Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-05-31

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Mrs. A. J. McGlafiin is passing a little
j time in Warren.
George w. Flagg was the Memorial day
or tor in IhetiOrd.
Mrs L. +. Drake and son are in Gran
vile for week or so.
Gardner Brewer Of Burlington was in
the vi lage yesterday.
Ds. and Mrs. W. 5. Curtis opened their
cottage at Caspian lake Friday.
Mrs Oliver 3. Coe OF Boston was tn e
recent guest OF her father, William
Holmes.
Mrs George w. Drew went to Hartford
/ Tuesday TO attend the funeral Of a cousin,
Charles Haraden.
The w. :. T. L. will meet with Mrs. W.
p. Flint on Park street at O'Clock Friday
afternoon, June /.
Mrs. A. A. Smith has returned from a
winters absence in st. Johnsbury and
White River Junction.
Miss Eva Fortin has gone to White
River Junction to take situation in the
family of l.. A. Gibbs.
Mrs. OIinda Cole OF East Somerville,
Mass, is with her sister, Mrs. w. ii. Cur
tbs, arriving Tuesday night.
Mrs. +. T.. Brooks has been in Burling-
ton since the "a caring for her sister, Mrs.
/ Frank Thomas, in the latter's illness.
Mrs. Stephen Cushman, who had been
staying two weeks with her sister, Mrs. j..
F. Trayers, went back to Barre the 25ih.
The Randolph Woman's Literary club
will meet at the home OF Mrs Robert
Cham berlin Saturday, June 2, at the usual
hour.
A son was born Saturday to Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur B. Drake at the home OF Mrs.
Drake's father, {. A. Roberts OF Bass
Mills.
Henry g. Vail, who went back to New
York Monday, was at the Vail farm in
Pomfret Sunday in company with Howard
Drew.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. q. Webster came from
Burlington last Thursday and spent the
rest OF the week with their relatives in
Randolph.
Mrs. c. 0. Osha and little daughter went
to Royaltcn Friday and passed the next
( two days with Mrs. Oshas sister, Mrs.
Fred Mayo.
Mrs. James Chamberlain OF Bridge
water arrived Saturday for weeks visit
with her mother, Mrs. Henry Harper,
before going on TO Barre.
Fred Jerd has work for the summer on
the steamer sycamore in Lake George, n. Y,
and left Monday night to Join the rest of
the Randolph boys on the boat.
Miss Florence L. McAllister of West
Somerville, who is the guest OF Misses
month in Randolph, Bethel and Barre.
Idleton cottage has been connected with
the New England Telephone system for
convenience OF its present tenant, Free
land Jewett OF the Eastern Tale company.
The caucus check list has been posted,
and the board OF civil authority will be in
the town clerks office at / o'clock Mon
day afternoon. June 4, for the purpose of
inserting the names of those omitted aud
erasing the names OF those not entitled to
! vote.
George Dumas, who is eng iged in team
4 ing in Passumpsic, was with his family
| from Friday to Tuesday. His sons,
Charles and Leo, are now working in a
machine shop in Springfield, and the
former was also at home few days last
week.
/ Miss Doris, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
4 Charles {. Reynolds. having attained the
age OF three years the 2sth inst, celebrated
I the event with party that proved joy
\ Gus occasion for about a dozen little peo-
I pie. An afternoon of unalloyed pleasure
/ preceded dainty spread whose crowning
/ feature was birthday cake with its three
tapers surrounded by the inscription in
colored candies, "3 Years Old"
1 The special meetings OF Whitney Chap
\ ter No. 8, X. A. NJ, were well attended
/ Monday afternoon and evening, among
/ those present being W. A. Shaw, district
deputy high priest, and j. {. Ellis OF
I Northfield; Ed. Hemenway OF Granyillej
1 II. ". MattIson, $. G. Wilson, W. &.
/ Holmes and o. ID. Tracy Of Chelsea. The
| four degrees Of the chapter were conferred
upou Messrs. Wilson and Tracy and
banquet followed the work OF the evening"
J.P. Lamson OF Cabot and w. A. Dut-
/ ton of Hardwick were in he village Satur-
day for a hearing before Chic Justice
1 Rowell in the Spicer VS., SpIcer case. The
question involved was the violation OF a
recent order in which Alex Spieer of
/ Hardwick, The defendant, was to pay his
wife, Mrs. Mary Spicer OF Cabot, the sum
OF y a week towards her separate support.
Mr.. Lamson appeared for Mrs. Spicer,
while Mr.. Spicer's attorney was Mr.. Dut-
[ ton, who is Governor Bells executive
I clerk.
Mary Howe OF Brattleboro, Vermont's
I famous singer, is TO give concert IN Ran
dolph Friday evening, June s, and will be
assisted by pianist and fiutist, Rarely
I do our people have an opportunity for
musical enjoyment OF the high character
i this concert will afford. Miss Howe, who
I has appeared repeatedly as star in all the
principal opera houses Of Germany and in
most OF those OF her own country, Is said
to have a voice distinctly resembling that
of the Swedish nightingale, Jenny Lind,
and is richly lowered with beauty as well
as voice.
F.. Ketchum was in North Fayston
Sunday at the funeral OF his elder son, W.
+ F. Ketchum, who shot himself through
I the temple between 4 and 5 O'Clock Friday
morning. The deceased, who was in his
4Oth year, had seemed not quite in a nor
NAL state lately but had worked steadily
/ in the North Fayston saw mill and his
/ condition had excited no serious appre-
I tensions. Friday morning he arose and
left the house, going into the woodshed,
" here in iii OF insanity, be committed
the desperate deco. He left, besides his
father, wife and two children and a
brother, Walter Ketchum Of Brookheld.