Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-02-10

will he interested to learn that they have
finished work as firemen on the Central
Vermont railway and have removed from
st. Albans to North Bay, Ontario, where
they are firing on the Tennis Kenning q
Northern Ontario road. They are much
pleased with the new place and their
mother and sisters, who are still at st.
Albans, expect to Join them in the near
future.
Mrs. Paul Wagner, who has been liy-
ing in the upper part OF the Kelley house
on Randolph avenue, has decided to 60
back to Braintree the first of March and
occupy the hotel, from which jerome
French is soon to move to the Webster
house on Central street. The apartments
in the Kelley house to be vacated by Mrs.
Wagner, have been rented by Mrs. Ros-
we'll Holbrook, who has been boarding in
Bethel this winter.
An increase of pension has been al
low ed William A. Hutchinsonsat the rate
OF S15 per month from Jan. ~, 1910.
Mr.. Hutchinson and his wife are ct pres
ent living with their daughter, Mrs. John
b. Tewksbury, aud Mrs. Hutchinson has
been in feeble health all winter. She was
very much worse last week and her son,
Luke, was called from Lowell. Mass, the
3rd but went back yesterday morning,
leaving his mother q good deal better.
Mrs. Katherine Elizabeth Golden died
Sunday night at The home OF her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Frank freeman, on Fish Hill
after an illness OF four weeks with kidney
and liver troubles. She was SO years Of
age and had lived on Fish Hill since her
daughters husband bought the Austin
farm there q year ago last October.
Prayer was offered at the house Mt II 80
Monday morning and the remains were
taken by Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman to Ma
drid, n. Y, a former place Of residence,
for interment in the family lot.
Mr. and Mrs. william Weller, who had
been in Randolph since the last OF
August, left yesterday for New Haven,
Conn, and New York and were accom-
panied by their niece, little Miss Ellen
Mead, who is to spend q couple OF weeks
in Brooklyn with Mrs. r. j. Kimball and
her daughters. From New York, Mr..
and Mrs. Weller will 60 to Philadelphia,
baltimore and Washington and, proceed
ing Westward, will stop among other
places at Detroit aud Chicago before ar
riving in California, which they expect to
reach sometime in April.
e. A. Thomas has added to the cloak
and suit department on the second floor
OF his store q handsomely finished oak
cabinet over six feet high, three and a
half feet deep and having six oompart-
ments with glass doors. The doors open
and slide into the cabinet out OF the way
and the rods from which the garments
hang can be pulled out into the room,
allowing fullest inspection of the sus-
pended articles. In some of the compart-
ments are two sets of rods for waists aud
short coats. When full, the cabinet con-
tains . PEsttE langa stock OF ready-made
clothing. Il is a very nice piece of wood
work and was manufactured by former
Randolph furniture dealer, L. W. Welch
OF Grand Rapids, Mich.
Young Gotch made three journeys to
Bellows Falls last week, trying to arrange
a wrestling match with Bob Somerville,
now located at Rutland. They met Sat
urday, bat as Somerville insisted on
ringside weight of 1873 pounds, which
Gotch cannot make, no match resulted.
Gotch has arranged to meet Joe Fortier,
French Canadian Of his own weight, at
Dubois q Gays hall next Saturday night.
Fortier is an ambitious pupil of Eugene
Tremblay, the Canadian lightweight
champion. It is a square match, best
two-in-three, catch-as-catch can. There
will be preliminaries by local boys.
Gotch has received challenge from Alec
Mcleod, champion middleweight OF Scot
land, who wants to throw him four times
in an hour, and Gotch will probably &C
cept.
Mrs. Leon A. Amsden was in North
field yesterday to attend the funeral of
her brother, Hiram Smalley, who died at
the Mary Fletcher hospital in Burlington
Saturday evening. He had been in fail
ing health for the past year and short
time since be went to the hospital in Bur
lington expecting to undergo an opera
tion with the hope of obtaining relief. II
was found that be was suffering from
cancer Of the stomach and that the dis
ease was so far advanced as to render
both medical and surgical treatment una
He was born in Northheld 81
wears ago end had worked at his trade Of
tool sharpener in the granite shops of his
native town. Mrs. Amsden and her hus-
band came East from Mitchell, s. D., 10
the fall for the benefit OF his health,
greatly impaired by chronic Bright's dis
ease, but for several days now be has /
been confined 10 the bed at the home OF
bis mother, Mrs. Mary Amsden, on Ma
pie street. His brother, Edwin Amsden /
II Barnard, was here to see him yester-
lay.