Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-16
Randolph Continued.

John Carmody is in West Rutland for q
few days.
Hon. v. 1. Spear was in White River
junction yesterday.
Miss Mary Moulton has been in Mont
pelier for a couple of days.
Sherman Moulton, Esq, of Burlington
was at Stoneleigh Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
Albert, the little son of Rev. Fraser
Metzger, ill with meningitis, seems to be
holding his own.
Orson Woodcock continues to gain
| slowly from severe attack of pneumonia
but is not yet able to sit up.
Mrs. J. F. Mead and two children left
yesterday on fortnight's trip to New
York and Northampton, Mass.
Mrs. Henry Bagley, long an invalid,
has been suffering severely from appendi-
citis the last ten weeks and has as yet
found but slight relief.
Salisbury Brothers are installing in
their furniture factory new 30-inch
planer, superio. machine OF its kind,
manufactured in Winchendon.
Mrs. Julia Rindge arrived yesterday
from Nashua, N. H., where she had been
living since June, and is to be at her
rooms at r. w. Aliens for awhile.
Mrs. Mary Bemis, a trained nurse from
Springfield, is spending vacation with
her cousin, Mrs. Lizzie Smith, on Ran
doIph avenue, having arrived yesterday.
Miss f. S. Folsom has been at her
home in Barton for a short respite from
her duties as head nurse at the Randolph
sanatorium, to which she returned yes
terday.
DR.. and Mrs. II. G. Beekman reached
home last night from Boston. where the
doctor has derived considerable benefit
from fortnight's treatment at a private
hospital.
Mrs. b. A. Durkee and two younger
children joined Mr.. Durkee Monday in
Gaysville and remained until Wednesday,
when he finished his work on the electric
power plant there.
Harry and Albert Marcott are the hap
py possessors of handsome 17-foot
canoe, which was made in OIdtown, Me-,
and in which they will this summer navi-
gate the waters of Mascoma lake.
John Byrd, who has been following his
profession of civil engineering in Muncie,
Ind, and more lately in New York, was
among the arrivals yesterday and is to be
in Randolph for a couple of weeks.
Miss Flossie Terry is home from the
New England Conservatory of Music on a
ten days. vacation that Miss Ruby Allen,
another student at the conservatory, is
spending with her half-brother in Aver,
Mass.
Elwin L. Scott, Esq, Of Barre was here
Sunday to see his wife, who is seriously
i'll at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
I \
Gus trouble. She has been confined to
the bed for nearly fortnight.
G. Ed. Anderson of Springville, Utah,
a guest of Photographer George Ford,
started Sunday for Portland, Me-, via
Boston, and will sail from the former
port the 18th on a Mormon mission to
England that will keep him abroad for
the next two years.
Rev. DIR. A. L. Cooper and his daugh-
ter, Miss Rosa, and Mrs. Roxana Hebard
have been in attendance on the Vermont
Methodist conference in Barre since
Tuesday. DIR. A. C. Bailey, lay delegate
from Randolph, and his daughter, Miss
Lettie, went to conference today.
a Mrs. o. s. Chamberlain was taken ill
Sunday with a sore throat that Monday
showed so cankerous condition that q
culture was sent to the state laboratory
at Burlington. Yesterday the report
from the laboratory pronounced the case
diphtheria, and the house was placed in
quarantine.
Leet Blodgett came from West Leba-
non, N. H., Sunday to join his wife and
son, who had been visiting in this vicini-
ty two or three weeks. Monday they
were called to MorrisviIle by the death of
Mrs. Blodgett's half-sister, Mrs. Ella
Durkee. Mr.. Blodgett was here again
yesterday on his way back to West Leba-
non.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. J. Stockwell had with
them Tuesday night his mother and sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. Emily Stockwell and
Mrs. Edna Stockwell of Rochester, who
proceeded to Barre yesterday to attend the
Vermont Methodist conference. Mrs.
Stockwell's mother, Mrs. ii. X. Perry of
Hancock, also visited them this week,
leaving Tuesday.
| This, in the ecclesiastical calendar, is
Holy Week, and today is Maundy Thurs
day on which Christ gave commandment
concerning the Holy Sacrament. The
term Maundy, from maund, to beg, was
applied to Thursday in Holy Week on ac-
count of the English custom of distribut-
ing aims on that day.
At meeting of the members of Beth
any church last evening, it was voted to
have the pastor, Rev. Fraser Metzger, in
stalled sometime in May, and DIR. +. o.
blanchard, A. H. Beedle and E. g. Ham
were chosen committee to have charge
of the installation. It was also voted to
raise the PASTORS salary from $1,000 to
1880 year.
Presiding Elder Smithers pronounced
q eulogy at the Vermont conference in
Barre yesterday upon the late Mrs. A. L.
Cooper of Randolph, emphasizing her do
nestle virtues, her devotion to the
churches her husband served, and her
profound and unvarying trust in God,