Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-11-10
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.

MIS-. \. j. Mhitenlll OF w nite hlker
Junction arrived last night and is the
Tomorrow night Prof. Whitehill will come
to spend Saturday here.
Miss Addie Reynolds, who went to St.
Albans to work for the Willard Manu-
featuring company a week ago, has re-
turned to Randolph and is with the
family Of M. NJ. Wilson, Esq.
A number OF the friends OF Mrs. VIM.
III. Kenney assembled at A. NJ. Hubbard's
last night for a farewell visit before Mrs.
Kenney's departure this morning to Cald-
well, n. Y, where she will pass the win
ter.
The A. b. Cushman Real Estate agency
has sold for John T.. Haskins bis farm in
Bethel, known as the Young place, TO Mr..
and Mrs. Sylvester T. Harrington OF Hart
ford, VINO will take possession soon. The
price paid was $3.50
Repairs were made at the electric light
plant Tuesday and when evening came il
was found impossible to raise the gate.
The village was in darkness, and a general,
hasty filling and trimming Of disused
kerosene lamps was in order.
NJ. NJ. Wilson has moved his law Office
from the rear OF the Fales block TO the
front and now has the large room over
+. III. Joslyn's store, which n. l.. Boyden
has been occupying. The latter now has
desk in Judge Nichols office.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Lamb, who arrived
Monday from Detroit, Mich, with the re-
mains OF Mrs. lambs father, o. II. Rum
rill, went away from this part Of the coun-
try 80 years ago and have not revisited
their Old home in the last p years.
The Dartmouth Harvard football game
Saturday and the election Tuesday en-
abled the Dartmouth students, Scion
Vail, Joseph Goodhart and Richard Grant,
to come home for a four days stay, which
was devoted somewhat to hunting.
Frederick Dumas, who played all sum
mer in a band at Kingston, n. ", and lat
er worked in sash and blind shop, has
returned from there on account of the la
Dor troubles and will remain with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George +. Dumas, for
the present.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. S. Cham berlain enter
tanned over Sunday Mr.. Chamberlainis
cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Hodgkins Of
Chicago and Mr.. and Mrs. +. Morse Of
Rochester. Miss Etta amberlain was
also home from Montpelier to meet these
relatives.
&. q. Walker, the present night opera
tor at the station, who is to move his fam
lily here from Enfield, N. H., has given up
the tenement in the Howe lock, which he
expected to occupy, and has rented the
lower part of {. W. HaywaEd's house on
Pleasant street.
Rev. and Mrs. q. o. Howe intend to
start next Monday for Southern Pines, \.
C., where they viii pass the coming six
months, returning here the middle n May.
Miss Hanna Prince, who makes her home
with them, will spend the winter with Mr..
and Mrs. l.. b. Johnson.
Frank A. Williams, who has been dan
gerously i'll with typhoid fever in Dun
ming, Ill, is now decidedly better His
a., bna f.sr al
days and his mother. Mrs. Jehiel Williams,
hopes to be able to start for home with
him in two or three weeks.
delegation OF about so pupils from the
different rooms in the High school build
ing, under the guidance OF Prin. =. q.
Ham, are observing the workings OF the
legislature in Montpelier today. Two OF
the teachers, Miss Bessie Holden and Miss
Lillian Knowlton, are also with the party.
Knights Templar and Masons to the
number OF 25 went TO Rochester this
morning to attend the funera OF DIR. VIM.
ID. Huntington, the service being in
charge OF Mt. Zion commandery, No. 3.
A special train was provided to convey the /
Knights and Mssons from Bethel and
back.
one OF Mrs. O. w. Brockway's famous
Rhode Island Red hens has lately done
herself proud in the laying OF an egg that I
measured inches in circumference one
Nay, and g. inches the other. A one-egg 1
cake made with this mammoth pro-
duction would be almost too rich for
family.
w. w. Philbrick Of Seattle, Wash, who 4
Is East for the first time in 30 years, has
been in town for few days, visiting his \
Mrs. Julia Walsh, Mrs. w. +. 4
Iamson and Miss Abbie Philbnck. He is
the inventor OF a cutter head for matching
lum ber, which be manufactures az Seattle .
and in Canada, and went yesterday to
Fitchburg. Mass, TO arrange for its manu-
facture there. From Fitchburg he viii go .
to visit his native state Of Maine.
Many new phones are being added to
the local telephone service. G. ;. Booth
ls putting In fifteen on the Orange County
lines in the vicinity OF Randolph, and
nine more are ordered to be installed in
the Randolph Exchange. Eight OF these
are put in under the new arrangement by
v hich the Exchange rents phones at a
dollar a month, covering the local eX-
change and the ten-mile outside circuit,
including Braintree, BrOokheld, chelsea
and south Royalton. Bethel is covered
also by payment OF a small Zee Tor the use
81 the electric phone line that serves as
the trunk.
a hasty departure Monday morning from
Dana Spooner's on Weston street, while
he driver, p. j. Blanchard, was in the
house delivering goods. The horse started
for the store and was going around the
postoffice corner to Merchants Row when
Charles Holman made a heroic dash Tor
the fying steed and captured the outfit.
The extent of the damage was two broken
eggs. which, however, come high at this
time of the year. Later in the day, as
James Rand was hitching up DR.. r. &.
Angels team, the horse became frightened
and dashed out Of the barn, running down
he Prospect street bill TO South Main
street. At the junction Of the two streets
the carriage came in contact with the
electric light pole and the horse, beng
freed. went on 20 the Square and stopped
n front of I he doctors Office in the Tewks-
bury block, apparently all over its need
less excitement. Two wheels Of the car
riage. which, fortunately, had no occu-
pants, were smashed. and the vehicle was
generally in bad shape.
Miniature Johnstovyn Flood.