Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-02-04
Randolph.
onOnorA WHITE. Local Editor.

Joseph Doeonya has opened q shoe
shop In the Beehive.
Mrs. Laura Cushman Of Claremont.
H., Il At p. 4. sAllsbury'a
Mrs. @. II. Miles went back to Barn
Friday after spending . week with Mrs.
o. p. Hood.
Mrs. w. Il. Lamson ls recovering ranld-
" from recent operation performed Al
the sanatorium.
Mrs. Azii Blanchard Of Montpelier
spent Monday with her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Ellen blanchard.
Frederick Raincy returned to Dart
mouth college Tuesday after paying q few
days' visit to Mrs. Emma Reed.
J. b. Wells has been reappointed road
commissioner for Orange county BY State
Commissioner @. w. Gates OF Franklin.
Miss Nancy +. Winch, who had been
staying at Rev. Joseph Hamilton's, took
her departure Friday to Haverhill, Mass.
Mrs. Jehiel Williams and daughter.
Celia, we're In Montpelier from Friday to
Sunday, visiting Mrs. Williams sister.
Mrs. @. NJ. Ayers.
Or. r. Q. Noble, who was called from
Boston by the death Of his mother, Mrs.
Fannie Noble, has been In Barre since
Friday, with Mr.. and Mrs. EIwin Scott.
Frank B. Wood is now travelling sales
man for the dry goods house cf Nj. Coop
or Of New York and covers the states OF
Maiue, New Hampshire, Vermont and
Massachusetts,.
Wales +. Bass Is able to be out on
crutches after being housed since the 18th
Of November BY fall on the ice that
I sprained his left knee. Mr.. Bass cannot
yet step on his left foot.
The Rebekahs had ten tables of players
Vt their whist party in Odd Fellows hall
last Thursday night, and the winners
were II. H. Page and Mrs. q. w. Panton
with a score OF plus rs.
Mrs. E. e. Chatfield, who had been the
guest OF her sister. Mrs. George s. Moul-
ton, for three weeks, returned Friday to
Claremont, N. H., where she has been
actively engaged In real estate business
the last 20 years.
In spite OF the storm and wretched
walking Saturday, the ladies Of st.
Johns church disposed OF their entire
stock of food in Mrs. e. r. Draper's
rooms In the square and made q profit Of
tl6 on the sale.
Celia May, the infant daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. Frank g. Harrington, died
Monday at N. Q. 0reone's after q feeble
existence Of three months. The remains
we're taken by the parents that night to
Boston for intoFmcnt.
Mr.. and Mrs e. H. Allls started Mon
day for the Bermudas with the intention
Of soiourninR there until the first OF
March. Their daughter, Dorothy. IL
staying with Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Mitch
Ell on the Allis farm.
The Christian Endeavor social al Beth
any Parish house Friday evening was
q pleasant occasion TO about fifty young
people, who found entertainment In
games and marches, and were refreshed
with cake and coffee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newell Pierce arrived
Sunday from Norfolk, N. Y, where they
were married last fall and where Mr..
Pierce has been employed in a store. Mrs.
Pierce vas formerly Miss Nellie Hayes OF
Granville and, previous 10 her marriage,
had lived some time In Randolph.
mr. and Mrs. Francis Dickerman have
gone 10 Koene, N. H, to visit their son.
A. W. Diokerman, and will be IN Concord
later as the guests Of their daughter, Mrs.
Pearl Rumrill, who. with her little son.
accompanied them to Keene Monday.
They expect to be away = month or more.
A second big pine has been fslled At
the Lyman Hutchinson farm and sawed
into lumber AZ O. Il. Kilburn's mill. II
! was, like the other cut down . few weeks
ago, so years old, aud, though not quite
20 Large, Il made 22Oo feet OF lumber. II
was io6 feet high, and had Il not been
for the blight that affected the tops Of ths
trees for twenty-five or thirty feet, they
would each have had a hundred more feel
Of lumber. As Il was, the frst tree hae
25O6 feet.
A. e. Eldredge Of Warren, who had
been buying stock in this vicinity lately
/. was playing with a dog in q market al
] somerville, Mass, few days ago, wher
the dog jumped and set its teeth in th'
mans chin. INJECTING a wound thai
Obliged Mr.. EIdredge to 60 to a hospita
! for repairs. The bite was not so serious
] matter as Il seemed to b. at FIRST and Mr.
. Eldredge soon left the hospital for hi
D home in Warren. He Is q brother o
Capt. J. e. Eidredge.
I 'sThe erstwhile Zulu Princess in anna
Y teur vaudeville, Howard l. Hindley, edi
tor OF the Rutland Herald. " says tn
Burlington Clipper, sis to entertain th
Randolph Woman's Literary club OF tina
town Feb. II, with extracts from popula
plays with critical and amusing comment
thereon. Mr.. Hindley Is q topnotcher i
the theatrical line rs well as in newspa
perdom and there is certainly rare trea
in store for the good ladies' Of Randolph
Hindley always did take we'll with the Ia
dies anyway"
The circulation Of books from the Ran
dolph Pubic library during the month Q
January reached total of 1872, of whicl
1872 t14.2 per cent? were class books, "a
(1s.8 per cent? juveniles and $50 zee.
per cent? fiction. The daily average Q
books taken was so 22-25. More elias
books and less fiction would indicate
more healthy taste for reading and max
q more gratifying report. Last sunda
ten people took advantage OF the oppol
| tunity to use the reading room in the afl
\ ernoon from to 4.