Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-10-31
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE. Local Editor.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Manney have re-
turned from a months stay in Middle
bury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence w. Hodges are
rusticating for couple of weeks at the
Sanford farm.
Norman Nichols is installing hot wa
ter heating system in his house on Pros
pect street and putting in hard wood
floors.
Miss Winnifred Chadwick has gone to
MAYNARD, Mass, to be for awhile with
her cousin, Mrs. Pearl Bean, who is in
very poor health.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph w. Atwood have
ended camping season of four months
at Caspian lake, Greensboro, and Friday
reopened their house on Franklin street.
/ Rev. and Mrs. Fraser Metzger are en-
tertaining Mrs. Metzger's mother and
, cousin, Mrs. c. R. Lacy OF Freehold, n.
/ Y, and Mrs. Julius Mangelsdorf of Sara
toga Springs.
/ The Morrisville News and Citizen an
nounces the departure of Rev. and Mrs.
V. NJ Hardy to Kansas City to spend
month with Mrs. Hardy's uncle, F. n.
Stimson, and family.
Rev. L. o. Sherburne of Bellows Falls,
dolph, has been called to the field secre-
taryship of the Vermont Bible society at
a salary of Il 300 year and travelling eX-
penses.
Mrs c. S. Booth resumed duty as head
operator in the Randolph Telephone ex-
change Monday after vacation of three
months spent in recovering from tTac-
ture of the left ankle, received in being
thrown from wagon the latter part OF
July. Mrs. Booth is very efficient oper-
ator and was welcomed all over the line
on her return to the exchange.
Osmond Creaser of Newport has been
so i'll with tonsilitis at the home of his
father-in-law, l.. J. Blakely, on Pearl
street that for two days the house was
quarantined in the fear that diphtheria
had developed. A reassuring report from
the state laboratory, however, raised the
quarantine and by Monday the patient
had reached such a stage OF convalescence
that he was Die to be up.
Charles B. Mann had a mishap Friday
as he was storing leaves i'll shed at his
re sidence on Fales street with team!
He had backed the wagon body under
the shed and, having emptied 1t, stepped
onto one of the thills to reach the relns
that were hanging over a hame. The
COLI gave d suuuSI SidIl anu NIL
was thrown off in such a way that
wheel, grazing the left side of mis- head,
inflicted a scalp wound about two inches
long.
Judge George D. Alden will lecture in
Chandler Music nall next Thursday even
ing as the third attraction in the Enter
tainment course. 1t is claimed for Judge
Alden that he is not only a successful
LAWYER. an eloquent advocate and able
iurist, but that he combines with grace of
expression and depth of thought those
qualities OF personal magnetism and plat
form ease that mark the popular orator.
He is presented as "a man with a mes
sage" who, while entertaining, will
likewise uplift and stimulate, creating a
sentiment toward higher ideals and bet
ter living.
The Randolph Womans Literary club
met Saturday afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. NJ. A. Tew ksbury, when Mrs.
Tewksbury and Mrs. J. w. Raymond
were hostesses, and twenty-tour members
and ten guests were present. The subject
for the afternoon was England, with the
program as follows Roll call, responded
to by quotations from Charles and Mary
Lamb; reading, an essay by Charles
Lamb, Mrs. W. A. Bradshaw; paper on
THE Reigns of the Plantaganet Kings"
Mrs. Mary Mann; "English Antiqui-
ties. " Mrs. A. H. Powers. Refreshments
were served during the social hour which
followed the reading of the papers.
A company of congenial spirits met in
the square last week when the talk natur-
rally turned onto the dangers OF the deer
season. One cautious party allowed that
if the hunters got him they would have
to shoot right in between the brick
blocks because he wasn't going to stir
out from among them until the law made
it safe for anything with horns and hOOfs
to show its.l.. Another secuted thu no
ton of the square being safe retreat on
the ground that the individuals actively
engaged in holding up the brick blocks
all day were 'half-shot" anyway; while
a third. climbing into his wagon with a
gun, announced that he preferred to take
his chances in the woods, having been
pretty thoroughly skinned once right on
the postOffice corner.
Full enjoyment OF the reading room in
the Kimball Public library is frequently
somewhat impaired by the thoughtless-
ness of people who indulge in loud-voiced
conversation while in the building. The
library is not saloon for social inter
course. and what remarks need to be
made within its walls should be uttered
/ in a low tone or whisper. Those en-
gagged in reading or study do not care to
| be unwilling listeners to some young
| lady's plans for an e7ening party fully
elaborated in an open-air tone to run
ming accompaniment of giggles. Neither
| do they want to have their attention dis
tracted at intervals by questions shouted
at the librarian from different corners, or
to suffer the boredom of hearing the in
terminabIe chatter of two gushing souls
who have CHANGED to meet in the delivery
hall and feel it necessary to have a regu-