Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-07-16
Bethel Local Intelligence

Bethel Local Intelligence
Miss Mabel Brooks is visiting relative.
in Boston.
Myron E. Savage is confined to thu
house by sickness.
| Ed Fisher has recently moved into The
Albert Stearns block.
Parsons new house on Church stree
| was plastered last week.
P.Stockwell has moved his family in
| to his new house on Church St. 3s
| Mrs. Chas. Brown is in Norwich, nurs
| ing in Leslie Richardson's family.
F. M. Manley and A. H. Badger Of
| Sharon were in town last Tuesday.
Mr.. Moses Dustin and Mrs. Agnes
King were married last Wednesday.
w. Fl. Hatho-n and family OF Rutland
visited at Frank B. Maxham's Sunday.
Mrs. G.. B. Chase OF Randolph has been
visiting friends in town the past week.
Mrs. Adelaide Shedd OF Haydenville
Mass, is the guest Of Mrs. Rodney Shedd
Arthur and Belle Mannix are staying
with friends In Claremont, N. H., this
week.
Mrs. Rix Williams has new "bike, y
bought through the agency OF H. +,
Adams.
Mrs. Wynn Savage and son are spend
ing several days with her mother, L. b
Dow in Royalton.
Merrick Sylvester and William Sylves-
ter have been spending the past week in
Glens Falls, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Adams OF Phila-
den hia are staying with his father, Will
liam r. Adams, Esq.
Mrs. Charles A. Davis went to Pierce
Bridge, near Bethlehem, N. H., last week
to jim M. Davis, who is clerking in a
store at Pierce Bridge.
Miss Lulu Graham is confined to the
house with what Is supposed to be the
measles and her place at the shoe shop Is
taken by Miss Annie Hamilton.
Chief Engineer C. d. Cushing OF the
fire department has appointed Griffin
Durga foreman Of the hose department
and Roy l.. Stearns first assistant fore
man.
itirg his brother, Edison K. Holbrook. Mr..
Moses Holbrook is lawyer in Boston and
proprietor OF Farnsworth and Conant col
lection agency.
Miss Pamela Billiard died last Friday OF
typhoid pneumonia and funeral services
were held Saturday. Miss Billiard was a
sister OF Mrs. G. X. Noble and Of the late
Mrs. Moses Dustin.
By a recent order of the postoffice de-
paItnent the salary OF Railway Mail
Clerk Samuel Mccullough has been
raised from 81, 15n to 81 300 and of VIM.
M. Fisher from Il 600 to 81, $50.
There were no services last Sunday at
the Universalist church, owing to the abb
sence of Rev. j. o. Bennett at Jersey City,
attending the annual convention OF the
Young Peoples Christian Union.
Frank q. Reynolds and Dudley H.
Prescott will give an entertainment next
Monday under the auspices OF the Good
Templars. These same children have
been here before and gave very pleasing
entertainment for both young and old.
The listers have lodged in the town
clerks Office statement of the taxable es-
tate and polls in the town OF Bethel for
1896. Below are given the figures for this
year and for 1895.
Real estate, LIST class a. and less slsls2s sa!5l75
I'd class, over 10 acres ?s7,b5s 2o3 $50
Total real estate, 47sis7 5Os,725
Personal property, 39Siu 36l, ssi
Total taxable property, sT2s5s s7o,eo6
sos poll, both years, lOl60o 1850
Total list. ss7S,as ss7a.2os
A branch OF the Junior Order OF Ameri-
can Mechanics was organized here last
week by Fred Alexander of Providence.
K. I. The following officers were elected:
Griffin Durga, conductor; Harry Kerr,
warder; Willis Dunbar, counselor; e. z.
Fisher, vice counselor; g. A. Blossom,
junior past counselor; b. v. Johnson,
recording secretary; J. H. Waldo, assist
ant recording secretary; Frank Cook,
financial SEE rotary; John Kimball treas
ursr; George wilkins, chaplain; Will
Rogers, inside sentinel; Earl Wilson,
outside sentinel.
Following is a list OF the heaviest tax
payers in town:
Fred Arnold, $3.50
L. T. Arnold, 1890
Abbott Il Cady, $500
Brooks & Washburn, 29,5i5
A. A. Brooks and wife, Alto
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