Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-06-16

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Eli Bruce. who with Eugene Whit,
went to Omaha. Neb., in February
reached Randolph again Saturday wit
his sister, Mrs Dora Heath. Mr.. Whit
has left Omaha, but is journeying HON
by way of the st. Louis exposition an
Boston.
r. n. Rising has moved the scale hous
and office on Weston street to the rear O
the lot and on their site has begun tn
| erection Of a story and a half cottag
similar to the two in line with it whicl
he rents TO c. f. Stevens and |. ID. Litch
| field.
Walter c. Woodward has finished hi
course at the Harvard medical college
and came home from Boston SATURDAY.
/ for a short vacation before taking up hi
/ two years work in surgery in the Provi
/ dence city hospital in Providence, r, J.
where he is due the 22d Of June.
Addison county poultry raisers, who's,
/ tale OF hard luck made the rounds of the
state press early in the spring, ought t.
get the pattern Of w. w. Jones' two in
cubators, out OF which be took 239 chick
ems the first OF the week, one Of them
Matching 81 chickens out Of 80 eggs.
Mrs. g. F. Burnap, after nearly year,
stay with her parents, Dea. and Mrs. w
r. Howard. left Monday to join her
children in Gardner, Mass, for the sum
mer. She was accompanied by Mrs.
Howard's sister, Mrs. Harriet Burnap,
who was going to her home in Fitchburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Kent have with
them Mr.. Kents mother from Orange,
Mass, who has come to stay with them
for some little time and also Mrs. Kent's
mother, Mrs. Leland Of West Salisbury,
who arrived Saturday, with her step
grandson, Lyndon Thomas, for a short
visit.
Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Hamilton of
Woodstock were at Rev. G.. o. Howe's
Monday, Mrs. Hamilton going from here to
visit her children at Montpelier seminary
and returning today. Mr.. Hamilton is
spending the week in experimenting some
repairs at his place on South Pleasant
street.
Robert Fielders brought his wife and
baby from South Royalton Sunday by
carriage and left them with his wifes
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. p. Hood. With
them they will stay for a while in the
hope that the change will benefit Mrs.
Fielders, who is in feeble state OF
health.
ID. II. Morse, one of the solicitors for the
new Grange hall, can give even returned
points ON raising funds. He
interviewed three men the other day in |
the interests of the proposed hall and, |
such are his powers Of persuasion, he |
talked $1,000 out of them in a short space |
Of time.
A. J. Curtis still believes in the old /
fashioned biddy as a hatcher of chickens |
in spite OF the achievements of the mod !
ern incubator in that line. To prove his .
confidence he placed 60 eggs under four
hens, and 81 chickens were duly led forth 1
by the exultant cluekers.
Mrs. Robert Stoddard, who has been
working in Barre lately, is at home with .
her son, Master Otis, to care for her
mother. Mrs. Charles Coulumbe, who is in
poor health. Mrs. Stoddard and her Sis
.er, Mrs. Louis Fillion, were in Montpelier
md Barre Monday for the day.
b. F. Ricker's shipment this week
amounted TO $50 hogs 125 calves and 10
,attle. At this station he CARED Il hogs
Ind p calves, paying 4 and 1 cents a
1ound for the hogs and from to a. cents
pound for the calves. George c. Hatch /
shipped Monday 20 calves &c to 4lct, 5
logs, &c and 4lc) and 3 cattle.
The track between Braintree and White
River Junction is to be relaid with heavy I
,ails, which a gang of over forty men are
this week along the line.
The present rails are old and too light for
he freight that the road handles now.
Two or three years ago the track was re-
aid from Essex Junction to Braintree.
Rev. and Mrs. Homer White went to St.
Adams Tuesday to attend the annual do
cesar convention OF the Protestant Epis-
eopal church in Vermont, and from st.
Adams will 90 to Enosburg Falls TO
spend couple of weeks with relatives
and former pensioners. Rev. A. Cars
well, rector of st. Johns church, has also
been attending the convention IN St. AL
bans this week.
Burton Flint and his daughter. Miss
Lottie, arrived Saturday from Boston,
y here they had been to seek medical ad-
vice for Mr.. Flint. The latter, though
feeble, stood the journey well and was
encouraged by Boston physicians to hope
Tor better health through complete rest
and careful nursing as no symptoms of
serious organic trouble could be dis
covered by them.
Mrs. r. j. Kimball, Misses Clara and
Annie and Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Eugene
kimball will leave Brooklyn Saturday for
\ champion, Mass, to attend the COM
mencement exercises of Smith college.
from which Miss Annie X. Mead is to be
graduated. Next Wednesday they will
reach Randolph and be at Montague place
Tor the summer, with the exception of Mr..
himball, who will return to New York
alter weeks stay.
c. Z. Wyman, whose illness was mem
Toned in last weeks issue, so far
that he was able to be at the
ilobe Wall paper store last Thursday.
Friday afternoon he walked up to the
store again from his home in the Chad
wick block but was taken violently i'll
lnce more soon after reaching there and
made his way back home as best he could.
de now lies in a critical condition with
HIS daughter, Mrs, .. II.
Silver, was summoned from Mont pelier Z
md is assisting in the care Of HIM.
A large delegation from the Bantht
'hurch went to Montpelier yesterday
morning to the 9th annual gathering Of
he Vermont Central Baptist association,