Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-02-21

Jack Gay went to Barnard last Sunday
and tipped over.
Miss May Blossom is confined to the
house by Illness.
daughter was born Sunday to Mr.. and
Mrs. b. @. Bundy.
Geo. Blossom, second. spent last week
with his mother at Brandon.
Parker Babcock and family OF Gaysville
visited at F. Maxbam's Saturday.
Miss Mary Wilson has closed her school
at North Hartland and is at home.
Mrs. Minnie Maynard returned TO her
home in Holyoke, Mass, last week.
Miss Mabel Dyke has been visiting the
family of F. K. Jewett at Randolph.
Willis Mcintyre, a former resident In
town, is visiting his son, E. c. Mcintyre.
Miss Helen Welch OF Randolph was the
guest over Sunday of Mrs. Elva Carpen-
ter.
Mrs. Charles Allen and son, Carl, are
visiting at Herman Aliens In East Barn
ard.
VIII Bradbury lie laid up from the re-
suits of getting nail In his foot last Mon
day.
Mrs. Addie Sylvester and son, Frank
Sylvester, returned from Keene, N. H.,
Friday.
Mrs. Louisa Martin OF Rochester spent
two days last week ln town, the guest OF
x. II. Topper.
b. Q. Rogers has sold the place In Lii
lieville that he bought Of Chas. Cutler to
Elmer w. Stoddard.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ Flint OF Chelsea
were guests the first OF the week of their
nephew, Il. w. Morse.
Guy Wright returns this week from
Charlotte where he has been visiting his |
daughter, Mrs. Williams.
There are unclaimed letters at the /
Bethel postoffice addressed 10 Mr.. d. @. /
Harris and Mrs. e. S. Spaulding.
Dana Shaw is not to move to Braintree
as reported last week. His son, Jerome,
Is the man who is to do the moving.
II. O. Gilbert has been absent In RAN
dolph the past week attending to his dut-
les as one OF the town auditors OF Ran
dolph.
Miss Huntington gave the second series
OF parties to her friends at her boarding
house on Pleasant street last Thursday
evening.
Miss Ethelynd Heath, Miss Lydia Ach-
inson and Miss Lillian Buck attended the
concert at Randolph Friday evening OF
last week.
The Congl and Universalist churches
united in memorial service for Miss
Frances Il. Willard at the Cong' church
last Sunday evening.
Mrs. ID. s. Philips returned last week ,
from Boston where she had accompanied
her sister, Mrs. Dale, OF Waterbury for
treatment at the hospital.
W. @. Shaw wishes us to correct the
item In last weeks issue about shortage
of coal and says he has plenty OF coal
which he viii sell for cash.
Frank Howard of Montreal visited
friends in town last week. Mr.. Howard
formerly lived in the Locust Creek House !
now occupied by VIM. Rogers.
Mrs. Caroline Hodgkins Wyman died /
the 18th, aged SO years and one day. She
was born in Middlebury. The cause OF
her death was pneumonia following grip. G
Miss Chlorine Tucker. who has been
spending the past few months at o. N.
Barrows' and attending the Whitcomb h
High school, is now with her mother In !
Royalton. liz
nAt the public whist party held Saturday i
az the rooms OF Mrs. John kimball the b
first prize for men was taken by Principal t
u. III. Wright, for women by Mrs. A, Lee 8
Cady, with scores OF AZ and SO. b
Frank Lyman and w. G. Lattimer have a
been appointed com missioners and ap- Q
praisers on the estate OF the late John c
Gilman, who died in January at the home o
Vi uib DFOtutF-1u-lAW, AQer Bunr. IL
D The next meeting OF the grange will be y
held Feb. 23d and will be In charge OF !,
Pearl Savage. The question to be discuss
ed Is Resolved that farmers are of more :.
use and could be of more power in the !.
world than any other class OF people," =
School in district No. Z, Gflead, closed v
Feb. 9th. Pupils having perfect record g
OF attendance for the entire year were n
Grover Bowen and Emma Kendall. q
Willie Kendall had perfect record for the b
winter term. r
Il, A. Markham found a stray team in v
the back door yard last Thursday night of b
last week. No driver or owner appeared b
TO be In the vicinity. He took the team
70 the road and hitched 1t In front OF H. v
7. Rices'. The next morning the team a
was gone. .
Ten pupils of the grammar room and b
.he high school, who attended the ball a
Tuesday, were not able to go to school the a.
following morning. Ii is inquired
whether parents OF these pupils regard D
balls OF more importance than school at 81
tendance. 81
The masquerade ball given by the Cres- =,
cent club Tuesday evening was a success :,
n every particular. Nearly one hundred :
couples we're on the floor, coming from :,
Randolph, Rochester, Woodstock, Barn I.
lrd and other towns and i45 spectator y
tickets were sold. r
There are three grey squirrels living in D.
be woods back of the mouse OF Robert r.
Noble that come down daily to the build W
Dgs for their meals. One of them has be-
ome so tame as to climb all over the
'odies OF the children of MIR. Noble and
at out OF their hands.
There are 149 children in the town b
chool district between the ages of and In
s. Ninety one are boys and IS are girls
hey are divided by districts as follows: On
last Bethel and South 'Lympus, % each; St
Id church and Flynn, 20 each; Gilead and F,
amp Brook, 10 each; Locust Creek, 70, 81
tx each side OF the river; mountain, z; III
'hristian all, IS. W
workmen in the employ of the Bethel "a
Electric Light and Power Co. have been Or
ngaged the past week in cutting chan Or
el through the thick ice in the Blue hill -
oDd. w 'rk was begun at the dam and El
as progressed nearly to White River In
ridge By this course II is hoped to b
void the dangerous ice jams that have e
itherto formed at the head of the pond