Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-06-16
BETHEL

taken III that afternoon, soon aIlcI
her graduation from the WElleomh .
High school, almost exactly u year /
ago, she accompanied her mother on .
on a long visit 10 Boston and the I
heachcs, and ps she waved her
adieuN Ia u large party ni friends
while the train moved out, your cor
respondent CHANGED 10 ovcrhear the
remark Of one standing by that he
knew Of no other girl 80 much he
loved by every one ~ she, The en-
tire community mourns with her
own people and shares their sense "i
overwhelming loss Funeral NJ
engagements had not hecn pscertained
ut the time OF writing.
Miss Abbic Clark and twelve "f
her piano pupils will give a m"'i'
Gale ut the town hall next Wednes'
day evening,
Mrs. w. C.. Waldo and childrcn
are spending two weeks with MIS-
Waldo's sister, Mrs. John llosmer'
of Ludlow.
The graduation exercises % the
Whitcomb High school were we u
attended last week Friday evening
The music by Gilson's orchestra was
fully up to the mark. Robert Bur
nctt's Grafton and the ESSAYS hN
Misses Gibson and Read were cred
table productions. but gave less evil
dence Of training for delivery than
has been usual in this school,
Mr.. and Mas. b. q, Walker are
again living in town. MIR. Walker
is Phelps llarrison's business man
ager and is pleased with the pro-
grcss being made on the new tan
ncry buildings. The hcam.houSe.
600 feet long, is now nearly enclosed
and covered.
Republican caucus this afternoon
at , o'clock. Look out for warm
contest.
Mrs. Pliny D. Ward OF Barnard,
near the Bethel and Royalton lines,
died Tuesday morning after long
illness. She had been patient sui
fcrcr many years and was much es'
tcemcd. George and Perkins ward
well known Barnard farmers, are her
sons. The funeral was held Thurs
day.
Mondays press dispatches an
nounccd the death Sunday afternoon
in Washington, d. G., OF Lyman ).
Emery, a Bethel man, who attained
considerable prominence dul'ng
Years of official service. Born in
'runbridgc in 1889 he came with his
father to this town eleven years later
being the fth of nine children. He
and three of his brothers were SOL
liers in the civil war, one of them
Ira, being killed at Gettysburg. lie
was assistant adjutant general dur
ing Gen. w. 6. Neazcy's term rs
commando, -in.chicf of the q. a. r..
and was for some years president OF
~uAirhgrorl, Rfa" faayr' nAsfRg"Ball
appointed door-keepcr of the Senate
last fall. Mr.. Emery's wife was {;
daughter of Stillman Smith, late OF
Stockbridge and Royaton, and she
survives him.
Miss Hattie Twitchell, whose
death at the early age of II years
was announced last week, was one
of the brightest and most promising
of the High school girls. She was
the only child of Mrs. Eugenia
Twitchell and the late Frank Twitch-
ell of Stockbr,dgc, and since her
fathers death had lived here will,
her mother. Drs. l.. NJ and o. y.
Greene are her unclcs. Her disease,
tubercular meningitis, was from the
first pronounced incurable, but she
lived nearly three weeks suffering
acutely much of the time. The
funeral at the Universalist church
was attended by Rev. E. A. Read
and large number of mourning
friends. The bearers were four
cousins, Misses Edith and Mabcle
Greene, Otto and Ransom Greene.
There were very profuse floral offer
ings, mostly in white.
Samuel Howard of Montpelier is
repairing his tenement house in this
village
Willard NJ. Gambell OF Barnard,
formerly Of the High school here, is
one of the graduates this week at
Montpelier seminary. He took part
in the prize-spe aking contest Tues
day evening and was the historian of
the class in Wednesdays exercises.
Gardner J. Wallace, Tr., has
bought out the Rogers grocery in the
Bascom House basement, and will
conduct it himself. Gardner is one
of our own boys and we wish him
success.
Israel Mccullough, one of Royal
tons brightest old men, who lives
near the Bethel line, completed his
9,d yea, last Sunday and spent the
day quietly with his niece, Mrs.
Henry Cole, in this town. He does
many of the chores about the house
and is intellectually vigorous.
Bethel and South Royalton will
play ball at the latter place Saturday
afternoon. The Bethel team will |
be made up of four players from the
High school team and five sold
men.