall this afternoon and even
ing. The sale opens at 3 O'Clock, and the
supper will be served from O'Clock on.
As Martin Seymour was driving down
to the concert Saturday evening from the
Center, his horse, a good but not particu-
larly young animal, dropped dead near
the O'Connell place, not quite halfway to
the Center.
third horse has come to an untimely
end-this time the property of Mr. Henry |
Soper. Tuesday morning as it was lei |
out OF the barn to be watered, it slipped |
on patch of ice in the yard and fell. |
with broken leg for a result.
Anson Burroughs has finished clerking
in the clothing store of j. ID. Mitchell and |
gone to Bethel to take charge of JIG. |
Mann's branch clothing store. Mr.. Bur-
roughs intends to move his family to |
Bethel as SOON as a suitable tenement can |
be found.
George Hutchinson's herd of twenty
Two cattle have been tested for tuberculo-
SIS and fifteen OF the number condemned.
Four of the diseased creatures were Young
cattle. The test was administered by V,
|. Spear of the board of agriculture, and
.he veterinary, Albert Gay.
MIR. Lemuel Richmond, feeling that a
severe cold was settling upon him Satur-
lay night, adopted heroic measures to rid
himself of the same. He was advised to
AXE few drops of sconite in water to in
luce sweat but, in his zeal, took an
overdose with rather astonishing results.
De suffered such distress in his stomach L
md head that doctor was hastily sum-
noned, and alter time the patient OBJ
aimed relief. No lasting effects were ex-
from the treatment, and the
old was broken up.
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