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WEST RANDOLPH. Lawn tennis is the popular game this fall. Senator Smith of Windsor county was in town Friday. Chas. Nichols and wife have been in town the past week. Mrs. Mark Chadwick was on the sick list last week but is better. The Randolph National Bank has put in a new Boynton furnace. George Hoyt has the frame of the Robinson house up and covered. Rev. Mr. Wilkins of Bethel was in town Friday and made us a pleasant call. A. S. Hunter of Windsor was in town last week, the guest of E. A. Shattuck. Augustus King was severely injured Thursday by being kicked by a horse. Mrs. M. A. Smith and daughter, Harriet have gone to Boston to spend the winter. Large numbers attended the opening of the Legislature last Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. John Gorham is soon to go to Boston to join her husband who is at work there. John McBride is at home. He has been traveling this summer with one of the large circus.s in the west. Carson Chase and wife of Detroit, Mich. have been visiting friends, the guest of Mrs. Chase on Weston street. A. G. Wheeler and A. H. Beedle are talking of going to Ft. Payne, Ala., on the excursion that leaves Boston, Oct. 18th. Quite a large number attended the World's Fair at Tunbridge and report a fine exhibition and a big crowd of people. R. J. Kimball was one of the committee appointed to notify Gov. Page of his election and escort him to the bar of the House last week. Chas. G. DuBois was in Montpelier last week helping his father in the treasurer's office. He was offered the clerkship by Treas. Field. Rev. Mr. Atwell of Bellows Falls held services in St. John's church last Sunday. It is hoped he will be here again the first of November. Mrs. Alice Barnes and daughter [visited at her father's last week accompanied by Miss Blanche Kelton of the Union House at Montpelier. West Randolph can boast of several expert chess players, among others are Mr. and Mrs. John Hobart, A. E. Neibaum, Mrs. E. E. Evans, H. M. Dufur, etc. Mrs. E. O. Blanchard has been very successful in her exhibits at the fairs this fall. She took the sweepstakes and $10 at Bethel, $7.22 at Woodstock and $6.80 at Tunbridge. We regret to say that the West Randolph Lecture Association has decided not to give any course this season. It is to be hoped some one will have enterprise enough to start a short course of four entertainments at least. Dr. Edmund Weston of Washington, D. C., is in town visiting his many friends. The older residents remember him as "Ned," son of Judge Weston and was formerly a dentist in what is now the Bailey & Currier block. The bank of Alma, Kansas has failed through the speculations of its president aud it is reported that some $10,000 of good Randolph money has gone where the "woodbine twineth," enough to have bought ten good farms. The work on C. C. Whitten's new house on Highland Avenue is progressing fast under the direction of Robt. Parker and a large force of skilled workmen. It promises to be one of the most unique and handsome houses in town when completed. The U. S. Screen Co. are pushed with orders and are running long days in trying to keep in sight of them. This is the result of combined push and good work. Their patent sleds are one of the things they make that are bound to sell. Success to the boys. The Newburyport, Mass., Saturday Night of Sept. 20th contained a long article concerning Miss Amy Bradford, formerly of this place and daughter of George Bradford, who is winning fame as an elocutionary reader. The paper speaks very highly of her ability as a reader. Mary A. Howard, daughter of C. M. Howard of this village, who has been for several years one of the best teachers in town, has gone to Greenfield, Mass., and staken a position in the Graded School of that city. The situation came to her unsolicited. True merit cannot be hid. D. H. Goding, formerly of Boston and a practical candy and confectionery manufacturer was in town last week looking over the situation with a view of locating here. He can make as fine candy as we ever tasted, is a thorough gentleman and will be a valuable acquisition to the place if he concludes to locate here. The trustees have had Church street graded and put in good shape as per the recommendations of civil engineer, Savage who laid out the State Fair grounds at White River Junction and it is to be hoped that the many persons, especially children, who have occasion to pass through that street can do so without traveling in mud or water hereafter. We had a pleasant cail last week from L. Fred Foster of Boston, well known as the cowboy pistol shot and one of the best pistol shots in America. He is a son of Deacon Foster of the Park Street church of Boston and has been the guest of The Maplewood at Randolph Center the past week. His shooting abilities are really wonderful and he is a very pleasant gentleman to meet. The Randolph Company was organized under the general state law Friday evening. It now consists of 21 members and owns several acres of land at Highgate, which is the finest place on the lake for camping purposes. The officers are as follows: Pres., Hon. James Hutchinson; Clerk, G. L. Martin; Directors, Dr. H. H. McIntyre, F. E. DuBois, A. E. Bass, Julius Lamson, S. M. Flint. Rev. Andrew D. Merkel, a former rector of St. John's church here and Grace church at Randolph died suddenly at Digby, Nova Scotia, Sept. 22, 1890. He was a prominent member of Mt. Zion commandery. Gamalial Washburne Lodge of Perfection, and Mt. Calvary Council P. of J. of Montpelier, Delta Chapter and Burlington Conservatory of Burlington. In Mch. -1888 Mr. Merkel suffered a stroke of apoplexy at the office of J. E. Curran at Montpelier and has since had several more, the results of which caused his death. S. H. Brooks has his handsome house on South Main street completed and moved into it last week. It is the most stylish and modern Queen Anne structures in town. It is two story with ell the same height