Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-01-23
Randolph.
GEORGIA WHITE, Local Editor.

Anc hiugs Daugh ters will meet wit b
Mrs. w. w. Morton at 3 O'Clock Tues
day afternoon, Jan. %.
Mrs. w. H. Gladding returned Friday
from few days. stay with her brother.
Charles w. Foster. in Montpelier.
George c. Flint was in Stafford FRIDAY
night to install the officers OF that grange
ana the next night inspected Rising Star
grange of Bethel
The regular meeting of the Randolph
Woman's Literary club will be held sat
urday, Jan. %, with Mrs. w. w. Morton
at the usual hour.
Miss Annie Billings of East Bethel has
been added to the staff of nurses at the
sanatorium, making the fourth member
OF the training class.
Miss Katherine Denison, who had been
with her sister, Mrs j. r. Spring. p,
Nashua. N. H., since Christmas, reached
home Saturday night.
E. A. Thomas has bought of the W. ii.
Dubois estate the brick block on Main
street IN which his store has been located
ever since the block was built in 1885.
Miss NJ. P. Moore, who boarded in
Randolph about year and returned to
Northfield some time in June. is now To-
Gated in Bellows Falls with the family of
w. A. Ferguson.
Mrs. Calvin Freeman, who was called
here the 10Th by the illness of her moth
er. Mrs. Maria Sleeper, was able to return
to Lebanon, n. H., Saturday, leaving
Mrs. Sleeper much improved in health.
Rev. and Mrs. G. o. Howe, who have
been in South Pasadena CAL. the last few
months. making their headquarters with
the family of Hudson Bailey, are now at
Lakeview, N. c., for the remainder of the
winter.
Miss Maud Worthing of Montpelier,
known in Randolph through practising
her profession of trained nurse, stopped
here briefly Monday on her way to case
in New York and was the guest of Mrs
A. B. Gay.
Mrs. Henry M. Miller has rented the
tenement in the Stockwell block, made
vacant by the death of the late Mrs.
Abbie Bling ham, and will move to it the
first of the month from the Alonzo
Emery house on Highland avenue.
Mrs. Fannie Noble went to Attleboro,
Mass, Monday to spend the next five
months with her son, DR.. E. c. Noble,
who, in connection with his office at Nor
wood, Mass, is attending to the Attic
boro practice of two physicians abroad
for further study.
Rev. DR.. and Mrs. j. S. Goodall of
Essex Junction celebrated the 4Sth ami
versary of their marriage the 18th inst,
and had with them on that occasion their
son, James F. GoodalI, and family of
Burlington. Rev. Mr.. Goodall was at
one time pastor of the Baptist church in
Randolph.
The recently organized Arcadia lodge
of Good Templars had very pleasant
meeting in Edson's hall Friday evening,
when several applications for membership
were considered. Candidates will be ini-
tiated tomorrow evening, and visiting
Good Templars are expected from Mont,
pelier and Barre. for whose entertainment
there will be social interval with re-
freshments.
The vital statistics for 1907 in this
town show a very high death rate of 81
while the number of births was only half
that number, or AZ. Since 1900 there
4 have been 461 deaths and 406 births in
Randolph, or loss of 90 in population,
without considering removals to or from
town during that period. Given by years
from 1900 the number of deaths were
! 49-55-48-48-59-68-50; while the number of
births were-59-46-52-50-57
The Snowshoe club met at the Inn par
lor Friday night and organized for the
season by choosing John w. Lamson,
president; j. F. Tewksbury, vice presi-
dent; G. P. Lamson, secretary and treas
urer; E. S. Tracy, Franklin Salisbury and
Genieye Lamson, executive committee.
After the business session, seven of Ihir-
teen present strapped on their footgear
and battered over Chandler park as lit
tie preliminary practice for the stunts of
pedestrianism to be performed later with
cold noses pointed towards savory BAN
quets at the end of the ssrun."
The remains of Lima May Battles,
whose death from scarlet fever occurred
early Wednesday morning, were inferred
in Southview cemetery last Thursday aft
ernoon with service at the grave con-
Quoted by Rev. w. S. Bradshaw of the
Baptist church. George Ford, George
Sargent, Frank Bachelor and Mellen
Smith of Braintree acted as bearers and
many friends paid the last tribute of re-
spect by their presence. Sympathy
found expression in gifts of flowers re-
ceived from individuals and from the
grange, of which the deceased was val
ued member.
Come to the grange the 25th prepared
for a good laugh. The roll will be called
and every member is requested to be
ready 10 relate SOME eAtfoineiy iunny III
cident or to tell some interesting current
event. Every young person in the
grange is hereby asked to show desire
to make the meetings interesting by
reading on this occasion some short hum
orous selection. A hearty response to
this appeal will be forerunner OF sue
cess to the new lecturer and an intima-
ton to her of the support she is to receive
the coming year. Let each member show
in this small way his or her willingness
to do ones part promptly and efficiently.
Mrs. o. w. Brockway's Rhode Island
Red pulIet that performed the astonishing
feat of laying two eggs in succession the
other day is not, it seems, the only ambi-
tious biddy in the poultry world; for an
other fowl did the same trick at the
Fanciers' show in Boston the 18th inst,