Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-03-25
BETHEL.
FRIDAY MORNINGS FIRE.

midnight Friday morning. The fire
started in the kitchen chamber from
defective chimney. The flames
got under good Roadway bet ore dis
covered and as no water was avail
able, the house being outside the
fire district, only the contents OF two
rooms were saved. The total insur-
ance is $500. The children were
removed to the home Of ncighbor,
REM Langtvin, where the family is
staying at present. Lewis Burrelle
built the house IA years a go and oc-
cupied it until year ago.
Charles H. Allen, the Bethel man
who year ago became proprietor
of the hotel at Tunbridge and was
sent to the legislature last fall, has
decided to make a change, his lease
of the hotel having expired. Mr..
Allen is in Montpelier this week
and his wife and son are at her
mothers, Mrs. ]. Z. Chadwick's,
here.
Mrs. G. E Graham and Miss
Annie are visiting in Burlington.
Principal c. L. Orion and wife
are guests of his father in Walden
this week.
Mrs. E. F. Wilson has shipped
her stock of millinery and LADIES'
furnishings to Franklin, N. H.,
where she will at once open up in
good time for the spring trade.
The town school directors met last
Saturday and organized tor the new
year by eecting J. N. Taggart chair
man and clerk. The following
teachers were appointed: - East
Bethel, Miss c. b. Weymouth;
Christian hill, Miss Anna Hatch;
Old church, Miss Josephine Emery;
Gilead, Miss Leda Smith; Camp
brook, Mrs. c. E. Durham; Lynn
pus, Miss Nellie Gillette; Findlev
Bridge, Mrs. Clara Jackman; Noun
tain, Miss Nora Cutler. There was
no decision us to maintaining schools
at Locust creek and Lillievillc.
The death of Edwin l.. Harring-
ton at Philadelphia last Saturday,
after few days illness with pncu-
monia, was much regretted here,
where he was we'll known from fire.
quent visits. His mother, Mrs.
Mary E. Harrington, of this village,
was with him during most of his i'll
ness having been summoned in its
early stages from Providence, r.. l.,
where she was visiting. L. ID.
Gushing and S. &. Harrington at
tended the funeral Tuesday.
Harvey Kidder has taken a years
lease of Zebina Spauldlng's farm.
Mrs. w. A. Warner and children
are visiting in Colchester.
Earl Wilson has taken Johns
Reeds place in the Wilson House
livery stable.
T. w. Sullivan, who since the
closing Of the shoe factory has done
a cobbling business in the basement
of the Wilson block, has gone to
Lynn, Mass, where he has work.
Congressman Grout Retlres.
An important political develop
ment of the week is the assurance
that Gen. w. w. Grout will not
again be candidate for representa-
tive in Congress-. No official an.
nouncement has appeared to this eff
tect, but the statement is made on
unquestioned authority. This prob
ably means that the General pro-
poses to center his efforts on
the senatorial contest.-Brattleboro
Phoenix.
1t is probably true that Gen. Grout
will not run for representative again
but it is by no m cans certain that he
will enter the senatorial contest.
Gen. Grout has been in congress
for I6 years, during which time he
has been the target for the abuse of
every politician who longed to sue
coed him. Sixteen years is a long
time to endure the kicks and cuffs
that always come to a successful
politician. So it would not be sur
prising If the que stion should arise
in Gen. CIRCUITS mind if the addi-
tional honor that would come from
service in the senate was really
worth what it would cost the victor-
GUS candidatc.-St. ohnsbury Re
publican.
Not as Well as Papa Expected.