Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-08-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Z. Lamb and
two children drove from Pittsield Tues
day to visit Mr.. Lambs sister, Mrs. r.
H. Slack, and family. They remained
only one night.
F. C. Terry is gathering cream for the
Cooperative creamery with q route that
takes him over the Roxbury mountain on
his way to Warren and back over Gran
vile mountain.
Mrs. A. A. Chadwic is home from her
trip to West SomerviIle, Mass, having
arrived Monday from Concord, \. H.,
where Sunday was spent with the family
of B. ID. Chadwick.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Greene are enter
tanning Mrs. Greene's cousin, Mrs. Will
liam Mcconnell and two children OF
at ID. II. Morse's lately.
Mrs. Charles Finch of Summit, n. j.,
and Misses Bernice and Florence Man.
chester of Portland, Me-, granddaughter
OF Mrs. A. B. Manchester, are among the
guests at The Manchester.
A. N. Hayes, who has been housed
since the first Of June with varicose ul-
GERS on his limb, was out q day or two
last week but had return OF the trouble
Friday that confined him to the bed until
yesterday.
Frank L. Parker and his bride OF
Claremont n. H., were the guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs A. II. Beedle from Mon
day to Wednesday, continuing their
wedding journey then to Barre, Richmond
and Burlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Eugene Kimball of
New York are at Montague Place which
they reached Monday from their summer
residence at Glen Cove, l. 1. The
journey wss made in their touring car.
driven by a chauffeur.
Two autos brought from Barre Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer w. Fits and son,
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Whitcomb and Mr..
and Mrs. +. A. Drown. The Fits auto
and its passengers, including the Whit
combs, stopped here while the others ex-
tended the excursion to Royalton.
Mrs. Ida Mann and daughter, Beatrice,
are back from Nshant, Mass, where
the month of July was passed with the
family OF G. w. Boyce at the Robin Hood
cottage. Miss Georgia Mann of the
Thresher Silk store, Boston, came home
with them for q vacation extending
through August.
Clara, the eight-year-old daughter OF
Clayton Trask, tripped on the floor of the
house some way Monday afternoon and,
as she pitched forward, her right hand
went through the glass panel of door.
The glass cut into the muscles OF her arm,
making a wound that had to be closed
with four stitches.
DR.. and Mrs. F. A. Eaton and Miss
May Bradish broke camp at Greensboro
the 3rd inst. and came to Randolph with
Mrs. A. @. Bradish, who had been in
Lyndonville while they were at Caspian
lake. Mrs. Bradish and her daughter
are to be in town about a month before
going back to Medford, Mass.
A porch is being built over the front
entrance of the high school building, the
chimney mended and some other repairs
made. The janitor's room on the first
floor will be changed into an Office for
the use of the principal and supervisor.
There will also be a porch over the en-
trance of the primary building.
Miss Mildred, the 12-yesr-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. James Mulially, is
candidate for the $3.50 piano to be award
ed by A. NJ. Hubbard to the one holding,
Feb. Is, 1909, the greatest number of
coupons given with every cash purchase
at the Hubbard store. The young lady
has many friends who will hope to see
her win the prize.
The foundation is being laid for the
new block OF Mrs. Mary Carr on South
Main street that she has decided TO have
three stories high and steel-cased. The
Masonic fraternity, which has heretofore
had its rooms in the Dubois & Gay block,
-. a. -.
the third floor Of her block for Mason
ic hall but no agreement has yet been
reached in the matter.
The school directors have engaged Mrs.
Ella (Herrick) johnson to be special
teacher of drawing in the graded school
the coming year and are to be congratu-
lated on having secured the services of so
good an artist and 70 excellent an i'm
structor. Mrs. johnson was for ten years
art teacher in the Burlington city schools
and was recognized all over the state as a
leader in her speciality. Mr.. and Mrs.
johnson are to remove to this village
from East Randolph in the fall, to the
house on School street lately bought of
Mrs. Emma Knowlton.
A union district, to be known as the
Randolph district, has been organized
ana luciuues the - NliihRt anu tONu
schools in Randolph, Braintree and
Brookfield. A competent supervisor will
be engaged to devote his entire time to
the work OF these schools in
accordance with the law passed at the last
session OF the legislature. With the or
ganization of this union district, half the
schools OF the state are now under expert
supervision. The Office of supervisor for
the Randolph district has not yet been
definitely filed.
The Demerritt & Palmer canning. fac
tory began fall operations Monday and
has had as children in the fields picking
beans and 20 women at the factory
stringing and preparing the product for
shipment to Waterbury, where the can
ming of this crop is to be done. The
first ton was ready to send last night.
The factory people expect to be busy
with the beans until about the 25th,
when corn canning will probably COM
mence at the Randolph plant, which will
also can squash and pumpkin this year.
Chief of Police F. H. Ketchum, W. p.
Flint and Justice H. w. Vail were sum-
moned to Lower Canada Monday to quell
a riot among the children of that iocali-
tv Abbie Race. 15-year-old damsel