Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-03-24

evening in Mortified at a special meeting
OF the Ladies Literary club OF that place
held in |. o. o. +. hall.
J.P. Cleveland has resigned as lister aft
er serving rs consecutive years In that ca
pacity His successor has not yet been
definitely decided upon.
Ralph Edwards was at Earl Powers in
Braintree Saturday and Sunday, visiting a
lad from Boston, Willie Dewey, who has
come to make his home there.
Frank Campbell, who has been a great
sufferer from heart trouble for long
time, was able to be up and dressed Tues
day for the first time since he was taken
sick.
Miss Mary Dubois has been in Burling-
| ton this week as the guest OF Miss Phoebe
| Towle. fellow teacher in the Edmunds
High school, when Miss Dubois taught
| there.
The annual meeting Of the Randolph
Woman's Literary club will be held with
Mrs. William Bass next Saturday after
noon. full attendance OF the MEMBERS
is important.
DR.. Il. c. Noble, who has been pursuing
his medical studies at McGill college In
Montreal, arrived Tuesday and is visiting
his mother, Mrs. Fannie Noble, for a few
days before going to Boston.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford of Roches-
ter spent the first three days of the week
with Mrs. Gifford's mother, Mrs. Mary
Jewett and her sister. Mrs. Charles Girls
void, at the home OF the latter.
Mr.. and Mrs. 5. e. Webster, who had
been living for two years in Rocking
ham, moved back here yesterday and are
again to occupy their house ON Weston
street, just vacated by 5. p. Leland.
Mrs. c. E. Kilburn has sold her farm,
known as the Horace Lamb place, for
$500 to Hale b. Williams. who takes pos
session at once. This is the farm to which
Charles Angel OF Rochester recently
moved.
f. w. Tewksbury a Co. shipped two
carloads OF potatoes from South Royalton
this week and one carload last week, max
ing Is carloads in all that the firm has
sent away this winter. The last carload
was bought at 60 cents bushel.
Miss Mary Houston OF STAFFORD was at
johnson Sargent's Monday, going from
here to South Royalton. Mrs. Ernest Sar-
gent Of Springfield, and her mother, Mrs.
Nellie Morse OF Montpelier, who arrived
yesterday, are now guests at Mr.. Sar-
gents.
Horace Lane, who had been carrying
on the Albert Barnes farm the past year
for his brother, George Lane, who has the
lease OF it, has rented the Russell Wood
" III lhIil III INAhNA AAANdh ibl Aittt NNtfH
and moved thereto. George Lane, who
has been on the Drury farm, will take
the Barnes place April / for the remain
ing two years of his lease.
r. H. Slack and family moved Saturday
from j. ID. Laport's on Maple street to the |
Lewis Fish house on Weston street. Mr.. |
and Mrs. Laport, who have been occupy |
ing he chambers in their house, are now |
in the lower tenement vacated by Mr. !
Slack. Mrs. Albert Fielders Of South |
Royalton, daughter-in law OF Mrs. Laport, |
came up yesterday to help them move.
Mrs. Bertha Burridge, after assisting 4
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Hayward, |
at the Randolph Inn several months, has 1
resumed teaching and went Saturday to |
North Wilbraham, Mass, where she
entered school Monday. Her little daugh-
ter, Ruth, went to Tunbridge the same
day to visit an uncle, DIR. ii. II. Hayward,
and came home yesterday with her aunt,
Miss Harriet Hayward, who went after
her Tuesday.
News was received here Tuesday OF the
sudden death Of Miss Adelaide A., daugh-
ter OF John NJ. and Maria c. Hood, that
morning in New York. where the funeral
service will be held tomorrow at the resi-
dence, go East 55th street. Miss Hood i
had been for many years accustomed to
visit Randolph during the summer season
and spent one or two winters here with
her sister, Miss Louise Hood, who is but
Just recovering from a serious illness.
Rev. and Mrs. G. o. Howe are ENJOYING
heir stay very much at Southern Pines,
n. c., where they went the last OF
February. Violets are blooming, mock
ng birds are singing, frogs are cruaking
md the weather IS delightful. The
yarmest day they have had was last sun
lay, when the thermometer registered I
i6 between Z and o'clock in the evening,
Ind stood at IS in the afternoon. They
nave purchased cottage there into which
hey have moved, and are just getting
iettled.
Archie Constable, who was taken from
lere 10 the reform school at Nergennes the
th inst. for the petit larceny of a package
y tobacco from the freight depot, escaped
rom that institution about half past eley-
N Sunday night with two other boys, one
rom York state and the other from Bos-
on. They managed to remain at large r
Until Tuesday, when they were appre- =
lended at North Ferrisburgh, six miles J
way, while waiting for freight train to
axe gthem farther from salutary re-
traint and discipline.
Some OF the inha bitants OF this village
living on the Playground were aroused
rom peaceful SAUNDERS at l O'Clock Mon
lay morning by seismic disturbance /.
hat shook the beds with more than the Z
'iolence Of freight train. The earth
rembled, and the people on top Of il
rembled too. That they didn't shake in
heir boots was due to the hour and the a
ober environments Of q no-license town.
according to newspaper reports, the shock
tarted from st. Johns, y. B.. and travelled
long the New England coast In Bur
ington tall buildings rocked perceptibly.
nd m Woodsville, n. H., pictures were
haken from the walls. while in Name
and plssteripg fell. No dis :
was noticed at the Yale univer- :