Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-01-28
BETHEL HOME NEWS

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: Myron G. Stafford and Lee Cady did NJ
: the Club" last week.
Scott 4. Brown of Pittsfield, who has
:, been living with S. w. Barrows and at
tending the Whitcomb High School, has
been compelled to give up his studies on
account OF a cataract forming over his
4 eyes.
F. F. Pinney of Lebanon, n. H., was in
2 town last week.
; George Clark was under the weather
last week.
Mrs. Alton Ingalls, was called to Royal
! ton last week by the serious illness OF her
mother from the grippe.
The poplar for the pulp Co.. at Bellows
Falls came in in great quantities during
J the late good shedding. Nearly six cars
are sent to the Falls each day, each car
holding bout ten cords, which brings
back to the seller IS cord. This makes
poplar really one of the best of the farm
products as it can be handled with so
much more ease than any other kind of
timber or wood. 1t is cut in the spring or
early summer when the bark is springing,
and is Immediately stripped of the bark;
it is then allowed to lay for a few months
to dry and the trees are then drawn to-
gether and sawed and piled, ready for
drawing when shedding comes. The wood
is cut in lengths of four feet and is so
ilE l4dl COIQ anu mall OnlN
fair load.
A new stage with closed cover and sides
has been put on the Woodstock Barnard
route. II looks well and comfortable,
which is considerable more than can be
said of many stages.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Burke of Woodstock
were the guests of S. c. Cady last week.
Mrs Merrill A. Owen died last Saturday
afternoon of the grip.
The public are cordially invited to call
at the Bascom House grocery and examine
my stock of goods and prices. My stock
is entirely new and challenge comparison
with any oneelse on prices. Respectfully,
G.. H. RooD. 2w
good as ever. You will find them at M IL. |
Furmans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Gay of Burlington |
were in town last Wednesday.
Horace Ballou has been visiting friends
at Hydepark, Vt.
A. ]. Graham las been quite sick with /
the grip but is recovering.
Emery King has received pension,
with S173 back pay and 81 a month.
The Woodstock stage driver, NJ. A. Saw
yer, has been sick and his son has been /
driving the stage.
Mark Spooner died Of the grippe last
Wednesday, the funeral was Friday, the
interment being made in the town GENE.
terry. Mr.. Spooner left no children. Mrs.
Spooner was quite sick with the same dis
ease and the funeral was continued one
hour as she was thought to be dying.
James A. Graham was called home from
Springfield, Mass, last week on account
of the illness of his father
People taking magazines, etc, after they
have read them, cannot find better use
for them than to place them on the files
of the High School reading room.
G. w Berry of Boston made short visit
in Bethel last week.
Martin Hanlon, former Bethel boy
but at present landlord OF the Summit
House at Roxbury made his Bethel friends
visit over last Sunday, accompanied by
his wife.
J. G. Enright, "the gentleman from
Windsor in the legislature of 1890, was
in town last Saturday.
Will Hatch, aged IS, says he is willing to
meet any boy in town not over 20 years OF
age, in the arena of checker playing
horse belonging to Daniel L. Child
took ''sitzn bath in the Branch last Sat-
urday p. M, while Mr.. Child was clearing
the snow from the ice with the animal.
With help the horse was pulled out of the
river, but not until he had been drawn
out once ana Ialleu Dack,
The fame Of the Whitcomb High School
has gone abroad and has attracted a large
number of non resident pupils, among
whom are the following: Miss NJ. E.Bar
nard of Woodstock, B. B. Cutler, Miss
Stiles, Misses Leila and Minnie Fish, Lille
vile; Miss Angela French, Miss Nj. $.
Hickey, Miss H. V. Styles, Miss Nina
Wright, Barnard; Miss Ada Gilchrist, NJ
E. Hickey Bessie Lyman, Jessie Parker,
Qptyc ton. lott I Lob let
dolph; Win Hatch, Christian Hill; Arthur
Lea 7itt, Robert Burnett, George Ingalls,
George Rogers, Robert Soper, Burnie Os-
good, District No. 4, Bethel; X. A. Savage
and Chas. Gillette, Finley Bridge; Miss
Alice Whitney, Tunbridge leonard
Whitcomb, stockbridge; Ernest WOOD,
Barnard; Robert Upper, Rochester; Miss
Ellen Pember, Dist. No. II, Bethel.
Rev. H. p. Nichols, well known in this
own, has resigned his position assistant
rector of Trinity Church, New Haven,
Conn, and is about to depart for Mime
lpolis where he assumes larger duties.
Last Wednesday he and his wife were
endered a reception at the rectory and
avs the New Haven Palladium, the large
looms we're taxed to the utmost and there
must have been 800 people who shook
lands with Mr.. Nichols and babe him
yodspeed. In the course of the evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Nichols were presented with
IN elegant silver tea service and about
500 in gold.
We are. selling out. Great bar gains in
,ur marked down goods.
F. NJ. WMTcoMB Co.
Forrest Southland was called to Addison
asst Sunday evening by a telegram an
bouncing that his father was seriously i'll !
With the grippe, and also that his brother
nd sister were sick with the same disease
The entire family of S. NJ. Washburn, ;
With the exception of Mr.. Washburn. have
zen confined to the bed with the grip.
s. w. Barrows has sufficiently recovered
0 be out on the street.
Bearings gathering tubs, holders and
'ater tubs, for sale and on hand.
F. NJ. WHITCoMB Co. 4
All can eat oranges now, 10 cents a doz.
doz. for 25cts Reduction in prices, -four, \
eader, 500 per barrel. Cottolene, better
nan lard, try it. F. NJ. WHITcoMB Co.
Mrs. Mark Spooner died last Sunday !
light from the effect of the grip. This )
read disease has wiped out of existence an