Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-26
Bethel Local intelligence.


in town Sunday.
Thos. Arnold Of South Royaiton visited
friends in town Tuesday.
Extensive repairs are being made in the
j grocery store OF B. G. Rogers.
Lewis Tatro and wife visited friends in
Randolph the first of the week.
Mrs. S. NJ. Washburn was confined to
the house by illness last week.
Edwin Kittredge discovered a fine doe
feeding in bis dooryard Monday morning.
Dennis Shaw has been quite sick the
past week and threatened with pneu-
monia.
Mrs. George sawins has returned from
Ludlow where she has been spending the
winter.
Fred Fowler has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate OF the late Norman
Fowler.
Will Eubar went to Burlington again
Monday for treatment for stomach
trouble.
Miss Jessie Spaulding is teaching in
Gaysville and Miss Mary Wilson at North
Hartland.
Miss Lucy Graham is keeping books for
the work on the new tanneTy for Mrs. Nj.
E. Harrington.
Pearl Spaulding is at home from the
Agricultural college at Burlington on
short vacation.
Mrs. NJ. Z. Harrington sufficiently re-
covered from her three weeks illness to
return home last Saturday.
! Sunday, April 22d, was the 5Oth anniver-
sary OF the marriage OF Mr.. and Mrs. ID.
| Sprague Reed OF this village.
! The ladies OF the Congl church will
serve a supper in the church dining rooms
Wednesday, May ,, from 6 to p. m.
o. n Barrows has begun his summers
work in the ice business OF ID. L. Child.
The ice delivery will begin about May LIST.
Joseph Boulais, the agreeable telegraph
operator at the G. V. station, recently
spent few days with friends in Canada. !
Mrs Msry Chamber Thayer has
been in the hospital at Burlington since I
February being treated for neuralgia OF
the spine.
Arthur Weston has moved from Derry, !
n. H., to the Boutwell, farm on Locust .
Creek recently purchased by him OF Hen |
~ NJ. Boutwell,.
Robert Adams was run over by a hand |
car last Thursday while playing with his
companions on the track, but he escaped .
any serious injury.
Mrs. Jason Chadwick has returned from
Somervile, Mass, where she has been
spending the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. f. W. Beckman.
Rev. S. A. Parker attended the funeral
in the Universalist church in Bethel last
Sunday of Gladys, the only child OF
Charles Reed, aged two years.
The Odd Fellows celebrate the s1st an.
nIversary OF the founding OF their order
this evening with appropriate exercises in
the hall in the Baseom House block.
Mrs. Z. E. Foster, Vera Foster and
Julian Foster returned Friday from spend.
a. IT, A IA
Foster has been under medical treatment.
Drs. l.. NJ. Greene, o. ID. Greene and l..
h. Allen OF Randolph performed an opera
ton on w. q. Shaw for fstuls last Satur.
day. Mr.. Shaw is doing as well as could
be expected.
Willis X. Paige was in Windsor Satur-
day on the final settlement OF his ac-
counts as trustee OF the bankrupt estate Of
Winfred Perkins. A dividend Of 35.2 per
cent Was declared.
The premises on North Main street
owned by Mrs. L. f. Ainsworth and oc.
cupied by G. ID. Rogers have been sold
through the real estate agency OF Guy
Wilson to Geo. Bellvils for $3.50.
Ernest Kittredge has just published a
new piece OF instrumental music, "The
Princess March and Two Step The
cover is handsomely adorned with a pic
ture OF Miss Hilda Telford 10 her regalia
as queen.
Harry e. Adams Is a candidate for CEN
sus enumerator in Bethel and has been a.
strongly endorsed for that position by the
business men in petition addressed TO
w. 3. Gates, superintendent OF the census
work in Vermont.
Miss Harriet Fisher, teacher in the pri-
mary department OF the Whitcomb High /
school, was confined to the house by sick /
ness Wednesday, Thursday and Friday OF
last week and her position was filled by
Miss May belle Greene.
The abstracts Of individual lists have
been lodged in the town clerks Office for
the inspection OF the taxpayers. The
listers Will meet at the town clerks office
Tuesday, May 1st, to hear persons sg-
grieved by their actions.
Probably not over half the usual crop OF
maple sugar has been made this season,
but what has been made has been OF ex-
celent quality. The damage apprehended
from the ravages OF the worms last season
does not seem to have been so extensive as !
feared.
The Ten Pin club met Tuesday and I
elected the following officers for the COM !
ing year;-Mrs. Guy Wilson, president;
Mrs. e. A. Read, vice president; Mrs. Ella
Chapman, secretary and treasurer. The
work or topic for the coming year will be
paris" q
The boom at Gaysviile burst last Thurs
day and let down the river about 80. 900
feet OF logs belonging to the International
Paper Co., which were probably lost as
the water was so high that the logs must
have passed over the safety booms erected
below here.
Rev. S. A. Parker attended last week
Friday the funeral OF Harvey Hewett of
Pomfret, brother Of the late Rev. Elmer ]
hewett-a prominent Universalist clergy
man-and the last member Of Henry I
Hewett's family Of eight children. His
age was 50 years.
The sugar house OF G. II. Waldo on the
old Robinson farm was consumed by fire Z
Wednesday OF last week. q. l. Wheat.
who bad charge OF the work, bad LETT the i
sugar house with a fire in the arch while
be went to supper. Soon after the flames
were discovered. The apparatus is a total
loss and also about 10 gallons Of syrup.
The meeting Of Rising star grange last
was attended by sixty-one local ,
members and five visiting members who :
listened to a very excellent program fur
nlshed by the lecturer, Mrs. Della Putnam. s