Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-05
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.

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The next Grange meeting will be the in
stallstion Of officers.
Erwin Whitcomb was nome from Barre
Sunday and Monday.
William Pelton OF Montreal was here
Monday TO attend the tiremen's ball.
Miss Blanche Adams OF South Royalton
is staying with Mrs. Anna Adams for
awhile.
Miss Jane Wadleigh leaves e. A.
Thomas store today for a few weeks
change.
Or. Charles Cushman, who came East
for Christmas, started for Chicago again
Saturday night.
Harry Chase in pushing board against
a saw in the Emerson mill Monday had
one forefnger badly cut.
Mrs. Harriet Burnap Of Gardner, Mass,
is with her parents, Deacon and Mrs. W.
+. Howard, arriving Tuesday.
Mrs. +. II. Watson of Manchester, NJ
H., visited her aunt and cousin, Mrs.
Eugene and Miss Lena Ellison, Saturday.
Miss Emma Moses went back to Roeh-
ester Monday TO continue her teaching in
the schools Of that place after the holiday
vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. II. r. Sharpe and son re-
turned Monday from their Christmas visit
with Clarence and Mrs. Micah Mann in
Newport, n. II.
Victor Williams received his promotion
papers the eighth OF December and is now
the youngest engineer on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad.
Mrs. O'Connell, who makes her home
with her son, Peter, has been very sick
with Inflammation OF the bladder, but
KFfsEfnrdau tad "a a lfftIn haftar
At the Rebekah whist party last Thurs
day evening, w. w. sprague and Mrs. A.
T.. Dean won out, with a score Of plus 10.
This evening the Rebekahs have another
party.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Whitney OF VIII
Jamestown were at w. 8. S. Bucks Friday
and went to Bellows Falls, where they
stayed over Sunday, returning here again
Monday.
Thomas Connolly, Jr., started Monday
for Cincinnati, o., and a little later viii go
to southern California to act as window
decorator for the Proctor Gamble COM
pany through the winter.
Randolph Lodge, No. As, i. o. o. f., will
hold its annual installation OF officers
Monday night, Jan. 8. District Deputy
G. NJ. j. A. Chedel will be present and a
good time is expected. Every member is
requested TO attend.
Mrs. Julia Cummings came Saturday
fIom Plainfeld, where she is staying with
an uncle, TO be with her daughter for
few days before the latter's return yester-
day TO Hatfield, Mass. Mrs. Cummings
viii 90 back to Plainfield this week.
Rev. and Mrs. Fraser Metzger went to
Springfield Tuesday, where Mr.. Metzger
delivered an address that evening before
Christian Endeavor gathering. 1he
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New York and will pass two weeks ia the
city.
r. G. Danforth, who had been taking an
enforced vacation on account OF sickness,
left last Thursday for Concord, N. H., 10
resume duty as engineer on the Boston AZ
Maine railroad. Mrs. Danforth is still
with her sister, Mrs. A. A. Priest.
q. Il. spokesfeld OF West Campton, n.
H., who had been working in the Emer-
son mill for six week., went Monday,
with his wife, TO North Berwick, Me,
where he has employment as millwright.
During their stay here, Mr.. and Mrs.
Spokesfield boarded at w. B. Ayery's.
Joseph Hewitt OF New York, guest at
Elm cottage. went away Saturday, and
Stuart Levison, Arthur and Miss Gertrude
Hernandez returned to the city Monday.
Mrs. w. /. Broad, who had been visiting
Mrs. James r. Mccall at the cottage, took
her departure for Brooklyn Tuesday.
Miss Hannah Aldrich OF Rochester is
working st George Chedel's. Mrs. Chedel,
who is having a run OF typhoid fever con-
tracted through drinking well water
which had become contaminated, has de
veloped no alarming symptoms and bids
fair TO make quick progress towards re-
covery as soon as the fever fairly turns.
Clarence w. Hodges, who spent Christ
mas with his brother, DR.. Willis Hodges,
in Cumberland, Md, was with Mr.. and
Mrs. j. +. Lamson over Sunday. During
his stay here, he received news OF his pro-
motion to the position OF chief clerk in
the purchase department OF the Baldwin
Locomotive works at Schenectady, N. Y.
Royce and Miss Fannie Bass, who had
been with Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. Bass
through the holidays, departed Tuesday,
the former to Taunton, Mass, and the
latter to Northampton. Mrs. Bass went
the same day to Brattleboro and will re-
turn Saturday, bringing her mother, Mrs.
to Randolph to stay until
spring.
Otis Flint, whose daughter, Mrs. Frank
Burridge, was summoned to Stoughton,
Mass, last week by hls critical illness, at
last accounts was very low and not eX-
pected to live. While at the dinner table
he was seized with a terrible spasm, due to
spinal trouble, and a recurrence OF the at
tack, which Il is feared will prove fatal, is
daily looked for.
Miss Eta Chamberlain, who teaches
in the Union school in Montpelier, IS
having q three weeks vacation at this
time on account OF the prevalence OF
scarlet fever in the city, one or two new
cases having been reported since the
schools closed for the holidays. Nester-
day Miss Chamberlain went to Gaysville
to stay two or three days with an aunt.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. +. Fish of Richmond
were among the New Years guests in
town, coming Saturday and staying to the
firemenis ball Monday night. Mrs. Fish,
" ho left Richmond Friday and stopped at
lost purse containing sl6 at
Montpelier Junction. She had II in /
wrist bag and ON reaching Montpelier
opened the bag, which was still clasped,
only to find her purse gone. The supposi- I
iion is that some light-hngered person in I
the crowd at the Junction, opened the /
bag, abstracted the purse and closed the 4
bag again without attracting her atten- {
tion.
Mrs. William p. Morse. who is re- +
membere in Randolph, before her mar I
riage. a. Miss Lydia NJ. Bliss, died In
Springfield, January /, ct O'Clock IN 4
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