Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-06

uoutn couege luesuay ana Weunesuay.
G. W. Boyce OF New York was about
town a few days and left yesterday for
Boston.
A. J. Curtis was in White River juno
tion last night to play at an assembly in
Odd Fellows hall.
Mrs. 7. T. Butterfield slipped on the
ice Saturday and sprained her left knee so
that she has been badly crippled since.
Mrs. l. 8. Brigham and son, Stanhope,
arrived last Thursday from Newton
Highlands, Mass, where the last month
had been spent.
Leslie Dickerman started Monday
night to join his family in Los Angeles,
CAL, for short time before returning to
his business interests in Vancouver, b.
G.
q. w. Hall Of Chester bought OF G. III.
and r. @. Mann a fine flock of $50 sheep
and shipped them Monday to Hartford,
Conn. The price paid was Z cents a
pound.
Miss Bessie Freeman of Lebanon, N.
H., who had been staying with her grand
mother, Mrs. Maria Sleeper, was called
home yesterday by the illness OF her
mother, Mrs. Calvin Sleeper.
came from South Royalton Monday to
make their home for the present at j. b.
Hutchinson's where Mrs. Buzzell is tax
ing charge of the household affairs.
John Chase of Randolph was member
of the reception committee at the 22d
annual banquet and reception of the Bos-
ton Vermont association in Hotel Ven
dome of that city the evening of Jan. 80,
when Governor Proctor was the gueS of
honor.
DR.. and Mrs. III. G.. Beekman, finding
Hot Springs, N. c., too high an altitude
and of too cool a temperature to be of the
greatest benefit to the Doctors health,
have gone to Pinehurst, where they are
now very nicely located at that famous
hostelry, The Carolina. The doctor
seems to be gaining slowly.
o. II. Webster, who moved from Ran
dolph several years ago to West Woods
took and later to Woodstock Green, died
Wednesday evening, Jan. 22, after a dis
tressing illness of hardening of the ar
teries. He was So years old and left wife
and one daughter. For some time past
he had been doing general trucking
business.
The Il. F. Emerson mill closed satur-
day night to wait until more encourag-
ing outlook for business and a sufficient
number of orders warrant resumipg
operations. In the meantime, the con-
struction of the new houses the company
is building on Terrace street will be
pushed whenever the weather is not too
severe to allow of work upon them
Salisbury Brothers furniture factory
started again yesterday morning after a
two days period OF idleness.
A foot and a half snowfall Saturday
has been followed by spell of weather,
of which an open winter ought to be
ashamed. Tuesday morning thermome-
tiers reg istered rs and 80 below, and yes
terday morning Allen Chadwick reported
"A below at the Hobart bridge section of
Central street; "A was the reading at the
b. G.. Bass place on School street and a
wild rumor OF As below came from Beam
Vile. Northfield claimed not to have ex-
perienced so cold morning in 20 years.
The fire alarm sounded Friday MORN
ing for chimney burning out at the
Chadwick block, in which Fred Roppe
lay very ill with pneumonia. The threat
ened confiagration was soon averted, but
the excitement and natural alarm had
rather a bad effect on the patient, who
QOeS 0Ot gam SO pun as IL Is WiSucu uc
might. His sister, Mrs. Charles Jerd,
who had been assisting in his care, left
Monday, home affairs needing her atten-
tion in Montpelier, and another sister,
Mrs. John z. Haskins, has been seriously
troubled with Inflammation of the eyes,
but is now better.
Fire in Chicago the evening OF Jan. IS
partly destroyed five buildings at a loss
of $1,000, 900 and. jumping 40-foot
alley, attacked another building supposed
to be fireproof. In the burned district
was the five-story brick building, 14s-150
Wabash avenue, occupied by John A.
Colby & Sons Furniture company, whose
loss is estimated at $500 Mrs. Colby
is a sister of Mrs. Mary Bass of Ran
dolpb, whom she visited last summer,
and has many friends in this vicinity to
regret the trouble the confiagration has
caused to the business interests of her
husband. This was the most spectacular
fire Chicago has seen in a long time and
broke up a banquet of the Fire Insurance
club, whose members lost their appetites
when they heard that the flames had even
devoured fireproof structure.
Two couples from South Royalton were
at the play, s.Under Southern Skies,n in
Chandler Music hall last Thursday even
ing and after the performance ioitered
around, waiting for the night express
south, which was reported an hour and
half late. The train arrived little ear
lier than was expected and one couple
succeeded by lively sprintIng in getting
aboard, but their companions were left
behind. 1t was annoying enough to miss
the train, and particularly inconvenient
for the young man, who drives the morn