Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-04-16

george Illden OF koxbury was in town
Monday.
The W. c. t. U. win meet Friday after
noon at o'clock with Mrs. William
Bass.
Carl Grandy has finished work at the
Randolph foundry and gone to his home
in Newport
The Kings Daughters will meet at 2:3O
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon, April q, with
Mrs. ii. A. Leonard.
Mrs. w. J. Hutchinson, for several
weeks the guest OF her uncle, F. II.
Ketchum, returned to Boston Saturday.
Mrs. e. G. Smith, who had been with
her daughter, Mrs. G. w. Dukette, for a
couple OF months, went back to Mortified
Saturday.
Harvey Kendrick and his niece, Mrs.
Thompson, OF White River Junction
were guests OF the formers brother, A.
4. Kendrick, over Sunday.
Mrs. George Barris and daughter of
| Lowell, Mass, who had been visiting at
David Dunbar's, went Monday to st.
Johnsbury, expecting to return here
today.
Mrs. Charles Holman came home Mon
day from Manchester, n. H., where she
had been for a few weeks, taking care
OF her niece, Mrs. A. G. Halves, who is
still very i'll.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griswold and
two children arrived Saturday night
from East Templeton, Mass, to make
their home with Mr.. Griswold's father,
Frank Griswold, on the observation. !"
Harold, the sixteen-months-o old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Penn, OF Barre,
died Saturday morning OF pneumonia.
The body was brought here Monday and
taken TO Braintree for interment, Rev.
Brown f. Smith having the burial
service.
Miss Margaret Burnap, who had been
spending a part OF the spring vacation
with her grandparents, Deacon and Mrs.
W. +. Howard, went Friday 70 Bethlehem,
n. H., to visit her sister before returning
to Mt. Holyoke college.
At 1887 Saturday evening occurred an
eclipse Of the moon lasting three hours
and twenty minutes. The quarterly
eclipse was little more than eleven
twelfhs Of the moons diameter, and in
the northerly half Of the earths shadow
X. w. Morse, formerly OF the Red Lion
Inn and proprietor OF the City hotel IN
Barre lost valuable horse recently in
singular way. As the horse turned its
head in the stall 10 look around, it was
caught in some fashion and, not being able
to turn back, fell and its neck was broken.
A new copy OF the laws and regulations
OF the Vermont Fish and Game league
hangs in the postofiice and makes inter-
estinR reading in a community where all
the streams are posted, and the anglers
reduced to following the example OF
Simple Simon, who went afishing in his
mothers WATERFALL.
The interesting program for the grange
meeting Saturday evening was in charge
OF Mrs Harris Bass and consisted of
,,soun dnot hu Mtaapa Maud Emerson
and Hazel Fairbanks, recitation by Il.
S. Tewksbury, a solo by Miss Button, a
reading by Miss George Mann with piano
accompaniment by Mrs. l.. p. Booth, a
reading by John Connolly, and an enter
tanning compilation Of newspaper clip
pings by Mrs. Bass. The attendance
was large, there being quite delegation
present from Snowsville. At the next
meeting il is expected that the Grange
Dramatic club will present sour Jim"
The secretary Of war has announced the
names selected by the board of officers for
the general staff and among the lieuten-
nt-colonels is Crosby p. Miller ofthe quar-
tsrmaster- generals department. Lieut.
Col. Miller is brother OF Mrs. III. II.
Mcintyre, who went TO California IN
March to visit him, and son OF the late
Crosby p. Miller OF Pomfret. He served
In the civil war from Sept. 4, 1862 TO March
-, 1863, as a corporal in Co. g., 18th Yer
mont Infantry. He entered West Point
July /, 1863, was graduated June IL, 1867,
and appointed a second lieutenant OF the
4th artillery. He was successfully pro-
NOTED to be first lieutenant, captain and
assistant quartermaster major and quar-
termaster and lieutenant colonel and CHIEF
quartermaster. He has recently borne
responsible duties with the army in the
Philippines. The officers selected by the
board from the efficiency records OF 40
will be supplemented by number OF gem
eral officers. The present details viii not
90 into effect until August 10. when the
law creating the general stan becomes
operative. Ii is not intended to change
the stations or assignments OF any officers
detailed upon the general stan for the
present nor until they are needed on gen
aral staff work