Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-11-18
BETHEL.

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ant surprise on the occasion of hel
5Sth birthday Tuesday evening.
The party was at her home on Roy
alton hill.
The fire alarm at 9 o'clock Tues.
dav morning brought out several
reels of hose and most Of the village
population. The fire was not al
lowed to get beyond the limits OF Il
big smudge IN the waste matter in
the tannery basement. The guam
tity of smoke and the abundance of
inhanlmablc material caused some
apprehension, and the worst fire of
recent yeale might easily have oc-
cured. The work of the fire Of
ficials and other citizens is much APP
preciated and chemical eXtin-
guisher from Upper & Graham's
did good work. A hot box in the
| room above the scene of the fire had
been discovered an hour earlier and
it is supposed that some hot parti-
Giles had somehow fallen to the oilv
: waste below, causing the incipient
fire..
I The funeral of Hon. Fred Arnold
was held last Saturday afternoon at
the Congregational church, Rev. W.
A. Warner officiating. Next the
relatives sat large delegations of
Masons and members Of the Bar.
The attendance of citizens showed
the dead mans popularity. Appro-
pirate hymns were sung by a male
quartet and a touching eulogy was
uttered by the minister. The village
stores were closed during the ser.
wees at church and grave. The
community has lost one of its best
known and most friendly citizens,
and large family an indulgcnt
head.
Austin Lattimer killed two and
Albert Abbott and H. A. Thayer
each one Of hapless flock of wild
geese last Saturday. Four Sunday
dinners of unexpected luxury We're
thus provided.
The temperature here went down
to 9, II and IL degrees above zero
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day mornings respectively, the cold
est mid-November weather in many
years.
The Congregational ladies served
their annual chicken pie supper
Wednesday evening at their church
dining rooms.
BY the burning of Warren's tam
merry at Waterbury Wednesday sew.
eral former Bethel men lose their
employment.
Several persons from here attend
ed the Smith-Sawyer nuptials at
Randolph Center. Miss Alice Al
word of Eastha mpton, Mass, form.,
assistant teacher in the High school,
officiated as maid of honor.
Rev. E. A. Read has moved into
NJ. M. Whipple's house, lately va.
Gated by NJ. G. Stafford
The remaining employees of the
White River railroad, numbering
about IS, refused to go to work
Thursday, on the ground of the
company's failure to pay them We'd
nesday, the regular monthly pay
day.
Miss Mabel Dyke has spent the
week at home from her teaching in
Rochester. Miss Lizzie kimball.
teacher of the East Braintree village
school, is also here for a vacation.
The village schools will have IA
fortnights vacation at Christmas but
none at Thanksgiving except the
day itself and the next day.
Guy Wilson will carry on the in
surance business hitherto carried on
by Arnold & Wilson, and he will be
sole publisher of the Bethel Courier.
Justice Adams and John Wilson
went to Gaysville Thursday evening
to try an assault case.
Miss Alice w. Alvord of East /
hampton, Mass, has been visiting
friends in town.
B. c. Rogers has sold his farm at
the north end of the village to w.
G. Shaw and has bought Ransom
Dickey's livery stable, which he will
run henccforth.