Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-10-01
Bethel Local Intelligence.


4 Boston last week.
Alton Ingalls, OF Exeter, \. ~, was al
home over Sunday.
A. B. Bird is suffering from severe al
tack of pneumonia.
Charles Partridge of Boston was at A
L. Stearns' last week.
Miss j. Sylvester and Miss Susan Brown
are ia Boston this week.
Will Kidder of Boston visited friends
/ in this vicinity last week.
Miss Mayo was called to Barre last week
by the death OF her brother.
Pearl Spaulding has gone to Burlington
to enter the Agricultural college.
Miss Nav | Savage is to teach the fall
term OF school in Dist. No. 4, Locust
1 Creek.
Mrs. A. L. Stearns visited friends in
Bellows Falls, Rutland and elsewhere
recently.
Miss Ada Rice returned from months
visit with friends at Fitchburgh, Mass,
and elsewhere on Monday.
w. Brooks, clerk for Brooks q Wash
burn, has been confined to the house by
| illness for several days past.
/ Miss Kate Webster has been engaged as
assistant in the intermediate department
OF the w hitcomb High school.
The Universalist ladiesl gave very sue
cessful supper at Harrington parloTs on
Wednesday evening of last week.
Miss Jennie Long, who has spent the
summer at +. b. Maxham's, returned to
her home in Boston on Friday last.
Miss Susie Wilson went to Lancaster,
Y. H., last Saturday, where she is to con-
duct a private Kindergarten school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Hayden OF Boston,
formerly OF this place, visited Old friends
and neighbors in this village last week.
Mrs. c. L. Foster has been confined to
the bed the past ten days with very Sc
we're attack OF infiammatory rheumatism.
Miss Emma Powers brought into this
office last Saturday large cluster OF ripe
raspberries picked in the field the day be-
fore.
Joseph Boudro has moved to East High
gate, where he is to work in the ak factory
where be was employed before coming 10
Bethel
Mrs Nettie Pollard OF Dixon, H., and
Mrs. George Trask OF Newark, S. d., have
been guests OF Mrs. Ellen ellison the past
week.
Mrs. Amos Cha berlin has moved from
the Mary Rogers house to the house
on North Main street owned by Mrs. Har-
riet Brown.
Capt. Charles Partridge, formerly OF
Stock bridge but now OF indianapolis,
spent two days of last week visiting his
nephew, Henry Rice.
Rollin ellison, +. NJ. Wilson and c. G.
Abbott we're absent last week upon
pleasure trip to New York by way OF Lake
Champlain and the Hudson river.
At the last commencement of Dartmouth
college the honorary degree OF master Of
10 William
wick Curry Stickney of this town.
Louis Squlres, who has delivered the ex-
press for the station agent, J. II. Waldo,
was compelled to go to his home in Shar-
on last Friday on account OF sickness.
Captain William Coulter and his sister,
Marguerite, who have been boarding at
l.. A. Maxham's for several weeks, re-
turned to their home in Boston Friday.
MIR. and Mrs. L. L. Messer returned
from their bridal trip on Wednesday OF
last week and will make their home in
Fred Chapman's tenement on Church
street.
Dana Stoddard, whose pleasant wedding
occurred on Wednesday OF last week,
occupies one OF viii Parsons tenements
on Highland Valley, in which he was
married.
Letters remaining unclaimed in this
Zie Ainsworth, II. W. tarwell, Miss Mary
h. Kimball, Mrs. Lofty Livll, Record
Carrie Spauding and David Wilkey, Esq.
A. G.. Chandler, constable OF Ripton, was
in town last Friday looking for one Will
lard Worthen, who, il was claimed, had
disposed of horse upon which there was
mortgage to one f. q. Wheeler OF Han
cock.
Tue last reports are very favorable 9th
condition Of the child OF J. LaInu. The
metal tube placed in the yindpipe, as re-
lated in last weeks issue, has been re-
moved and the wound seems to be healing
rapidly.
VIM. II. Eimunds has on exhibition at
the store OF G.H. Kimball prize winning
pumpkin that measures in circumference
20 inches one way and 81 / 2 inches the
other way. II is OF the variety known as
the California pumpkin.
Harry Kerr, the popular clerk at, the
store of q. II. Tupper, was married
Wednesday of last week to Miss Gertrude
Sturtevant of Middlebury. MIR. and Mrs
Kerr came TO Bethel Monday and will
make their home in town.
Miss Sallie Gay has sold to the Whit.
comb high school that portion of the
steep bank in the rear of the school prem.
ises that is bounded by the river, lands OF
the c. V. X. r. and a line from the Cong'l
society's horse sheds to the river.
Ralph Dewey OF South birmingham,
Mass, who is staying with Mrs. Edwin
Fisher, had the misfortune to make a mis-
step last Friday afternoon and brought
his entire weight upon leg that was
broken only last August, thus breaking
the leg again in the same place.
The people OF Bethel, irrespective OF de-
nominational lines, donated S26 which |
was presented Rev. V. W. Blackman Mon.
day evening of this week by a delegation
OF the donors, with letter OF regret tes-
tiiying to the esteem in which Mr.. Black. |
man was held and their regret at his de- |
parture, and the previous Saturday the |
Ladies Auxiliary OF the Congl church |
presented Mrs. Blackman a silver card |
basket with silver cash accompanying it. |
MIR. Blackman has been with the people |
here three years, in which time he has be- |
come acquainted with nearly all. 1t is |
safe to say that no pastor ever left Bethel |
with so many sincere regrets and it will |
be long time before his place will be |
hlled in this community.