Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-07-25

Forrest Shurtleff has returned to Bridge
water.
Mrs. E. N. Davis is visiting friends in
Springfield, Mass.
4. q. Brown OF White River Junction
was in town Monday.
Mrs. John Wallace is the guest OF Mrs.
P. D Ellis at Swanton.
Miss Ada French OF Barre Is visiting
friends in this vicinity.
Bethel creamery paid eighteen and one
half cents for June butter.
Mrs. Robert Miller OF Detroit, Mich, IS
the guest OF j. 9. Burnett.
Samuel Howard and wife are spending
the week at the state capital.
Mrs, Peter O'Connel returnea MONDAY
from two weeks visit In Boston.
DR.. H. w. Barrows OF Stowe spent Sun
day with his father, 8. W. barroVs. 7
Miss Maud Durham was in Burlington
lasFwSek for. Treatment fdrher tyNs.
MS. MAI E. HarFington bad very
tine display OF fireworks Mst Frfday.
Harry Adams returned from the Y. p. G..
u. convention in Boston on Saturday.
Daniel M, Strong returned last Monday
from an extended tour In the western
states.
Mrs. Cbas. Hoisington Of Lowell, Mass,
former resident, is stopping with Mrs.
D. T. Dyke.
Assistant Postmaster Willis Q. Waldo
moved this week into his new house on
Church street.
Frank Wyman, Walter Dompier ana
George Bowman are camping out at Lake
Morey in Fairlee.
M. A. Moody is building an addition on
the northerly end OF his plock Dine anu
one half feet wide.
Rev. w. H. Ryder Of Gloucester, Mass,
will preach at the Universalist church IN
this place next Sunday.
Rev. w. H. Ryder and Mrs. Ryder are
stopping at John Wheeler's, where tney
have been so many years.
Phineas Woodward has bought, the Je.
rome Kimball farm In Sharon ana VIII
take possession in two weeks.
Mrs. Forrest Shurtleff has leased the
new house Just completed by E.S.Jackson
at the south end OF the village.
Miss Ella Welch returned last week
from an extended visit to her uncle, f. M.
Clough at Mechanicsville, N. Y.
EFT. Arnold is finishing off rooms un-
der the ball at the Wilson House, to be
used as merchant tailor's shop.
Mrs. M. P. Stickney OF Royalton and
Miss Lois Smith of Boston have been viz
iting the past few days at w. b. z. STICK
ney's.
Mrs. Charles Kelley and son, G. H: Kel-
lev, OF Claremont, N. H., are spending a
few weeks in town, the guests OF Alpert
Bradbury.
Merritt Brink has been appointed spe-
cial constable by the selectmen, with duties
having especial reference to the watching
OF the village at night.
Paul Cav has moved his barn from the
rear Of the house OF g. F.Lewis to the rear
OF the new house Mr.. Gay Is building,
north OF the Sanspra house.
Through the liberality OF Rev. Virgil
William Backman, the Congl church has
recently received seventy five copies OF
the new song book, "Crowning Glory"
The Bethel second baseball nine was
badly worsted in contest with the SO.
Royalton team last Saturday. We have
not been able to ascertain the exact score.
Between the grasshoppers and the dry
weather, some OF the pastures afford very
poor living for animals, and people are
taking their cattle out OF pastures to Keep
them in the barn.
Witnesses were summoned to Moutpe-
lier this week to testify in the case OF the
United States John Driscoll for postofice
breaking. This Driscoll was the man who
escaped the officers near the sugarhouse
OF w. A. Nudge last week and was alter
wards captured near Vergennes.
O, j. Hodge and wife OF Cleveland, Ohio,
have been visiting friends and relatives
in town. Mrs. Hodge Is daughter OF
Earl Shedd and niece OF Rodney Shedd,
formerly OF this town. Mr.. Hodge has
been prominent politician, first in Con-
necticut and later in Ohio. He was
speaker OF the Connecticut House Of Rep
resentatives and filled the same office IN
Ohio for eight or ten terms and Is now on
the staff OF Gov. Foraker.
Mrs. Lizzie Silverthorn,w who is instruct
or in music at the University OF Virginia
at Roanoke, Va, Is in town. Mrs. Silver
thorn Is daughter OF s. Augustus Bah
bitt, former prominent resident OF Beth
Ell. Mr.. Babbitt married daughter Of
Alvin McKenstry, who at his death about
fifty years ago left the Bascom House
property and the old White River House
property, covering the locations OF the
blocks OF Brooks & Washburn and Of
Fred Arnold to the town OF Bethel for 8
poor fund.
The selectmen deserve much credit for
the improvement they have made at the
cemetery at the lower end Of the village
The upper end of this cemetery is owned
by the Cherry Hill Cemetery association
but the title in which the lower end is
vested is unknown and it has been usec
for town cemetery for century. The
older lots had fallen into very bad con.
dition and were badly overgrown witt
weeds and the stones being in all posi-.
tions except perpendicular. All these
things have been changed for the better
ana the roadside has been relieved OF its
unsight!y grove OF weeds and bushes.
Mrs. Annie Williamson, wife OF Free
Williamson, passed from her cherished
earthly home to the rest eternal on the
Itch day OF July,af nearly twenty years
of happy welded life. A modest anc
cheerful companion in whom her husband
could safely trust, always ready and viii.
ling to be useful, and being true econo
mist and intensely interested in the vel.
fare OF her three children, to whom she
was faithful, wise and loving mother the
vacancy in the home cannot be filled
She was noted where she had lived long
hor ir,fiv Evil A