Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-04-01

nth an adopted daughter, Mrs. Varney,
and the latter's children, will come to
occupy it shortly. The purchaser is
member of the CardeIl family of Warren
and cousin OF Mrs. ]. K. Eldredge. She
has recently sold her place in Warren
village, preparatory to removal.
News has been received OF the death in
Dover, Wis, March 8, Of Roy d. LOOMS.
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. d. d. Lo1mis, Of
Gilmanton, Wis, at the age of rs years.
Deceased left wife. to whom he was
married less than q year ago. Death re-
suited from a disease OF the spleen, OF
which the victim had been III since last
August. The father, d. d. Loomis, is
an uncle Of Mrs. E. l. Clafiin OF Ran
dolph and q half-brother Of J. @. LOOMS
and Miss Melvina Loomis Of Brsintree,
and Of Mrs c. B. Fisk OF Brookfield. He
was q native Of Braintree and went to Gill
manton many years ago.
The receipts OF the Randolph postofice
for the year ending April /, 1909, amount
to $S339.55. Under the natural order,
this will result in raising the Randolph
office from the third to the second class,
which means more remuneration to the
officers, especially the assistant postmss-
ter. The growth in the business of this
office under J. B. Eldredge's efficient di-
rection has been constant and rapid, as
these figures est:-For the year priced
/ ing his entry, Is96-97, the receipts were
! S4770.95; in 1e04-05 they were S60ss.26;
| 1905-06, s6377.O1; 19O6-07, s6719.1
1 1907-0s, s7523.3; 1sOs-O9. ss339.55. Mr..
EIdredge has the signed endorsement OF
every business and professional patron OF
I A -
his present term next fall.
Harrison H. Harwood has brought suit
against the village o. Randolph through
his attorney, H. c. Shurtlen Of Montpe-
lier, in the form Of a petition to the su.
fpreme court, returnable at the May term,
to have annulled the Judgment OF the
court in former suit brought by Mr.
Harwood involving the taking by the vii.
lage for the municipal water supply ol
certain springs belonging TO Mr.. Har
wood. The original award was 5000. bu
this did not satisfy the owner and he sp
pealed, taking the case to supreme court
where $500 was allowed him. This wa
nearly twenty years ago. Mr.. Har
woods present motion is to revoke TIN
courts finding on the ground that the &C
under which the springs were taken ans
condemned was unconstitutional anS
void.
The failure of the meat and provision
firm of Edison q Chadwick. with stores a
West Lebanon, N. H., and White Rive
Junction, involves some people in thi
section with whom they have done bust
ness. Their buyer, E. &. Sanborn, sen
considerable shipments of cattle snl
young veal from this station for severa
weeks. A month ago he went to a new
field. after arranging with Lyman ID. Ri,
! to do the buying. Mr.. Xix found tn
firm an old and well established one, fair
ly well rated, and had no besitsncy il
I drawing his own checks fer his pun
, chases, covering them in the local BAN
, with the firms checks drawn on tn
White River bank. Two Of these checks
amounting to sum that Mr.. Rix can il
afford to lose, have come back protested
He has paid the farmers, but the iru
has not paid him. In Tunbridge ant
elsewhere the firms own checks wen
to the farmers and over sixty Of them ar
, protested. 1t is understood that tn
firms assets are rated at s1A, 900 to SIC,
, 900; their liabilities at els, 900, and that
proposition has been made to settle wit
their creditors on a basis of 35c. on tn
! dollar.