Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-12-12

Will De neld next FRIDAY evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lafery OF Enosburg
Falls were guests last week Of relatives
here. Mrs. Lafery and baby remained un-
til Saturday and were accompanied as far
as Waterbury by Miss Emma Laqueer,
Mrs. Lafery's sister, and Miss Bernice
Briggs, who spent the day there.
At well attended meeting OF U. S.
Grant post, g. A. r., held last Saturday
evening ii was voted to instruct the adiu-
tant 10 write to Ransom T.. Hathorn OF
Ludlow and ask him to become a candi-
date for the next department commander
and pledging him the support OF U. 5.
Grant post.
A Joint meeting of the Vermont
Horticultural society and Vermont Bee
| Keepers association will be held at YER
gennes Dec. II and IS. Reduced rates
from Randolph and Roxbury have been
secured. The program are now being
| printed. NJ. +. Cram of West Brooktield
is secretary.
The Methodist church was filed to its
full capacity Friday evening, the attrac-
| tion being a notion picture program in
charge Of Mr.. Laing. The pictures were
clear and bright, with a pleasing variety,
and the Epworth league, under whose
auspices the entertainment was given, is
to be congratulated. The leagues share
OF the proceeds was over ;15.
| Mrs. f. ID. Strong arrived Sunday morn
/ ing from Jamestown, No. OAK, accom-
panied by her niece, Miss Lucie Wall, who
had been with her several months. Mrs.
J Strong has shipped her household goods
here and as soon as her residence is com
| pleted, which will probably be in about
six weeks, she will move into her new
| home.
Mrs. Ida II. Read, president of the
i ~ ~ ~ -.
/ Mrs. s. s. Clark a lovely bouquet picked
| Nov. 10Th at Fort Worth, Tex, where she
was attending the national W. c. I. U.
convention. The flowers, mostly rosebuds
and beautiful tropical looking blossoms of
dark red color, although six days on the
way, arrived in fairly good condition.
NJ. ]. Smith finished work Saturday for
| Chadwick Bros. at the Randolph foundry
and Monday began work as moulder IN
| Springfield His wife accompanied him
J there and his daughter, Grace, will go as
soon as she closes her present term OF
school in Braintree. Mr.. Smith and his
/ family came here from Windsor several
years ago and their removal from town IS
/ regretted by numerous friends.
/ A meeting OF the committee OF the Ran
dolph Musical association was held last
/ Thursday evening at DIR. A. &. Baileys OF
I flee to consider the ACCESSIBILITY OF holding
a musical festival here this winter. II was
decided that steps be taken to arrange an
entertainment OF musical nature, to be
presented by local talent for the purpose
OF replenishing the treasury sufficiently
4 to enable the association TO hold next year
\ festival Of unusual merit.
Frank Ash, who left his wife here sever
| al months ago, was met last week by a
1 Randolph man at the Sargent hotel in
/ West Lebanon. n. H.. which has been his
/ headquarters for some time. He is known
/ there as Frank Seymour and represents
himself as veteran with pension and a
snug income from 1900 safely invested. II
is understood there that he has made over
his other property, including fine resi-
| dence here, 10 his wife and two sons.
Last Sundays issue OF the Worcester,
Mass, SPY contained photograph of Miss
! Margaret Carrigan, formerly OF this place
/ but for several years past a successful teach
I er in one OF the city schools in Worcester.
She was winner OF third prize, bicycle,
| in a voting contest conducted by the spy
/ to determine the most popular teachers in
/ the city. There were no votes bought by
any OF the contestants, so the thousands
of coupons sent in testify to the popularity
of the leaders.
Deputy Marshal Luke Parish is one OF
the United States officers who are escort
/ ing bevy of % deported Cinnamon to the
I Pacific coast, on their way home. Four
4 teen OF them are from the Vermont district
and u from Northern New York.
! The party left Boston Monday afternoon
by steamer for Norfolk, Va, thence by
I rail TO San Francisco Mr.. Parish was ac-
companied by his wife and expects to
/ spend several months at the home OF his
+ brother, Mark, in Oakland, Cal.
The Leonora Jackson company that APP
peared here last week Wednesday evening
4 gave concerts the night before in Concord,
/ y. H.. and the two nights following in
/ Brattleboro and Burlington. In all these
places, the concert received verv compile
/ inentary press notices for its high quality
and pleasing nature The artists and pro-
gram were the same as here, but Miss
Jackson responded to encores, being en-
/ Enthusiastically received. At Brattleboro
she was rendered a reception after the con-
cert.
Last Friday in. Barnstable, Mass, Miss
Jane Toppan pleaded not guilty to three
charges Of murder. The indictments
charged her with the death OF Mrs. Mary
Gibbs and AP. Davis OF Cataumet, Mass,
and Mrs. Genevieve A. Gordon OF Chicago.
/ Prof Wood is reported to have found strong
/ traces of morphine in a chemical analysls
of their remains. The case has local in
terest as the late Mrs. Edna Banister OF
| East Randolph, who was nursed by Miss
4 Toppan at Lowell, Mass, last August, IS
considered another possible victim.
John 3. Hutchinson OF Braintree hasn't
a very high opinion of the Vermont game
4 laws lust now. He owned q couple Of
I good fox hounds, for one OF which he had
/ paid so recently. He says they had never
/ been known to chase deer but last week
Monday, while loose, they came across a
/ deer track and followed it as far as the
/ fish hatchery at Roxbury. II was doe.
Before they had gotten near enough to do
1 it harm, they were seen and the keeper OF
the fish hatchery shot both OF the hounds
dead. John was naturally displeased, but
/ when he registered kick was told that
/ he had better keep still, as there was fine
/ OF 500 against the owner of dog that
1 chases deer. case of this kind is ON at
\ the present term of Windsor county
court.