Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-04-15

yailing distemper and her oldest daughte
is still sick.
DR.. E. H. stearns began excavatinl
Monday for his new residence on tn
corner Of Highland avenue and soutl
Pleasant street and has engaged for ston
masons Ebert Dustin OF Bethel and hi
brother, Nathaniel, OF Randolph. DAME
stoughton Of South Royalton will do th
brick work and DR.. Stearns' father, z
ID. Stearns Of Gaylordsville, Conn, vii
arrive today to take charge offse carpen
/ tering. "
Phoenix lodge, No. 2s, F. and A. NJ.
has elected these officers for the comm,
year. Worshipful master, d. d. Howe
senior warden, j. j. Stimets; junior war
den, G. L Boyden; treasurer, A. @. Os
good; secretary, Lucius Webb; senior dea
con, A. NJ. Vaughan; junior deacon, L
.. Erskine; senior steward, E, Fl. Mason
junior steward, N. c. Conant; marshal
A. j. Huse; chaplain, }. NJ. Atwood ty
Ter, s. 8. Whitcomb; finance committee
w. s. S. Buck, E. q. Mason and A. c
Wells.
at the Grange meeting Saturday night
A. M. Vaughan gave a talk on "Som,
characteristics of Successful Farming:' >
D. II. Morse and F. B. Badger discussed
the condition OF farming compared witt
other business; while g. G. Flint took uI
the question Of whether farmers shouIl
pattern after professional men in taking
. vacation. Refreshments OF new lnapll
sugar on snow, pickles and plain dough
nuts were served by Mrs. F. C. Terry
Mrs ID. B. Fassett, Mrs. George SLACK
and Mrs. Jesse Blodgett.
Thomas Gallagan, hailing from Provi
dence, r. l., was found sIumbering in thu
depot Monday morning with bottle o.
liquor IN his pocket and other appear
ances about him of alcoholic potations
many and deep. Chief Of Police F. H.
ketchum took him to the lookup to
1n1sh his rest cure and the next morning
brought him before Justice H. W. Vail,
who strongly recommended the Jail al
Chelsea as q health resort for the next
20 days. The young inebriate was at once
escorted thither by Officer Ketchum.
The White Cross Milk company writes
from its Boston Office to its local manag.
er, F. R. Whitelaw, that it is now in
shape to increase its milk supply around
Randolph gradually. "We are, (" says the
letter, ''just recovering from the setback
we got through the failure of water. and
have made arrangements with one of the
concentrating plants in New York state
to furnish us extra milk for immediate
use. You might take on such farmers as
would like to come back to us; for we
prefer to give the preference to Randolph
people"
z. L. Merchant, when in Boston last
week, met one Of Randolph's summer
residents. W. r. Clark Of New Haven,
Conn.,, who was exhibiting at Young's
hotel for the Winchester Arms COMPANY
an equipment similar to that manufae-
tured BY the company for ex-President
Rooseveit's Africaz hunt. With Mr.
Clark, who is advertising manager for the
Winchester people, was Capt. A. F. Iaud-
ensack, who made President Roosevelt
familiar with the use of the various arms
in rifle practice before the distinguished
huntsman's departure for the Jungle.
Mr.. Clark is to exhibit this equipment
with other Winchester arms in several
cities as piece of advertising enterprise.
In the March and April numbers OF the
Worlds Work are two articles on "wiIl
Your House Burn?" written BY g. W.
Wharton and Homer E. G. Rainey of
New York, the latter being the eldest son
OF the late Rev. P. g. Rainey and at pres
ent holding the responsible position Of
insurance engineer in the New York Fire
Insurance exchange. The articles treat
Of simple methods by which fire may be
prevented and their purpose is to show
how much loss can be avoided in the
average home, by protecting frame
houses from fire, making stairways safe,
closing dangerous cracks in stoves, chin
neys, flues and freplaces By teaching
smokers to be careful and by such precau-
tions as having within easy reach water
buckets and extinguishers for controlling
small blazes.
Mr.. and Mrs G. B. Hollis received
about forty guests in Grange ball Tues
day evening and made them merry with
dancing, German whist and puzzle pic
lures. George Chatheld, yiolinist, and
Miss Ruby Allen, pianist, played for the
dancing, and the opening figure was the
Virginia reel, for which partners were Sc
cured by divided quotations on cards dec
GRATED with downy little chicks. Part
ners were changed in the midst of round
dances by the introduction Of grand
and for second reel the
ladies, lined up ON one side OF the ball,
and threw long colored paper streamers to
the opposite line of gentlemen, who
caught the ends Of the streamers and drew
their partners to them. Tulips aud Eas-
ter lilies adorned the refreshment table,
at which Mrs. Guy P. LAmson and Mrs.
P. P. Lamson served orange sherbet, la
dies fingers and macaroons.