Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-04-30

before returning to their home in swamp
scott, Mass.
Hobart Peck, Jr., who for several years
has been a clerk in the store of Norcross
q Bros. Of Boston, has given up his situa-
ton in the city and returned to Randolph
TO engage in farming for year with his
father, who has been looking about lately
for a suitable place.
Miss Nettie Buck was taken very i'll
with the grip, complicated by heart trou-
bic, Friday at Miss Flora Bells, where she
has been living for some time. Her
friends were notified of the seriousness OF
her condition and DIR. Randall Doane OF
! Burlington came Saturday to see her and
has remained here ever since.
The surplus dirt on the Sugar Market
| grounds is being carted of and used TO
| fin in the hollow between the Salisbury
place and II. w. Wallis on Franklin
street, which will make a smooth expanse
OF lawn between the two houses. The
Kimball Library grounds are also being
graded.
Thomas Connolly has sold his farm
| in Bethel for 1920 to Herbert E..
Abbey OF Rochester Hollow, who Will
take possession shortly. Mr.. Abbey
has sold the place on Braintree Hill
which he owned, the buildings ON which
were recently burnt, to J. K. Ryder OF
Braintree for 200.
Will Gourley returned last night from
Boston, where he has been for some
time. He is convaleseing from three
weeks illness. His brother, Frank Gour-
ley. travelling agent for the Boston a.
Maine Railroad Co., accompanied him,
stopping over night on his way to the
White Mountains.
Those who rise at dawn tomorrow
morning and sally forth with rod and fly
might as well take along tape measure
or foot rule, for the six-inch law is still
alive and very much in force after being
almost killed by the legislature last fall
First catch your trout, then measure him,
then cook him. As to catching him, there
ought to be no difficulty in locating the
streams, they are so awfully well posted
NJ. +. Preston was called to Concord, n.
H., yesterday by the news that his wife's
son, Roy A. Freeman. was in the hospital
in that city 10 an unconscious condition
as the result of some mishap of which no
particulars were then known. Mr.. Free
man, who Is a fireman on the Boston 4
Maine railroad, was found at IL o'clock
Tuesday night near a bridge, lying beside
the track, where it seemed as though he
might have fallen from his train.
Rev. James Penders has assumed charge
of the parish Of SIS. JONATHAN and Roga-
tian, celebrating mass last Sunday. Next
Sunday he is to be in Bethel as well as
Randolph and intends to hold services
here three Sundays in each month and
three mornings in each week. Father
Penders, who is boarding for the present
with Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton MCGEE, is anx-
ious to find house suitable for rectory
and have his home in this village.
Recent real estate transfers include the
Violet II. Pember house at the Center,
which Jay Read Pember of Woodstock
has sold to Miss Martha Gilbert for s1425.
Henry and Charles II. Holman have
decided to S. Harris Holman for $1,000 an
undivided third of the home farm on
which ). Harris has lived for the last II
years. The latter has also bought II acres
OF land, known as the Winthrop Sargent
land, OF Willis G.. Holman of Troy, n. Y.
Lettie +. Dukette has purchased OF d. A.
Spooner a lot on the west side of Hale
street and east of the laundry for $40.
Col r. j. Kimball, who in 1865 estab-
lished the firm of II. j. Kimball Il Co.
bankers and brokers in New York city.
retires today from active business, a new
limited co-partnership having been form
ed, which takes over the old firms BUSH
ness. The general partners of the new
firm are Col. Kimball's son, VIM. Eugene
Kim bail, VINO mas been bis fathers part
ner since Jan. /, 1893. and Leeds johnson,
who has been with them about four years.
The latter Is son OF Henry l.. johnson.
an old member OF the New York Stock
Exchange, who transfers has membership
to his son. Col. kimball contributes spe-
cial capital to the new firm and will have
his private Office with it in the Hanover
Bank building at the corner of Pine and
Nassau streets in New York.
The Hon-du-ro Drug Company's show,
which went from here to Northfield. fell
into the hands of a detachment of Nor
witch university cadets last Thursday even
ing and was forced to suspend operations
for the time being. The News Of that place !
saws THE boys seemed to be of the |
opinion that the show is a fake, possibly |
expecting for ten cents something direct |
from the leading Boston or New York /
theatres with a private box for each pur- I
chaser OF ticket" Complaint was made \
to the civil authorities but, the names of 1
the cadets participating not being known, |
no action has been taken, and in the 4
meantime the university authorities have 4
the matter under investigation. The /
show has retreated from the territory of 4
the enemy and opened up in the peaceful
precincts of Bethel.