Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-09-03
BETHEL.

Bowen, Laura Paige and Jessie
Parker are attending the Randolph
Normal school.
The general opinion is that black
berries were never so abundant.
AT the close of the season the sup
| ply is large at five cents quart.
Miss Helen Stanley of Rochester
was at r. J. Fllnt's the middle of
the week.
Miss Jessie Spalding has gone
back to her position in the Gays
vile village school. Other Bethel
teachers with out Of town engage
ments for the fall are Miss Florence
Bowen who is to teach III Pittsticld,
Misses Maud Durham and Mary
Wilson in Royalton. Mabel Preston
in Roxbury, Ellen Preston in Roch-
ester. Elizabeth kimball in Braln-
tree, Ella Chadwick in Tunbridge,
Mabel Dyke i'll Rochester.
i Last week Friday despatch from
Des MONIES, Iowa, announced the
death that morning OF Mrs. Sarah
| Morse from an injury received the
previous evening by falling from an
express train near that city. Par
ticulars since received show that she
was on her way from St. Joseph,
Mo-, where she lived with her
daughter, Mrs. Schramm. to visit il
niece, Mrs. Christy, at Des Moines.
She was accompanied by Mrs.
Schramm who however was going
on to her sisters Mrs. w. G.. Ar
nolds, at Chicago, without stopping
at Des Moines. At the south Des
Nones station a Chicago sleeper
was attached to the train and the
porter asked her to take her berth in
that car. Picking up the satchels
he led the way and was follow we'd by
the two ladies, Mrs. Morse leading
her daughter. The train was nav
moving again at increasing speed
apd on reaching the platform Mrs.
Morse stepped or was thrown off.
An inquest was begun on Friday
and continued to this week. The
deceased lady was a native of Beth
ell, being daughter of the late Peleg
Marsh, prominent citizen early in
the century, whose nine children in
cludcd the late Charles Marsh and
of whom only Augustus M. Marsh
of Bethel and Mrs. Leonard Saun-
ders of Kansas now remain. Mrs.
Mersc was the widow of the late
DR.. John NJ. Morse, Bethel man
who after years of practice here
went to Galesburg, Ill.,, in 1853 and
died there 20 years later. Mrs.
Morse's many friends here gladly
renewed their acquaintance during
her long visit at Mrs. Edwin Morse's
year ago, the late Edwin Morse
having been her husbands brother.
The remains were taken to Gales
burg for interment last Saturday.
Mrs. A. D. Sanders has been
under physicians care the past
week and is reported better.
Miss Carrie Spalding of Burling-
ton has been visiting her relatives
here. Her brother Edward, having
taken degrees from the L. V. Nj.
and Columbia college, has just ar
rived in Germany, where he is to
take two years course ut the Uni
versity of Bonn.
Mrs. Bishop and her grandson
Walter Il Bishop of Thorndike,
Mass, returned home Wednesday
after a long visit at G + Waldo's.
Miss Martha Williams of Boston
has spent week with her friend
Miss Ad.tie Bradbury.
Elmer Mcintosh and Frank John
son of Boston were at f S Jackson's
Wednesday,.
Mrs. Julius Dyke is spending Il
week at David Dykes.
James c Burnett, whose loss by
fire was noticed last week, advcr-
tiscs his large herd of dairy cattle
and other stock for sale at auction
beginning at 10 o'clock this fore
noon. 1t is seldom that such an OPP
portunity presents itself and with the
certainty of abundance of fodder
next winter this sale will be likely to
call forth some lively bidding. Dur
ing the week Mr.. Burnett has looked
over some village properties on
River street with a view to buying
and it seems to be sure that we in
the village are to have him for Il
neighbor.
The Bethel baseball team met
with crushing defeat at Rochester
last Saturday, the score standing FL
to :. This afternoon Rochester
will play here aud a different result
is hoped for.
The Gray Family, Bohemian
glass blowers, are giving eNhibi-
tions at the town hall every evening
the last four days of this week.
BY all odds the hveliest canvass
for the office of town representative
known in recent years is the one
now in progress. OF the three Re-
publican candidates DR.. Chase en-
poets to succeed on the grounds of
regularity and of his devotion dur
ing many years to the towns indus
trial development. F. l.. Martin is
relying largely upon his personal