Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-16

Mrs. e. A. Simpson of Roxbury was at
j. N. Browns Tuesday.
Mrs. A. T. Davis of Marshfield was a
guest at Wesley Hodgkins' Monday
night.
Schools in Braintree will begin Mon
day, April 27, except those otherwise or
dered.
Saturday with her mother, Mrs. Maria
Sleeper.
z. T. Page has sold his horse, Young
Alexander, to l.. E. Merritt of Hartlsnd
| for 1900.
Miss Winnie Jones is at Charles Girls
wold's again after three weeks stay in
Rochester.
George Dean of Boston has been with
his brother and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. A. K.
Bean, since Saturday.
Mrs. f. L. Bass is entertaining her sis
ter-in-lsw, Mrs. G. A. Brown of Pitts
field, who came Tuesday.
B.. ID. Chadwick OF Concord. n. H.,
paid brief visit to his brother, A. A.
Chadwick, Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. Louis sault has rented tenement
move her goods from the house of j. ID.
Laport.
Arthur Drake moved yesterday from
the tenement house of Charles Mann on
Central street to the red cottage below
Pearl street.
George Gladding of Laconia, ". H.. is
spending fen days with his brother.
w. II. Gladding, and his sisters, Mrs. J.
F. Chadwick and Mrs. V. A. Grant.
DIR. Mcdonald, the optician who has
an office temporarily in the Kelley honse
on Randolph avenue, returned Tuesday
from few days stay at his home in La
coma, n. III.
Up to the>first of April the town clerk
had licensed 221 dogs at 81 each and five
at "a each. Since that date four have
been licensed at s2 apiece, making a total
of 230-quite enough for all practical
purposes.
Robert Bruce, who came from SPRING
field, Mass, fortnight ago upon finish
ing work as locomotive engineer with a
run from Springfield to Boston, entered
the employ of the Eastern Tale company
at Granville Tuesday.
A typographical error in the last issue
of the Herald made the age of the late
Mrs. Eunice J. Conley appear as 81 years,
when it should have been given as 7S
years, the deceased having been born in
Huntington, P. O., in 1880.
w. II. Kenney expects to close his
music rooms early in May to take posi-
tion as head waiter on the steamer Saga
more, Lake George, for five months.
John Butterfield, Charles and Joseph
Goodhart also think of joining the Saga
more's staff.
Mrs. b. F. Ric ker, who has been in
charge of the household affairs of her
brother, DIR. /. N. Eastman, at Groton
lately, is packing and removing her
goods from the Kicker house on High
land avenue, which is to be occupied by
]. II. Dubois.
John Dugan, farmer of Millersburg,
o., has been buying cows in this section
and Monday shipped to Millersburg 27
head, for which he paid an average price
of s35. He then went to Woodstock to
purchase some registered stock and will
pick up the remainder OF his second ship
ment hereabouts.
Avery Quimby, the bone of whose left
thumb became diseased through felon
sc that it was removed to the first joint
the 18th of March, had to undergo an
other smputation yesterday morning at
the Mary Fletcher hospital in Burlington.
The first operation failed to check the
progress of the bone trouble.
Mrs. Mary Bass has received word of
the death of her brother-in-law, j. c.
Wirts, in Chicago, April 7, after an I'LL
ness of several months. He left a wife,
who is the youngest sister of Mrs. Bass,
and a son, Stephen Wirts of Detroit.
Mich. Mrs. Wirts is expected in Ran
dolph the coming June to spend some
time with Mrs. Bass.
A card from Worcester, Mass, an
nounces the marriage of Charles A.
Greene and Miss Anna Morrison in that
city the first of the month and states
further that their present address is
Springfield, Mass. The groom is son of
the late Mrs. Emily Greene and left town
several weeks ago for Munson, Mass.
The bride is trained nurse from SPRING
field, who had lately been practising her
profession in Randolph.
G. w. Boyce of New York was here
yesterday observing operations on the
Mann farm where Is men are now at
work sinking pits to determine the locs-
tion and probable extent Of the granite
ledge. A beautiful specimen Of the stone
blasted out of pit near the Beedle line
and from depth of ten feet under
ground, has been sent to Montpelier to
be polished. The work of uncovering
will be commenced above this pit but
will not be pushed very rapidly just at
present.
William Booth, whose 80th birthday
anniversary fell on Saturday, had the un-
expected pleasure Of welcoming party Of