Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-12-16
BETHEL.

NOTtn MAIN street was burned TO the
ground early Thursday morning of
last week. Mrs. Lincoln and her
daughter Ella saved few of their he.
long'ngs and only part OF their
clothing. The volunteer hose COM
pany was early at the scene of the
fire, but could do nothing to check
the flames. John Kelcher was the
/ first neighbor to reach the house
and he was ust in time to prevent
Mrs. LincOln's return to her room to
save her clothing. Being very old
lady her only safety was in imme-
date flight, as the house was at eady
enveloped in fame. She walked
barefooted and in her night clothes
i'll the zero air to l.. VI. IIeath's, the
nearest house. She IS now making
her home with her son Albert at the
south end of the village. Eugene
| Emery and his family lived in
another part of the honse. They
escaped safely and are now living
upstairs in the Wheeler blucA. / he
cause of the fire was il defective
chimney The house and contents
were insured for $ro5o. 80 o her
buildings were lhreatcnrl.
V, S. Rec | AMI T.. y. Chapman
have entered the employ df tl. M.
tional Publishing company OF New
York and. Boston, and will spen
the winter in MARYLAND an | f,r,h y
south. They will sell tn. oS cent
maps which had such a phenomenal
run IN New England last summer.
c. n. Wmtcomb' of Barnard,
whose death by suicide was an.
nounced in last weeks issue of this
paper. was we'll known here as
peaceful and Industrious man of
apparently good habits. That he
should have taken his own life came
as a great surprise to our people.
The name of Mrs. Eunice Lin
coin, So, should be added to our list
of residents past So, making the
number 81. The age of o. D.
Wood is 81, not So, and of Alden
Spooner SO instead of 81. Mrs.
Luella Perkins should read Mrs.
Mary A. Perkins. So far as known
these are the only errors in last
weeks remarkable list.
OF our 81 residents past So, 16
live in the graded school district,
and the other rs are distributed as
follows: Findlay Bridge, 4; Lille.
Vile, 4; Gilead, 3; Old Church, 2;
East Bethel, 2; Lympus, I.
The ages of 16 residents of the
graded school district aggregate
1860; of IS residents of the town
district, 1857.
1t is nothing unusual to see from
six to eight male octogenarians on
the village streets during forenoon.
Miss Gertrude Richardson will
retire from her position as teacher
of the intermediate department of
the w. II. S. and will be succeeded
by Mrs. John J. Wilson. Miss
Richardson will leave a host of
friends in town.
The Universalist ladies held
successful fair Wednesday in the
town hall with an entertainment in
the evening.
A Christmas oratorio will be pre-
scented at the Congregational church
one week from tomorrow evening
by a choir of IS voices from various
churches.
w. G. Brooks is attending the
state Grange at St. Johnsbury, as rep
resentatlve Of Rising Star Grange.
Mrs. Martha w. Arnold has been
appointed postmlstress. This is in
accordance with the general desire
of the people There was no oppo-
sition to her appointment. She will
retain the efficient services OF w. G.
Waldo as assistant.
Rev. A. l.. Cooper, d. D., is
evangelistic services in
the Methodist church at Bethel
Gilead this week.
Ransom Dickey, who lately
bought back the Wilson House liv-
cry stable from b. Z. Rogers, is i'll
with kidney trouble.
b. &. Rogers with small force
of men has been at work at his iron
mine in Lillieville this week.
E. P. Fisher is at work for Brooks
& LaDue and Miss Parker of Royal
ton for Brooks & Washburn.
w. B. e. Stickney was in attend.
ance last week upon the Lamoile
county court at Hyde Park, where
he represented Julia Marlowe in
her suit for divorce.
Mrs. J. G. Chadwick will spend
the winter with her daughter, Mrs.
F. w. Beckman, in Somervllle,
Mass. Her daughters Jessie and
Anna will work in Lynn, Mass.
A petition to the county court
praying that" in view Of the ignor-
ance, restitution and misery amid
which he has been brought up
George II. Davis, charged with rape
and incest, be paroled under the
charge of the probation officer, was
signed Tuesday by Rev. Wilmond
Warner and about fifty others.
Miss Hattie Stiles, who has been
seriously i'll in Manchester, N. H.,
for six weeks with inflammation OF
the sciatic nerve, is SAID to have i'm