Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-08-20
NEWS IN TOWNS ABOUT
GAYsvILLE

Boston excursion Sept. !. See last page.
DR.. Edmunds Of Pittsfield was in town
Friday.
Miss Grace Flint visited in stockbridge
last week.
Charles Dolloph OF Quechee was in town
recently.
Mrs Ella Tenney and son, Carl, were in
Randolph last week.
Robert Adams OF Bethel was at D. F..
Gould's over Sunday.
Carl Tenney went Monday to Brattle-
boro; where he has work.
A. w. Ballard was at home from
Woodstock over Sunday.
Frank Baker has opened q store in the
room back of the postoffice.
Miss Eva Porter returned to Massa-
chusetts the last Of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Martin were in
Barnard the first of the week.
Mr.. Waldo of Wallingford has been
a recent guest at ]. A. Chedeps.
Mrs. d. F. Gould and son, Melville,
were visitors in Bethel Saturday.
Rev. j. F. Olin returned the last OF the
week from White River Junction.
George Browns horse dropped dead
Sunday night while feeding in the yard.
Pearl Hodgkins OF Rochester was with
his brother, Guy, and family over Sun
day.
Mrs. LA Roberts and daughter, Ger
trude, were in Hanover, N. H., part OF
last week.
Misses jennie and Florence Richardson
of Randolph are recent visitors at 0. j..
Richardson's.
strange man passed through town
Monday, causing some to look for the
initials, Z. K.
George e. Miner returned from Brook
Ign, N. Y, Sunday and is with his fami-
ly at the Cobble.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Perkins of Ever
EFT, Mass, were guests at Z. w. Whit
combs last week.
Paul Miner visited his friend, William
Leonard, at Cloverdale in Stockbridge
several days recently.
Mrs. Rena Thurston and two sons of
Barre have been visiting her mother,
Mrs. Esther Burnbam.
Mrs. Walter Swinyer was called to
Royalton Monday by the illness OF her
mother, Mrs. George Smith.
Mrs. NJ. L. wyman, Jr., has been
spending several days with her sister,
Mrs. Robert Noble, in Bethel.
r. j. Whitcomb of Bethel has been
spending few days with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Whitcomb.
At the Republican caucus Saturday aft
ernoon, Joel Blsckmer received the nom-
ination for town representative.
A. L. Densmore of Bethel WAS recently
at E. p. Boutwells. Mrs. Densmore is
at the sanatorium in Randolph.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Newell of South
Stock bridge visited their daughter, Mrs.
Leon Chamberiin, the first Of the week.
Mrs F. v. Hassam and granddaug hters.
went to Randolph Monday. From there
they will go to their home in East Hard
wick.
Mrs. Lillian Wetmore and daughter,
Hazel, and the Misses Packard OF Leom-
mister, Mass, are at A. w. Billiards. this
week.
Miss Lottie Newell has been q visitor
for several days at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Sidney wyman, also at L. L Cham
berlin's.
Miss Jennie Mckenzie, who was the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Emma Spaulding,
for two weeks, has returned to her home
in Boston.
Mrs. James Sargent and daughters
went to their home in Northfield the mid
die OF this week, after q three weeks stay
at the Cobble.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Porter were in
Barnard Tuesday to be present at the oath
wedding anniversary reception of her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Tucker.
Guests at Elisha Boutwells last week
were Mrs. George Miner OF Brooklyn, N.
Y; Mrs. James Sargent of Northfeld ;
Mrs. NJ. s. Allen of West Somerville,
Mass; Mrs. A. B. Fish of Randolph and
her daughter, Mrs. H. c. Allen.
The Y. P. C. U. will hold sociable at
the Universalist church Friday of this
week from 6 to 8 p. m. There will be a
short entertainment, consisting of music
and Rotations in English and Japanese,
by Miss Iku Saegusa, W no will appear in
her native costume. Miss Saegusa is OF
Tokyo, Japan, and is spending few days
with Mrs. NJ. L. Wyman.
Miss Fannie Taggart has several copies
of the "Vermont Almanac and Farmers
Calendar" the oldest being 1917. In it the
rates of postage on every single letter by
land are as follows:-30 miles, &C.; SO
miles, 10c.; $50 miles, 12lac.; $50 miles,
1s1sc.; for more than 400 miles, 25c. "No
allowance is to be made for intermediate
miles. Every double letter is to pay dou-
BILE the said rates, every triple letter,
triple; every packet weighing one ounce,
at the rate of four single letters for each
ounce. Every ship letter originally re-
ceived at an Office for delivery, cents.
Magazines and pamphlets, not over 90
miles, 1c. per sheet; over 90 miles, and
not exceeding 100 miles, IL c.; over loo
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