Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-11-07
Bethel Local intelligence

l.. j HAlRt OF AAA fA3AhNN
in town last week.
c. NJ. Davis went TO Boston wednesday
with lot Of sheep.
Mrs. r. NJ. Chase spent Sunday with
friends in Moretown.
f. G. Preston moves to Northheld TINS
week. where he will reside.
George Foster has gone to Woburn,
Mass, 10 work in tannery.
Eugene A. Brooks Of Keene is spending
a few days with relatives in town.
Miss Lulu Lincoln has been spending
the past week with friends in Granville.
Mrs. George Eight entertained party OF
lady friends at dinner one day last week
The Young people held a very pleasant
Halloween parto in Cushing hall THURSDAY
evening.
Miss Susie Wilson Of Brockton, Mass, is
spendinga week with her mother, Mrs
NJ. J.. Wilson.
Mrs. Chas. Koeber Of White River june
ton was the guest Of Mrs. F. l.. Martin
last Thursday.
DR.. l.. NJ. Stanton returned to New
York Monday, being called to town TO see
Miss Mary Waller.
Mrs. c. e. Hubbard and two children Of
pomfret visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. T. Currier. last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Dean have gone TO
Newburyport, Mass, where they will make
their home in the future.
Arthur J. Weston Of West Derry, n. H.,
came last week on business connected
with his farm in Barnard
The personal property Of the Eide Buhr
estate was sold at public auction Monday
by B. G. Rogers, administrator.
Levi Kidder found the carcass OF doe
on his Bagley lot Friday. Ii is thought II
would have weighed 200 pounds.
Mrs Geo. II. Kimball has returned from
a two weeks visit to her daughters IN East
Walpole and Bridgewater, Mass
Miss Mary Day returned to Montreal
"Wednesday, after spending month with
her friend, Miss Margaret Sedton.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. Whipple have been
called 10 South Royalt0n by the serious i'll
ness Of her mother, Mrs. Arabella Adams
Misses May Savage and Ellen Preston
returned last week from Saranac lake, n.
~, where they had been spending the SUM
mer.
Receiver Sawyer Of the White River
Valley r. II. is repairing the abutments to
the bridge over the third branch OF White
river.
Miss Ann Sargent is delegate from the
Congl Sunday school to the state ;. ;.
convention being held at Vergennes this
week.
James Mcbride, who left town some
time ago to work in a tannery at Woburn,
Mass, has returned to work in the Bethel
tannery.
Rev. Joseph Therein OF Windsor held
Roman Catholic services in Cushing hall
Sunday morning. There was large at
tendance.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. @. Waldo arrived from
Ellis, Kan, Saturday. They will remain
with relatives in this vicinity until after
Thanksgiving.
G. A. Shaw OF Lisbon, n. H., is in town |
again this week looking over the ground |
for putting in bobbin factory in the shoe |
shop building.
Geo. !. Abbott took a carriage trip to /
Middlebury Saturday to visit his son, /
Samuel Abbott, who Is student in Mid |
dlebury college.
Mrs. F. b. Merrill of Woodstock arrived |
in town saturday TO visit her sister, Mrs. |
Aurora Rogers, who is confined 10 the |
house by Illness.
A large party attended sociable given |
Wednesday evening Of last week for the 1
benefit OF the Congregational Ladies' soci- |
ETY. by Mrs. G. +. Waldo.
Edison Emery has been absent the past |
week, visiting his nephew, Austin Emery, /
IN st. Adams, and friends in Middlebury, !
where he formerly lived.
Willis Sharp returned Tuesday from
Belmont, \. H., where he had been called I
by the sickness OF Mrs. Sharp, and has I
gone 10 work in the tannery.
The Electric Light company is making
connections with the water system OF Jas. 4
A. Graham on River street so as to SUNNY 4
the seven houses on Bridge street
Mrs. Z. 2. Fisher and two children left I
Thursday 10 visit her sister. Mrs. X. p. \
StOciSwell, in Worcester, Mass, before Join 1
ing her husband at Springfield, Mass.
The state board Of Railroad commission |
ers made an official inspection Of the ". II. /
\. X. Z. Tuesday, having been prevented 4
from doing SO last week as had been ar /
ranged.
The Tuesday club met this week with 4
Mrs. a. lee Cady. The program consisted .
Of readings from the works Of the late .
william Shakespeare and a discussion of .
current events.
o. p, Shaw has been laid up the past /
week with a very painful hand caused by /
getting a splinter IN it while splitting I
kindiing The moral is this. which an I
men should heed, Oct your wife split the |
kindlings.
W. II. Edmunds has sold two lots of 100 I
acres each in Barnard TO Prank Robinson I
% Hudson, y. h. It is estimated that I
there is about 10000 feet Of lumber on the /
lots and the purchasers are intending to
put up a steam sawmill
Samuel Howard Of Montpelier was in 1
town the first Of the week, looking after
his house Ia this village. He has rented Il I
% Daniel Blk and j. L. Stsclp0le. v no ar
rived here from Poisdam, NY, last week. I
Messrs Blk and stackpole are here to buy
farms.
Deputy sheriff 3. G. Rogers was the re-
cipient last week Of two fine presents from I
inmates Of the county jail at Woodstock. 1
One was a collar and CUT box Of 40 pieces I
and the other picture frame Of BOO pieces. |
The material j. cedar and white wood. fin
ished in the natural wood.
There was narrow escape from q seri- |
Gus agration Friday IN this village. /
Miss Maud Csdy noticed smoke coming
from the straw shed in the rear 81 the
buildings Of the estate Of - G. Cady. Helm
was quickly summoned and the incipient /
blaze eEiilgaished- ID i supposed 70 have /
started from q spark from passing loco
motive A hole had been burned throagh /
the faaf and The FIRE communicated = IA s /
EfraHr hafrW which was lust hnriun n D A., /