Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-07-15
Randolph.
Ed. Slack went to Boston saturda

inal pension.
Mrs. NJ. L. Scott is at Gloucester beach
for month.
Ernest Abbott left for the Mt. Pleasant
House Monday.
Thomas Carr of West Hartford spent
Sunday 10 town.
Miss Harriet Joiner of Royalton was in
town over Sunday.
N. w. Rindge and wife are visiting in
windsor and vicinity.
Miss Anna Nichols returned Monday
from camp at Highgate.-
DIR. Goodrich and family are camping
In Brooktield this week
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ. Flint visited w. II.
Messer in Barre last week.
Miss Eva Tillinghast OF Providence, 4.
l., is visiting Iona e. Chase.
Mrs. j. ID. Mitchell returned Saturday
from a week spent in Bridgewater
Carroll Huntington, now of Newport,
was married July 7th to a lady of Sutton,
T. q.
The camping party has returned from
Berlin Pond and reports a ge-lo-rious
time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert j. Powers of
Orange, Mass, are staying at Henry w.
Tewksbury's.
Mrs. c. II. Montgomery and daughter,
Katherine, OF Springfield, Mass, are visit
ing in this place.
The Kings Daughters will meet with
| Miss Emma Moses Wednesday afternoon,
/ July 2lst, at four O'Clock.
Sixty-fve sheep at &C.; so calves at &c =,
| and IL hogs at 2 lie. constituted $. NJ.
4 Flint's shipment Monday.
/ Judge Rowell has been at Montpelier
4 this week, the supreme court having
handed down its decisions.
Mrs. A. F. Kasson and Master Chester
/ Irwin Of West Somerville, Mass, are at
! Will Slack's for the summer.
G.. G. Blakely OF East Calais, a brother
/ Of l.. j. Blakely, is to open paint shop at
the old Newton stand on Central street.
Col. A. b. Chandler went to Montreal
/ Monday, from whence he goes TO New
/ York, returning to Randolph about Aug.
/ LIST.
| Mr.. and Mrs. ST.. Horner OF Boston and
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Scribner OF Leb-
anon, n. H., have been guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Ketcbum the past week.
Eugene Kimball will return from New
York about August LIST, being engaged in
the meantime in looking after Col. Kim
balPs business interests during the lat
ters stay here.
Complaint is made OF the careless driv-
ing OF teams in the cemetery by means of
which injury has been done to lots and
graves In the care of which much work
has been bestowed.
Camp Randolph opens Saturday. Those
who intend to visit the camp are requested
to notify the directors two or three days
in advance so that the table accommoda-
tions may be in readiness for them.
Miss Leila NJ. Child, dau ghter OF o. b
Child, formerly of this place, started last
week for Los Angeles, Cal. Since leaving
Randolph she has taken a college course
at the John b. Stetson University OF De-
Land, Fla, aud now goes to take a post
graduate course at the University OF Cali
fornia.
Hon. c. j. Bell OF Walden, master OF the
Vermont state grange, was in town last
Thursday on grange business. While
here he was the guest OF Dana II. Morse
The removal OF ID. ID. Howe from the
state causes a vacancy in the office of sec
retary. Mr. Morse is temporarily acting
as secretary until the appointment OF Mr..
Howe's successor.
In Burlington, under the rules adopted
by the water department, when hose is
held in the hand by the nozzle it's hose,
all right enough, but when 1t is placed
beside a chair or fastened to the fence so
that it plays alone, 1t becomes lawn
sprinkler and the tax is IS per year in adj
vance or S12 in review. How would some
such scheme work in Randolph?
Ths International Button Hole Machine
Co. OF Boston has declared semi annual
dividend OF per cent, payable july 18th.
The Reece Button Hole Machine Co. has
declared a quarterly dividend OF 4 per
cent, which is ! per cent less than this
company has declared OF late. The reduc-
tion in the dividend was owing to the
danraaoiOn nj hnginpGG nartinn.
larly the shoe industry. number OF our
local capitalists are interested in these
companies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick B. Pratt OF
BROOKLYN have been guests at Montague
Place this week Mr.. Pratt is the second
son OF the late Charles Pratt and is follow
ing his fathers request in devoting his
life work to the celebrated Pratt Institute,
which was endowed by the father in the
sum OF "a ,0OO,0 900. Mr.. Pratt is also large
ly interested in, and one of the vice. presi
dents of, the Long Island Railroad com
pany. In courtesy to him, President +.
c. Smith sent his private engine and car
Tuesday and gave Mr.. and Mrs. Pratt, Col.
Kimball and daughters q trip to Montpe-
lier st. Adams and other points of inter-
est on the line of the Central Vermont.
An item in last Mondays Globe reads as
follows:-"Charles II. Pixley, native of
hanuoipni W.; anu III Anel NSh
resident of Poultney and Rutland, now
temporarily in the Troy, N. Y, hospital,
alleges that a murder occurred in the hos
pital since he entered it, Thomas Koran
being, he says, killed by the night nurse,
Cornelius innegan, assisted by the day
nurse. Koran, it is alleged, became delir-
ious and broke away, when Finnegan
choked him and, with the other nurse
beat him brutally, tying him on the bed
with a sheet over his head. When the
sheet was removed Koran was dead. The
autopsy developed the fact that Koran was
badly bruised about the head and body. 1t
is claimed by the nurses that the man had
fallen out of the wagon that brought him
to the hospital and was injured and that
his death was due to delirium tremens.
Coroner Meredith of Troy is making a