Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-05-14
South Royalton Notes
NJ. J. SARGENT, Local Editor.

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Mrs. Harvey Woodland remains about tn,
hame, altho' very feeble.
Harry Sargent and wife went to Exeter
N. H., last week to work.
Miss Gussie Cloud is working at Per
lev Beknap's for while.
Mrs. Martha Albee, sister Of Mrs. f. W
Blake is visiting friends here.
Mrs. j. A. Schontag went to New YoIl
city last Tuesday to visit friends.
Rev. ]. o Benefits theme for next Sun.
day will be "Pilate's Famous Question"
Regular meeting of Camp "a, Sons Of
Veterans, will be held Saturday evening.
D. C. Jones has engaged young man
MIR. Little, to work for him this summer
It is reported that DR.. Paine OF Thetford
has bought out DR.. Fred Morse OF Royal.
ton.
Mr.. j. A. Gordon of Barre, attorney al
law, was in town last Thursday on bust
ness.
Miss Ada Burroughs OF Randolph was
the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. Mudgett last
week.
+, w. Sault, foreman in the HERALD
AND NEWS Office OF Randolph, was in town
last Friday.
Mrs. French OF Barre, who is visiting
her sister, Mrs. w. w. Gallup, has been III
the past week.
Mrs. Elisha Osgood was taken seriously
i'll last Saturday but is little better at this
time OF writing.
Mrs. j. Waldo and daughter, Kitty, of
Bethel are visiting at j. w. Waldo's at
Riverview farm.
Rev 3D. Markham and wife returned home
Thursday from business trip, selling
goods on the road.
Miss Dimick, who was reported sick
with infammatory rheumatism last week,
is not much better.
The Ladies' Social circle will hold pic
mic at Mrs. ohm Woodward's Wednesday,
May 20, afternoon and evening.
John Woodward is in Boston this week
on business connected with his patent
machine for painting window blinds.
Mrs. M. s. Adams and Miss Abbott have
not returned from Ticonderoga, N. Y. ,ow-
ing to tne illness of their sister, Mrs. Bal
ley.
Mrs. Dimick of Lyme, N H., came here
last Tuesday TO care for her daughter, who
mas been sick at the hotel for the past two
weeks.
Died in Billerica, Mass, May 6, OF pneu
monia, Jerusha, widow OF the late Isaac
Northrop Of this place, aged SO years and
S months.
Henry Stevens has moved into he house
recently vacated by O. III. Burnham and
Mrs. Chase will occupy the house vacated
by Mr.. Stevens.
Mrs. Frederick Billings OF Woodstock
has given the trustees OF the town free
public library the Century dictionary,c con-
ssting Of Is volumes.
Mrs. Alice Foster. Rogers Of Hardwick
is visiting her parents. Her husband,
Wynn Rogers, will visit friends here be-
fore she returns home.
Mrs. John Moulton and Bertha Rutter,
who have been visiting friends here, left
Saturday for Newport, where they will
make their future home.
Harry Whipple shipped six car loads OF
stock to market this week. Mr.. Whipple
has been quite successful in this business
and is increasingly yearly
The entertainment given by Mr.. Fl. L.
Conary and the Misses Shepard for the
UniveIsalist society last Wednesday even
ing was enjoyed by all present.
Reports OF the condition OF Mrs. A. ?.
Skinner, who is at hospital in Boston,
continue favorable and she will be able to
return home soon IL no new complications
arise.
The New England Telephone company
has bought the Huntington telephone line
running from Bethel to Plttsdeld and
Woodstock and will take possession OF 1t
July 1st.
Delegates elected to attend the Sunday
school convention at Gaysville this week
Thursday were Mr.. c. P. Tarbell, Mrs.
M. Pike, Mrs. e. M. Sargent and Miss
Minnie Metcalf.
The veteran horseman, Mr.. Harvey
Smith, secretary of the White River Horse
Breeders association, has advertised two
days meeting at the trotting park near
Sharon village in June.
The line, as established by the select
men, from which baseball is prohibited IL
only circumscrihed by line taking In the
business part OF the village, and provides
for ball ground within the limit which
has been placed for the purpose near the
school ground.
Mrs Jennie Hagan Jackson OF Michigan |
is the gnest OF Mrs. Helen Southgate-Os-
good this week. Mrs. Jackson was calico
TO Hartford, Conn.,, to deliver an address
at convention held there last week and
will make short visit to friends here be-
lore returning home.
The program arranged for Memorial
day is as follows: Decorating services at
the several cemeteries at RoyaltOn, North
Royalton, Barnard, Broad Brook and at
the Riddall and Slack cemeteries at 9 u. m
dinner at II a. M; parade OF knights
Iemplars at Ii 80; services at the village
cemetery, So. Royalton, at p. M, and me
address at O'clock. School Memorisl
services will be held at / p. m. Friday, and
1t is hoped that all schools in session in
town will participate in it. The Sunday
Memorial service will be held at Royaltor,
sunday, the oath at p. m. in the Cong
church.
The town clerk, VIM. Skinner, has kind.
" furnished the following statement OF
MS report OF schools in town for the year
ending March 81: Total number OF weeks
taught by 10 teachers, Ala, OF which 27O
weeks we're taught by 8 teachers IN town
district and 144 by teachers in the South
hoyalton Graded school district.
No. OF scholars Of school age in town Dist. 237
in So. Royalton Graded Dist 100
Total in town 1872
Atteuda ice Of pupils in town Dist IIo
in so. Roy alton Graded Dist l5i
Total in town 3l2
Total attendance in town Dist. 1,767s2
Graded Dist 1888 80
Grand list in town Dist. s3,s22s0
Graded Dist S,432b2