Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-02-03
How Things Were in 1eee.

~, Vol. /, has come into the possession
OF Miss III. Blanche Sparhawk, an en-
thusiastic antiquary OF things local.
From the advertising columns Of th
Eagle the reader learns that John B
Hutchinson and J. w. RowelI were in
g Law partnership under the firm name o
Hutchinson Il Rewell and represented til,
| Travellers Insurance company OF Hartford
Conn.,, in the matter OF life and accident
policies. Both were in the prime of life
Mr.. Howell, now chief Judge OF the Yer
mont Supreme court, being only 81, whils
the senior partner was AZ. This partner,
ship was formed Immediately after Judge
Rowell was admitted to Orange County
bar in 1858 and continued, save for a
lapse OF two years while the senior mem.
Der was away from town. until Mr..
Hutchlhson's death, OF consumption, in
April of 1857. Another attorney and
counselor-at-law was Edmund Weston and
be, too, dealt in insurance-fir Ire and life
policies.
DIR. G. L. Stewart and the late Dr. f. r.
Upham were the physicians and surgeons
OF the village, while Walters & Gilbert
and Z. Weston, Jr., were the surgeon
dentists.
1 S. A. Rabbit, father of Mrs. E. 'B. Sill
verthorne, acted as agent for Mason &
Hamlin organs and the Vose pianotorte,
and was claims agent for pensions, boun-
+ ties. etc.
The late j. W. Hale was taking photo
graphs and framing pictures over DR..
Weston's dental Office on Pleasant street.
Norman Shattuck, brother of the late
Mrs. Frank Griswold, invited the public
to call at his ware rooms IL they wanted
good bargains in furniture or caskets.
Mr.. Shattuok afterward went West and
died two years ago in West Superior, Wis.
r. q. Morton's drug store was in ex-
istenee then aud located, as now, east OF
the depot.
The late R. I. Dubois dealt in stoves
and all kinds OF hardware, and the tate
Samuel Bass had the stationery and Jew
elry store, which his son, A. e. Bass, still
conducts. George w. Belmont had charge
OF the watch and clock repair work.
The late A. II. Smith, whose wife, Mrs. |
Margaret Smith. and daughter, Mrs. |
Gilman A. Wheeler, now live in Boston, /
had boot, shoe and leather establish /
ment in the Sparhawk block at the cor
ner OF Main and Union streets called i
Merchants Row today.
Milan Nary manufactured and dealt in
harnesses in the basement OF the Dubois
block. George Bradford, at present OF
Newburyport, Mass, and John L. Moses
had livery stanle on Pleasant street In
''the rear of Chadwiek's new hotel" the
old Cottage hotel. Another livery stable
had Just been started by B. F. Tucker on
School street.
Wheeler's block, No. Main street
about where the Thurston block stands
was headquarters for Orange county in
the purchase OF clothes and n. NJ. Draper
ready to show a complete stock OF
French, German and American broad
cloths, Eseuimaux and Moscow beavers
and silk worsted velvet vestings. A peru
sal OF his column advertisement con-
vinees the reader that the men Of RAN
iolph were no less given over to vanity
lnd fine attire in 1866 than they are in
1910.
Attention, in big type, is called to the
great invention OF the age in new patent
Duplex Elliptic hoop skirts, warranted to
rive "great comfort and pleasure to the
yearer as they seldom break or bend and
preserve their beautiful
hape mere than twice as long as any sim ,
lie spring skirt ever made. Their chief Z
to favor seemed to be
heir flexibility which permitted a dame !
u hoops to enter 'a crowded assembly, !
pera, carriage, railroad car, church pew,
Z to occupy an armchair with ease as 4
be skirt could be "folded when not In =
Sc as conveniently as q silk or mus 4
10 dress" Three bottom rods Of dou- +
lie steel on every skirt we're double COW !,
red to stand the wear of dragging up
nd down Stare and over stone steps" 4
In another column the Eagle quotes =
ON Alexander Dumas, Jr., to the effect
nat "For the sake Of women. men dis A
onor themselves, kill themselves, and, !,
! the midst OF this universal carnage,
le creature who brings II to pass has on 4
one thought in her mind, which is to \
scide whether she shall dress herself like Il
1 umbrella or a dinner bell. y Nova n,
ays her ambition seems to be to look h
Ike a section of inch pipe or a hat pin. oi
The only thing approaching local news :
found in an item regarding present
Istor Of Milton and reading as follows:-
Rev. +. +. Herriok OF Rochester has &C
pied . call to become pastor OF the
,ng'l church in Colchester. Mr.. Her
ck is q native OF this town and a young
an very highly respected here. He was
aduRted from the University Of Vermont
the class of 1856 and was an officer in
e 18th Vermont regiment, leaving the
Ilpit for the army from motives Of pure
triotism."
ell Deserved Recognition.