Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-09-11

; Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Wardner, with
their daughter and her husband, Mr.. and
Mrs. -. II. Hart, are passing the week at
Highgate Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Hutchinson have
with them Mrs. Hutchinsons brother
Leonard Read. and his wife Of Detroit,
Mich, who arrived Tuesday.
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. WI Chalmers, who
had been staying for the past seven weeks
with Judge and Mrs. J. =. Cleveland went
yesterday to their home in Riyerhead, l.. i.
Tom Stathers, for the past year and
half iourneyman printer for the BUCK
! Printing company has gone 10 Montpe-
lier to work for the Union Card company.
Miss May Cross, who came home with
/ her mother. Mrs. Asenath Cross, few
weeks ago from Holyoke, Mass, staid un-
! til Tuesday, going back then 10 her work
in Holyoke
! Miss Bancroft, college friend who had
been visiting Miss Annie Mead, returned
yesterday to New Hartford, Conn,
accompanied by her father, who arrived
here Saturday.
Mrs. +. w. Robbins OF Athens, VT,
Mrs. Eugene Robbins Of Gouldsyille and
daughter were guests at l.. b. Johnson's
Friday, also Miss Stella Cross OF Goulds-
vile on Sunday.
Miss Clara Burnham has resumed her
duties in the Robinson Ladies Furnish
ings store in Concord, n. H., after a very
pleasant vacation of two weeks at her home
and with friends in Randolph.
Mrs. Gertrude Gattman came Saturday
after her little son, who had been with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Coreveau,
for couple of months, and Tuesday took .
him back with her to Brighton, Mass.
Mrs. Laura Cushman OF Burlington has /
been in this vicinity since saturday, call
ing on old acquaintance. Mrs. Cushman
Will enter the dressmaking department of
Heman Aliens large store in Burlington
this fall.
A meeting Of the W. C. t. Z. was held
with Mrs. 5. ;. Clark Friday, and Mrs.
Mary Mann and Mrs. w. w. Carpenter
were elected delegates to the state conven-
ton, which will be held in Rutland Octo-
Der ?, 3 and q.
Plans are being made for a more sue
cessful fair than ever at Mortified this
year. Some OF the attractions will be
noted in the advertisement which appears
elsewhere. As usual, big crowds win at
tend, il the weather favors.
The uncommonly intelligent black
shepherd dog OF jefferson Flint came to
an untimely end Tuesday night. As he
was following his master he crossed the
track in front OF a passing freight and, |
being struck by the train, was so badly
mangled that he had to be shot.
Mrs. A. b. Chandler, Mr.. and Mrs. Al
bert +. Chandler and Willis Chandler,
who have been abroad since May, sailed /
from London by the steamer Minneapolis
and landed at New York at 2 O'Clock /
Monday afternoon. They reached here
last night and joined Col. Chandler at
Mari-Castle. y
Miss Ada Fits, who was with her ia
3 hnr Tor ~ - . H.sI
summer vacation, is now teaching in Phil
putting into practice the indus
trial training theories that she has been ,
studying for some months past. She has
with her for a fellow teacher an old ac- 7
quaintance in Boston, where she lived so
long. d
F.. y. Jerd has installed in his meat
market a Macarthur, Wirth a Cooney /
smoke house, manufactured at Syracuse, !
y. Y. Ii is made of sheet iron and Is !
eight feet high, three feet wide and two I
feet deep and will hold about 40 hams
In the lower part is a box Tor the cob fire
and pipe at the top carries the smoke /.
into the chimney
The band concert was given Friday ,
evening from the first observation house
in Marit astle park. An excellent pro-
gram was rendered that included two I
vocal selections, sung by part of the band {
to the accompaniment OF the remainder. {
day evening, because the orchestra will a
play at a dance in Barnard Friday night.
The graded school opened Monday with l
a total enrolment of 269 scholars, divided Z
as follows: High school. "a; eighth and !
ninth. Miss Stewart, teacher, 36; seventh.
Miss Parkhurst, 80; fifth and sixth, Miss !
Adams, As; fourth, Miss Msnney, %; Sec |
ond and third, Miss johnson, y; first, !.
Miss Lockwood. %. Not all of the SEN !
iors are in school vet and some other adj !
ditions viii probably swell the total con- Q
siderably.
A. II. Beedle, ON visiting his farm a |,
short distance below the village yesterday, =
found that one OF his cows, a nice two ,
year-old heifer, had rife ball embedded
in her leg and was suffering terribly from ;
the wound. As il is not the open season :
for deer, there hardly seems to be a reas- !
enable excuse for shooting COW under :
the impression that il is a woodchuck or
any Of the smaller game. Farmers natur- r
ally hate to lose their best cattle in this /.
way and are justified in warning hunters :
that their premises are not game preserves.
The mail boxes for the two rural free de- i
livery routes were received Friday and de- G
livered the same day, and 1i2 are now in a
use, serving about $50 families. The car {
riers start out at in the morning and re- 4
turn at in the afternoon, distributing in
the meantime one days mail and handling I
on an average 10 pieces. Registered and 9
special delivery letters they are obliged to /
take to the home of the person to whom
they are addressed, no matter how far Y
back from the main road ii may be. The
carriers have with them always blanks for r
registered letters ana money orders and \
fun line Of stamps. and practically bring /.
postoffice convenIences within easy reach :
Of the rural delivery patrons. The boxes !
of course are locked and have attached to :
them black square piece Of metal which
is raised when II is desired that the carrier