Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-05-27
Randolph.
oEoRoIA wnTrE, Local Editor

Miss Lena Rhodes was with her s,....
sifs, T. J. Boyden, In Montpelier from,
Friday to Sunday. '''''
The Almon Morse farm 81 -. =.
acres on the road to peth has hasn -,
+. II. ketchum for $500. - y
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Clifford Of Rocbas-
.er are staying at J. NJ. Atwcod's whila
er. Siuord is being treated for a connIi-
cation OF troubles.
Fsrn henekah lodge Will give an Old
Folks' ball in Grange hall next Monde,
night from to II, and the Music Hail
orchestra will play for the dancing.
The A. B. Cushman Real Estate agency
mas sold for Hon. V. I. Smear his borsa
on summer street for $500 to M. c. Row
Ell The purchaser expects to occunv H.
place by the middle OF June.
Mrs. Clara Avery, who had been called
nome by the illness OF her mother. Mra
Emma Waldo, from an attack OF pnep-
honia, went back to Lynn. Mass, Satur-
uayi leaving Mrs. Waldo convalescent.
Miss Ella Barker, who had bean IN ~.
ifornia, Mexico and Kansas through tbs
winter, stopped here last Thursday on her
way home to Manchester. N. IL. ana
stayed until the next day with Mr.. and
Mrs. e. A. Shattuek.
=. F. Mead reached Randolph Saturday
atter nearly a years absence in New Eng
Iano, n D., and Los Angeles, Cal Mrs.
aeaa and the children and her father, j.
r. M hes, stopped at Lima, o., en- route
and Will be here in a day or two.
Another baseball victory was won by
the Knights Of King Arthur Saturday.
when they defeated the Bethel grammar
sofool team by score Of IS to in a
game at McCalps spark. The batteries
were Angel and Scott for the Knights.
and Royce and f. Rogers for Bethel.
The Green Mountain hand gave the
hrst OF its twelve open-air concerts satur-
day evening from the depot platform and
bad good-sized audience in spite OF the
drilling rain. The program OF music
was so well received that several bursts OF
applause dehed the dampness and called
for an encore.
The board OF water commissioner
elected at the last village meeting organ
lied Friday by making II. w. Mcintyre
chairman and secretary. E. /. Clafin
was reappointed superintendent under
the same arrangement as to salary and
duties agreed upon when he took the
office few months ago.
The Norway spruce and pine nursery Of
the Champlain Realty company on Park
street hill Is being planted in seed beds
and the screened frames placed under the
supervision OF a New York forestry ex-
pert, John Won Hafiten, who expects to
be employed here most OF the summer at
least and is boarding at Elwin Martins.
G. A. Blodgett has secured the govern
m3nt contract to carry the mail on the
sage route from this village to Randolph
Cnter and Brookfeld, beginning July /,
1909, and closing July /, 1918. Mr..
Blcdgett will take the route at $1,000 year
and will be under $1,000 bonds, W. B.
Wall and II. w. Mcintyre becoming his
bondsmen.
A. M. Hubbard, W. c. Emerson, c. w.
Hayward, +. A. Phillips and L. G. Frs
kline were among the 200 Shriners who
sat down to the elegant banquet served in
Montpelier Armory hall Friday evening
by Caterer X. W. Morse OF Barre. Twelve
new members were taken into Mount
Sinai Temple at the initiation preceding
the banquet.
At the Grange meeting Saturday night,
Mrs. w. w. Jones gave some interesting
patriotic items and anecdotes. and Mrs.
George c. Flint presented carefully pre-
pared paper on 1.-THE best way to show
true patriotism 'sThe Declaration of
the Purposes OF the National Grange
was read by Mrs. Arthur Vaughan, and
the program closed with the singing Of
"America."
W. F. Wood of Woodstock, a brother
OF F. B. Wood and former resident Of
this town, was lately the victim OF a Curl
Gus mishap that confined him to the bed
for awhile. He was Gaping a chimney
with cement and as he lifted down the
heavy form his back gave out suddenly.
Both Mr.. Wood and the man who was
helping him heard snap, as Of a bone.
He was taken home and a physician
found that joint in the spine had been
strained out Of place and had snapped
back.
The Vergennes Enterprise Vermonter,
in its last issue, had this personal note on
the recent gathering of Vermont veter-
ans :--"One familiar figure was missed at
the annual encampment of the @. A. r.
at Burlington. For the first time in
many, many years, that brave old soldier,
Capt. J. E. Eldredge of Randolph, was not
able TO be present. He is still in the land
Of the living and 1t is sincerely hoped by
/ his wide circle of friends that the summer