Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-12-09
Bethel Local intelligence
George Waldo was in Barre Monday.

/ u. A. Cneuel OF flttsntiu WIS III 1ohA
last Friday.
Mrs. James Sexton is laid up with q
sprained ankle.
Rev. j. o. Bennett OF st. Adams was in
town last week.
Chas. Frank went to Boston Monday to
be gone few days.
Gardner Noble went to his former home
at Ulverton, P. O., last week.
Clark Reed has been appointed janitor
of the Whitcomb High school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Emery are visiting
in Charleston, n. H., this week.
S. M washburn was in Boston last
week, looking for Christmas goods.
II. L Stevens and family left last week
for Seattle, Wash, their former home.
DIR. A. b. Gay was in town Tuesday to
make tubereulin test for q. Ii. Kldder.
Peter Burrell, the barber, has been con-
fined to his house by sickness this week.
Mrs. e. A. Savage was up from Henni-
ker, N. H., last week and packed up her
goods
Carlton Stevens has moved from the
house of A. j. Davis to the house OF e. a.
Savage.
Rev Mr.. Reed from Maine supplied the
desk at the UniVersalist church last
Sunday.
A fine COW belonging to II. c. Cheney
was found dead hanging in the barn last
/ Saturday a.
Mrs. Merrick Sylvester is visiting Mrs.
/ Hazard Bose ortb, former resident, at
/ titchburg, Mass.
! p. c. Dunbar, who has been clerking
/ for @. H. Kimball, has returned to the
shoe shop to work.
The annual meeting Of the grange will
be held Dext Saturday evening Tor the
election Of officers.
j. G. Atkins was in town last week and
moved his goods to Warren, where he IS
in blacksmith business.
Mrs. Adelaide Shedd of Haydenville,
Mass, has been spending the past week
at Mrs. Rodney Shedd's.
Annie Hill, who has worked for s. B
Dag the past two years, returned to her
home in North Carolina Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. f. L. Martin went TO Bos-
ton last Friday TO attend the wedding of
Mrs. Martins sister, Manel Goodwin.
The topic for discussion at the Y. P. G.
U. next sunday evening will be "Per5e-
veIance Miss Florence Bowen, leader.
r. NJ. johnson Of Brandon was in town
the first OF the week, inspecting the vii
son House with a view to leasing the
same.
Miss Flora Deutz, no has been acting |
as trimmer in the millinery shop OF Mrs. /
+. +. Wilson, returned to her home in /
New York Wednesday.
f. j. Wetmore has moved from the ten
emeut in the Gardner Wheeler house TO I
Roxbury and - NJ. Strong has moved 1
into the tenement vacated by Mr.. Wet. I
more.
Representatives OF the Berlin Bridge /
company we're in town last week TO make 4
an examination OF the long bridge over .
White river and 10 make arrangements I
for a new bridge.
Albert Abbott and Alfred Blake have .
moved from the house OF Paul Gay TO the /
new house OF Miss Lucy Paine, and Jonn
Byam from Hartwel Meadow to the old .
house OF Miss Paine.
p. L. Allard, formerly of the Wilson
House, but now Of Mechanicsvile, accom-.
panied by his brother in-law, George
Spooner, of the same town, was at the
W ilson House several days last week.
Joseph l.. Moore, popular clerk OF j. G.
Mann at his Bethel store, is to be married
Dec 29th to Miss Hattie Fullam OF Clare
mont, \ H., and will go there to reside.
Miss Fullam has purchased toe millinery
business o. Mrs. +. NJ. Bickford, formeryl
OF Randolph.
d. c. Herndon of Boston was in town
the first of the week, collecting material
for biography OF notable men of YER
mont 20 be Published under the joint aus
pieces OF the New England Magazine OF
Boston aud the Burlington Free Press.
or course Mr. HerDdon found the woods
around Bethel full OF such men.
John f. Rolfss, W. II. Koch and Leo
Bushe Of New York city were in town last
week and took a FIVE years. lease OF the
plant OF the Gaysyille Button Co. at Gays
vile and VIII al once proceed to the man
ufacture of vegetable ivory buttons
These men are already largely interested
in the manufacture OF these goods in the
vicinity Of New York uity and propose to
make different sizes Of buttons, so as to
work up all the pieces OF waste stock that
was formerly throHn aWay when only
large buttons were made. They expect to
employ from 90 to 10 hands.
The White River E!tc.ric company is
pushing the work OF setting be poles
from the power station a Blue Hill to
Randolph Tuesday the line had been set
from Randolph to Chase's cut end from
the power station To Bethel a bout two
miles dav is accomplished. The line
Will pass through the village back of tn.
tannery In about the same location a,
that of he New Eng!a land Telephone line.
As sOcn az the line is in working order
from he power station To Bethel village,
connection will be made with main line OF
the Bethel Electric Light and Power COM
pany from G8ysville enu lights will be in
stalled at he Blue Hin station SO as to
push the work nights
The COW case, Sarah Woe bury against
p. Z. Durham and John X mball, was
tried last Friday before Justice A. A
Brooks. Fred Arnold appeared for the
plaintiff and Nj. M. wilson for the de-
PENDANTS. Miss Woodbury. claimed dam
ages for the killing Of her COW last fall by
the defendants. For the purposes OF that
trial the defendants conceded tae killing
and furthermore claimed that they were
butchering for G. II. Kimbau ana killed
Miss WoodDury's COW by mistake, sup
posing il to be a COW belonging to Z. Il.
kidCer. Ii seems that Dir. kidder had
several cows in the pasture where Miss
COW was kept and that Mr..
K uall had bong at several cows OF Mr..
kiodcr. The defendants also claimed
tender OF $40 and thaI the COW was not
worth what Miss Woodbury. claimed il 70
be worth. A large portion of the neigh
nurhood and several from out Of town