Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-06-05
STAFFORD.

Geo. Noyes was in Chelsea recently.
VIM. Mcintyre is spending some time IN
town.
Curtis Morrill, is spending a short time
with his father.
PhiIander Scarf is very i'll with infiam-
nation of the bowels.
John Darling has been suffering extreme
/ ly with rheumatism the past week.
| DIR. Burnett of South Royalton was
called in the Scarf case Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Chamberlin visited
at +. II. Burrs in Thetford Saturday.
DIR. Walter 5. Gustin of Union village
was in town, professionally, Thursday.
VIM. II. Hatch OF Lexington, Mass,
spent few days at his brothers last week.
Fyarts L. Worcester of Thetford Hill was
a guest at Charles Webster's over Sunday.
Mrs. Bert Day and Mrs. Eugene Noyes
OF Sharon visited friends in town Saturday.
Leslie Bragg and Albert Hopkins of
Washington visited at Hiram Fulton's the
first OF the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry F. Fox spent sun
day at their sisters, Mrs. James Wrights,
at Milleris Pond.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. Harlow and son OF
Wilder were guests OF Mrs. Clara II. Paine
thefirst of the week.
Jed II. Kendall and daughter, Miss An
geline, OF Randolph visited their many
friends in town last week.
w. c. Hazelton arrived Tuesday from
Toronto, Canada, for a visit at his moth
er's, Mrs. A. NJ. Hazelton's.
Mrs. Gertie Dearborn and sister, Ethel
White, left Thursday for a short visit at
Miss Cora NJ. Whitcher's of Danville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Palmer and Mrs.
Nellie Cook and friend of Wilder were
guests at Miss Pierce's the first OF the week.
Mrs. Florence varney, who has been
spending two weeks in Lebanon, n. H.,
returned the middle OF the week to her ia
theirs, j. X. Kendall's.
Children's Day will be observed at the
Congl church next Sunday morning at II
o'clock by appropriate exercises to which
all are cordially invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Chamberlin, Mr..
and Mrs. II. f. Fox, Mr.. and Mrs. b. g.
Haywood and Claude Carpenter attended
the dance at Sharon Friday evening.
The following delegates were elected to
the county conference at Fairlee this
week .-Dea. H. B. Cummings, Geo. A.
Bushnell Mrs. +. r. Roweu and Mrs.
Mary A. Hatch.
Mrs. Helen d. Moore, W. NJ, and Mrs.
Annie L. Hatch. A. NJ. Of Unity Chapter,
No. 40. are attending the 30th annual con-
vocation OF the Grand Chapter OF Vermont, |
O. r. S., at Bennington this week.
At Saturdays caucus, two Proctor dele
gates were elected. VIM. r. Sanborn and
Jas. w. Tyson, Jr. They were to select |
their own alternates. The same delegates |
are to attend the district convention.
Frank Z. Merrill, who is still critically |
in from the measles and complications at |
he STAFFORD House has had watchers fur
nished several nights from among his |
brothers Of Hope Council, J. o. Y. A. NJ.
W. f. Scribner's young horse, which |
was fastened at BOWS store Thursday, be- |
came frightened, pulled out the staple to |
to which it was hitched and, after getting |
free from the road cart, ran away home, |
a distance OF two miles. Only a few |
resulted from the runaway.
Harvey Sweet met with quite a ducking |
Wednesday, while boating on L. A. Clark's /
mill pond. Getting too near the dam and |
seeing that he was going over, he jumped I,
into the stream, only to be carried over |
himself in the wake of the boat, landing |
in ten feet of water. After much energet-
ic work, he was able TO get out onto terra
hrma, 2 with the wish that he had remained |
in the boat, which all the time had kept
right side up.
Pre-memorial exercises, consisting of
songs, Rotations and dialogues, were held /
at the schoolhouse Thursday afternoon
and were most pleasingly rendered by the
pupils. After the exercises, the STAFFORD
band played a few selections, after which
the pupils. laden with flowers and flags,
and headed by r. II. Morrill,, fife, and Earl
Crane, drum. marched to the cemetery and
decorated the graves of the heroes of the
Civil and Revolutionary wars.