Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-12-24
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Con ductor George Peck OF st. Adams is
here.
Harry Eaton is clerking in f. II. JOS
lyn's jewelry store.
DIR. Morse of Royalton was the guest of
j. NJ. Atwood lately.
Il. A. Mutt OF Montpelier was in town
yesterday on business.
Mrs. S. V. Holman returned Tuesday
from weeks stay in Boston.
Miss Allace Chase is back from North
ampton, Mass, on short vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Washburn arrived
from Underhill yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Arson Burroughs is confined to
the bed by a severe attack of the grip.
w. T. sparhawk OF the Bangor Theolog-
ical seminary is at home on vacation.
Professor Elmore's next dancing school
will be Monday evening, December 2Sth.
II. X. Bush OF Barre and his youngest
daughter were at Mr.. w. b. Wallis yes
terday.
There were thirty-five at the dancing
school in the Williams hall last Monday
evening.
Mrs. Charles Tewksbury, who has been
very sick with lung fever, continues to
gain slowly.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. e. Lane have gone to
Montpelier TO spend Christmas with Mr..
Edwin Lane.
Five tons of poultry were sent from this
station Friday morning on the special
poultry train.
Charles G. Dubois of New York and his
sister, Miss Anne Dubois OF Smith coll
lege, came yesterday.
The Woman's Auxiliary of st. Johns
church will meet with Mrs. Anna Chase
next Tuesday afternoon.
Members of the Grand Army and Relief
Corps are to have a soeiable next Tuesday
evening at Mr.. Alfred Eaton's.
Lucius Goodhart, who lives on the
Mann place, fell from a scaffolding Satur-
day and dislocated his shoulder.
f. G. Winch and wife are with friends
in st. Johnsbury at this season, having
left the photograph gallery in competent
hands.
A meeting of the Magazine club is called
for next Saturday evening at MIR. Hayden
Sharpe's to consider some important
matters.
There will be special and elaborate
Christmas exercises this evening in the
Methodist, Baptist, Congl and Christian
churches.
The Christmas trade. while not so heavy
as in some previous years, has been very
fair indeed. Not so many expensive ar
articles are purchased this season, and
the demand for small wares is correspond |
ingly greater.
Hon. V. |. Spear is down in the list OF
prominent speakers at the twenty-seventh |
annual meeting of the Vermont Dairy |
mems association to be held at Montpel. !
Ter, January 5-7. Reduced rates are Offer |
hNff he al TO-
tend this meeting.
A grand musical convention. lasting |
through three DAYS. is to be held in this /
village the first of February. The use of |
Dubois q Gays hall has been secured for !
the occasion, and large number of sing |
ers have signified their intention OF tax. |
ing part. A sufficient guarantee of its |
excellence is the fact that Beedle's orehes- |
ira of Keene, n. H., viii be in attendance. /
Miss Elsie Powers recently tutor in the |
Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, has /
been at home for few days, and yester- |
lay started for Indiana, Penn, where she |
has been offered very fine position as
ieacher of oratory and voice culture in /
he state normal school located at that 1
place. Miss Powers, who is to introduce
he Emerson method of instruction, will
commence her work next Tuesday
The new officers elected at the annual
Meeting OF the Eastern Star are:-N. i.
5oyden, worthy patron Mrs. N. L. Boy
len, worthy matron; Mrs. E. A Shat
uck, associate matron; Mrs. c. 4. Alb
'ott, secretary; Mrs. Ellen Blanchard
reasurer; Mrs. Frank Newton. conduc-
ress, and Mrs. K. Z. Parker, associate
The appointive officers have
lot yet been named by the worthy ma
ron.
The new board of normal school COM
1lssloners met at the Center last Monday
nd examined and passed twenty-five of
he graduating class. The board consists
superintendent NJ. S. Stone Of Mont
eiier, G. A. Bunker of Quechee, w. A.
toward, professor of Middlebury college.
Ion. {. H. Darling of Bennington and 1
y. Pierce of Chester. All of the mem 1
ers were present with the exception of :
ir. Darling, but no other business was I
The commissioners meet next |
eek at Castleton.