Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-09
Randolph Continued.

Randolph Continued.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. H. Brown of Pittsfield
have been at j. N. Browns since Mon
day.
Mrs. Ruth Abbott returned Tuesday
from visit to her sister in Greenfield,
Mass.
Mrs. Laura Cushman of Claremont, N.
H., is at j. F. Lamson's, arriving yester-
day morning.
The ladies' Aid society of Braintree
Branch will meet at Joseph Tilson's
Wednesday, April 10.
Mrs. Eliza Stoughton has returned
form an extended visit to her daughter,
Mrs. Burton Tenney, in Barre.
Miss M. Bondfield, milliner of North
/ field returning from Boston, was guest
at G. E. Davenport's Monday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Gladding are en-
tertaining Mrs. L. Meyette of Somerville.
Mass, who was among the arrivals yes
terday.
| G. r. Miller of the White Cross Milk
company went to Boston Friday and
came back Tuesday, accompanied by his
wife and daughter.
c. G. Dubois of Boston was in town
yesterday and started from this place last
night on ten days business trip to New
York and Atlanta, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Brooks will leave
their winter quarters in Pasadena, CAL,
Monday to journey eastward and will
stop in Washington, ID. c., en- route to
Randolph.
Miss Alice Sheldon of Windsor brings
her invalid uncle, Mr.. Jones, from the
hospital in Hanover, N. H., to the Ran
dolph sanatorium today to be cared for
indefinitely.
Mrs. G. A. Chedel, whom the indispos-
ition of her daughter, Sara, called to
franklin Falls, N. H., brought the young
lady home the Sth inst. for period of
rest and recuperation.
Mrs. G. w. Douglass went to Barre
Saturday and came home Tuesday in the
company of her daughter, Miss Dora,
who had been spending a month in
northern New York. The latter is to be
with her parents until the 18th, when
she will go to STAFFORD to teach the
spring term of school.
G. w. Boyce OF New York was at the
Mann farm yesterday noting the progress
made in the search for granite, which
has been found in one place under ten
feet of soil. No extensive uncovering of
the ledge can be made until about the
first of May, when frost and water will
no longer hinder excavating operations.
DIR. James JENNIE of Burlington was
called here Monday as counsel in the case
of the little son of Rev. Fraser Metzger,
critically i'll with meningitis. Mr.. Metz
gers sister, nurse from the hospital in
Albany, N. Y, is caring for the child,
and Mrs. Metzger's sister, Mrs. John
Peck of Palenville, N. ", Is also here I
For the last three days, the boy has held
his own, aud this morning is decidedly
better.
Mrs. Henry Fl. Chandler left the house
on the Chandler farm about half past six
O'Clock Tuesday morning to get a handful
of kindling and an hour later was found
lying on the ground with fractured right
hip. She slipped on a piece OF ice and
fell and as none of the inmates of the |
house took note of her going out, her pre-
dicament was not discovered until she at
tracted the attention OF passerby. The
fracture was reduced and she seems to be /;
doing remarkably well for a lady S5 years
of age. Her granddaughter, Miss Mabel |
Geyette, who has been suffering from |
spinal trouble for some time, had bad at
tack as a result of the excitement but is
gradually regaining lost ground.
The Western Union Telegraph company
is making arrangements to install five 4,
electric clocks in this village that will
be set by electricity every hour according
to standard Washington time, right off
from Teddy's watch, perhaps, and il so,
it won't be slow. One clock will be To-
Gated at Salisbury Brothers factory, one
at V. A. Grants drug store, one at l.. A. |
Jerd's market and two at the Randolph
Inn-in the office and dining room. The
rental is a dollar a month and il sufficient
public spirit could be generated to have
one of town clock dimensions and with |
illuminated face placed in the tower Of
the depot, it would be marked improve
ment. The clocks will be connected by |
special wire with the telegraph office, |
where the current that sets them will be !
turned on every 60 minutes.
The washout on Elm street still re- !
mains an impossible gully in the high (
way that cannot we'll be repaired until |
after the frost is out of the ground. 1t |
appears to be the present opinion that no |
culvert is needed at that point, but that |
the hole can be filed with sand and clay, |
and the surface water from the adjacent |
hill, which caused the mischief by dis
turbing the underlying quicksand, can
be carried off to culvert in the road |
some rods farther to the north, where the
soil is of a less troublesome nature. An
investigation of the town records, started
by the question as to whether this piece
of road and the abutting property of F. |
A. Griswold, were within the corpora
ton, seems to establish the fact that both |
were in district No Is, whose boundaries
were made the limits of the incorporated |
village. d. H. Morse, who formerly L
owned Mr.. Griswold's land, always paid
corporation taxes on it while it was in
his possession, but since then the assess
ors have only levied town taxes upon it. II