Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-07


town for an indefinite stay.
Byron Goodwin has q very hard case of
bronchitis, but yesterday seemed little
better.
Ralph Twitchell, student in the high
school, is at his home in Post Mills for
| two or three days.
Mrs. Ernest Mcintosh is gaining slow
ly from rheumatic fever, with which she
has been seriously ill.
| Daniel CoughIin, proprietor of the
Hodgkins House in Canton, N. Y, was a
guest at l.. A. Jerd's Friday night.
The woman's Relief corps will serve
q supper in G. A. r. hall next Tuesday
night to which the public is invited.
DR.. A. C. Bailey has been chosen treas
urer of Excelsior encampment, I. o. O..
F., to succeed the late J. p. Cleveland, Jr.
Mrs. Frank Adams of South Hero was
the guest Sunday and Monday of Mrs. r.
A. Coolidge and other relatives in the viii
lage.
Mrs. Arthur Howard and son have ar
rived from Franklin, N. H., to remain
some time with Mr.. and Mrs. S. W.
| Howard.
| Mrs. j. p. Harwood of Cambridge,
Mass, has been visiting in this vicinity
since Friday, making her headquarters at
E. A. Hatch's.
E. s. Abbott has the cellar dug for an
other house on Maple street, west of the
one he recently finished and rented to
Pearl Campbell.
Miss Beatrice Barbour of Montpelier
was here Friday night to attend the
school operettas conducted by her sister,
Miss Minnie Barbour.
8. H. Mccullough has been off duty as
clerk OF the railway mail service on ac-
count of heart trouble, from which he
is at present convalescing.
J.E. Jerd and w. III. Campbell of
Rochester were among the arrivals Fri
day, and the former went to East Brain
ltree to spend Sunday with his mother
and sister.
| Misses Bessie Bliss and Lillian Hutch
ins, who are working in the knitting fac
tory at Northfield, were the over-Sunday
visitors of the formers grandmother,
Mrs. George F. Jones.
L g. Erskine, c. s. Booth, o. r..
Greene, George Ford and Fred Gordon
were at the institution of the new Odd
Fellow lodge in South Royaiton Tuesday
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afternoon and evening.
! Miss Ida Flint, who was called home
by the death of her stepfather, J. p.
| Cleveland, Jr., went back yesterday to
her position in Boston as stenographer
for the Reliable Flour company.
A. E. Bass is digging out the cellar un-
der the main part OF his house on Main
street in order to install furnace and
will also raise the ell another story for
the addition OF three chambers and q
bathroom.
Mrs. Henry w. Fits has been enter
tanning her brother, E. NJ. Lamson, OF
Hudson, Mass, William Stevens and his
daughter, Mrs. Clifton Russell, of MARI
boro, Mass, who came Monday and went
away yesterday.
g. w. Boyce of New York brought c..
II. Hopkins of Boston to this place Fri
day to inspect the granite ledge now be-
1 ing uncovered on the Mann farm. A fine
piece of stone, weighing probably 1900
pounds, was taken out of the ledge Tues
day.
| C. &. Reynolds has bought of the w. Ii.
Dubois estate two lots on the south side
OF Highland avenue just east of the place
| he sold to John Fenton. The sum of
$500 was paid for the lots, On " hich Mr..
Reynolds will erect at once story and a
half house, 24x30 feet, with two bay win
dows.
The A. B. Cushman Real Estate agency
has rented for Mrs. Frank Bartlett OF
Dorchester, Mass, her house on Howard
street, lately vacated by L. o. Thayer.
The new tenant is w. E. Stark, who has
moved from the Woodbury. house on Elm
street, now the property of Rev. q. o.
Howe.
o. E. Colburn and A. F. Kathan have
rented the ID. Z. Cooling house at the
corner of Pleasant street and Randolph
avenue and will soon move to it from the
Cushman block. Mr.. Colburn has en-
tered the employ of the White Cross Milk
company and will discontinue the gro
Gerry store that he has been conducting in
the Cushman block.
Miss Theodore Auman, field secretary
of the Womans Home Missionary union,
addressed the ladies of the Bethany union
at a meeting held Tuesday afternoon with
Mrs. John F.. Mead. Her topic was, of
course, missions and she spoke particular
ly of the Slavoks in Braddock, Pa, emf
grants from Hungary, among whom a
Vermont missionary is working.
Mrs. Emma Peake, who had been fol-
lowing her profession OF trained nurse in
this place lately, went to st. Albans Sun
day to make home for her son, Harry,
who Is fireman on the Central Vermont
railway. Another son, Harvey, is also
| in st. AIbans, but the two daughters,
Martha and Cecil, are to remain for the
present in Brookfield, where the former
is teaching.
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