Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-08-20
Randolph Continued.

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for an indefinite stay.
A son, Lee Allen, was born Sunday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Flint, Jr.
g. R. Grant is one of the Old Home
week visitors in Pittsfield, N. H.
Harold Perkins OF Woodstock was a
guest over Sunday at Rev. Joseph Hamil-
tons.
A. N. Angel, who has been critically
ill, seems trifie better though still very
weak.
The ladies of the Federated churches
evening.
Schools in Braintree, not otherwise or
dered, will begin the fall term Monday,
Aug. 81.
daughter, Dorothy Evelyn, was born
Saturday night to Mr.. and Mrs. George
A. Bruce.
Rev. Joseph Hamilton is taking fort
nights vacation from his pastoral duties
and has gone to Woodstock.
Rev. and Mrs. @. o. Howe were in
Canaan, N. H., last Thursday and Friday
at the summer place of Rev. DR.. and Mrs.
L A. Banks of Denver, who visited here
recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. 8. Abbott of New
York are at the Parsons farm for ten days
as the guests of Mrs. Frank w. Parsons,
whose husband will come from New
York Saturday.
Miss Cora Martin OF Chicopee, Mass.
is being entertained by Miss Blanche
Sparhawk. Miss Martin was formerly
assistant teacher in the Randolph High
school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Atwood, who had
been spending little time in this vicini-
ty, started Friday for their home in
Laurel, L. l., with Pittsfield, Mass, as a
stopping place en- route.
Miss Carrie Draper has been in Barre a
few days with her sister, Mrs. James
Walker, who is preparing to move to
Bethel, where Mr.. Walker is to be princi-
pal of the whitcomb High school.
Mrs. c. o. Osha and baby have gone to
Rochester to stay until October with Mrs.
Osha's father, Horace Cole. Her daugh-
ter, Doris, who has been in East Ran
doiph lately, will join her in Rochester
this week.
The village sewer system is completed
and the civil engineer, Fred l. Dudley,
departed Monday to Granthsm, n. H.,
with his wife and baby, TO be there about
. week before going to the office Of his
company in Manchester, n. H.
Mrs. c. D. Chatterton's mother, Mrs.
j. Kohl, her brother, Henry G.. Kohl, sis.
ter and nephew, who had been having q
pleasant outing at Brookside farm, left
Sunday for Nahant, Mass, to spend the
rest of the summer at the seashore.
w. NJ. Button and family moved yes
terday from the Cleveland cottage on For
/ est street to the house of Mrs. Fanny
Lewis on the same street. The recent
purchaser Of the Cleveland cottage, G. NJ.
Beiknap of East Randolph, will occupy it
Immediately.
Mrs. Leroy Rumrill and her mother,
Mrs. Ellen Clafiin, went to Lowell,
Mass, Friday to visit sister of Mrs.
Claf1in and meet Mr.. Rumrill coming
from Dobb's Ferry, n. Y, which he has
been surveying for the Sanborn Map
company. From Lowell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rumrill proceeded to Concord, n. H., to
be the guests of his brother, Pearl Rum
rill, and family.
DR.. II. A. Allen Of the Center has fled
nomination papers for town representa-
tive, making the fifth in the field and the
third doctor, which would seem to indi-
cate an opinion in some quarters that the
next legislature should not be without
medical attendance. The candidates at
present are Luke Parish, DIR. A. c. Bailey,
DIR. II. l. Newell, DIR. Fl. A. Allen, Re
publicans, and w. w. Morton, Democrat.
Guests at E. 8. Tewksbury's this week
are Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Chitnan,
Miss Annis Chitman of Boston; Miss NJ.
A. McCabe, Miss Jennie Connor, Miss
Angie Scanlon and Miss Minnie Scan
lon, Dorchester, Mass; Edward Menu,
Miss Frances Menu, Bert Weber, Miss
May Wehber, of Roxbury, Mass. Miss
Effie Wolff, Miss Susie Parsons, Miss
Helen Parsons of Lynn, Mass; Miss
Alice II. McCausland of Everett, Mass.
Mrs. Mary Granger and daughter,
Edith, of Randolph, Mass, are at Russell
Woodward's with Mrs. Changers moth
er, Mrs. s. s. Briggs. The son, Fred
Granger, preceded them from Massachus-
etts last week and has been at the Center.
Afte- his brilliant entrance examination
for Harvard university last fall, it was
thought best, on account of his youth,
for him to wait year before beginning
his college course, which he will take up
this fall.
News has been received of the sudden
death Of Mrs. Jennie Bates in Fitchburg,
Mass, Aug. 10 from heart trouble. She
is survived by a daughter, Eva, in Fitch
burg and a son, John, who is connected
with bank in Portsmouth, N. H. The
family lived in Randolph several years
and Mr.. Bates death occurred here.
Their home was the place on South Pleas
ant street, now occupied by S. s. Whit
comb, and Mrs. Bates had always re-
tanned possession of it.
Rev. Fraser Metzger, his sister, Miss
Elizabeth Metzger, and Mr.. and Mrs. E.
w. Tewksbury were in Tunbridge Tues
day al Sunday school convention,
which Mr.. Metzger addressed in the
evening. On the homeward journey, Mr..
and Mrs. Tewksbury strayed from the
right way in spite of the convention in
fiuences and the powerful CLEAN Of q Ian
tern, and after wandering over a good
part of Tunbridge, seeking the lost trail,
finally took shelter at hospitable farm
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