Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-05-25
Bethel Local Intelligence.


@. h. KimbslI has put out a fine new
meat cart, run by Adelbert Dyke.
Principal @. l.. orion OF the Whitcomt
High school was in Chelsea Saturday.
Rev. F. @. Rainey will preach a sermon
Sunday In harmony with Memorial day.
II. G. Gilbert went to White River
Junction Monday to visit his daughters.
Miss Gertrude Lewis OF Berlin, NJ a.,
was the guest OF f. B. Markham last week.
Chas. Shepard returned Monday from a
ten days vacation spent in Rhode Island.
l F. l.. Greene OF Lebanon, N. H., was in
town over Sunday, staying at J.. G.. Sar-
gents.
Mrs. ID. T. Dyke spent last week at
Rochester with her sister, Mrs. Chapman
Morse.
John Noonan OF the University OF
Pennsylvania is visiting at NJ. T.. Har-
: rington's.
Mrs John Wallace was called to Rut-
land Tuesday by the illness Of her sister,
Mrs. Eaton.
Miss Jennie Long OF Boston arrived at
Mrs. Eugenia Twitehell's last week for
the summer.
r. w. Bundy and son OF Middlebury
were guests over Sunday of his brother,
b. q. Bundy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank II. Adams OF
Manchester, n. H., were recent guests OF
NJ. M. Whipple.
A. v. Spaulding OF Burlington was In
town over Sunday, the guest OF his niece
Mrs. G. X. Chadwick.
B. {. Noble has moved to Windsor from
the tenement he has occupied over Leav-
lit q Reeds drug store.
David t. Dyke, W. F. Baker, A. b.
Brooks, viii Flowers and Will Smith are
carpentering at Silver lake.
W. 5. Chase will dispose OF the wheel,
which he has been selling by ticket at
his store Thursday evening at 1880, May
25th.
John Marshall Shaw, aged 81 years, was
on deck for work last week, when in one
day be dropped corn for 3,0Ss hills, by |
/ actual count.
Union services, appropriate to Memorial |
Sunday, will be held at the usual hour OF |
services at the Congregational church |
next Sunday.
Count Ravinsky, boss OF a gang OF /
Italians, has arrived in town to make
preparations for the men who are to work
on the electric railroad.
All old soldiers and comrades are re-
quested to meet at Cushing hall at 10
O'Clock Sunday to attend the Memorial
services at the Congreg church.
Rev L. II. Elliott, agent OF the Yer.
mont Bible society, officiated at the Con-
gregational church last Sunday morning
aud at the Methodist chapel In the after.
noon. II
Chas. p. Webster, for many years a res
ldent in this town, has returned from
Hsrtland, where he has been staying the
past year and is living with Mrs, Anna
Wellington.
George Davis was brought before Justice
Adams Tuesday, charged with rape upon
his 10 year-old sister. He waived exanii-
nation and was put under $500 bonds,
which were furnished.
j. II. Edison has lately taken a fire
group picture of the pupils of the Whit.
comb High school. There are over 140 I
persons IN the group and the picture is
everywhere spoken OF as great success. {
The April statement of the Harrington
creamery shows 6,3s2 lbs. butter made,
=, le0.2 received, cost to manufacture,
&c. per To-; patrons received is l-2c. per :
ID. for butter fat, churn increase, 1872 per
cent. -
Eugene Sweetland, who appears in the
town hall this week with the Up-to date
Comedy company, will be rememb ered
well and favorably in Bethel as the star
actor in the Lillian Mortimer troupe,
which played in the town hall two years
ago.
hearing was had at Arnold a Will /,
sons office Tuesday on application for a
guardian for Zebina Spaulding. Judge
1. .. seaver dismissed the petition with
out costs to either side. A. f. Spaulding
OF Burlington and Gay Wilson appeared
for the petitioners and Fred Arnold aud |
J. ID. Denison for Mr.. Spaulding. I
Rev. George b. Gilbert, former student
OF the Mhitcomb High school aud
nephew OF Mrs. Q. {. Stearns, has been
elected rector OF the Episcopal parish at
Middletown Farms, Conn. He also has
under consideration position as professor !
in Hebrew literature at Berkeley Theo-
logical seminary.
The famous Sweet family will again an. |
pear by request on the evening of Nav 30 g
at town hall. The entertainment will q
conclude with the farce, Freezing a Z
Mother-in-law.n No extra charge for
reserved seats. Diagram of reserved seats
viii be found at Martin a Lewis. Doors
open at 1880 and curtain at s.
The frame is up for the addition To the
house of L. NJ. Heath. Mr.. Heath is max ,
ing extensive improvements to the prop
erty that he bought of Mrs. Sarah Wight.
de has taken down the old wooden ell in Z
the rear OF the brick portion of the house
and IS erecting new addition nearer the /
road, the work being done by Frank Ly-
man a Son.
Local sports are all waiting for next
saturday to arrive when the geldinU
Gopher, OF Edwin Kittredge will
irot against the bay gelding, Robert K. I
OF d. 5. Philips at Riverside park, south b
koyslton, at p. m, for purse OF $40. n
There will also be race between w 81 =
Danforth's gelding, b. b., and Ed McIn- p
tyres mare, Maud.
peculiar experience was met with by n
a young man who recently went from O
Bethel to Boston to find work. On ar :
irving in Boston be found that the trade
IN which he was seeking work was in the p
throes OF a labor strike and while going 81
up in an elevator to the rooms OF an EN- :.
ployment agency, be noticed that his fell !,
low passengers crowded around him pref u
~ well, but thought nothing further of il
until he arrived at bis rooms, when he Ii
Iound that his inside pocket had been
ripped open with some sharp instrument
md all the money be bad, about S21, alb b
'trscted. He had some mileages loose in al
In outside pocket, which were not taken. ;,