Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-08

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Charles A. Blodgett, who began four
years. contract July to carry the mail
on the star route to Randolph Center and
Brookheld, has a fine new outfit for a
stage in the way OF q comfortable three
seated wagon, covered. freshly painted
and legibly marked "Randolp h-Brook-
Held" Now it will lie possible for a
stranger bound for either of those two
places to pick out the right conveyance
without anxiously interrogating all the
depot loungers or getting carried away of
to East Braintree or West Brookfield il he
trusts to bis own intuition in starting on
the trip. The new stage is historic We
hicle, being the wagon that transported
the colored quartet of P. W. Clement of
Rutland about the country during the
gubernatorial candidacy Of that gentle
man ia 1906. The hours of departure
from this village are and 1890 a. M,
and 3:15 p. M; from Randolph Center,
s;15 a. M, 12:45 and $50 p. m. This
route has been in the hands OF the Blodg-
EFT family during the greater part Of the
time in the last 40 years. The present
drivers father, the late Elijah Blodgett,
held the government contract 10 years
previous to his death in 1855 and bis
youngest son, W. j. Blodgett, now OF
Saratoga, N. Y, succeeded him, driving
the stage until Eugene Adams took the
contract eight years ago. Later Adns
Adams became the contractor and his son,
Ray, the carrier of the route.
Randolph High an Easy Mark.
The Randolph high baseball team trav.
elled to Vergennes Saturday, hoping t.
bring back the state high school cham
pionship. Instead, they were whipped
badly by Vergennes high, the game end.
ing with 10-1 score against them. Yer.
gennes has q team which, il made uE
from the players that would naturally at.
tend q high school of that size, is certain.
ly a wonder. They play in the class with
college tealns-quite beyond anything
Randolph has met on this side. Their
star battery, Holcomb and Alden, ano
their second baseman are surely headed
for fast company.
Vail was batted hard, while Randolph
CLEANED only four hits in the game, one
OF them a two-bagger by Glenn Sault
Randolph's field work was good, and 9
nice one-hand catch by Jones at centel
led to double play. Bent and Murphy
pulled OF good fielding stunt at first
Spooner's base throwing amounted to lit
tie. Rowell made the only run, scoring
in the ninth, by good base running. Two
other chances to score we're lost at tbs
plate. The Vergennes- play abounded il
good features, and tickled their many
home admirers. Probably they would
not do so well far from home, on strangt
grounds and with few rooters behind
them, but they outcIass Randolph, allow
ing for that.
The game was one OF the events Of tbs
Tercentenary celebration and witnessed
by large crowd, among whom were
I lew disconsolste olphites-Principa
r. q. Ham, F. q. Wood, Henry T. John
son, E. l. Sault, who with Mrs. Sault anC
child visited Mrs. Sault's old home there
I he returning Saturday and Mrs. Sault re
naming through this week; Carl Vain
wright, who walked most OF the distane,
I both ways, covering "a miles on his re
turn Sunday; II. NJ. Totman J. w. Ray
mond, q. o. Osha and L. B. johnson, wh'
/ journeyed in Mr.. Johnsonis automobile
I going via JonesviIle and Monkton and re
/ turning via Brandon and Rochester.
/ The score:-