Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-02


bans were the guests of Miss Minnie Car
penter over Sunday.
Lyman d. Rix takes the place OF j. b
Adams as local agent for the Information
al Harvester company.
Miss Desier Noulton is having an at,
tack. of measles, contracted, it is sup,
posed, on the train during a recent trip
to Burlington.
Mrs. Ellen Chatfeld, who had been
visiting her sister, Mrs. George 5. MouI-
ton, and other relatives in Randolph, re-
turned to Claremont, y. H., Tuesday.
Lewis Rye, who had been at home on a
ten days vacation, left Tuesday TO resume
his studies at Middlebur college, from
which he will be graduated this com
| mencement.
The Canadian Jubilee Singers drew a
fair-sized house at Chandler Music hall
Friday night and gave a satisfactory en-
tertainment of that particular kind. This
troupe, it is understood, is the same that
visited Randolph a few years ago and
were heard in Dubois & Gays hall.
Mrs. Nathaniel King went back TO
Nortbfield Saturday after spending a
week at the Mcintyre block, in rooms
that her daughter, Miss Angie King,
came from Northfield Monday to occupy.
The next day Miss King moved to the
StOekwell block to room with Mrs. Henry
Miller.
Mrs. Frank Holmes and daughter,
Georgia, of Orange, y. j., are at The
Manchester to spend a few days with
Mrs. Holmes father and sisters, J. w.
and Miss Anita Burt and Mrs. George F.
Sparhawk. Mr.. Burt, though in very
feeble health, has been quite comfortabl
lately.
Harry Morton, Welby McCollom and
Miss Grace Hayes, students of the Uni
versity of Vermont, are spending the
spring vacation with their respective fam
lilies. They came from Burlington FRI
day and have ten days recess. Miss
Hayes was accompanied by a college
friend, Miss Ruth Ladd of Cuba, who re-
mained with her Friday night and then
went on to Thetford.
Mrs. Pearl Bonnette of Waitsfield. Mrs.
John Hoffman and Mrs. Arthur Max
ham of Fayston, three sisters, and nieces
of C. II. Ingalls, of this place, are certain
ly entitled to a Roosevelt medal on the
strength of four promising sons, born
within "a hours of each other. Mrs.
Bonnette gave birth to twin boys March
born the goth ult. The youngsters are
said to be lively quartet with no molly
coddle symptoms. The mothers are
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Dur
kee OF Favston.
H. W. Vail has completed the census of
school children within the corporation
limits between the ages of 5 to IS and
finds the total number to be 23l as
against 254 last year. The deplorable
loss of 20 represented by these figures
may not be altogether due to decadence Of
the race to which alarmists will naturally
attribute it, some errors are necessarily
made in collecting census statistics. OF
the present number of children, ia are
boys and 120 girls; 55 are between 5 and
S years old, 12I between and Is and 55
between Is and IS.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. d. Rhodes have re-
ceived news of the death of their great
nephew, Irving Alfred Rhodes, in St. Al
bans, last Thursday morning of tubercu- /.
losis. The deceased, who was 20 years
of age, had been i'll since last fall, almost .
Immediately after the closing of the .
boating season on Lake Champlain, dur .
ing which he WAS purser on the steamer
Chateaugay. Besides his parents, Mr.. .
and Mrs. Enoch Rhodes, he is survived .
by one sister, Miss l.. Edyth Rhodes, and .
a brother, John +. Rhodes. During his .
illness he bad had the care Of his cousin,
Mrs. Lena (Rhodes) Udall.