Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-05-07
South RoyaIton Notes.
M. j. SAReENT, Local Editor,

Gallup house.
Miss Alma Foster has recovered fror
her recent illness.
Miss Belle Brewster returned fror
Braintree last week.
George Dewey moved into Cass Dicker
mans tenement last week.
E. n. Sargent has closed his contract O
painting for Arthur Pierce.
Miss Hatch has recovered and resume,
her duties as teacher In the school.
Mrs. Myrtle White. Cow OF Barre visite,
her mother and sister here last week.
George Flint has moved into the tene
ment formerly occupied by Chester San
born.
George Leonard has moved to Brattle
boro, where be is engaged in an overall
factory.
Mr.and Mrs. Choate OF Boston are guest
OF Mrs. Lewis Talbert and her mother fo
few days.
Rev. Henry M. Goddard will preach Al
the Broad Brook scnoolnouse next Sun
day at 4,p. m.
Eugene Faneuf went to Hartford last
Tuesday to engage in carriage painting
for c. L. Bugbee.
Mrs. George Thurston is recovering
slowly and WILDE able to leave the nospi.
tai in few weeks.
Mrs. Harvey Woodland has been more
comfortable the past week but is not con
sidered any better.
Mr.. r. G. Beattie OF Ryegate, agent fol
the sale OF fruit trees, is in town deliver
ing trees this week.
Ed Parkhurst and son are working on q
job OF painting at John Buttons in the
west part Of the town.
Dan Stoughton is at home for few
days. He has contract to do the mason
~ on large building.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Nye 60 to Cornish,
N. a., Saturday to work for an uncle OF
Mrs. Nye during the summer.
Miss Dimick, the cook at the So. Royal
ton House, has been sick and under the
physicians care the past week.
Mrs. MS Adams and Miss Lucy Abbott
went to Ticonderoga, N. Y, last week to
attend the funeral OF their nephew.
DR.. F. w. Newcomb, agent for the Yer.
mont Bible society, is in town this week
on visit to his sister, Mrs. Geo. Nye.
Will Belknap was in Randolph Tuesday
to visit his friend, Charles Braley OF st.
Johnsbury, who was there Cd business.
FIJI. DeCoste has moved his family to
Hartford this week, having engaged to
work for Mr.. Bugbee, painting carriages.
Mr.. Henry Doubleday and family will
mvve ~ SnaruA nexG Week, u heIc they
have been engaged to have charge OF Hem
ry Clark's farm.
Dr. Fish has recently been elected to
honorary membership in Alpha chapter
of the Alpha Kappa Kappa Medical frater-
,oftv nnrt m Cu1fh pnlioua
Mr.. Joseph Melville OF New York state
has purchased the Horatio Blake farm
through the agency OF Mr.. Dear born, and
will move onto it very soon.
John E. Dutton was elected I'd camp
council, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation OF 8. H. Richards at the last
meeting OF the Sons OF Veterans.
Mr.Dearborn, real estate agent OF Wood
weeks. He purchased the Henry Morse
farm OF Mrs. Jane Morse last week.
P. Skinner received telegram last
Friday that his wife, who Is In the hospi
tai at Boston, had passed the critical stage
Of treatment and was doing as well as
could be expected.
al plant sale In the vestry of the IA. y.
church next Wednesday, May 49,. Ice
cream will be served and there will be
sociable in the parlors.
The South Royalton Cornet band Is to
furnish music Memorial day. Owing to
visiting organizations which will partici-
pate in the service, the exercises will COM
mence at 8 o'clock sharp.
Mr.. John Markham went away from his
home two weeks ago and has not yet re-
turned. 1t Is reported that his where
abouts is not known. He had engaged to
do job OF painting this month.
Fourteen OF the members OF Rising Sun
lodge, with members OF the Woodstock
lodge, attended the burial OF Lewis Tai.
bert at Woodstock Thursday. The burial
service was conducted by DR.. E. J. Fish OF
Rising Sun lodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. r. Adams received the
sad news from Ticonderoga, N. r., last
week that son OF DR.. Bailey and neph.
ew Of Mrs. Adams, % years old, had re-
cceived a fatal injury by some mishap on
the railroad there.
As result OF an accident by which one
OF our citizens was injured by a ball, the
selectmen have prohibited playing base,
ball in the highway OF the Graded school
district. A suitable place has been leased
for ball ground near the school building
Tor the use OF the students.
A fire broke out in the lumber yard at
the Brooks mill near West Hartford last
Tuesday afternoon, consuming about 3d.
O0O feet Of lumber before the fire was un-
der control, 25, 900 belonging to Q. r. Rob
erts and 10000 to Austin Howard, both OF
West Hartford. The sawmill caught sew.
eral times but was soon extinguished and
the mill and other property were saved. ~
is reported that the lumber was total
loss. 1t is thought that the fire caught
from spark from passing engine.
Mr.. Henry Osgood Of Chicago writes
friends here that he is to take his family TO
Vermont to spend the season. Mr.. Osgood
was formerly Royalton boy and lived
here at the time the war broke out and en-
listed in the company that was raised IN
lunbridge in 1861, serving till the END OF
The war. He was seriously wounded In the
Two days. engagement In the Battle OF the
wilderness, with the Army Of the Poto.
mac, mimic ball entering his neck IN
'front.'. 1t was taken out near the spinal
column below the neck. For the past ~
years he has been a successful salesman In
the employ OF Sweet, Dempster q Co., nat
ters and furriers, Chicago, and has also
peen engaged in real estate business.
Use less soap-better for clothes.
Use less soap better for clothes.