Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-07-16

"A Sun Was DOru lasl InursOoy TO Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Suitor OF Medford,
Mass. Mrs. Suitor was formerly Miss
Ethel Blodgett, sister of Mrs. A. j.
Russlow, and is remembered in Randolph
as q trimmer in the millinery department
OF Bell Brothers store about five years
ago.
Mrs. Lucinda s. Cleveland, administra-
trix OF the J. P. Cleveland estate, has sold
the residence on Forest street to E. L.
Clafiin of East Braintree, who will occu-
Ply it the first OF September. Mrs. Cleve-
leud will also have few rooms in the
house and continue to make her home
there.
A. A. and B. E. Thresher made lei
surely carriage trip from Boston to Brain
tree, that brought them to their destina-
ton Friday and they were joined the
next day by their families for an outing
on Braintree hill. The gentlemen will
go back to Boston the 21st inst, but the
others will be at the hill until fall.
Arthur Galarneau, who has caught
some pretty good strings of trout lately,
drew out of the brook on the Clayton
Mann farm last Thursday morning a
speckled beauty worthy Of the name. 1t
weighed pound and ten ounces, and if
water must have settled perceptibly.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. SiIverthorn, at her
cottage, Thornwald, on the Gilead road,
will entertain house party tine coming
week. Among others will be Mrs. Col.
Frank L. Howe of Northfield and Miss
Esther Eckland of Chicago. Mrs. Howe
has been recent guest at Thornwald,
coming Friday and leaving Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Emery and two
children were in Essex recently to visit
Mr.. Emery's father, Rev. G. A. Emery,
who is pastor of the Methodist church in
that village. Mrs. Emery and the chill
dren returned last Thursday, bringing
with them Mrs. G. H. Richardson and
her two daughters of Wolcott, who will
be here fortnight.
Mrs. Bertha Burridge, who took spe-
cial course at the School of Ethical Gull
ture in New York, is to have charge of
the kindergarten department OF Sunshine
Home for the Blind in Brooklyn. The
school will open the first of September,
but Mrs. Burridge will go to Brooklyn q
little before to become acquainted with
the Home and its inmates.
The funeral of Edmond H. Bruce was
held last Thursday afternoon, Rev.
George o. Howe officiating, and was at
tended by many friends, besides % COM
rades of U. S. Grant post, @. A. R., pres
ent in body. The bearers were Veter-
ans John Manney, E. L. Sault, F. II.
Ketchum and j. w. Ford, and the post
conducted the service at the grave.
Saturday evenings program at grange
consisted of a selected reading by Mrs.
George Slack; 'sMethods of Farming Fiji
ty Years Ago." by Brother d. II. Morse;
present Methods of Farming" Brother
A. M. Vaughan; duet, Brothers j. L..
Hutchinson and A. NJ. Vaughan. After
the program some discussion took place
with regard to holding field meeting in
our vicinity this season. The matter will
be further discussed and some decision
made at the next meeting, July 25, which
will also be Housekeepers' night.
c. ]. Stockwell is repairing that part of
his block vacated by j. j. Trerise & Co.
and somewhat remodeling the interior
for the department store, which he and
Ernest A. Hatch are to open at that stand
about the first of August. The large
room and the smaller room adjoining are
to be connected by archways, and the sec
ond front entrance has been turned into
q big show window, making three good
display spaces on the Main street side.
A steel ceiling will be put in and hard
wood floor laid throughout the store.
Messrs. c. w. Hayward, g. R. Miller,
W. H. Messer, ]. F. Kimball and trav-
cling man motored to Brookfield pond
Friday for days fishing and brought
back some perch and several yards OF
eel. This piscatorial worm, for perhaps
the first time in the history of its species,
fastened onto q fly hook, that of Mr..
Kimball, and tried to give the astonished
party at the end of the pole the benefit OF
immersion, but was finally pulled from
the pond hand over hand, and gracefully
festooned the car when it came into the
village.
Twin Falls, Idaho, has just formed the
Twin Falls Society of Vermonters at the
suggestion of w. II. Eldredge, an East
Middlebury man, who first conceived the
idea of bringing together in Twin Falls
all those whose former homes were in
Vermont and forming q society for social
purposes He secured q list of about 40
Vermonters living on the Twin Falls
tract and all were notified of the meeting
June &c. About 25 of this number at
tended the informal reception which was
held in the parlors of the hotel. At 8 p.
M, typical vermont luncheon WEE
served in the hotel dining room, consist
ing of hot melted maple sugar on ice, hot
biscuits, coffee and pickles, the sugar
having been shipped from Vermont by
Mr.. Eldredge during his recent trip to
the East. 1t was voted to have an all-day
outing and picnic at Shoshone falls on
Tuesday, July 81, at which time perma-
nent organization will be effected. After
the meeting adjourned, the remainder OF
the evening was passed in social way
talking over bygone days passed in old
Vermont. Among those in the party
were Arthur and Miss Erva Howard, son
and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Silas w.
Howard of Randolph; Mr.. and Mrs. L. F.
Morse, who gave their former Vermont
address as West Randolph; Morrill, A.
Rand, Mr.. and Mrs. d. w. Howard, once
of RoyaIton. The Twin Falls News men.
lions E. d. Waters of Randolph and Mr.
Bowen of South Royalton among trans
planted vermonters not present at the
meeting.