Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-01-16
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.

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/ Miss Betty Frost of Hanover. N. H..
mas been visiting Miss Helen blanchard.
| Charles B. Forbes of Chester was the
4 guest OF Capt. B. F. Bowman over Sum
| day.
Miss Clara Booth left Monday for an
indefinite stay in Boston and Low ell.
/ Mass.
Fred Fairbanks is now located at
Downing, N. Y, as telegraph operator on
the New York Central railroad.
L. ). Blakely went Friday to the hospi-
tai at Waterbury to be treated for a NOR
phlne habit of many years. standing.
g. j. Rockwell has been in New York
on business trip of a few days, which
were spent by MrssRockweu in Burling-
ton.
Dana Torrey went to Montpelier Friday
and then to Barre, where he was the
guest OF X. w. Morse at the City hotel
over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mann. who hava
both been seriously ill with the grip and
under the care of a trained nurse from
the sanatorium, are now convalescent.
/ c. F. Harris, who was one of the early
! dry goods merchants of Randolph, has
lately removed from Harvey, H., to Santa
1 Barbara, CAL, where he is to engage in
the culture OF lemons.
| Mrs. Edwin B. Weston, who is inst
convalescing from severe attack of peri
tonitis, arrived Saturday from West Der
ry, n. H., to be with her mother, Mrs.
Eugene Ellison, for awhile.
Mrs. Julia Cummings and her daugh-
ter, Miss Julia, who had been guests at
A. II. Powers, took their departure-the
former last Thursday for PIainfeld, and
the latter Friday for Claremont, N. H.
Miss Eleanor Farrand, who was de-
tanned at her home in Bakersfield after
the holiday vacation by an attack of
humps, came back Saturday and resumed
teaching in the graded school Monday.
DIR. George F. Cheney, especially
known to Randolph people through his
wife (nee Emma Smith), has been obliged
to give up dental practice in st. Johns
bury for the present on account of his
health, and is to engage in insurance bus
mess.
The Randolph Telephone exchange has
a new sign swung out in front of the CEN
trail Office that by day shows red and
white shield with the inscription hide
pendent Local and Long Distance Tele-
phone" At night the sign is illuminat-
ed by fiashlight, giving quite metro
politan effect.
The Randolph Sugar market was award
ed the second premium in Glass B for dis
play of syrup and sugar at the recent Yer
mont Sugarmakers' convention in Rut-
land. There were IS exhibits in this
class, in which 80 was the highest mark
and 81 the lowest. The first premium
was won by Wilbur E. York of West Lin
coin. Fl. w. Vail of Randolph was elect
ed treasurer of the Sugarmakers' associa-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Flynn Parmenter of
South Pasadena, CAL, are the happy pa
rents of daughter born Dec. "a. The
mother is remembered in Randolph as
Emma, second daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hudson Bailey, who went to California in
October OF 1904. The oldest daughter,
Ella Bailey, has been graduated from a
large hospital in Los Angeles and now
commands salary of S25 week in her
profession of trained nurse.
Mrs. o. w. Brockway has a r. C. r. I.
Red puliet, Matched the last of May, that
began laying the 9th of November and
has attended strictly to business almost
every day since. Two or three times a
week that industrious puIlet has packed a
y
with any such ordinary achievement, the
ambitious young hen selected a moment
one day last week when Mrs. Brockway
4 was present to bear witness to the feat,
and proceeded to lay two perfect eggs in
succession. The only imperfection in the
wonderful product was a rather thin
shell.
Young Mems Christian Brotherhood
was formed in Bethany church last Thurs
day afternoon on belief in Jesus Christ
and a desire to make his teachings the
rule of life, with firm conviction that a
young mans pleasures need not contra
dict his faith. Twenty-four became MEM
bers of the Brotherhood, and these officers
were elected: president, Jackson Vail;
vice president, Ralph Twitchell; secre-
tary, William Hyzer; treasurer, Arthur
Gaarneau; chairman of the membership
committee, Frank Jones; social, Richard
Rowell; amusement, Walter Smith; ath-
letic, Jackson Vail; devotional, William
Hyzer.
Mrs. George Hinkson, whom Mrs.
James Amsden, by clever ruse, persuad-
ed to bring forward the stolen rings of
the latter's sister, Mrs. Carl Still of Gran
iteville, was released Saturday from an in
generation of two months at Rutland. A
purse, containing the rings, ticket and
% in money, was dropped in the railroad
station in this village early in October by
Mrs. Still. Some weeks later Mrs. Ans
0en, in the guise of an agent for mail
order house, visited Mrs. Hinkson's home
in Braintree and. by the exercise of a lit
tie strategy, obtained sight of the missing
jewelry. The arrest and sentence to Rut-
land was the natural sequence to the
affair.
The Christian Brotherhood of Bethany
church had fish chowder supper in the
Parish house Friday night, with V. A.
Grant catering for party of 48 men.
The savory stew put the company in the
proper well-fed state to take wise look
at 1.-THE Signs of the Times and join in