Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-26

/ A. f. Chandler, who had been at J. F.
Lamson's few days, took his departure
/ to New York yesterday.
I The Rochester club and its invited
/ friends will have sugar party in Grange
hall Tuesday evening, this seasons maple
product to be furnished for the occasion
by Willis Howard.
Frank Mann of Springfield was in
town last week from Thursday TO Satur-
day, attending to the repairs being made
upon his house on Central street, whose
front tenement Mr.. and Mrs. J. Dens-
more Battles are soon to occupy.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Amsden, who had
been living in the upper part of A. ~.
Hayes house on Maple street, moved
Tuesday to Gaysville to make their home
with Mrs. Amsden's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Bishop. Mr.. Amsden
leaves the employ of the Brigham cream
cry to take up farm work.
The meeting of skilled and unskilled
laborers, called at Mansion house hall
Monday night to take action on the pro-
posed adoption Of a nine-hour day with
ten hours pay, adjourned without ac-
complishing its object. The firm of Phil
lips & Dukette, painters and paper hang
ers, will, however, adopt the nine-hour
plan, beginning the first of April, and
others may follow suit.
The Oxford IN. " Times, in its issue
of the 18th inst, makes this announce
ment, of interest to the Randolph friends
of the new veterinary -'Dr. John Drew.
a veterinarian from Buffalo, has located
in DIR. Casey's established veterinary hos
pital on Washington avenue. DR.. Drew
is graduate OF Cornell and has been as
sociated with DIR. w. T. Baker in Buffalo.
DR.. and Mrs. Drew have rooms at the St.
James hotel"
Rev. Donald Fraser of Berlin won favor
with the Christian Brotherhood Monday
night by a bright, sparkling address on
"Bonnie Scotland" The historical
greatness and picturesque beauty OF the
land were patrioticalIy dwelt upon by the
speaker, native of northern Scotland,
himself of the Highland clan OF Fraser,
aud the quaint characteristics OF the peo-
pie were presented in a spirit of kindly
humor. About one hundred sat down to
the supper, one OF whose courses was
new sugar and dOughnuts.
A. T. Neff of South Royaltcn has
bought the livery business Of Wesley
Hodgkins, located at the Dyer place on
Pleasant street, and took possession of
the same yesterday. He will move his
family from South Royalton as soon as a
suitable tenement in this village can be
found. Mr.. Hodgkins, who succeeded
A. J. Russlow in the livery last Septem-
Der, has not yet decided definitely upon
his future occupation. Mr.. Neff has been
in the livery business in South Royalton,
but sold out lately to Tom Dearborn of
Chelsea.
That never-to-be-forgotten Marsh dog
from Bethel that tried to turn Randolph
into a canine Bedlam early in February
by inoculating all the dogs in town with
his hydrophobic bite, set his wicked
teeth, it will be remembered, into a
young calf at d. II. Morse's. The calf, /
developing a curious sickness in the
course of some days, was killed and its
head sent to the state laboratory of hy- I
giene at Burlington, whose director and
DIR. B. II. Stone, made the .
following report to the local health Off /.
Ger, DR.. A. c. Bailey, March 21:-"The T
rabbit inoculsted with material from the
head of the calf sent US the last of Febru-
ary has just died of rabies after an unusu- .
ally long time. These animals ordinarily .
succumb, if they do at all, in II days,
but there are occasional cases, like this .
one, where the symptoms are long in ap-
pearing. You did the wise thing, /
hink, in killing the bitten animals"