Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-08-10
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE. Local Editor.

Ralph French OF Everett. Mass, Is max
/ ing bis annual summer visit at a. Al. Hub
/ bard's.
Miss Ella Smith, the guest Of Mrs.
Mary Mann for week, has returned "a
/ Lynn, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Batehelder Of Barre
were at Z. r. Changers last week from
/ Wednesday to Friday.
! Mr.. and Mrs. d. J. Morse and children
q Barre were entertained over Sunday BIZ
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. c. Drew.
Miss Mary Pratt OF Montpelier arrived
Saturday to spend the resi- of the month
with her sister, Mrs. o. 5. Cham berlain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bower left satnr-
day for 81. Adams and Highgate, intend
ing to be away some three or four weeks.
Frank Parsons OF New York Joined his
wife and children Saturday at the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. +. L. Parsons.
Mrs. r. II. Slack and son, Leonard. are
in Pittsheld for two weeks with Mrs.
slack's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Phineas
Amazon.
Mrs Margaret Smith of Boston, who is
passing part Of the summer with relatives
IN Randolph, has been in Riverside and
Underhill for few days.
Mrs. Il. A. Coolidge has had her skill in
the cultivation OF flowers rewarded by a
white gloxinia, which at present has p
buds and 80 full blossoms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pascal Currier left Friday
for their home in Montpelier after spend
ing several days with the families OF viii
liam Douglass and y. A. Hill.
Mrs. ". l. Spear, who has been seriously
in with hemorrhage of the lungs at the
farm in Braintree, is much better and has
been able for some days TO ride out.
Mrs. LEILA X. Downing and son, who had
been visiting Mrs. Downings brother, G.
e. Roundy, ana family, returned last
Thursday to their home in Rockingham.
ID. II. Morse was in White River juno
tion Friday TO confer with the other mem-
bers OF the State Board OF Agriculture and
make arrangements for few fall meet
ings.
DIR. w. NJ. Kelly is to leave Saturday on
two weeks vacation and during his abb
senee will sing at the Old Home week cell
ebrations in Amesbury and Merrimae,
Mass.
Mrs. II. II. Howard has with her at
present her sister, Mrs. j. S. Ellsworth, OF
Springfield, Mass. Another sister, Mrs.
j. 5. Goodell, went home to Lyme, n. H.,
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Williams and
daughter, Gladys, took their departure for
New Haven, Conn.,, the 9Th after a sojourn
OF seven weeks in town as the guests OF
Mr.. Williams parents, Mr.. and Mrs. !. ID.
Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Drew have been en-
tertaining Mr.. Drew's brother-in- law, Il.
s. Buttes, and his daughter, Mollie, OF
lansing Mich, who arrived Friday, and
are to visit in Fairfax before returning to
the West
Mrs. Frank Carpenter OF Warren and
her daughter, Mrs. Noel Kathan OF Bos-
ton, were in the village Friday, visiting
Mrs s. w. Sumner. Mrs. Kathan re-
NAMED until Saturday with her grand
father and aunt, w. w. and Miss Minnie
Carpenter.
Registration papers have been filed in
the office Of the secretary OF state at Mont
pelier by the Eastern Tale company Of
Boston, OF which Lucius Webb OF East
Granville is manager for Vermont. The
concern has a capital stock OF $4,000 and
owns lands in this state.
George e. Hutchinson, who has been
employed most OF the time during the last
fifteen years in Salisbury Brothers turni-
ture factory, met with his first accident
last Thursday, when he lost the thumb
and first two fingers OF his right hand on
the moulding machine, which severed the
thumb at the first joint and the fingers at
the second joint.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Eugene Kimball Of
Brooklyn, n. y, who had been on
weeks automobile tour, reached Monta-
que Place saturday, and the same day Mrs.
r. j. KimbaIl's niece, Miss Alice Morse OF
BROOKLYN, arrived from Maine. Miss
Meserole OF Brooklyn, who had been
guest OF the Kimball family, returned to
the city Monday.
Judge W. p. Stafford, former member
OF the Vermont bench and now justice OF
the supreme court OF the District OF
met Chief Justice j. w. Row
ell in Montpelier the I'd inst. and, accom-
panying him to Randolph, was his guest
that night. From here Judge stafford
went to his home in st. Johnsbury, where
he Is passing vacation from his duties
in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Hobart came back
from South Hero. where they
had been staying month at the cottage
Of their daughter, Mrs. William Tracy.
The latter will be on the island until the
first OF September and will then resume
in st. Adams, where MT.
Tracyis run as railway mail clerk VIII
bring his headquarters again this winter.
Old Folks day was observed last Sunday
morning at the NJ. f.. church, which was
decorated with ferns and sweet
peas in honor of the occasion. There
were fifteen Of the elderly people present
in response to invitations that had been
issued to those who had reached or passed
the allotted term of three-seore years and
ten. They occupied seats in the front OF
the church and at the close OF the service
were each presented with a handsome
bouquet OF flowers. In attendance were
William Holmes i'm his 95th year, lebina
Spaulding in his 91st year and his vile,
Rev. X. Udall aged rs, Mrs. Rebecca
Wells 50, b. NJ. Huse, Mr.. and Mrs. Kim
ball Williams, Mrs. Emily Burroughs,
/ ,orenzo Herrick, Mrs. Julia Rindge, Mrs.
A. l.. Cooper, Mrs. Roxana Hebard and
Mrs. 5. :. Briggs. The choir rendered
special music and two beautiful solos were
sung by Miss Minnie Barbour OF Mont |
heller, who has a sweet and powerful con-
tralto voice. The sermon by the pastor |
Rev. \. NJ. Fowler, was an able effort adj
dressed especially TO his venerable hear
ers.