Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-02-11
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.

The infant daughter of Frank Sawyer
is very i'll with pneumonia.
Elmer soule OF St. Albans was a guest
Saturday at John Manney's.
Mrs. John Knowlton returned Tuesday
| from few weeks stay in Gaysville.
DIR. M. Kelly is to sing in North
field next Sunday at the Universalist
church.
Edward Mcintosh, who has been hav-
ing sharp attack of grip, is now con-
valeseent.
Mrs. George Hendry, who has seen
visiting in Boston for a few weeks, Is
again with her daughter, Mrs. P. p.
Lamson.
Zebina spaulding is recovering from
an attack OF pneumonia. His daughter,
Mrs. Addie Alexander has been assisting
in the care of him.
DIR. George W. Scott was able to be out
Tuesday after ten days illness, in which
he was rather severely threatened with
pneumonia.
Mrs. q. +. Jones and her granddaugh-
ter, Miss Bessie Bliss, left yesterday for
Hartland to spend the rest OF the winter
with DIR. and Mrs. George P. Morris.
Mrs. J. d. Battles came last Thursday
from her home at Braintree Branch TO
visit her sister-in-law, Miss Ida Battles,
and was taken very i'll With pneumonia
at the latter's rooms in the Mcintyre
block, where she is at present gradually
regaining her health.
NJ. H. Miller OF Pomfret, who visited
his sister, Mrs. Fl. IL. Mcintyre, last
week, attended the annual meeting OF
the directors of the Vermont State Fair
association in Montpelier Friday and
was made a member OF the finance COM
mittee Of the organization.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Manchester, Mr..
and Mrs. ID. II. Morse, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. W. Jones, Mr.; and Mrs. Charles
Smith and Mrs. j. Harris Bass attended
the meeting OF the Central Vermont
Pomona grange in Northfield yesterday.
Mrs. Bass was the delegate from West
Randolph grange.
At the grange meeting Saturday even
ing, ID, H. Morse spoke on the work OF
the agricultural department of the uni
versity of Vermont, II. W. Vail on the
quarrying interests OF the state and A.
A. Priest on Vermont butter. A selection
was read by Mrs. ID. II. Morse, and an
article on forestry by MISS Annie Messer.
1t was a very interesting meeting and
brought out some OF the substantial
factors in the making OF a greater Ver-
mont.
The state superintendent OF education
has sent to the local health officer, Dr.
A. c. Bailey, circular calling attention
to a provision of law in No. 102. Acts OF
1895, to the effect that local health boards
shall report at each March meeting to
the voters OF their towns the sanitary
conditions OF school houses. "fhe fact
says MIR. Ranger, "that only in so out Of
246 towns and cities, as reported to this
office, were such reports made in 1908,
seems to evidence the need of better
attention to this legal and important
duty
~Cnneerning the heavy losses sustained
by the leading fire insurance companies in
the great Baltimore fire and the fear ex-
pressed that some OF them might not be
able to pay the claims without being
crippled, the following telegram from the
Aetna Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford,
Conn.,, to its local agent, j. b. Eldredge, is
OF interest :-''Sufficient funds on deposit
for payment of all Baltimore losses Our
surplus will remain largely over five mill
lions" The Aetna claims in this fire will
aggregate $500, 900. In the Chicago fire OF
III they were s3,6o0,0Oo.
John A. Boyce, whose whereabouts for 4
the last two years have been unknown I
and whose death on two or three different
occasions has been reported TO his
anxious friends, arrived in town Monday
night from Savannah, Georgia. AT White
River Junction he learned of the death,
December 16. OF his father, the late A. J.
Boyce, to whom he had written few
months before, giving his address for
some time to come, but the letter was
never received. In October last the father
heard that a body believed to be that of
his missing son, was lying in Boston and
he directed Leroy Tilson, formerly of
this place and now in Boston, to investi-
gate the matter, telling him that il it
were his son he would find the young
mans name tattooed on his arm. The
was not found and the fathers
anxiety was somewhat relieved. In the
meantime the Mr.. Boyce has been
through the West and South
In the interests of the Cunning Adver-
tising system OF Chicago, with which
concern he has been connected for about
three years.