Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-12-10

Mrs. l.. B. johnson, who has been i'll
for three weeks with disordered nerves
producing palpitation Of the heart, is
progressing favorably toward recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. II. Morse, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Priest and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Flint went to Rutland Tuesday to attend
the annual session OF the State Grange,
which opened yesterday and will last
through tomorrow. Mrs. b. NJ. Huse Is
keeping house for Mrs. Priest during the
latter's absence,
Mrs. |. +. Young, the nurse who had
been taking care Of T.. n. Bean since his
operation for the scraping Of the shin
bone. affected by the liberation OF a
wound made through a fall while deer
hunting, was able to return TO Montpelier
Monday, leaving her patient well started
on the road to recovery.
After giving an entertainment in the
lecture course at Randolph Center Mon
day evening, Wllder's orchestra of Mont
pelier came back to this village and
played for party at the Randolph Inn,
where the dining room was cleared, and
fifteen couples danced to music that would
almost make the hills skip till the orches-
ira left on the night train for Montpelier.
Thirteen inches OF snow on the level
fell last night in this vicinity and four
teen in Chelsea. The ground is said to
be frozen to the depth OF foot and a
half, wells are dry and the streams and
the water in the reservoir are low. Any
one of a pessimistic turn of mind. a
little short Of subjects TO worry about,
can amuse themselves with the prospect
of a water famine from now till the
January thaw.
Ernest Sawyer and Miss Mabel Grace,
eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
4 al
brides parents ON Central street at $3.50
o'clock Monday evening by Rev. +. q.
Rainey, pastor OF the Methodist church.
Only the immediate relatives were prese MT.
The young couple are staying with the
brides parents this week. expecting to be-
gin Housekeeping next week in a tenement
in the same house.
The annual business meeting OF the
Christian church was held at the vestry
Monday evening. w. Il. Lamson was
elected moderator, Harry Lyman, clerk; J.
II. Lamson, treasurer; j. ii. Lamson, +.
l.. Bass and DIR. Il. O. Blanchard, trustees;
DIR. Z. o. Blanchard, superintendent OF
Sunday school. The treasurer reported
the society in good financial condition and
free from debt. The sum of s25 has been
expended in new books for the Sunday
school and the library has been cata-
logued.
The Ladies' Ways and Means society
of the Congl church had It's annual
meeting at the parsonage Tuesday after
noon and made choice OF these officers
TO carry on the work of the coming year.
Mrs. VIM. Bass, president: Mrs. G. e.
Ladd, vice president; Mrs. Belle Dubois,
Mrs. f. F. Upham, treasurer
Mrs. +. A. Thomas, assistant treasurer;
Mrs. n. G. Greene, Mrs. j. p. Cleveland,
Mrs. VIM. II. Kenney, Mrs. l.. A. Russ
low and Mrs. G. T.. Abbott, executive
DR.. II. II. Mcintyre was in Mortified
Monday to be present at bearing before
the village trustees to determine how the
lines of the Orange County Telephone
should enter Mortified. They
are now at the limit of the village. and
the Mortified trustees have a meeting
with the citizens tonight to decide upon
the route within the corporation. The
line will go to East Roxbury, then
parallel with the other line to West
Brookfield and Brookfield and connect
with Randolph.
The Slayton Jubilee singers appeared
at Dubois a Gays hall Tuesday evening
rs the third attraction in the Randolph
course, which has so far
deserved a good word from the most
captIous OF ticket holders. The wierd
sinners
moving up and down like a row of
spiral egg heaters caught the fancy of
the audience, and the rows Of cleaning
worries on the stage were answered bv a
general rubifoam smile from the seats.
which had nothing artificial about ii
except, perhaps, the dentistry revealed.
The calliope quartette gave a perfect
imitation of the circus musical instru-
meut to the final "hiss" of escaping
steam, and the whistling representation
OF the familiar songs of various birds
was very true TO nature from the notes
Of the robin in the early summer to the
piercing sweetness OF the Gagged canary.
The company is a good one and gives
an entertainment that is among the best
OF its XII i'd. The sin gers were at Chelsea
the night before and were started out
Of that place at O'Clock in the morning
through the misguiding information that
the only train to this village was sos In
the morning.