Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-04-13
ORANGE COUNTY
RANDOLPH.

RANDOLPH.
| At the home of Mr.. and Mrs whitcomb
| II. Lamson on Prospect avenue at noon
Friday took place the marriage of
their eldest daughter, Miss Grace Greeley,
to Theron Cummings Brooks of Albany,
y. y. The ceremony. which was perform
| ed by the Rcv. Fraser Metzger. pastor
| of the Christian Church. was witnessed
| by only tho relatives of the contracting
parties. The bride and groom were very
! popular in this town and have the best
wishes Of their many friends. The newly
! married couple left on the / - train for
| Albany. wncro the groom is in the en-
poy of tho government as civil engineer
in canal construction work. Among those
| from out of town who TENDED the we'd
ding. WAS a sister of the groom. Mrs
Dewitt Webb. of Philadelphia
| d. r. Dyer. who has conducted a
! livery business on Pleasant street for
a number Of years. has sold his entire
| equipment to T.. \. George and A. j.
| Kusslow. who will take immediate pos
session. Mr.. Dyer has two farms in
braintroe and a good ice business in
! this village, which he will conduct as
| before. Mr.. Russlow. who has con-
uut''u nNtTN ON SOu'n MAIN street
| for several years. will transfer his bust
ness TO tho now quarters. Mr.. George,
who has been in the blacksmith bust
| ness here for tho past three years. will
! give that up as n business. but will do
| blacksmith work in connection with
| their own interests. Adrian Hatch.
who has worked in the Dyer stable for
Il number of years. and William st.
| Lawrence. who has worked there for
the past year, finished their labors Sat
urday and for the presnt Mcssrs. George
and Russow will conduct the business
without help.
| The work of moving the old Catholic
Church was completed saturday noon
and tho building is now located on the
corner of South Pleasant near the rail-
road crossing and will be used by the
owner, T.. T.. Brooks. for IA store house.
The work on the new church has been
| commenced and. according to the plans.
will be completed in about three
months.
There was n large attendance at the
Grange hall Saturday evening when a
class of 1G candidates were instructed
| in the third and fourth degrees. \
| feature of tho third degree was the
harvest march by "a of the young pco-
pic After the initiation maple sugar
supper was served in place of the reg
| uar initiation banquet.
| Mrs. Asa Hayes and Mrs A. c.
Bailey were in Burlington saturday.
! They found Nh Hayes, who went for
treatment at tho Mary Fletcher hos
pital. to be getting on very nicely.
| Miss Mabel Parker of Montgomery.
student of III" Normal school. was operat-
ed upon Saturday for appendicitis. Miss
Parker is STAYING at the Randolph Hous"
ard j. still III Il very serious condition.
Tho operation, however. WAS considered
successful and her recovery is expected.
y daughter was born Saturday. April s.
to Mr. and Mrs. G. a. Webster. who live
about one mile from this village on the
| firtintrec road.
! The farmers in this vicinity claim they
have had the hest part of the sugar sea-
son in the past few days and some have
| made more syrup and sugar in the past
week than in all the rest Of the season.
| Ransom = Slack died Tuesday at
| his home on the Center road at the
| age of 90 years. Mr. Slack was born
in Plainiicld. n. H.. but moved 10
Washington, this state. with his pa
| rents Wncn ABOUT IpuT years OH lHeTc
| he grew to manhood and was hOnored
with several town Offices by his towns
people. including that of justice of the
peace He lived in Northfield several
years. but came to Randolph about 35
years ago. and had since resided on his
hill farm about two miles from this
| village. lie was a shrewd sturdy
farmer and accumulated his thousands
while others were wrestling with Ner-
mont mortgages. Mr.. Slack was thrice
married. Ills first wife was Hannah
IGeorge of Washington. by whom h'
had one son, Royal T., deceased. His
second wife died six weeks after the
wedding day. HIS last marriage was
Lucinda II. Banister of this town. who
died about three years ago. OF his
| eight children five are living. George
II. Slack, Mrs. w. p. Flint. Mrs. Il. w.
Allen of Randolph. Mrs. J. }. f.eavey
and Mrs. X. i. Leach of Marshall,
| Mich. In his long life Mr.. Slack has
known L.tle of doctors, being blessed
with remarkable robust health. lie
was a quick witted man, gifted with
keonncss of perception and his quaint
savings have been appreciated and
quoted by many. lie used tobacco since
he was ~ years and was reared in the
days before prohibition was the thing
| in Vermont. lie considered himself a
tcmpcratc man, but has used liquor
since his early youth and realized no
evil results. but used to say with a
| twinkle in his eye, Rum was better in
| those days" The funeral was held
at the house yesterday afternoon at 30
Mrs. Alpha Messcr and daughter,
Miss Annie Messor returned home Tues
day from the West, where they
spent the winter with relatives in
| IIumbolt, la. ON their return they
visited Aaron Jones, master of the Ma
tional Grange, and his family at South
Bend, Ind.
BRADFORD.
Carl IIazcn spent last week in Mont
pelier. where he took the druggist exam
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