Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-04-21
BETHEL HOME NEWS.

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Will Waldo, employed in the Bethel
Mills has been sick and confined to his
house and Warren Preston has taken his
place at the mills.
George Saintesprit has finished firing
the engine at the shoe shop and is now IN
the same position in the tannery and e. Z.
Buchanan has taken his place in theshoe
shop.
George Stockwell spent Sunday at his
home in Rochester.
g. w. Flagg, Vermont's noted wrestler,
was in town last Saturday.
Boys, l have got some dandy vest chains,
new patterns. Give me a visit.
r. S. ADAMS.
JIM. Whitcomb of Woodstock visited
his son, F. M. Whltcomb last week.
Frank Preston has moved from the
Mark Spooner place to the Moulton Bros.
Stock farm at West Randolph.
Clinton Reed is to go to Concord, y. H.,
to work for an electric car company.
Our large stock will not be offered at
present reduced prices much longer.
Now's your time for bargains.
f. M. WHITCoMB x Co.
Miss Edith Hatch has been engaged TO
teach school at Pittsfeld.
The c. V. R. r. bridgemen at work up.
on the covered bridge at the upper end OF
yiIlDge were called to Waterbury last wed.
but returned Monday of this week.
Ifyou nave not received a check for
Parks Wyanoke, you can get one by APP
plying at G. NJ. Miller's drug store, II you
wish TO buy a bottle OF the liniment at the
reduced price.
VIM. Tinkham & Sons Rochester four
horse stage took a sprint down the street
last week without a driver but brought
up against the hitching posts in front OF
the store OF G. H. Topper q Go. without
doing any damage.
Have you seen Parks Wyanoke, the
popular remedy for pain, in u. Nj. MIL
ler's drug store window.
Since writing the item last week that
the list of this town would fall off about
800, 900 there nave been some new devel-
opments and although in some quarters
there is a heavy falling off of the list, yet
there are also some heavy increases which
will probably balance up the loss and
cause our list to be as large as it was last
wear when il was about 81 OPS, 647, being
the 3Sth in the state while in population
Bethel is only the 5Sth. Looking at II in
another way Bethel has no reason to com
plain OF the poverty of its citizens. The
total taxable list of the state exclusive OF
/ polls) is S157 ,316, 1853 or about $40 to each
man, woman and child in the state, while
in Bethel it is over S700to each man, wom-
an and child.
About one O'Clock the night OF April 49,
Ia the people were aroused by a fire alarm
given by the hoe shop and tannery whis-
ties. 1t proved to be the new vestry of the
Conen church. Ii seems that the evening
before there was a sugar party and quite a
warm fire was made in the open fireplace
and it is coniectured that the fire started
from this source. The church is situated
outside of the fire limits and when help
first arrived the fire was well under way
in the vestry and in two hours church n
vestry were in ashes. The church was
built, IL we are correctly informed, in 1884
and had seemed almost like a HON to
many of those who worshipped in il. Last
year the Ladies' Aid Society erected the
tasty and substantial brick vestry or chap
| ell i'm which the fire started. This vestry
represented a great deal of hard work and
pluck on the part of the ladies and they
have the sympathy OF the whole commu-
nity in their losses, as well as the society
in the loss of their church. There was no
insurance on any OF the property. Nearly
all of the furniture, books, organs, etc.
was saved.
The death of Myron Burnett, caused by
the falling walls of the Cong'l vestry last
Thursday brings sorrow to many homes
in Bethel. Mr.. Burnett was assisting at
the south end OF the vestry in removing
the burning wood so that the flames would
not be communicated to the sheds. Death
ensued almost instantly from the force OF
the brick which struck him on the head.
Two daughters OF Samuel Pember at
tempted TO cross Rochester mountain by
the mountain road last week and near
Lewis Bundy's the wagon slowed OF some
ice from the road and team, horse and
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teen or twenty feet down a very steep
place. The young ladies escaped without
serious injury but the team was badly
smashed aud broken, it being necessary
to get considerable help to extricate the
team.
James Carrigan visited in town last
week. He is employed as marker for l..
d.. Hazen at his Groton Pond mills where
several million feet of lumber are turned
out this year.
"Do you like a chaw?"I II so, f. A. Max
ham bought a large lot OF spruce gum last
week which he sells at 10c. a ounce. If
you live away and wish for some he will
send it to you by mail postpaid for he, or
IL you want 4 ounces he will send it at i5c.
or a whole pound for S1.75 postage paid.
r. W. Morse has charge Of lumber at
Bethel and will sell and deliver same and
take orders. w. II. EDMUNDs.
There will be a teachers examination
for the northern part OF Windsor County
at Rochester, April %.
Stella Clark and Roy Stearns will enter
tain the Y. p. S. A. at the Bascom House
Hall Monday evening. 1t will be a but
terfiy party, cake and coffee will be serv-
ed.
The team OF Ansel Burbank INDUCED in
an exciting runaway last Saturday from
Rob't Mobiles to Fred Mayo's in Royalton,
where it was caught. Mr.. Burbank was
thrown out and somewhat bruised and
rendered insensible for a while.
Don't shingle your buildings until you
have seen Niles patented felt, iron and
steel roofing; cheaper than shingles; lasts
a lifetime. K. G.. BROWN, Agent, Bethel.
Mrs. S. T. Coy of Bellows Falls visited
in town last week.
F. A. Putnam and mother of Dudley,
Mass, visited his uncle, Paul Gay, last
week.
G. H. Kidder shipped last Monday one
pair of oxen that tipped the beam at 1000
pounds and another at 300 pounds: also