Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-05-14

Bethel Local Intelligence
Miss Annie Hamilton is visiting at he
old home at Sutton, p. @.
The ladies OF the Cong'l church cleare
about s100 at their fair last week.
Rollin ellison spent Sunday at Under
hill and |. M. Frost at Rochester
Mrs. Clement Drew and Mis-. John Hew
lit OF South R,yalton visited here las
| week.
Rev. v. W. Black man and Rev. v. M
Hardy OF Randolph exchanged pupits las
Sunday.
Miss Alice Lamb,a former teacher in tn
| Whitcomb High school, visited in tow
last week.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Farr OF East Mid
dlepury visited Mrs. Henry Rice and fam
lily last week.
foiThe Bethel I'd nine played the Higl
school nine last Thursday and were de
Heated by, a score Of IS to 8, sss AZ. *
Mrs. e., G. Stearns has been spending
the past week " Randolph Center will
her sister, Mrs. H. q. Gilbert.
George Dutton hes moved from thu
Hatch farm on the Barnard stage road on
to the Willard Walker farm In Barnard.
Several couples from here attended the
"LiviDg Whist" entertainment and ball al
White River Junction last Thursday even.
ing.
Carpenters commenced work on viii
Payson's tenement house Monday, under
the direction OF Orson Woodcock Of Ran
dolph.
DR.. G. E.Sparhawk Of Burlington was In
town over Sunday to see his mother
Madam Sparhawk, at his sisters, Mrs. G
Il. Grahams.
Last week ten young lady friends oil
Mrs. Walter Webster came up from South
Royalton and gave her very pleasant
surprise party.
Nj. N.Kendall is building a new slaugh.
terhouse on the top of the knoll about
one fourth mile north OF the village on
the Randolph road.
Mr., and Mrs. G. ]. Wallace were called
to Concord the first OF the week by the Sc
rlous illness OF DR.. 8. W.Welch, Mrs. Wal
lace's brother-in- law.
Mrs George Wyman and children re-
turned to Walpole, Mass, last Tuesday,
accompanied by Miss Annie Kimball, who
returns to resume her position In +. w.
Birds factory.
The selectmen have appointed c. L.
Chadwick special constable with the duty
OF doing night watch in the village and
have also reappointed Robert Noble over
seer OF the poor, from which office Mr. Mo-
bic resigned short time since.
Don G. Rodgers has moved from the
tene ment house OF r. w. Rood into No. 3,
Saffordvile, and Z. F. Cnamberlin has
moved from the house OF James Sexton
into the house OF Mrs. Albert Sanders. Ed
Harlow has changed his home from the
house OF VIM. II. Edmunds on Pleasant
street to the Pain place on the Barnard
road.
The selectmen have been petitioned to
lay a new road to the Dingman granite
quarries from the present river road in
such way that there would be no steep
grades. Such road can certainly be made
and almost any new road would be an i'm
provement on the present Christian Hill
road.
w. B. c. Stickney, Fred Arnold and e.
A. Davis spenta day fishing at Lake Mitch
ell in Norwich last week, bringing home
so trout that weighed between 30 and 40
pounds. Lake Mitchell is undoubtedly
the best fishing ground in this state and
is private preserve or fishing pond, COW
ering 65 acres.
The Rochester and Pittsfield Telephone
company has sold out its line and fran
chises to tine New England Telephone Co.,
the transfer to take place July LIST. 1t re.
serves the line from Rochester to Ham
cock and the instruments OF Its own now
on the line. The sale covers about 50 miles
OF line connecting Roches ter Bethel Barn
ard, Stockbridge, Pittstield, Woodstock
and West Hartford. ~ Al
DR.. VIM. r. Brown has recently taken
an order for 1900 cubic yards OF finished
granite for the new Holyoke dam over the
Connecticut river. The contract price Is
some over $31 900 on board the cars. II is
expected that the granite will be quarried
on the Dingman quarry on Christian Hill
and will be finished in Bethel village and
will give employment to several hundred
hands during the summer. Mr.. Brown
expects to put on about 20 teams the first
OF June drawing the granite 10 Bethel viii
lage. 't''t
A very interesting and important decis-
ion has been given by the United States
district clerk OF Vermont. Judge Wheel
er OF that court has decided that "three
per cent beer" Is an intoxicating liquor,
and fined two Burlington dealers in that
fluid for selling without a United States
license. The local magistrates have been
4 good deal puzzled 10 decide the status OF
this beverage, and in default OF any de-
cision on their part as to whether it was or
was not intoxicating liquor within the
meaning OF the Vermont law, Vermonters
have drank good deal Of II, with the
sweet assurance that their jovislity was
not contemptuous OF the prohibitory stat
ute. Now that United States Judge has
tut the Gordian knot with trenchant de-
,ision, Vermonters will have to become
hardened indeed to continue to imbibe
,hree per cent.-Boston Transcript.
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