Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-08-01

Miss Florence Hodgkins IS learning 70
[ operate the switchboard at the Randolph
Telephone exchange, whose subscribers
win aid materially in securing good
/ service il they call by numbers.
Frank P. Bartlett OF Dorchester, Mass,
who had been in the West touring the
Pacific coast from Vancouver TO Calitor-
mia. met Mrs. Bartlett here yesterday at
the home of her mother, Mrs. e. Nj. How
ard.
II. b. and A. ]. Bell, of the firm OF Bell
BROTHERS, returned Saturday night from a
prospecting trip through Ohio that was
cut short by the illness of A. j. Bell No
definite business location has yet been Sc
lected.
Row Howard shot black squirrel last
Thursday that he sighted in tree at the
bridge between the Holman and Godfrey
farms. II was about the size OF red
squirrel but its handsome black coat
made it rare specimen.
The Z. F. Emerson company is enlarg-
ing the cabinet room of the mill by one
story addition 20x33 feet and will in
crease the size OF the Office by an addi-
ton to the front 12x16 feet that will give
space for a drafting table.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Story and Miss
Mary Story left Idleton cottage Tuesday
to join Mr.. and Mrs. H. \. Story at Beth
lehem, NJ II. Mrs. A. ID. Lamson and
Miss Carolyn are now entertaining at
Idleton DIR. and Mrs. j. V. Merchon OF
Philadelphia.
Hon. James Hutchinson, trustee OF the
John Herrick estate, has decided the place
j; on School street, occupied by A. j. Cur
I tbs, to John Herrick, Jr., Mrs. Emily
!, Burroughs and their nephew, Charles Ii
4 Pratt of South Boston. The property il
d valued at $1,000.
+ Mr.. and Mrs j. F. Hobart and daugh
IS ter, Mary, came to Randolph Friday from
9 Highgate Springs for the remainder O
o Mr.. Hobart's vacation from the express
n office in Essex Junction. Sunday he re
/ turned to duty, leaving Mrs. Hobart ane
!, Mary to stay few days longer.
y Rev. DR.. A. L. Cooper is to supply tn
y Methodist church of Randolph in the va
cancy soon to be created by the departur
= to the South of the pastor, Rev. X. M
Fowler, and will be assisted in the worl
in Gilead by Rev. G. o. Howe. This al
rangement made Tuesday night by Pre-
On siding Elder Smithers of Montpelier, wi
us probably continue until cold weather
DR.. Cooper will preach in Northfield mex
'e, Sunday.
Ist Mr.. and Mrs. Guy P. Lamson and chi
dren and Miss Grace Taylor of Montclai
es- N. j., Mrs. Susa Bass, Edmund Nike
he and E. A. Shattuck are at Camp RAJ
dolph, Highgate Springs, for which r
, sort Miss Geneve Lamson will leave t
,iS morrow. In day or two A. E. Des
will go to Highgate and meet there h
brother, George Dean of Boston, wi
started from this place Tuesday for st. L
Aei ons Springs, below Montreal.
Lemuel Coburn of Holyoke, Mass,
VI spending little time among relatives
ou- this vicinity and yesterday accompani
his cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Lapol
me to Mortified, from which place they l
18th turn today. Mr.. Coburn is the invent
TIA. and manufacturer of the Coburn Troll
me Track Carrier system, that equips
ten sliding doors OF Chandler music ia
,w- He employs 1875 men at his large plant
Holyoke and did business last year
5av 1880, 900.
had At Bethany church Sunday mornir
i'll the subject of the debt upon the Par
house, amounting finally to about S1,4
NJ was presented to the congregation toge
cid, CT Win ,he ahnou hes .a,,, sllao -"
BILE the amounts set against their nan
if the whole Indebtedness could be wiz
kea ont at once. Interest was immediat
and ;olra,,od o,,d a. oo1 WIS raised then .
OF there. The balance of $500 it is COZ
IDENTIFY expected will be assumed by
Dem ladies OF the church, who have aires
lien paid $500 toward the Parish house {
ler's have on hand available for such =
pose 900, left from the profits of the
N. cent bazaar after paying the last Of tt
: to first subscription.
fer In digging the sewer ditch on Fl
street, the workmen uncovered one of
hree old water tanks scattered about the
RELY lage for fire protection soon after
Yer great confagration that swept the sgt
in December of 1884. This tank, WI
r h. was filled up by the sewer gang, was
rron, feet at the top and 10 feet deep. 1t
-, covered by railroad iron and stone
,a1ay9 was located somewhere between j. w.
woods and j. ]. Trerises. There are
least five more of these tanks-one in
10 corner of the high school yard next to
yes Methodist church, one in the B. 7. L
II, bard yard on Randolph avenue, ano
ined - ~ posuell uolbrook nlace on Cen
street. fourth at J. L. Moses at
h a corner of South Main street and I'll
and land avenue and fifth where the fc
Her tain stands in the square. Some of t.
one were larger than the one on Fales st
but all were supplied with "firewater'
llian the rain that dripped from the roof
9 at nearby houses. In times of drought
here system didn't admit the possibility
also FIRE and in 1887 was superseded by
present excellent water service.