Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-01-23
Bethel Local Intelligence.

Harry e. Adams was in Hartland ovel
| Sunday.
+. r. Holden OF Penacook was in towr
Monday.
The Y. p. s. U. met at c. D. Cushing'l
Monday evening.
| c. Fl. Rood has resigned the care OF thu
electric light plant at Gaysville.
Miss Susie Williams was taken to thu
Brattleboro asylum last Saturday.
Mrs.W q Brooks entertained the Cong
ladies at q sociable Monday evening.
Miss Anna Mead OF Randolph was thu
guest of Miss Mollie Kimball last week.
L. B. johnson, editor OF the Randolph
HERALD AND NEWS, was in town last Sat.
urday.
j. D. Bennett has completed his theolog
ical studies at Canton, N. ", and is now
at Bethel. $500
Edwin l.. Harrington and family oi
Philadelphia are at Mrs. M E, Harring-
toms this week. es. y saAr
ly Dennis Wynn has. gone into partnershir
with John r Jackson DIT Burlington in the
grocery business.
A dime sociable by the Ladies' Auxiliary
OF the Cong'l church was held at Mrs. G.
e. Graham's last evening.
u6 lhuJeS Oh tue OulVeTShilst nOClcty
held sociable at the home Of Mrs. o. r.
Northrup Wednesday OF last week.
DIS. Phillips slipped while going up
stairs at his stable last Thursday and fell
back, putting his shoulder out OF joint.
10 Dean is keeping house in the tene-
ment house belonging to Alexander Morse
two miles north OF the village.
Misses Jennie Godfrey and Anna Foss,
teachers in the So. Royalton High school,
were guests OF Miss Flosa Shaw Saturday.
Milo ellison went to Burlington last
Mondayto place an illegitimate daughter
of Fanny Spencer OF Rochester in the Or
phans' Home.
Frank Putnam OF Stock bridge, with his
family, visited friends in this village the
first OF the week. Mrs. Putnam and chill
dren are spending the week here.
James A. Graham and Mrs. Graham OF
Barre were in town the first Of the week
and Wednesday left for trip to include
Boston, Springfield and Ludlow.
Miss Nellie Thurston, an emplcye at the
shoe factory, had the misfortune to crush
one OF her fingers Thursday by catching it
in the machine at which she was working
Miss Annie Kimball leaves this week
for East Walpole, Mass, where she will
have charge OF the advertising depart
ment in the paper mill of F. w. Bird Il
Co.
Irving c. Ransom fell from step ladder
at the tannery last Thursday while wir-
ing the building for the electric lights, Sc
verely injuring his shoulder. He returned
to his home in Woodstock Saturday.
While Rev. and Mrs. Blackman were
driving from the entertainment last
Wednesday evenin g,the axle Of the wagon
broke as they were going up the Injecting
house hill" Mrs. Blackman was quite Sc.
verely injured.
Last Wednesday evening an entertain
ment for the benefit OF the Cong'l church
was given in the town hall. The Bethel
band executed some fine music during
the procession of days, which was follow
ed by pretty operetta, called 1.-THE Quar-
rel Among the Flowers" The parts were
gracefully sustained by Misses Mabel
Greene, Annie Graham, Mary Kimball,
Lucy Washburn, Lizzie Kimball, Mary
Washburn and Edna Stevens. The male
quartet finely rendered its selections.
Miss Kittie, the seven year old daugh.
ter Of j. H. Waldo, created quite stir
Tuesday evening by being "lost." She
was last seen about s p. m. by the railroad
dry bridge and her frantic parents, assist.
ed by large number OF friends, secured
the village until s p M, when the uncon.
scious miss walked into the store of j. g.
Sargent with the remark that she was go.
ing to call on them awhile. 1t seems that
she had been spending the intervening
time at the home OF Willard j. Brooks.