Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-05-28

The angry lawyers foam,
While old offenders one by one
Come gaiiy trooping home.
j. F. Kendall was with his brother in
Pompanoosuc over Sunday.
Mrs. Lewis Talbot of South Royalton is
visiting at n. Z. Greene's ON Pearl street.
Mrs. r. A. Whittier has gone to Rox-
bury, where she has secured employment.
Miss Emma Hull is spending two weeks
in Burlington with Mr.. and Mrs. John
Pratt.
Mrs. c. S. Parkhurst left Monday for
Washington TO see her son, who is in fail
ing health.
Frederick Lewis of Boston is with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ID. +. Lewis, for
few weeks vacation.
Miss George Whitney, after just recoy-
ering from appendicitis, is suffering now
from a severe attack OF rheumatism.
George Bent celebrated his tenth birth
day anniversary Friday by giving a party
to number OF his young friends at Mari
Castle park.
George Hatch shipped to the Boston
markets Monday 65 hogs l5lc. and 54c.),
30 calves (2Ac. to Be-, and Il sheep and
lambs t4c. to TEL
Miss Lucia Ladd came from Stowe Fri
day and is the guest OF her brother and
wife, Rev. and Mrs. G. K. Laid, at the
Cong'l parsonage.
There will be a special communication
of Phoenix lodge, No. Is, f. a A. NJ, Fri
day evening, May %, at the usual hour.
Work on the Sd degree.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Bugbee OF Barre
arrived Monday on visit TO Mr.. and Mrs.
A. T.. Dean and Mrs. Mary Holbrook, re-
turnfnq home Tuesday
Mrs. V. /. Spear and Mrs. F. II. Joslyn
are in Waterbury, Conn, to spend two
weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gray,
former residents OF Randolph.
c. q. Dubois went from here Monday 10
New York to stay until Friday, when he
expects TO return for over Sunday and viii
then 90 back 10 Chicago for awhile.
Miss Eva Marcott has gone 10 Boston to
return the first OF June with her sister,
Miss Edith, who has been studying music
in the city for the last two years.
Mrs. George sparhawk and son arrived
Saturday night from Philadelphia to pass
the summer with Mrs. Sparhawk's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Burt.
Mrs. Aurora Rogers. who had been Wis
iting her brother, Rev. Homer White,
went Saturday TO Royalton, where she
viii make her home for the present.
Mrs. Phineas Amazon OF Pittsiield, WHO
had been staying with her daughter, Mrs
r. n. Slack, went 10 Mortified saturday
10 visit Mrs. William J. Kidder for a few
days, returning here later.
The children OF the village are requested
to carry flowers Friday to the @. A. X.
hall, where they viii be received by menu
bers OF the w. X. G. and used IN the deco
ration Of the soldiers graves.
Work has been begun on the library
grounds, where a retaining wall is TO be
built at the rear Of the building 70 make
ii secure against washouts from heavy
rains.
Mrs. Kate soper has gone to Northfield
10 be with her sister-in-law, Mrs. +. w.
Howe. for aw bile, and her daughter, Miss
Florence, left Monday for Boston TO study
stenography. The house ON Highland
avenue Is being kept open by Mrs. soper's
sister, Miss Grace Ayers.
Rev. q. r. Ladd entertained his Sunday
school class OF about a dozen boys at the
Congl parsonage Friday evening. II was
pin party, picking up oranges with pins
and similar feats giving the lads jolly
time. while refreshments still further con-
tributed to their enjoyment.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Thompson, who dur
ing their three years stay in Randolph
have made their home with Mr.. and Mrs.
B. A. Manchester at the Valley farm, took
their departure Monday for Brattleboro,
where they have purchased house ana
will begin housekeeping at once. Mr.,
Thompson will be here more or less until
the furniture plant OF b. Souto Co., OF
which he is a member, is moved from TINS
place TO its new quarters in Brattleboro.
The w. c. T. U. has elected Mrs. w.
w. CARPENTER, Mrs. William Bass and
Mrs. A. b. Tewksbury delegates 70 the
18th annual convention OF the Orange
County w. &. T. o., with Mrs. fanny
Lewis, Mrs. A. A. Smith and Mrs. Mary
Mann as alternates. This convention Is
10 be held in East Corinth, June 2 and 3,
and among the speakers VIII be MIS-
Florence Richards OF Ohio and Mrs. Ida
Read Of Shelburne, president OF the YER
mont Union. Mrs. 5. 5. Clark, who Is
president OF the Orange County Union,
will also attend.
One of the things for which there is
urgent need in this village is a rat Gene
terry. where the remains OF deceased ro-
dents, who departed this life through the
violent agency OF traps and poison, can De
decently inferred and not left to lie IN
state TOO long in the middle of streets dig
nifed by the name OF avenues. An avenue
decorated with defunet rats and mice
looks too much like back hill road on a
star route twenty miles of the railroad.
For a week now, on two OF the principal
streets in the village, the stark form oil a
rat has been living in the wheel track
where il is impossible TO overiook A. anu
where il IL becoming less and less OF an
ornament as wheels and time roll on.
The habit of tearing up letters and scat
tering the pieces as one walks along
dropping banana skins and orange peel
ings. nut shells and whatsoever else comes
handy onto the sidewalks and into the
cutters isn't one Of the most beautifying
practices that can be thought OF ana gives