Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-12-09
Randolph.
GnoRalA wHIrs, Local Ealtor


H. 4. wnodworth Of Waterbury Centel
was in town Monday and Tuesday OF
business.
Mr.. and Mrs O. A. 0sha are entertain
ing Mrs. Osha's sister, Miss Edna Bur
CESS Of Wakefield, Mass.
E. w. Tewksbury & Co. are raising th,
barn at Mrs. e. z. Upham's place and re
pairing 1t for q storehouse.
Willard Gay has been housed for cou-
pie of weeks by hard cold and a lame
shoulder, injured by fall on the ice.
Judge D. II. Morse went to Chelsea
Monday to be present at the opening Of
the December term OF Orange county
court.
Mrs. ]. d. Mitchell came home Friday
from q stay OF two weeks with her sister,
Mrs. II. q. Vaughan, at Bridgewater
Corners.
Miss Maria Merrill OF Manchester, N.
H., Is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Tewks-
bury, with whom she formerly lived for
many years.
County Road Commissioner j. B. Wells
was in Wells River and Bradford Monday
and Tuesday to finish up the county road
business for the season.
Mrs. c. Il. Jones, who had been the
guest OF her daughter, Mrs. Q. b. Hollis,
and family for few weeks, took her de-
parture to Natick, Mass, Saturday.
Miss Bessie Lewis has resigned her
position as principal OF Royalton academy
and has gone to Concord, Mass, to be
special teacher in the schools Of that city.
Mrs. Matte Maynard OF White River
Junction was the over-Sunday guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Briggs, whom Miss
Jennie whitney Of Granville visited Mon
day and tuesday.
Ramona, the little daughter of DIR. aud
Mrs. II. w. Holden, has been ill with
bronchitis and her brother, Howard, has
been threatened with the same ailment.
Both children are better.
Miss Lois Gifin OF Northneld opened
dancing school in Grange bali last
Thursday night with class Of is or 20
couples, tho had a social dance after the
lesson, from 10 to ~. This evening Miss
Gifin meets the class again. The pianist
for the school is Miss Una Allen.
s. L Buttles, who was suddenly called
to Lincoln last week by the serious illness
Of his sister. Mrs. Walter King, came
hack Friday, leaving Mrs. King better.
On the way home, Mr.. Buttles con-
tracted bronchial cold which prevented
his resuming work on the John Bass farm
for few days.
The circulation OF books from the Kim
bali Public library amounted to 1877 vol
umes, of which l2i ts.4&1 we're class
books, 260 (20.3B) Juveniles and 500
f70.Ia1 works of fiction. The total
number shows an increase Of l22 over the
preceding month of October, and Of 2i4
over November Of 1908.
Hon. james Hutchinson has closed his
residence on Randolph avenue and left
town Monday to spend a week in New
York with the family OF Z. w. Parsons
before going to Washington, d. e., for
the winter Ia Washington he will be
with his sister, Mrs. Harvey spalding,and
his niece, Miss Alice Hutchinson. Miss
Lucy Richards, Judge Hutchinson's
housekeeper, Is to stay in Bethel and
Hartford while he Il away.
Young Gotch, who made this place his
headquarters for time but who is locat-
ed at Keene just at present, Is to wrestle
tomorrow in the armory at Burlington
with Fritz Hanson, the champion welter-
weight of the world. In Randolph last
fall he won a decision over Hanson in the
Greco Roman style, but has never secured
q decision over Hanson at the catch-as-
catch-can style except in one handicap
match here last year.
Francis Gordon, eight-months old twin
son Of Mr.. aud Mrs. Frank L. Perry OF
Maiden, Mass, died on Dec. let after a
brief illness OF bronchial pneumonia.
Following a prayer service at the home
Friday afternoon. the remains we're taken
to Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, for crema-
tion. Mrs. Perry, who is remembered in
Randolph as Miss Winnie Badger, has,
besides this son, two children--the sur
viving twin, Norman Badger, and a
daugh Eleanor, eight years old.
The Montpelier hoard Of trade is trying
to induce the merchants OF that city and
the railroads TO cooperate in Merchants
day, such as the Randolph board OF trade
managed so successfully two years ago
through the efforts Of its president, Dr.