Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-09-09

Saturday saw the departure OF Mr.. and 4
Mrs. H n. Story and Miss Margaret Up i
degrafi from Idleton cottage to Philadel- I
phia, and they were followed Monday by /
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Howells. Today /
DIR. and Mrs. Herbert Fox and daughter |
and Mrs. Camille Gaskill Of Philadelphia
leave the cottage, which Mrs. Anna V. |
hanson will close next Monday and, in I
the eompany of Miss Mary Story and /
Samuel Howells, Jr., return to her winter
residence in the Quaker city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Eaton had with
them Sunday Mr. and Mrs. William
Downing and daughter, Katherine. Of
Brooklyn, n. Y, Mr.. and Mrs Seymour
Kent and son, William, of Granville.
Mrs. Downing and daughter had been at
Mr.. Eaton's since early in July, barring
couple Of weeks spent with the formers
sister, Mrs. Kent, in Granville, from
which place they returned last Thursday,
accompanied By Mr.. Downing, who had
/ Joined them there. Sunday afternoon the
/ family left for Brooklyn, taking with
them William Kent, who is to attend
school in that city.
W. J. Blodgett is packing his house
hold goods for shipment to Thomaston,
Conn, where he has been clerking in A.
M. FIint's store recently. His wife
aud daughter have been in Thomaston all
summer. The tenement vacated by them
in the lower part Of the B. F. Sargent
house on South Pleasant street lie IN be
occupied By Mr.. and Mrs. 5. 5. Whit
comb, and the Bates house on the same
street, 10 which the whitcombs have been
living, has been leased by s. A. Smith
with the option Of buying. Mr.. Smith
viii take possession Of the place IS soon
as he can dispose Of his store in East
Braintree.
Mrs. Avery Thresher and younger SON
were summoned from the Thresher farm to
Boston last Thursday by the dangerous
illness of Mr.. Thresher with appendicitis.
They were accompanied by Carl Thresher,
who bad been at the Hutchinson farm,
but before they reached the city, the pa
tient had undergone an operation ct the
Maiden hospital and at last accounts xas
doing nicely. Carl Thresher came back
to Randolph Saturday and took his wife
and son home to Melross Highlands Mon
day in the auto. Mrs. Avery Thresher's
mother, Mrs. Milo Wilson, and q grand
son left the Thresher farm Saturday for
! Boston.
E. l. Marshall has altered the interior
! arrangement Of his meat market to the
, decided improvement Of it's appearance.
The partition dividing the store crorswise
has been swung around to enclose the
Office only, while the meat room has been
enlarged BY half Of the front room, into
! which the cutting blocks have been
/, moved. The change gives 9 lighter and
airier place for the meat cutters and
makes an altogether more attractive shop.
: In the readiustment il was found possible
a. - 4 a - a.
: room and add It to the rear of the iewelry
shop Of q. A. Osha, who now has more
I, comfortable quarters.
The Hettinger County Herald, pub
= lished by John and Martin Connolly at
!. New England, N. D., has in the issue OF
; Sept. this item Of local INTEREST," Earl
:, Bickford Of Randolph, Vermont, arrived
0 in New England Friday for visit with
friends in this vicinity. His call at the
Is Herald Office was q happy surprise tc
!. the Connolly brothers who come from
J. the same town. Mr.. Bickford is nov
y enjoying q visit at the Mead ranch, fol-
" q few days before continuing his
:, journey to the coast. He likes NORTH
Dakota and says he never saw such
l. vast fields and immense crops in hi.
II life and is thinking seriously of locat
II ing in this vicinity"
n Forty tickets were sold at this station
d Monday for the excursion to Missisquo
le park, Highgate Springs, and in the mum
Der from Randolph we're ]. B. Eldredge
l. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Burridge, Mis-
Is Theresa Moore, Mrs. Anna Ames, Mis-
At Lula Gilman, Hartley Forth, Mr.. anS
r Mrs. Nelson Seymour and two children
r Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Rattee and son
a. George, Mrs. William Bertrand, Mrs
Myrtle Stoddard, Frank Hatch, Glenn
- Webster, Leonard Holman, Tom st. Law
= renee, Edward Rusbor, Jerry Raymore
= Mitchell, Lula and Lily Rye werl
! among the excursionists but went to Eas
/, Swanton instead of Highgate, anC
= Charles III. Holman stopped of at Barre
N Randolph High School.
The wood work for the seats and desk
;, in the main room and in the new room
!. has not arrived yet.
!. School opened Tuesday morning will
:, an enrolment of 1O4 in the high school
4 There are large number of new scholar
, this year, mostly out-of-town students.
ST A meeting OF the boys was held yester
day afternoon to consider football
a Richard Rowell was elected captain OF tn
team and Paul johnson manager. II wa
- voted to levy tax Of twenty-five cent
: on the boys to help pay the first ex
= penses.
ar Back to High TIcs of1eo7.
e. The business OF the United States stee
rs corporation, that great concern which i
IN oouufad a. the indicator az financial nor