Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-02-18
Thursday, Feb. 10, 1892
BETHEL HOME NEWS.

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Female attendants and kitch-
en- girls. For particulars apply to Dr.W. E.
Sylvester, Supt. Vermont State Asylum
for the insane, Waterbury, VT.
Frank Preston has moved onto the farm
OF the late Mark Spooner and will carry
on the same.
G. j. Wallace will build a house this
spring on the road leading from the main
highway to Railroad Street, near Remi
Longevin.
| Rourke Feb. 9Th. Mrs. Rourke will be
remembered as Miss Mamie O'Connell.
Misses Lulu Graham and Emma Clafiin
are to enter Childs' Business College at
Springfield, Mass, this spring.
Chas. Sleeper, Esq, of Sharon was in
town last Saturday.
Master Julian Foster who has been
confined to the house with sickness since
last Sept. has sufficiently recovered so he
rode out last Wednesday.
Mrs. Lucy e. Paige has been granted a
| pension as dependant mother, of S75 back
pay and S12 month.
For the past two weeks the ice has as
sumed Sufficient thickness and quality to
be harvested and has been cut both on the
pond near Chas. Curtis and on the mill
4 DOHu lIOul WHICH ldlItI SOuTtt ~. L..
Child is filling his ice house.
Mrs. Peter O'Connell while in Somer-
vile, Mass, last week was taken with a
bad attack of nasal hemorrhage. DR.. l..
M. Greene was telegraphed for and he inn
mediately went to Somerville and return
ed with Mrs. O'Connell last Thursday.
While at work cutting ice last week
| Wednesday T.. X. Hatch took his annual
bath.
Two organs for sale, both new.
M. G. STAFFORD.
John Hough met with a painful acct
dent in the tannery last week. He was
attending to the chain pulley that car
ries the bark when his fingers got caught
in the chain and he was drawn up over
| the drum and held there. He was alone
at the time and it was quite a while be-
fore his cries attracted attention. When
he was finally rescued it was found that
| his left shoulder was put out OF joint and
two fingers broken. DIR. X. Nj. Chase was
called in and MIR. Hough was made as
comfortable as possible under the circum-
stances.
II you want to buy or sell farm call on
Fred Arnold, Bethel, VT.
X. S. Adams has put new regulator in
his shop, having sold the old one to the
Bethel Shoe Co. The new one is a re-
markably fine one.
Postal clerk S. H. Mccullough visited
in Hardwick last week.
An eleven pound son was born to Mr..
and Mrs. George Wyman of Walpole,
Mass, on Tuesday of last week. BY force
OF this event genial George Kimball Of
this town becomes entitled to be called
grandpa"
One good work horse, six years old,
weighs 1850, must be sold at once.
NJ. q. STAFFORD.
During the illness of stage driver Bige-
low, Silas Blakeley has been driving the
Gaysville stage.
Kiles P. Stockwell of Rochester has en-
tered the employ OF Brooks and Wash
burn in their store. He is a brother of
| George Stockwell, the popular clerk in
Greene and Chase's drug store few years
ago.
H. c. Gilbert of Randolph was in town
last Friday.
J. A. Graham, who has been at home
for several weeks attending to his father,
returned to Springfield, Mass Tuesday.
| About twenty-five couples attended the
masquerade ball last Friday.
In view of the large expense of taking
care of the town poor considerable move
is being made towards having the town
| purchase farm and take care of
themselves. The experience of other
towns in this vicinity would seem to inn
ply that this is the best way and results
in large reduction of taxes.
Miss Julana Sylvester has been confined
to her bed with severe attack of the
grip.
Will c. Rogers young son Claude is
confined to his bed with fever.
Mrs. Henry Stevens OF RoyaIton has
leased the tenement in the northern end
of the II. A. Durham house and moved in
to the same the first of the week.
Frank P. Markham was brought before
Justice George H. Upper last Monday
charged with incest with his two young
daughters aged fifteen and sixteen re-
spectively. He was held in the sum of
500 to answer at the May term of Wind
sor County Court and failing to find bail
was committed to Jail.
The daily papers one day last week re-
ported that a pension was granted to F.
II. Marks, Bethel man who died last
Oct.
Miss Josie 0'Connell was called home
from White River Junction last week by
the illness of her mother.
There was a splendid exhibition OF Au-
rora Borealis last Saturday evening in the |
north western sky, so brilliant at first |
that some OF the villagers thought that |
there must be flre in the direction Of /
Rochester.
A delegation from the Royalton Y. p. |
5. c. E. is to be present at the meeting of /
the local society Thursday OF this week.
Mrs. John Kimball is sick with nervous |
prostration at her home in Pa.
A. J. Davis pony was a little risky last
sunday when being harnessed and took
plunge into small shed on Mr.. Davis
premises. The horse went in head first
and the shed was so small that he could
only come out other end to. This the
beast refused to do and in order to recov-
er his horse Mr.. Davis was obliged to de-
molish the sides OF the building
George E. Smith, town clerk of Bridge
water and j. c. Caswell of Rutland were
in town last Tuesday.
Miss Sally Gay is stopping at H. H.
w. d. Adams of Middlebury is in town.
John Kimball of Walpole, Mass. is Wis
iting his father. He has good Situation Il