Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-10-10


thing in nice confectionery.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. r.. Clark and daugh-
ter and Miss Helen TreGt will bring their
summers sojourn at the +. Z. Brooks
house to close tomorrow and take their
departure to New Haven, Conn.
Frederick Leeds went to Boston Friday
and was taken very ill the next day with
ptomaine poisoning. He was Joined
Monday by Mrs. Leeds, who found him
still suffering somewhat from the effects
of the attack.
Charles A. Blodgett has been reduced
to crutches through mishap at the state
fair, due to his slipping from a wagon
and striking his leg below the knee on
the hub of a wheel with serious bruises
as the result.
Mrs. Arthur Burt and youngest child
are to go from the Burt farm today to
their home in Washington, d. c. The
daughters of the family, Misses Frances
and Anita, have been visiting in Green
wich, Conn, since Monday.
The II. c. Woodwork Real Estate
agency has sold the Widow Martin farm
/ in East Braintree for e, $50 to William
Billings of POtsdam, n. Y, who will
take possession the first of November
and will move to his purchase the first of
March.
The village trustees have decided that
public safety demands the enforcement
of the state law hich says that all
automobiles shall carry lights showing
the number of their licenses, and these
lights must be lit within one hour after
sunset.
John E. Haskins, aged 5S years, en-
tered into rest at 9 O'Clock last night
after weeks OF painful illness with blood
poisoning from gangrene of the foot and
limb. The funeral service will be at the
house on Forest street this afternoon at
8 O'Clock.
A list of new books for the library is
now being made out. Any citizen of the
town who knows of a good book which
he or she would like to have bought for
the library is requested to hand to the Ii
brarian the title of the same with pub
lisher's name and the price.
I George F. Sparhawk, whose two
weeks vacation vas over, returned to
Beaver, Pa, Monday, leaving his vile
and two sons to prolong their stay in
Randolph, Mrs. Sparhawk is at The
Manchester with her father and sister.
]. W. and Miss Anita Burt.
Robert Adams is home from Saratoga.
n. Y, where he was employed through
the summer at the United States hotel
but intends to go soon to Butte. Mon, to
seek employment for time and later take
a course in a Mining school. Two of his
fellow students at the University of Yer
mont are already located there.
Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Hewitt of Glover.
who were on their wedding trip, arrived
last Thursday and stayed until Saturday
with Mrs. Hewitt's sister, Mrs. Ernest
Mcintosh. They went then to Wilder TO
be with Mrs. Hewitt's mother, Mrs
Nellie Morse, a few days before settling
down to pastoral work in Glover.
Benjamin Bean OF Concord, y. H.. has
bought of w. B. Wall for $500 the red
house by the railroad track, below Pearl
street, and is occupying the place with
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Rattee. Sr., who
moved Tuesday from the Williams house
on Hale street. Ernest Luce, who was
Mr.. Wallis tenant, has rented the adioin-
ing house of +. A. Shattuck.
The f. F. Emerson company has COM
menced the erection OF two new houses
on Terrace street, " hich are to he story
and-a-halt cottages but of different archi-
lecture from the other three houses built
by the company on that street. Building
lot, No. /, on the Emerson tract. 'front.'
ing on Prospect street and opposite the
Mcintosh place, has been sold TO c. c.
Clifford of East Randolph for $3.50.
Thirty-nine tickets were sold at this
station Monday for the excursion to Bns-
ton and among those going were Mr.. and
Mrs. F. f. Copeland, Mr.. and Mrs. c. II.
Ingalls,, Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Slack. Mrs.
son, Robert, Mrs. +. o. Mann, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. G. Mann, Miss Mary Lamson.
Mrs. Dwight Fisher, Mrs. Frederick
Mrs. w. f. Lamson, Mr.. and Mrs. G. :.
Booth, Mrs. H. T. Holman, Mrs. Alpha
Messer and daughter, Annie.
Burglars penetrated to the interior of
II. P. Sanford's gristmill last Thursday
night and distracted about - in change
from the money drawer. Nothing else
seemed to be missing, though an effort
had evidently been made to work the
combination of the safe, but without
discovering the "open sesame En-
trance was probably effected through a
broken window, and the exit was made
through the back door of the mill.
which was found unlocked in the morn
ing. Local talent in the detective line
should exert itself before it becomes
necessary to sit up nights in order to
hold onto movable property.
Frank Palmer, well known in this
vicinity, in which he worked for some
years and was employed for a time on
the LalnsOn farm by the late Irving Lam
son, has just been pardoned out of states
prison by the governor of New York and
Is now at Moers, \. Y, with his brother, .
Henry. Palmer and a companion, Peter
Bernard, went from South Royalton on
an excursion to Dannemora, y. Y, some