Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-03-27

Emerson, returned yesterday to Campton,
n. Ii.
Eb. Carlisle's family is moving from the
upstairs tenement of ID. A. Spooner's house
to the downstairs one in the Chadwick
house.
Mrs. ]. w. Belcher of Tiverton, R. l.,
celebrated her S4th birthday Sunday by a
party of her Fall River and Vermont
friends.
Fred Whtelaw is occupying the Thomas
Carrigan house temporarily, until the
Walbridge house can be vacated by Geo
Sumner.
NJ. j. Montgomery has resumed his old
place as engineer at the souto mill, and is
succeeded at the Marcott q Hayes mill by
Dennis Rattee.
Miss Bessie Lewis, who teaches in the
NeWbury Graded school, is passing her va
cation at home; also Miss Jennie Godfrey
who teaches in Hartford.
Mrs. Mary Granger and Cora Holbrook
spent a day with Mrs. Russell Woodland in
Bethel, il being the 18th birthday of Mrs.
Granger's grandson, Francis Woodland.
VIII Tyler has the main part of his
house well down School street on its jour
ney from the library lot to its new loca-
ton. g. G. Blodgett is doing the moving.
George L. Myers, Yale student in the
forestry department, was here today to
visit the sugar market and is making
special study of the maple tree in this Vi
entity.
Capt. J. f. Eldredge returned yesterday
from Warren, where he had been for
week on account of his fathers illness. j.
b. Eldredge and Miss Ellen Whitney
have been in Warren at intervals during
the past week
i 4 II. l.,
declared to creditors Of the Randolph Saw
ings bank, making 500 in all. Another
dividend will come still later, the exact
proportions Of which are not known now.
It's real, old fashioned sugar season,
and no mistake the best seen for quite
number of years. The flow began early
and has continued almost steadily. The
sap is sweet and free from nitre and the
quality of sugar is superb.
e. r. Morse Of Proctor, manager OF
Fletcher ID. Proctor's canvass for the gov
ernorship, was in town over Tuesday
night. He met large number Of Repub-
licans and received great deal Of encour-
agement as to this section.
If precedent is followed, the new chief
Judge OF the Vermont supreme court will
be Hon. John w. Rowell OF this place, sue
ceeding the late Judge Taft. Gov. Stick
ney is expected to make the appointment
shortly There are several candidates for
the vacancy at the foot of the BENCH
among them Joel c. Baker OF Rutland,
Seneca Haselton and Robert Roberts of
Burlington and George NJ, Powers of
Morrisville.
The members of the Randolph Book
club and large number of invited guests
were entertaine d at Mrs. f. E. Dubois
Saturday afternoon from three to five.
Quotations from Goldsmith were given in
response to the roll call. Current events
were read by Mrs. Holmes. Mrs. Cleve-
land gave a paper on Dublin, and Mrs.
Moulton read Irish Legends. The literary
program was followed with a social hour
and refreshments.
The death is announced of one OF Ran
dolphs former residents, Daniel Hayes.
After an illness OF two months, he passed
away very suddenly on March 18th. The
immediate cause ofdeath was heart failure.
Deceased was born in Randolph, VT, in
1854 and had not yet completed his 4Sth
year He was the second eldest son of the
late James Hayes OF Brookiield and he
had resided in Montreal for the past 25
years. He leaves to mourn his death two
children, his mother and two brothers,
Michael and Denis Hayes.