Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-05-31
Bethel Local Intelligence

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Will Waldo and family have been visit
ing in Barnard.
Griffin Place OF Woburn, Mass. was il
! last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. c. Stickney were il
Boston last week.
James s. Quimby, the member from
Sharon in the legislature of 1892, was in
town last Monday.
There was young lady from Kent
Whose rings were all battered and bent
But at r. S. Adams store
In ten minutes or more,
He removed every identical dent.
J. D. Denison, Esq, of West Randolph
was in town last Monday.
E. B Kimball of Burlington was in this
vicinity the first of the week.
Mrs. c. H. Rood suffered a stroke OF pa
ralysis last Sunday.
The Bethel baseball team has rented fine
grounds for the season OF w. II. Edmunds,
opposite the Nelson Ellison house.
c. NJ. Trask OF Warren was in town
Monday.
The Catholics held largely attended
meeting last Sunday at the Bascom House
hall.
c. ID. Cushing is putting in some extern
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X. Adams residence, intending to lay an
inch iron pipe with large cement bot
tom main reservoir with feed pipes attach
ed thereto.
At meeting of Fire Dist. No. / last
Wednesday it was voted to lay tax Of
ten cents on a dollar for the purpose of
defraying current expenses.
Mrs. F. b. Salisbury OF West Randolph
has been spending several days with Mrs.
Julia Weston.
n. L. Seldom, Esq, OF Boston, one of the
executors of the will OF the late Albert
Whitcomb, was in town last week.
Acting on a largely signed petition, the
selectmen have set off "Brooklynn from
Fire Dist. No. in Bethel.
Geo. II. Kimbal's delivery-team horse
spanked up enough to ron away last Fri
day, while standing in front OF store, max
ing a lively das h for his manger at home,
but allowed himself to be stopped by
"valiant Jim" Manix, near the mill.
George H.Tupper was in Burlington last
Friday.
Miss Mary Leonard OF East Concord, n.
H., is visiting friends in this vicinity.
VIM. stickney and Robert Wilson re-
turned from Chicago last Friday, leaving
eight and six pounds respectively Of their
flesh in that city.
The shoe shop shut down Monday and
Tuesday of this week to give the help
rest and make some changes in the ma
chinery. The floor in the lower story has
been completed and the shaftings and
connection are up ready for placing the
machinery on that floor.
Geo. +. Bixby has moved from the Bas-
com House, where he has been boarding,
to the j. P. Martin place, owned by w. NJ.
Kendall.
While Harvesting the "Kidder mare"
last Sunday, f. II. Moore received very
bad kick in the abdomen. Monday he was
reported as doing as well as could be ex-
pected under the circumstances.
Official Sugar Weigher Frank l.. Martin
reports that during the last season he has
weighed at his station 12,41i pounds of
maple sugar.
John Marshall Shaw, ninety years old,
must have worked like Trojan, Tuesday
the 23d, tthe hot day. for he dropped every
hill for the planting of two acres of corn.
Adore J. Damien Of Bellows Falls and
Miss Alice A. Edison OF Bethel were mar
ried Wednesday, May "a. Mrs. Damien is
well and favorably known in Bethel and
her many friends wish her well. The new
ly married couple will be at home after
June 8, 1895, at Bellows Falls.
Harvey X Flager recovered judgment
in Boston for S15,s33 against DIR. X. c.
Flower. Flagler had sued Flower for the
alleged conversion of certain shares OF
stock by the defendant, laying his dam
ages at $4,000, the foundation of the trou-
bic being the formation OF the various
companies carrying the famous "Kem-
Kom" fuel patent Flagler is well re-
in Bethel as interested in the |
mining operations in Bethel and Pitts
field some fifteen years ago.
BY a new move the shoe shop manage
ment expect to make a saving of at least |
400 year in the fuel line. Hitherto they |
have burned coal entirely, with some |
wood, but now they use a composition of |
about one-hfth coal and four fifths waste |
or spent tan, costing nothing but the |
drawing of the same from the adjacent |
1t is taken wet and burned with |
but any drying process.
Apropos of the excursion to the Worlds |
Fair last week. it is said that "SoIn He |
bard, the reigning clerk of Orange Coun- |
" Court, was the chief amusement |
Of the party, next after the Exposition |
proper. "Soln had been told that the con-
,erts in Music Hall we've free and so one |
endeavoied to pass his form with |
in the portals Of that hall, but was OBJ
'tructed by Columbian guard, who told
aim that he must have ticket. "Huh!u
Puff "Huh!' puff Chow much tick
~" "a dollar" was the reply. "Then
won't go in" and he retreated to less cost
y pleasures. Again, "Sol,r while wait
ng at crossing for an electric to take
aim to the Exposition grounds, was &C
,osted by rustic female, asking for di-
ection as to how to enter the grounds, at
What gate, etc. He went into a labored
discourse of the merits of the different en-
RANGES, how this one had that attraction,
hat entrance this attraction and how this
was the best for first sight, end
ng up by asking his pupil il she had been
IN the grounds before. The gentle reply
vas "What business is that of yours9''
Sol" subsidized for awhile but for the rest
4 the day, every once in awhile the boys
would catch faint murmurs, seemingly
proceeding from his lips, that sounded
trangely like "Gosh- darned old fury
He Had Been There.