Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-07-09

Gilbertson's orchestra of four pieces that
was on its way to Granville to play at q
dance.
Mrs. Olivia Morse of Fond du Lac.
Wis, who is spending the summer in
Peth, was the guest of her cousin, Mrs.
Mary Bass, at Judge w. H. Nichols over
Sunday. Another relative, Rev. Carey
Bass Of Burlington, agent of the Univer-
sity OF Vermont, was at Judge Nichols
last Thursday, stopping here on his way
to Boston.
Capt. B. F. Bowman was in Barnard
Monday to complete the arrangements for
the Windsor and Orange County Veter-
ans reunion at Silver lake Aug. 5. The
Harrington cottage " ill be opened for the
speakers, who are to be conveyed to the
lake from Bethel by auto, and the Green
/ Mountain band of Randolph has been en-
gagged for the day.
David R. Bosworth, son-in-law OF
Judge William Il. Nichols, saved the life
| of the young son of Scion Prince Of Bris-
| toll the 25th of June. The lad fell into
the pond of the casket company's saw
mill in Bristol and would have drowned
but for the prompt action of Mr.. Bos-
| worth, who jumped in, pulled the boy
Mr.. and Mrs. E. 7. Salisbury and two
children are established for the summer
at Caspian lake, Greensboro, to which they
| journeyed by auto last Thursday. H. B.
Salisbury and family are also at the lake,
having motored to Greensboro few days
earlier. Miss Lois Durkee is their house
keeper, while Mrs. E. T. Salisbury has
the help of Mrs. Addie Alexander in
camp.
P. c. Dodge has bought of ]. F. Spen-
Ger of Barre the latter's house, barn and
three and half acres of land ON Elm
| street. Mr.. Spencer was here Monday
and decided the property. A good many
repairs are to be made upon the house be-
| fore Mr.. Dodge occupies it in the fall and
in the meantime the present tenant, Jo-
seph Raymore, will probably continue to
rent the place.
C. w. Proper has discovered among the
relics of the past, stored away on the Bass
premises, and brought to light by the
repairs on A. E. Bass house, campaign
envelopes of 1868 decorated with the pic.
lures of the Republican nominees that
year for president and vice presidential.
S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax. Envel
opes this year, to do justice to the presI
4
ment, would need to be of legal size and
wide at that: for there is nothing narrow
about Mr.. Taft.
| The Barre Daily Times makes this edi
torial comment on the progressive church
unity ideas of Randolph:-"Church mer-
] gers are getting their full exploitation in
Randolph nowadays. Following the ap
parently successful union of the Congre
4 nd Chrte inn chr1p
Methodists and the Baptists are now con
sidering the practicability Of joining
forces. We have not beard of any di
intuition of religious interest since thu
former merger and are still waiting to b.
told why the union was not goot
thing"
Judge E. l. Waterman of Brattlebort
held a hearing in this village Tuesda,
morning in the case of Mrs. Gertrude c
Sweet of Lisbon, N. H., who is suing TO
a divorce from her husband, Rev. ]. E
Sweet, until recently pastor of the Cong
churches in Brookfield. Mr.. Sweet wa
ordered to return to his wife all thu
household goods, pay IS month for thu
support of their minor child and S4'
towards the litigation. Though Mr.
Sweet has resigned his passionate, he still
remains in Brookfield and is at presen
Engaged in house-painting.
DIR. E. C.. Noble of Norwood, Mass.
and his mother, Mrs. Fannie Noble, ar
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Tferise
with whom Mrs. Noble is to remain dur
ing the warm weather to recuperate from
a nervous breakdown. She had sever
illness in Norwood that has left her tenn
porarily in debilitated state of mine
in of rol a N
cholia, she took a dose of oil of cedar
Prompt medical attendance averted wha
might have been fatal consequences, ano
with rest and Quiet it is hoped she ma,
in time be restored to q normal condition
Mrs Mary Carr will erect block thi
summer on her lot abutting on Soutf
Main street and lying between the depo
yard and the property of G. A. Blodgett
The block will be about Sc feet square
with basement, and will contain thre'
stores on the ground floor and two tene
ments in the second story. j. J. Treris,
& Co. are to have the store and basement
in the north end of the block for thei
hardware business. E. L. and Eli Saul
will put up the building, which viii
probably be of brick veneer, and thu
work of construction will be commenced
as soon as possible. The block will oc
cupy only half of the depth of the lot bu
will take the whole frontage. This is {
good business site, the best available fol
a new building that the growth OF thu
village demands.
Frank Lashua, Jr., who had been Hv
ing in Hartford since December, dice
Wednesday morning, the LIST inst, at thu
home of his mother, Mrs. Frank Lashua
Sr., in that village at the age OF "a years
Before leaving Randolph, he had devel
oped a serious throat trouble that proved
to be of a tubercular nature and caused
him most intense suffering. He is sur
vived by wife, son and two daughter
in Randolph; mother and two brothers
Fred and Joe Lashua, in Hartford, and I
sister, Lizzie Lashua, in Boston. The
funeral service was held at 10 O'Clock Fri
day morning in Hartford, and among
those present were Charles Coulumbe
father-in-law of the deceased, and Viii
liam Bertrand of this place. Mrs. Lash
ua, Jr., has been having severe attach
of appendicitis, from which she is but
Just convalescing.