Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-11-12
Bethel Local Intelligence.

Jack Develin of Boston is visiting BIZ
cousin 5. B. Day.
c. l.. Chadwick vas laid M several day
/ last week by u spraIneu anAie.
Alton Messer of Lincoln spent AS
week with his son, +. l.. Mssssr.
Ben Noble has gone 70 Windsor tc
work al his trade OF carpenterlng
Mir. and Mrs. f. j. WetmoIe ale visit
/ ing friends in Worcester, Mass, ana VI
elnlty.
Mrs. S. B. Carpenter OF Randolph wai
the gu Sc last week OF her sister, Mrs A
| l.. oLearns.
Railroad Conductors Henry Chamber
| lin and Henry Cheney we're IN town seV
eral days asst week.
Thomas Madden il instructiDg flour
isbing class of fifteen or twsnty in the
manly srt of self defence.
Mrs. r. Sawyer OF Moretown has been
| in town several days lately, visiting heT
daughter, Mrs. ID ). Phillips.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Blake, Mrs. Albert
Abbott and Mrs. Horatio Blake are spend
ing the present week at Norwich and Han
over.
Madam Creamer, who has been spend
ing the summer with her son, Walter
Howard Creamer, returned to New York
Tuesday.
About 80 members of the Bethel Young
Republicans club went to Rochester last
Friday evening to attend the Republican
Notification meeting.
The retail price for -four has gone up
Il so in the past three months and S210
In year. Corn remains about the same
with small fluctuations.
A large delegation from the Whiteomb
High school and several citizens were in
Montpelier last Thursday observing the
way laws are made in Vermont.
Mrs Collins II. Luce has brought a pc
tition for divorce on the ground OF intol.
cradle severity and refusal 20 support.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luce were married early
this summer
An effort is being made to revive the
local organization OF Good Templars
which has been in a languishing condi-
ton for about a year but b ad not sur
rendered its charter.
Rev. j. NJ. Atwood, ID. d, OF the Can
ton Theological school ana president of
st Lawrence university, will preach at the
Universalist church next Sunday at the
usual morning hour.
Miss Maud Durham is at home after
teaching the fall term OF school in the
Dutton district in Royaltou, and Miss
Mary Wilson, who taught in the Pierce
district in Royalton, is at home.
On account Of i'll health Rev. j. o. Ben.
nett is compelled to leave for the time
ueing his pastorate OF the Universalist
church and next Sunday will preach his
last sermon for the present az least.
The Bethel shoe shop was gayiy
trimmed before the election and orna-
mented with a large motto, ave want
~ ufa ~
motto has been changed to ave have the
gold standard"
Norman C. Raymond OF Ilion, n. Y,
was the guest last week OF his sister, Mrs
John Parrott. Mr.. Raymond is employed
in the machine shops OF the Remington
company. This company, in addition to
making more typewriters than any other
firm in the world, also has large shops at
lion in which guns and bicycles are
made.
The boom OF the cannon at Rochester
was heard very plainly Friday evening.
Many had supposed that it was impossi-
bic for sound to be carried 30 plainly such
a distance-eleven miles over the noun
tain and eighteen by the river-but the
OF the atmosphere was espe
cially favorable that evening as il was
heavily charged with moisture.
g. II. Upper was in receipt Saturday Of
a handsome rooster from Henry Terry of
Illinois, former Rochester BOY. 1t was
enclosed in a box handsomely draped
with the American flag. The bird was
labeled Mckinley rooster and was in
fine condition. Three ears OF corn were
nailed up beside the box for food and on |
the outside was the placard, "Giye me
some water and use me we'll"
Mrs. E. +. Wilson and Mrs. T. A. Chad |
wick were driving Tuesday after a spir- |
tied horse of Earl Wilson's that had not |
been out of the stable for two weeks, and |
as they neared the top OF the Church /
street hill the horse became alarmed and /
veered sharply, throwing both ladies out, |
and Mrs. Wilson landed on the concrete |
on the back of her head. She was con-. 4
injured about the head and was /
unconscious for some time but seemed to
be doing well al last reports. Mrs. Chad I
wick was not severely injured, a /
Mrs. John Noble died last Thursday at /
The home OF her son, Robert Noble. Mrs. |
Noble was II years OF age and the imme-
date cause OF her death was a stomach /
trouble. Mrs. Noble was a connecting /
link between the past and present as she /
was the daughter of Abijah Shedd, one OF 1
Inc early blacksmiths of Bethel, and was
1t an early age married to John Noble, a
soldier OF the war OF 1872. The house in /
lgo by the grandfather OF Robert Noble,
and to this house Mr.. and Mrs. John
Noble went to live after their marriage in
LSi3, and Mrs. Noble has since resided
here. She was noted for her lxindnesses
ind genial disposition. She leaves two
brothers residing in the West and one
son, Robert Noble.
A case of interest to about thirty Yer
nonters in this vicinity was decided at
Portsmouth, n. H last Friday before the
'upreme court. The National bank of
Limerick, Me-, brought action against
Frank III. McAlpin and others to recover
he face value, interest and costslof note
or 1898 signed by more than forty bust.
less men OF Exeter, Epping, Lee, Bal
ington and vicinity. The case arose out
VI trade whereby certain stallion was
old to these forty associates for the sum
II g 900, the purchase price being divided
INTO three equal pa ments, a year apart, of
SSS. The sellers disposed OF the notes to
he bank and when the first note became
iue payment was refused on the ground
hat the horse was not as represented.
Tne jury ate. being out only ten minutes