Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-11-13

distributed its q tons among forty differ
ent customers
Drs. Rumrill and Russlow, assisted by
DR.. Z. G. Angel, performed serious oper-
alton Yesterday on Mrs. T.. +, Waterman,
who IS doing nicely. Mrs. Adella Morse
] Slack is her nurse.
At the auction of farm stock, tools and
produce at George c. Hateh's last Thurs
! dav satisfactory sales were made. COWS
went at from so to 800 apiece and nay at
/ 80 a ton az the barn.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Hehard Of White
River Junction were with Mr.. and Mrs. Il.
/ r. Tilson over Sunday. Mr.. Hebard IS
now with the wholesale grocery firm Of
/ Cross, Abbott Co. at the Junction.
| Mrs. Clara Adams Of Claremont, y. H.
who had been spending a week with her
/ sister-in-law Mrs. Anna Adams, went
| Tuesday TO West Hartford, where she was
called by the serious illness ola friend.
While chopping in the woods Monday,
Leon TYLER gave his left leg a slantlng
blow with the axe just below the ankle
bone. Ii took seven stitches to close the
wound and two arteries had to be taken
up.
Two Sisters Of Mercy were IN the village
Monday and Tuesday, soliciting funds for
the support of home in Montreal Tor or
phans and unfortunates. Ii Is reported
that very generous response was made 10
their appeal
Mary Howe. the Brattleboro soprano,
who sang in Randolph in the early sum
mer, will give concert in the town hall
at Bethel the evening Of thanksgiving
day, assisted by her brother, Lueien Howe,
as accompanist,
Miss Eta Chamberlain was in Montpel-
Ter on business Tuesday. Her father, In
crease Chamberlin, who sustained frac-
ture of the hip nearly three weeks ago, re-
mains about the same and seems TO be
very comfortable.
This afternoon, from till g. the ladies
of the Congl church viii hold a sale of
fancy and useful articles in the church
vestries. From $3.50 until S, supper will
be served. Some new features Will be in
troduced into the sale. All are cordially !
invited to attend.
Business conditions are so good just |
now and every one so steadily employed |
that it is a difficult matter to find any one |
sufficiently at liberty to attend to all the
odd jobs that want doing occasionally. |
Salisbury Brothers are employing more
men than ever before, having 5S on their
pay roll
Roy Dustin, who works for Charles
Blodgett ON the wood-sawing- machine
run by a gasolene engine, cut his left
hand across the knuckles, on the saw
yesterday, nearly severing three fingers.
II was a bad wound but is doing so well
it is expected now that all the fingers
can be saved.
Mrs. Charles Columbe was taken crit
ically i'll Friday and Monday night was
operated upon by DR.. j. p. Clifford for
strangulated hernia. She is still very sick
though she stood the operation better
than it was feared she might. Her daugh-
ter, Mss Alice, came from Bellows Falls
Monday night.
l.. p Booth makes an artistic display Of
studio work in the show window of f. III.
Joslyn. The collection Of photographs
shows exceptionally fine work in the
treatment of the subjects and the finish OF
the pictures. The centerpeee OF the vim
dow is a mounted brace of handsome wild
ducks shot by F. B. Thomas at Highgate
Springs.
AsB.A. Manchester was driving a flock
of sheep home from pasture Saturday, his
charges met l.. G.. Erskine's team on the
South Main street hill. The sheep poured
over the top Of the hill sheep-fashion, and
/ the horse to escape the Onrushing pillows
of wool left the road and tore up the
/ steepest part of the embankment at +. +.
/ Dubois, throwing out Mr.. Erskine, his
/ boy. Sedrick, and his son-in-law, III. l..
| Cook. No one was injured, and only the
| crossbar to the wagon damaged. The
1 horse was caught before it had gone many
rods.
! The next entertainment in the Randolph
1 course will be on Monday evening, Nov,
4 II, and will be a lecture entitled 1.-THE
| West Indies by Frank r. Robertson, who
4 arrived in the ruins Of st. Pierre only
few days after the eruption, and with an
expert photographer secured views of in
tense interest. Mr.. Robertson sailed May
/ IL direct for Martinique, visiting also st.
/ Thomas, st. Kits, Antigua, Dominica,
Guadalupe and ST. Lucia, securing ma
terial and photographs Of the islands, cit
les and the people, their habits and GUS
toms.
The grange meeting Saturday evening
had a very large attendance, and the pro-
gram, which was arranged by Mrs. Heber
I. Holman, provided excellent entertain
ment as fulloWs.- Music, by the orches-
ira; reading, Mrs. a. b. Manchester; trio,
Messrs. Louis Booth, Clarence Booth and
Roy Holman; solo, Myrtle Button; read
ing, L. ;. Tewksbury; duet, Mrs. c. 5.
Booth and Mrs. II. T. Holman; solo, John
Hutchinson; reading, George slack; piano
duet, Mrs Roy Holman and Flossie Terry:
tableau. ''Cure for Deafness;n duet, Mrs.
G. ;. Booth and John Hutchinson. A
meeting of the dramatic club was called
after the grange meeting and the follow
ing officers were elected :-PresideHt, Rus
sell Burridge; vice president. Roy Hol-
man; secretary, Nora Connolly; treasurer,
Mary Morse; executive committee, G.. p.
Booth, Lura Montgomery, George Mann
and Russell Burridge. A number Of appli-
cations for membership were received at
this meeting.
pathetic sight Monday aud Tuesday
was an apparently helpless gentleman ON
a wagon seat giving the chs ritabiy disposed
an opportunity to buy lead pencils or
other small wares that they could posi-
lly have worried along without, had
not has appearence made them anxious
10 buy anything he had Is ssil He was