Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-09-20


case is progressing nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kent of Salisbury
were in town Monday and Tuesday and
decided their house on Elm street to Miss
Jane Madleigh. j. III. Wadleigh and TAM
lily expect to occupy their new home about
the first OF October, vacating the Cleve-
land house Oh Park street.
Miss Minnie Holman, who had been
with her uncle, Eugene Holman, and with
other relatives here and in this vicinity
| for the last ten months, started Saturday
on the return journey TO her home IN
Pacific Grove, Cal, visiting In New York
and at various other places on the way.
Mrs. X. w. Morse and daughter, Ruth,
! OF Barre were guests the last of the week
OF Mrs. Ella Smalley, sister of Mrs.
/ Morse. Miss Ruth is at the home of her
/ grandmother, Mrs. Bowen, in Bethel Gill
cad, recuperating after a recent severe
/ throat trouble, and will return here later
+ for longer visit.
Miss Emma Finn, bookkeeper for the
/ American Woolen Co, at Lebanon, N. H.,
who has spent a week at Allen Jones
and with other friends here, leaves tomor-
row for Boston to spend the final week of
/ her vacation at the home OF her brother,
/ Eugene Finn, at whose home a daughter
arrived Sept. llth.
/ Charles Ellsworth, furniture and hard
ware dealer in Bridgeport, Conn, came
Sunday to visit at the home OF his uncle,
/ III. III. Howard, who has also had as guests
I this week Elhanan Fits, his son, Wilbur,
with his wife and two children, who had
! been visiting in RoXbury and stopped here
on their way to their home in North Read
ing, Mass.
Ernest +. Manchester has moved his
bowling alley to the basement under his
pool room, which has been very neatly
sheathed and flushed up. The alley is
one of the best. There can be no com
plaidt of noise where it is now located
The space made yrcant upstairs VIII be
taken up by re-arrangement of counters
and pool tables.
Mrs. L. A. Segar returned yesterday to
her home in Burlington after five weeks
visit with her sister, Mrs. 5. 5. Whitcomb.
Her son, Eugene Segar, with his wife,
expects to leave shortly for the South for
a stay OF several weeks, Mr.. Segar being
called there on business, while Mrs.
Segar win visit her sister, Mrs. Carrie
(Abbott) Griffin, in Naldosta, Ga.
The infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Abel
Whitcomb, who live on the Peter O'Con-
nell place, died early Sunday morning
afterAn illness of only few hours from
entero colitis. The child was 4 months
and l9 days old. One other child, a boy,
Is left the parents. The funeral was at the
home Tuesday at 10 a. m, Rev. A. l..
Cooper officiating, with burial at South
view cemetery.
The Home Minstrel entertainment for
the benefit Of the Green Mountain band
comes of at Dubois a Gays hall tomor-
row evening. Thirty local artists viii
take part. DeForest West, professional
minstrel, manages the production and
takes leading roles. There will be orches-
tral and band music, songs, dancing, girl
drills, funny colloquies, nice costumes
ana just such a light evening OF mirth
and melody as many are yearning for.
Mr. and Mrs. +. T.. Brooks have been
entertaining an uncle and aunt OF Mrs.
Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. futile of California.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks left Tuesday for
trip through the lakes and down the
Hudson and will be at New York Friday,
when Mr.. Brooks sister, Mrs. Dewitt
Webb, and family will leave for Key
West Fla, and will visit at Albany, n. ",
on the way home. Mr.. and Mrs. Tuttle
accompanied them as far as Burlington.
j. Densmore Battles, elected as Fusion
repre- entative, gave a reception Tuesday
evening", the 18th, TO his t9wnspeople in [
Braintree. Mr.. and Mrs. Battl received
the guests, OF whom there were about 70 I
Music aud games furnished entertain
ment for the company, who enjoyed de- /
lightful evening. The dining room was /
decorated with green and white, and re-
freshments OF ice cream, cake, iced coffee, I
ssltines and grapes were served by Mr.. /
Battles daughter, Miss Lima, and his sis
ter, Miss Ida.
W.E. Loueks, agent OF the National /
Good Roads association, met number OF /
interested citizens at the Inn parlors Tues
day evening aud discussed with them the
work of that association, and the plan OF
holding a county good roads convention
here in the near future. The scope OF tins
association is educative. BY means OF L
lectures by practical road builders, the .
people are taught how to secure greatly
improved highways at lowest cost. A
committee was named to see what could
be done about arranging for a convention,
aud to raise the necessary funds for the
expenses thereof.
The Demeritt q Palmer canning factory
closed Saturday, having put up its seasons s +
crop Of sweet corn. IL ran about three
weeks b. X. Demeritt and his Water
bury helpers went to the Waterbury fac
tory to sssist in winding up the canning
OF corn there. There remains to be done
here the labelling, packing and shipping
OF The nearly quarter Of a million cans,
which has 10 be done by hand, beginning
soon. No apples are to be canned here
this year, as the supply IN SIGHT Is too
small Next year it is expected the corn
acreage will be doubled, as growers have
been well pleased this season.
Many Of the lawns in this place are in
tested this fall with a most troublesome
weed which is threatening the growth OF
the grass. On request the state expert
ment station at Burlington has gSen
Of the weed, which IS called
crab grass. The grass has strong, wlry
roots, and seeds under the closest cropping
OF a lawn-mower. The experiment station
advises white clover as the best means for
fighting the crab-grass, first raking and
pulling out as much Of the weed as practi-
ca bic either ia the late autl an or the early
spring. To encourage the white clover
ashes OF oth her fertilizer snogld be spread.
The station officers write that unless the
crab-grass is destroyed At once the lawns
viii Be thoroughly infested with i next
summer.
The SPECIAL village u--,ing Monday
evening, called to straightg out the legal .
tangle 50 that the money to install the
sewerage system could be borrowed, dis
pozed of It's business and adjourned
quickly The voters turned out IN large
mum bers. determined 10 see the matter
through tis final stage IN safety t was
voted 10 rescind the action taken IN May,
1913. to borrow money At and then,
by ballot resulting i03 20 u il was voted .