Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-11-22
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.

The Kings Daughters will meet at /
O'Clock Monday afternoon, Nov. ID, with
Mrs. j. ID. Mitchell.
A, h, Gay was confined TO the house a
few days lately by the formation Of an al
seess ON his limb that required surgical
/ treatment.
James Ill. Judd has added TO his farm
machinery Greendale gasoline engine III
Three and half horsepower, purchased OF
osgood A Roundy,
Mr.. and Mrs, Guy Cornish, who had
been visiting In Brookfleld, spent Friday
night at +. y. God,rey's aud SATURDAY
went ON their way to Boston.
The Cooperative creamery Maid 3N3
cents net pound for 1868 pounds of
butter fat In the last mont h, made NJ, l57
pounds OF butter, for which s5562. 81 was
received, and paid patrons s5,l2695, re-
serving IL per cent surplus.
Mrs. T.. J. Blodgett OF Lyndonyi lie ire
memoered In Randolph as Miss Constance
Gerry Is TO act as State Federation editor
OF The Northern, the official organ OF
women's clubs In Vermont as we'll as OF
those in Maine and New Hampshire.
A. w. Diekerman, so long in the en-
ploy OF the White River Beef company as
bookkeeper and salesman at White River
Junction, has gone TO Keene, y. H., where
he will carry on retail sporting and mu-
steal goods business, Mr.. Dlckerman is
the son OF Mr.. aud Mrs. Francis Dicker-
man of Randolph.
Mrs, Orson Woodcoek, who went TO
Burlington last week TO have DIR. Twitch-
ell examine her left eye, from which he
had removed cataract some time before,
was able to have glasses fitted and now
has good sight in that eye, reading and
looking on with nearly normal vision.
Mrs. Alpha Stanley OF Springfield, eous-
In OF Mr.. and Mrs. Woodcoek, who had
been here few days, left Saturday for
Bradford.
The daughter, born Oct 10 In New York
to Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Rainey, has re-
ceived the name OF Fredericka in memory
OF her grandfather, the late Rev. +. q.
Rainey, The deceased clergyman's
daughter, Miss Edythe +, Rainey, is now
secretary and confidential clerk TO the
principal OF the Normal school in Cort-
land, y. v, at salary Of .60O, and her
younger brother, Frederick, having COM
pleted his preparatory course at Lyndon
willie academy, entered Dartmouth college
this fall.
As A. p. Drawbridge and an Italian by
the name OF Dominic were digging in the
sewer ditch opposite c. A. Blodgett's ON
Weston street at depth OF nine feet last
Thursday afternoon, the earth caved in
and buried Drawbridge to his chin. Both
men vert firmly embedded In the soil and
as they refused to pull so easily as par
ships, considerable shoveling was required
to loosen the dirt enough to permit OF
their being drawn to the surface again.
The Italian, though not so deeply inferred
as his companion in grief, had ligament
in his left limb strained, and was taken to
the ssnatorium to recover from the injury.
John +. Hubert was arrested Friday for
using profane and obscene language on
the street in the course of a wordy quarrel
vii ;. II. King and Was fined by Justice
y. l.. Boyden g with costs OF sS.2i. The
next day Henry Dun bar, colored, and
Herschel, the li-year-old son of Charles
Roberts, were In police court, the former
to seek redress for the malicious breaking
By the boy OF eight windows in the Dun
bar house on Water street. After giving
due attention to both sides of the story,
the justice addressed little homily on
mutual forbearance and brotherly love to
both the man and the boy and dismissed
the case.
Mrs. Ernest Hatch and Mrs. 5. n.
Holman were the hostesses of a most en-
joyable social held Friday evening at the
home OF the former on Prospect avenue.
The guests, who numbered about fifty,
listened to an excellent literary and
original poem by Mrs. Y. NJ. Fowler, a
recitation by Mrs. n. W. Udall, a piano
solo by Mr.. Hatch, piano duet by Mr..
Hatch and Miss Lettie Bailey, cornet
solo by Glenn Bailey, vocal solos by Miss
Bailey and Miss Minnie Carpenter. Re-
freshments OF cake, jellies, coffee and
cream were served, and the sum
of IS was added to the treasury of the
Ladies Aid society Of the Methodist
church.
Edward G. Webster. who was en-
ployed in the laundry OF the Woodstock
Inn during the past summer, and umpired
most of The bail games there, fell or
Jumped from the third story of the Ameri-
can House at Winchendon, Mass, the 18th !
inst and was almost in family killed. One
Of the Boston papers states that Webster
cut his throat and left wrist with razor
before JUMP ing. He was well known as a |
ball player in New England cities and the |
south. For ten years he held an lntie d |
position with the Portland New England |
league team; played with the Southern |
league, and for the last few years was a
New England league umpire. He umpired
above criticism the crucial game at Wood
stock between the Randolph and Wood
stock teams Aug. 18th last.
Commissioner J. E. Cushman of Bur-
ington states that the average rate of taxa
ion in the state is S1.63 3 10 on dollar OF
he grand list. In this connection 1t is
to note that the rate in Kan
iolph town is s1.30, and in Randolph vii
age S1.42. The grand list Of the town is
III ,560.S3, and Of the village sl2,4 o'4o.
rhe grand list of the state for 1905 was
i sol ,6i7. The total amount OF deduc'
ions for debts owing, $50, 924 ,653 for 1905,
las increased since 1900, says the commls-
ioner, approximately 100000, and in
Barre city is S1,642, 3S1, with Montpelier
econd at 1925, 909, while Roxbury has the
smallest amount, s32,6O5. In Randolph
own and village, the property exempted
rom taxation for debts owing is given
IS s199, 96S The commissioner makes the
deduction that but little cash is
exported in the tax inventory by the lndl-
ridual taxpayer, and that the only sue
,essiul way to tax money is to allow 1t to
De deposited in banks that pay the tax. /