Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-10-21
Randolph.

city friday.
Dyer's ice cart made its last round for
the season Saturday.
Hobart Peck visited his brother,
George, In ST. Adams last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. AFRO Stockwell of
Rochester were here over Sunday.
Leon ID. Latham passed the examination
and was admitted TO the bar last week.
A. E. Dean and wife went to Boston
Saturday for stay OF TWO or three weeks.
E. F. Emerson went TO Campton Viii
lage, N. H., Saturday for few days stay
Col. A. b. Chandler came Friday night,
returning to New York Monday after
noon.
Mrs. Wealthy Merritt has returnet from
Middlebury TO keep house for Cummings
Marsh.
The family of Arthur Putnam will not
move to Barnard at present, as was stated
last week.
Harold Thompson has settled with j. b.
Adams for shooting his goat. He claimed
he thought II was deer.
Capt II. NJ. Wires returned Thursday
from Lynn and other points in Massa-
chusetts, where he spent the summer.
Paint and kalsomine have been applied
/ 10 the interior of Dubois az Gays hall,
with results beneficial TO its appearance.
Miss Eulie Savage OF Waits6eld, who
/ had been the guest OF Miss Clara Dame
for the past week, returned home Satur
Gay.
Mrs. Constance G. Blodge.t of Lyndon
yilie was elected secretary OF the Vermont
| Federation of Women's clubs at Brandon
| last week.
Truman Kempton brought a carload Of
/ handsome Green Mountain potatoes from
! Nawly IA pAE aud sold
them from the car at 20 cents.
Clarence Cleveland, who has been work
| ing 10 the W hite mountains this summer,
is visiting his home in Castleton lie
will work in a hotel in Florida during the
| winter.
( At the meeting of the Vermont Medi-
cal society last week, DIR. A &. Bailey was
elected a delegate TO the Connecticut
Medical society and Drs. Il. f. Upham and
l.. NJ. Gresne OF Bethel to the American
| Medical association.
| The cases OF the Limerick bank VS.. J. b.
| Adams and OF hers, Randolph VS.. RoX-
bury, and w. S. s. Buck VS.. Theodore
smith have been heard tefore the gu
preme Court the past week. Decisions are
expected in about month.
The new local mail service began yester.
day. postal car is attached TO the 9:l1
morning local and the 7:22 evening &C
commodation. Postal Clerks Brownell OF
Essex and Thompson OF Northtield nave
the runs. Good connections are made at
each emo and the service is bound TO prove
very popular.
Miss Kate A. Connolly, for nearly five
years a valued cumpositor on the HERALD
10 rce, on Monday began like service Tor
the Montpelier Argus. Her new situation
is good one and the Argus management
is sure to find her "ail right Miss
Lucinda Dupus takes Miss Connolly's
place in the HERALD office.
Among tue curios IN the possession OF
Miss Della Paige of East Bethel is pair
of silk stockings made some 40 years ago
from silk spun by silkworms fed on mul
berries raised in East Bethel. The heir
loom descended from Misses Sadie and
lydia Paige, aunts OF Miss Della. There
was a time when the culture Of silk was
undertaken in Vermont on quite scale.
The permonter for October gives the
second OF its series OF town histories, de-
voting 20 pages with SO half-tone Illus
tratiops to Randolph. IL is far and away
the most elaborate thing OF the kind ever
done or attempted in the state aud Ran
dolpn cannot fail TO appreciate II. The
scenic beauties of the town are attractive.
ly presented both by illustrations and let
ter press, as are its manufacturing and in
dustrial features, and its many tne resi-
dences. Especially interesting are MS
dozen pictures of the Moulton dairy and
stock FARMS Brattleboro ReJOrmer
Ripton correspondence OF Middlebury
Register On Wednesday last your cor
espondent had the unexpected pleasure
OF meeting A. A. Atwood and his son, Jo-
seph w. They formerly owned the place
that Col. Battell now occupies with the
Inn, selling to Joseph Parker in the
spring Of 1865 and removing to Randolph,
Previous TO purchasing where the Inn
now is, the father in company with his
brother, q. e., carried on the business of
tanning on the site of G. j. Hodges mill.
He was long and closely identified With
the interests of the town. lie bears his
eighty years well, in fact appeared more
active than his son, who is nearly thirty
years younger, and looks able TO reacn the
century mark. They were looking for old
friends and townsmen, and found but
very few, third of century having
wrought woderfu changes in their old
immediate neighborhood, finding only
one, the rest having removed or are "be-
yond the river"
Col. A. b. Chandler is the president and
managing director OF the Sprague Elec-
trio Co., just formed with s5,000,00O au-
thorized capital to manufacture electric
goods. j. Pierpont Morgan and John W.
Macl-ay are the largest stockholders. The /
OF New Jersey. The principal office of the
company viii be at Watsessing, N. j.,
where the business will be conducted. |
The capital stock is s50O0,000 equally di-
vided into common and preferred stock, |
the dividens on the latter to be at the rate |
of six per cent. The object OF the com
pany is the manufacture of electrical APP
planes. William w. Cook, counsel for
the company, said that the new company |
would take over the new Sprague mode OF
using electricity on elevated roads and in
the suburban and local business of steam
roads, including the contract already OBJ 1
tanned for equipping the South Side Rail
road in Chicago. The company will also
take over the property of the Sprague |
Electric Elevator company and its plant
at Watsessing, which cost over $500, 900. |
This will include the contract for the ele-
vators for the underground road in Lon
don.