Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-15
Bethel Local Intelligence,

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Wesley Baker is newly shingling his
house.
William r. Adams and son have fine
line of Easter cards.
j. B. Putnam of Randolph visited
friends in town Friday.
Bethel cornet band has begun praetie'
ing for the summer season.
] F. NJ. Whitcomb was registered at
Fruithurst, Alabama, last week.
, Nath. Whittier of Barre spent Sunday
with his brotber-in-l law, James p. Marsh.
John jackson and family OF Burlington
are stopping with his father, Edwin Jack
son.
Miss Addie Gilbert of Randolph was
the guest of Mrs. c. Z. Stearns over sun
day.
/ William Stickney, of the class of 1900 at
/ Dartmouth college, is at home for weeks
vacation.
| Mrs. X. p. Stockwell went to Bristol
4 Monday where she will assist in millin-
cry store.
Hon. ID. G. Denison and Miss Gertrude
Denison of Royalton were in town last
| Thursday
Il. II. Winslow OF Montpelier, a former
/ resident OF town, was here Thursday OF
last week.
The Junior Order of American Mechan-
les will meet only once III TWO weeks un-
til October LIST.
Mrs. A. L. Stearns has been spending
several days with Mrs. Herbert Adams in
West Hartford.
Miss Della Read of Plainfeld was the
guest OF her cousin, Victor Read, Tuesday
and Wednesday.
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the National White River bank and the
Whitcomb high school.
w. j. Davis Of Glens Falls, n. Y, was
summoned to Bethel last week by the
serious illness OF his mother.
Miss Susie Wilson has gone to Lancas.
ter, n. H., where she will teach private
kindergarten school this spring.
c. l.. Clafiin has moved from Randolph
into the tenement house OF Ed ellison and
is driving stage for VIM. Tinkham and
son.
Letters remain unclaimed in this office
for Joseph Bouthatte, w. III. Foley, Lieut..
w. McCarty Little, T.. |. Rogers and Geo.
Townsend.
George wilkins, who is employed ia the
Thompson Optical works at Hartford,
Conn, has been visiting friends in town
the past week.
T. A. Peartt of the Keene Furniture
company and purchaser OF the Tweed
River Iron company estate at Pittsheld,
was in town the first of the week.
There seems to be new disease among
some OF the crops ia this section, nearly
every parsnip and vegetable oyster having
rotted in the ground during the winter.
Samuel Washburn, who formerly lived I
on the George Hammond place on the
Barnard road, has hired the Leonard 1
ellison premises of George Wright for the 1
coming season.
L. +. Samuel OF Boston was in town the |
first of the week. lie comes up to maze /
for Dr. Luke Wilder, who (
has hired a house of j. O. Robinson at /
Rochester and will occupy the same.
Easter Sunday will be observed at the 1
church next Sabbath /
with an Easter sermon in the morning /
and in the evening there will be a very /
pleasant Easter exercise to which all are I
cordially invited.
w. II. Carter of St. Johnsbury has sued
the Central Vermont II. X. for $4,000 /
damages for injuries received at the FIN
ley bridge crossing in December, 1895. The
suit is returnable at the June term OF
Caledonia county court.
II you do not believe that Maxham's
Balm lis the stuff" ask S.CDunham, ESQ,
"a
age, what 1t has done for him this winter
IN curing very severe and troublesome
cough which many different medicines
had failed to relieve.
The fifth and sixth grades OF the Whit
comb High school gave a musical enter
-ainment Wednesday evening in the town
hall, concluding with the operetta,
'Grandpa's Birthday" The entertain
nent was under the direction OF Prof. III. y
" ormsley, instructor OF music in the
school and the proceeds were for the BEN
fit OF the graduating class. III
The two-horse team OF Amos Leavitt,
litched in front OF the store OF Brooks x
Nashburn, TOOK fright Wednesday morn ,
ng at passing tram and ran till in front
II the tenement OF Chas. Shepard in the
<ittredge house, where one horse took
me side Of maple tree and the other the
opposite side, To the manifest injury of .
he outfit. Six 60-quart milk cans we're
catered in Lively fashion with considera. d
lie skim milk. n
Mrs. Charlotte Davis suffered a shock :
thursday OF last week from which she
lid not recover but fingered in a partly /
onscious state until her death Tuesday Il
norning. Mrs. Davis was born i'm 1916 at p
'helsea and was the daughte of Aquila
tanley. At the age of ten years the fam
" moved to Randolph where they lived
ntil, in 1888, she married James Davis n
nd went to housekeeping on the premis-
5 now occupied by Fred A. Mayo. They ~
wed there until 1877 when Mr.. and Mrs.
laws moved to the farm now occupied by
oren Holt in Royalton. Two children y
1rvive Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Minnie Marsh, l
-ho has made her home with Mrs. Davis
be past ten years or more, and William n
Davis of Glens Falls, n. Y. n