Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-20

Mrs. L. A. Gibbs of White River juno
tion paid visit to her sister, Mrs. f. c.
Terry, Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Odd Fellows will have work in the
first degree Monday night, and all the
members are requested to be present.
Rev. g. l.. Adams Of Ishpeming, Mich,
who had been called to Williamstown by
the death of his mother, was the guest
yesterday of his father-in-law, Rev. DR..
A. L. Cooper.
Mrs. Althea Mann, who suffered q
shock at her home in Newport, n. H.,
recently, has partially recovered power OF
speech and is as comfortable as helpless
condition will permit.
Miss M. Blanche Sparhawk has been
engaged to sing in the choir of the North
Cong1 church OF st. Johnsbury until aft
er the first Sunday in March, when the
regular soprano will be on duty again.
There is to be Leap Year dance in the
Mansion hor ,e hall tonight with music
by Curtis orchestra. The ladies are of
course in control of the affair, and re-
freshments will take the form OF box
supper.
Mrs. Dennis Phillips, whose husband
died in Burlington of heart disease three
weeks ago, has been spending few days
with her father, II. C. Woodworth. and
yesterday morning went to Stowe for an
indefinite stay.
Miss Ida Raymore was pleasantly sur
prised Tuesday evening by party of
thirty young people bent on the celebra-
tion of her 18th birthday anniversary.
Games and refreshments contributed to
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Ernest Sargent of woodsville, " f.,
was at Mrs. r. B. McIntyre's Tuesday
night to see his little daughter, Muriel,
who has been here for some time. Mrs.
Sargent and younger daughter are ex-
pected from Woodsyille next week, and
the latter will be left with Mrs. Mcintyre
while Mrs. Sargent accompanies hcr hus-
band on trip to New York.
Mrs. Carrie Comsfock has received
word that her son, Arthur, who had been
working in West Swanzey, n. H., was
taken to the hospital in Keene, N. H.,
Tuesday of last week to undergo an oper-
alton for appendicitis. The state Of
affairs revealed by the knife was more Sc
rious than anticipated, but the patient Is
understood to be doing as well as could
be expected.
George Pope has met with a serious ac-
cident at Orman, S. D., where he is EN-
ployed as teamster at the government ir-
rigation works. Friday, after dinner,
the men were sitting around campfire,
when suddenly one of them threw dyn-
amite cap into the flames. for no particu-
lar reason, so far as is known, unless a
little postprandial excitement seemed de-
sirable. The cap exploded, setting off
the rest of the dynamite nearby. and one
man was killed outright. Mr.. Pope had
his left arm and the left side of his face
cut and his left eye injured.
:. s. Chase's Yorkshire terrier, that
was so badly bitten by the Boston bull
dog belonging to Fred Davis of Bethel,
died Monday night from pneumonia,
developed, it is believed, from the ter
rier's wounded and enfeebled state. The
bull dog was suffering from a hedgehog
quill in its head that worked to the brain
and produced sort of Thaw storm,
which finally became so violent that the
dog had to be killed. Its head has been
sent to the state laboratory for examina-
tion in regard to hydrophobia, from
which, however, the sickness of the ter
rier was entirely free. Tuesday, L. A.
Jerd's dog, also one of the bitten CANNES,
expired like the terrier, from pneumonia,
and III. f. Sharpe's dog, another victim,
has developed the same disease. ID. ii.
Morse's Ct. Bernard continues hearty,
likewise the calf, though both suffered at
the jaws of the Bethel lunatic. A. +.
Deans puppy, though not so badly bitten
as some of his brethren, developed a mania
similar to that of the assailant but in
milder form, and died after great suffer