Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-12-13
II. W. Vail was in Montpelier Tuesda.

F. n. Jerd OF Canton, n. V, has been
about town since Saturday.
Mrs. John Manney was in Essex june
tion Tuesday to visit Mrs. l.. p. Thayer.
Miss Flora stoddard is working for
Mrs. Il. L. Salisbury, aud Miss Versa Cas-
sidy for Mrs. ii. A. Leonard.
Henry Harper, who was i'll so long in
the summer, is again in critical condi-
tion from heart disease and kidney trou-
BILE.
Mrs. Orinda Cole has arrived from East
Somerville, Mass, to remain with her
sister, Mrs. W. II. Curtis, until after New
Yeir's.
Jerry Russ, who had been taken i'll with
a hard cold a fortnight ago at b. A.
brakes, was able to go back to Royalton
Tuesday.
DR.. and Mrs. IL. G. Beekman returned
last week from their trip To New York,
and Mrs. Beekmsn has since been housed
by cold.
Mrs. Frank Bond OF Thetford, who was
on her way to the Grange meeting in Bur
lington, speHt Monday night with Mrs.
Alpha Messer.
Zebina Spaulding, who broke his hip
the 2nd, bears the attilction wonder
fully, considering his advanced age of
nearly 81 years.
Miss Florence Mayo of Bethel spent
Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. Z. o. Osha,
and was accompanied on her return home
by Miss Doris Osha.
Lucius Biodgett, prostrated by con-
gested circulation for the last three weeks,
suffers great deal and seems to be stead
| lily growing weaker.
There will be a basket ball game in
Grange hall tomorrow evening between II.
/ ii 5. aud the Montpelier team. A dance
4 will follow the game.
! Rev. w. T. Spsrhawk, who had been at
i home few weeks, recuperating from a
severe cold, went to Island Pond Tuesday
and from there proceeded to his parish in
/ East Charleston.
The gratifying announcement is made
that DR.. r. q. Angel has been appointed
4 TO the place on the board of pension exam
/ iners made vacant by the death of DIR. l..
/ NJ. Greene of Bethel.
Mrs. Minnie King Deyette has been
/ granted divorce from her husband, Pearl
| F. Deyette, by Orange county court, and
4 has been given the custody of her minor
child, Walter Nj. Deyette.
Miss Ida Battles went to Burlington
Tuesday be the guest of her cousin, j.
! T.. Cushman, during the conventional the
State Grange and is to spend the remain
4 der of the week in Montpelier.
Hon. Frank Plumley of Northfield has
accepted the invitation of the Randolph
Woman's Literary club to address the
members and their guests Gentlemen's
night, Feb. 10, on his Venezuelan expert
ences.
Dana II. Chadwick, who underwent an
operation the 5th inst, does not gain as ii
was hoped he might and is in a very seri-
ous state. His nephew, Harry Phillips of
| Mohonk Lake, N. Y, arrived yesterday to
be with him for few days.
An orchestra of seven pieces, conducted
by F. A. Phillips, is to furnish music for
the 18th annual concert and ball of the
Randolph tiremen, to be held in DUBOIS q
Gays hall Friday evening, Dec. 2S. The
concert will be at s o'c ock, and dancing
will begin al 8. Supper is to be served at
the Randolph Inn.
Bell Brothers. store was fairly mobbed
by bargain hunters yesterday, attracted by
the special sale of the firm that has just
/ disposed OF its business. Besides the regu-
lar force of the store, these extra clerks
are kept busy waiting on the crowds of
shoppers-A. J. Huse, Mrs. Lyman Rix,
Mrs. Leslie Rumrill, Miss Winnifred Rich
mond, Miss Clara Booth, Mrs. f. "a
Dunn, Mrs. S. B. Livingston and Miss
Gladys Clough of Bethel.
Yesterday morning, with the thermome-
ter registering 30 degrees below zero, work
on the Chandler Music hall and Bethany
Parish house had to be suspended tenn
porarily. The most putteriDg part of the
block laying is over and with a week or
ten days of comparatively moderate
weather, the walls will be ready for the
roof. Col. A. B. Chandler, to whom the
village and Bethany church are indebted
for the handsome building, is expected
from Brooklyn today to note the progress
In construction.
Mrs. Nellie (Waters) Earle, whose mar
ri8ge to Newell King in November of 1903
was made invalid by the temperance OF
her former husband, George w. Earle OF
Boston, who, she supposed, was killed in
a railroad accident in October of 1903, was
granted divorce from Earle by Orange
county court last Thursday. She was
again united in marriage TO Mr.. King Sat-
urdsy by Rev, Fraser Metzger, and the
couple, with their two small children, are
once more established in the home that
they lately bought on Water street.
The case of Frank Campbell Of Braintree
charged with assault upon Thomas Nc
Carthy, hostler at the Gay livery stable
where Campbell and Watson Banister o.
Braintree, both in drunken condition
took shelter the nigh OF Oct. IS, comes W
Mccarthy, it will be remem bered, was found
the next morning by Patrick Connolly
lying on the stable floor in pool of blood
his clothing torn, his pockets turned
wrong side out, ives and silver scattered
about and S17 in bills missing until late
discovered in a stall that Campbell wa
seen to enter shortly before the none.
came to light. Banister had disappeared
but Campbell was present and striving t
! convince the victim that their absent frient
: was responsible for McCarthy's plight
Banister, who is out on bail, has been sum
moned to testify in court today, and tn
! following named have also been called t.
Chelsea as witnesses Patrick Connolly
Ben Thayer, employees OF the stable; DR..
: g. Angel, N. l.. Boyden, f. II. KetChum
c. s. Booth and Dana Washburn c
. Bethel. High Sheriff Sprague OF Chelse
i bad to go to Burlington yesterday afte
!, Mccarthy, whose testimony is wanted
: but who was confined in the city Jail 9
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