Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-04-08

Charles B. Adams is eonvaIescing from
his recent illness.
A son Of Horace Segar, % months old,
is dangerously i'll with bronchial pneu-
monia.
Ransom George has been sick with the
prevailing bronchial distemper, but is re-
covering.
Win E. Hyzer returned from his Wash
ington trip last Friday with the informa-
tion acquired.
The Training school will open its
spring term April 20, instead Of April 10,
as announced.
Miss Bessie Holden had a party of
young friends last Saturday evening and
bridge whist was enjoyed.
Guy Bickford is recovering from the
effects of the operation he had some
weeks ago at the sanatorium.
Lynn, Ray and Storrs CIough, with
their cousin, Miss Lillis Chadwick, visit
ed at G. L. Smiths last Friday.
Mrs. Emily Davis, w. L. Hebard, Luke
Parish and others are recent victims of
the prevailing distemper and bronchial
trouble.
Rev. Mr.. Gilmore is expected here next
week and il he arrives will conduct serv-
ice at Grace church one week from next
Sunday.
Arrangements are being made to re-
pair the DR.. Smith house for parsonage
for the rector OF Grace and st. Johns
churches.
Mrs. Jane Granger, about 90 years old,
widow of the late Noah Granger, has
been sick several weeks and not expected
to recover.
A. B. and Benton Hayward have
bought of n. L. and c. /. Boyden three
thoroughbred Jersey heifers, also a bull
of c. d. Peake.
Miss Lillia Jerd OF the sanatorlum was
nurse of Sylvanus B. Carpenter in his last
illness and proved herself competent in
difficult case. She is highly spoken Of.
The handkerchief sale at the Conants'
last week resulted in an income OF $40 to
add to the ladies' treasury of the Cong'l
society to help repair the ladies' rooms.
Mrs. Charles Fitch and daughter OF
| Burlington came to George ID. Hyzer's
/ last Friday. Mr.. Fitch. Joined them Sat-
urday and all returned to their home
Monday.
/ The patrons Of the Cooperative cream
cry have increased in number so that E.
/ A. Wheeler, who carries cream, has been
obliged to make his trips twice as often
as heretofore.
Several of the farmers about here have
bought oxen this year for farm work.
With present high prices Of horses, it is
well to consider the advisability Of using
oxen. Ed. Kent, G. F. White, y. ID.
Bickford, H. NJ. Lamb, George Beaudro
and Seymour Bros. and others are trying
it.
Mrs. Charles Smith returned from
Thomaston. Conn, last Thursday, where
she had been spending five weeks in the
family of her brother, Arthur NJ. Flint,
who has been in the gents clothing bus
mess in that place for the past eight
years. She stopped en- route in Spring
field, Mass, few days to visit cousin,
Herbert Flint, who is civil engineer for
the city.
Death OF SyIvanus q. Carpenter.
An old resident, a landmark, is gone.
Sylvanus b. Carpenter was born June
IS, 1928, in Randolph, on the farm now
owned by George w. Panton, and had al
ways lived in Randolph. His father,
Elias Carpenter, was also born in Ran
father, Jonathan Carpenter, came to Ran
dolph about 1855, settled on the farm
now owned by j. B. Adams and built the
two-story house now standing on the
farm and used by Mr.. Carpenter and sons
as a hotel for many years; so that iona.
than Carpenter, his sons and grandsons
have been largely identified with the
growth and progress Of the town. The
Carpenters were strong men, of good and
upright character, and they exerted theil
influence for good government in theiI
several stations.
Sylyanus B. was reared on the farm anc
: received an ordinary district school edu'
cation and also attended the Orange
, County Grammar school. In 1854, h'
married Laura, daughter OF Luther anc
, Lydia (Reed) Adams, by whom he had
one daughter, Mary Ellen. The daugh
ter and his wife died in 1857. In 1852
: he married Ellen A., daughter of Alder
s. and Betsey (KendalD Loomis. They
! have an adopted son, George W., and al
] adopted daughter, Jennella Marie.
Mr.. Carpenter has been a prominen
: citizen OF this town and his contempor
a aries realize it, but only a few of then
are left. Said one who knew him in &C
tive life, "We have lost good man."
From the time he was twenty-one til
he was fifty-fve years old, be was con
stantly called to perform some service 70
: the town. He was selectman, lister, trus
! tee Of public money, grand juror ant
justice OF the peace at various times. Fl
q represented the town in the general as
n sembly in 1865, 1866. He was truste
D Of the Orange County Grammar schoo
and State Normal school for fifty year
4 and at the time OF his death. In all thes
q different places he performed the dutie
r carefully and conscientiously and to tn
satisfaction of his townsmen. He was
A good citizen, upright in character and
: good neighbor. For the last twenty t
4 twenty-five years, his general health ha
: been poor and he has not been active a
before. He has retained his faculties an
has kept posted on the affairs Of the tow
and state and nation, and il has been wei
l. said OF him that "Whenever he wa
2 called upon to act, he was found on tn
right SIDE"
About two years ago he sold the smal
II farm that he had and that he was unabl
u to carry on and moved into the village