Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-12-22
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.

! ingalls,.
Mrs. Elya t. Fits of Fitchburg, Mass,
IS visiting her sister, Mrs. A. A. Vain
wright.
d. II. Morse left Tuesday for a short
tour through Addison county, organizing
oranges.
Bateman Bowman left Tuesday night
for Lakewood, n. j., TO be bell boy at the
jefferson hotel.
Mrs. E. n. Rising has been appointed
aid on the staff OF the national president
OF the Woman's Relief Corps.
3 judge Rowell came down from Mont
pelier today, intending TO take Mrs. Row
ell back with him tomorrow.
The Randolph Telephone exchange is
installing phones for DR.. Francis Eaton,
John l.. Udall and j. J. Trerise.
Mr.. and Mrs. james II. Cannon OF Boyd,
XIV, and Willis Cummings OF Montpelier
were guests at l.. 4. Sparhawk's Tuesday.
4 Miss Ada Burroughs has gone to
+ Brattleboro to visit her brother, Anson
/ Burroughs, and family for week or ten
7 days.
Fred Copeland came today from Mont
real, where he il a student at McGill coli
+ lege TO pass vacation of two weeks at
home.
T The Kimball Public library will be open
8
I taken for the Christmas holiday, but will
+ be closed in the evening.
/ The death OF Mrs. Charles Battles, who
! lived for many years on Granville noun
tain, occurred in Lowell, Mass, Dec. 10.
No particulars are known.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Phillips are in town
for a month, arriving Tuesday from
Mohonk Lake, n. Y, with Mr.. Phillips
father, f. A. Phillips, who had been visit
ing them.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. III. Beedle are to have as
Christmas guests their son, Fred, from
Keene, \. H., Mrs. Mary Saxton and Miss
Lucina from Holyoke, Mass, who are all
expected TO reach here Saturday.
Mrs. c. +. Moves and little daughter
accompanied Mrs. Noyes' sister, Miss
Ruth Hopkins. on her return 10 Franklin
Tuesday and will be joined there by Mr..
Noyes to spend Christmas with them.
The Young Mems club at a meeting last
week made plans for basket ball team,
and elected John Bowman captain and
Eugene Morrill, manager The first prac-
tiee meeting was held in Grange hall last
evening.
Mrs. f. A. Carpenter OF Warren has
come to assist In the care OF her mother /.
in-law, Mrs. w. w. Carpenter. who has
been i'll for some time but was taken much
worse Saturday and has been in a serious
condition since.
Miss Edith Abbott, assistant instructor
in the art department Of Mt. Holyoke 4
college, is here for icw days 70 sec her
sister, Mrs. Z. ID. Segar, and her brother, 4
Robert Abbott, before going TO Burling
ton to pass the holiday vacation.
A. w. Eastman OF Topsham has been
here this week, returning yesterday ac-
companied by his daughter, Anna. This
morning another daughter, Mrs. b. +.
Kicker. and son, Nelson, started to join
them in To2sham to spend Christmas.
DIR. e. C.Noble. who is completing his
medical studies at McGill college In
Montreal, is here to spend Christmas with
his mother Mrs. Fannie Noble, and next
week will go to Boston for the rest OF
his holiday vacation.
Miss Emma Seymour hes gons TO
Swampscott, Mass, TO pass the winter at
ths home of her brother, w. w. Seymour.
She was accompanied to Swampscott
yesterday by her niece, Miss Bernice
Briggs, who will be away through the
The displays of Christmas goods in the
different stores this season are said by
shoppers from other towns TO be the
best to-be seen anywhere IN this part Of |
The state, and home people have been so
with the wide and varied assort- I
ment offered them that they haven't been /,
anywhere else to make comparisons.
Miss Bernice McCollom arrived Sunday i
Tor two weeks vacation from the prepar r
ltory school which she is attending in {
Concord, n. III. Saturday, in company
With Miss Louise Ordway OF Concord, she
presentation OF "Hamlet ia
Boston with Sothern and Miss Julia Mar n
owe in the cast. j
A daughter, Mary Alice, was born to b
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Pride last Mon e
iav, but did not live. On Tuesday, prayer b
vas offered at the house by Rev. q. r..
add and the remains we're taken to West
}rookfield cemetery and laid by the side
# little Harold who died not quite year n
go. Much sympathy is felt for the fam h
ly in this second Bereavement h
The Christmas shipment of poultry a
rom Randolph station this year amounted l.
o about three tons. One carload was
ent by Kibbee & Gaylord Of Brookheld,
ir. Gaylord going to Boston with his =
hipment, and a thousand pounds by 2
:. W. Tewksbury q CO., who had 800
lounds OF turkeys. The price paid for
urkeys was 25 cents a pound, for geese
cents and for chickens y to II cents. =
Friends of William G. Holman of Troy,
!. Y, have received news OF the sudden
cath of his fiancee, Miss Lillian Byers,
0 whom he was to have been married
The young lady, who was
aughter of David Byers, a retired busi- II
ess man of North Hoosick, y. V, was II
eated at a desk Sunday afternoon,
ddressing a wedding invitation, when
be was taken with fainting spell and,
efore medical assistance could be Sc II
ured. she expired, death being attributed L
) apoplexy. The funeral was held on
be very day set for the wedding. Mr.. N
Iolman is the son OF Harris Holman and Il
as many relatives and friends in Ran
olph TO sympathize deeply with him In
is sorrow.
A theatrical company went TO pieces IN
warren last week and few OF the rem
ants were picked up by W. w. Lapoint
/ Barre and brought to this place Mon
az. But trouble still pursued them; for
sheriff followed, keen on their trail, and
rrested three Of the troupe for the al
ged larceny of a lace curtain and
,zor from the hotel. Z he supposed cul-
rits were taken away on the afternoon
ain for q hearing but returned in time In
,r the evening performance, nothing
sing proved against them. They played
ere Monday and Tuesday nights, and