Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-05-03
Bethel Local Intelligence.

boy. now clerk and salesman for his uncle,
Chas. W. Howard, formerly OF West ssRan :
dolph and well known here, in his large
estate and insurance office at Maiden,
Mass, gave his friends here a flying visit
this week.
Don't fool yourself with the idea that
you are going To buy your fishing tackle
any cheaper than +. A. Markham is going
to sell it to you. He has fine stock of it
that he is going to close out regardless of
cost Call and see it before buying, and
while you are about it, get bottle OF his
Famous Trout Secret.
A big line of straw hats just received at
Brooks & Washburn's. Fifty cents buys
a nobby one.
The listers have lodged an abstract OF
the list in the town clerks office and set
May LIST as time to hear grievances.
o. o. Rogers, whose strange disappear
| ance was noted some two months ago, re-
turned last Saturday. He has been spend.
ing the time with bis son Scion IN Addi-
son.
New styles in ladies' shirt waists, just
opened by Brooks q Washburn.
The Grammar school baseball nine
went to South Royalton last Saturday
and defeated the nine from that village by
a score of SO to IL.
Mrs. G. A. Wilkins had the misfortune
to slip on the stairway leading from the
| house at her place last Saturday, falling
and both fraeturing and dislocating her
arm.
! Don't buy your russell shoes until you
examine the stock carried by Brooks x
| Washburn.
Mrs. w. j. Brooks and daughter are
! spending few months in Boston.
Mrs. d. T. Dykes visiting nephew in
Boston.
Miss Josie Heath spent Sunday at
Mortified with Mrs. Martin Hanlon.
R. S. Adams and family have been
spending several days with the family OF
Mrs. Adams father at West Hartford.
The Y P 5. c. E. held pleasant social
reunion at their parlors Monday evening
Of this week.
Mrs. Fred Arnold and children are Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. 4. l.. Barber, at the /
summer cottage of the latter near New |
port, X. L.
Brooks and Washburn are showing an /
elegant line of spring Leekwear.
Do you know that / have the best line
Of ladies and children's shoes in town, es-
pecially all the novelties in low shoes;
also,a line of sandals. MRS. L. +. WILSON.
Iwant stock to pasture.
JAMES d. WHEELER.
Miss Mary Brooks and Robbie Bird
have the German measles.
Largest line of French and domestic
candies ever shown in Bethel at Smith
Rogers d Co.'s.
During a recent thunderstorm, light.
ming struck wall near he house of Geo
Parker, tearing down the wall blowing
The ground and giving the occupants Of I
The mousse good shaking up.
The new creamery is framed ana the t
iills are LAID. 1t will be a hands ONE
building and a credit to the village.
There are two noticeable facts in con- i
lection with the vital statistics published Il
elsewhere in this issue. The first is that y
he deaths number thirty-one, while the {,
'irths are only % for the year 1893. The
ear 1872 showed a corresponding excess
# deaths. The natural query that follows Il
5, when will the end of the decreasing u
ate be reached, or will Bethel always 90 "
N with smaller birth than death rate?
" course, the population in the last few r,
ears has probably been kept good by the a
arge numoer of out-oftown people who
ave moved into Bethel village. Another
fact is the extreme old age
cached by most Of the deceased. In the -;
otal thirty one deaths, there was an aver ~
&c age reached of over GO years, and this
a face of the fact that the time honOred "
Insurance tables have quoted the average
sngth of the human life as between TWEEN
y-nine and thirty years. Leaving out 70
he three victims of the typhoid fever
oourge last year and one accidental bl
cath, the average would be nearly sixty 50
inc years Truly, Bethel must contain
be Fountain Of Everlasting Youth in its iii
lidst. n,