Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-03-14

/ s. C. Durham has rented his farm Ia
Pearl Bowen for the coming year. This
farm has been considered the best in
town. Mr.. Bowen also leases the stock
and tools. Mr.. Durham reserves portion
of the house in which he will continue TO
live.
j. j. Bowen. the veteran horseman, is
visiting relatives in this vicinity. Mr..
Bowen is 70 years old and was born about
two miles south of Bethel village in a
house that is now burned on the so-called
Tucker place. He is the youngest of nine
| children OF Jonathan Bowen. Mr.. Bowen
i is uncle OF Mrs. c. f. Waldo. He is hale
and hearty yet and still does some driving.
NJ. Harris Lincoln passed away March
/ 9TH Of senile decay after long and pain
/ full illness. Mr.. Lincoln was born in
| Stockbridge and had reached the age OF 90
years and six months. Funeral services
were held Monday, Rev. L. A. Read Of
ficiating, and the interment was made in
Stockbridge. Mr.. Lincoln is survived
by wife, who is very i'll and confined to
the bed.
Rising Star grange met in Cushing's hall
Saturday evening, Mar. Q. One of the best
programs ever had in the grange was fur
nished by Miss Jessie Spaulding. There
were some good readings and excellent
piano solos and duets. The next meeting
will be Saturday evening, Mar. 10, when
the IlfHl ana HttOu0 utkTtth VIII DE COLI |
ferred upon the largest class of candidates |
instructed since the organization of the
grange.
The young people OF the Universalist |
church, under the direction Of Miss Eliza
beth Whitmarsh, will present the beauti- /
full cantata, "a Dream OF Fairyland," in |
the town hall Thursday and Friday even
ings OF this week Miss Whitmarsh has
had charge Of the presentation OF this can
F,f D.. |
tions have always met with the greatest
popular favor. No one should miss seeing
il here. Special trains Will run over the
Rochester road.
A school anecdote of an occurrence that
happened some time ago in the primary
department OF the village school is worth
repeating. The small ones have instruc-
tion on physiology from book entitled
"1he Human Body The class is called
class sitting in the desks in front. The
teacher sees that John has raised his hand
and wants to say something. "What is it,
John ?" John answers. @Please teacher,
Tom has his human body open" Evident
ly Tom had not finished learning his les {
son.
The school year has Just closed and an {
inspection of the school registers discloses
some interesting facts. The total enroll y
ment of pupils has been 40. During the ]
past year no parent of high school pupil 7
has been in the high school room during |
session. The total number of visitors in I
the high school room was IL, about one in $
three weeks. The total number Of visitors a
In all the departments was So and of these e
only eight were parents of scholars. Com G
ment seems almost superfluous unless il is Z
20 say 1t must make quite connection in $
some of the departments when stranger I
walks in. Book agents are not counted in i
he above statistics. C
j. II. Carr, station agent OF the c. V. r..
<, found himself short in his February
accounts about go. Last week he re- 9
eived notice from the w. R. Junction >
ticket agency that person acting in a =
uspiclous manner had left mileage there y
o be sold which came from the Bethel :
'ffice but had never been stamped Mr.. g
arr ON looking up the matter found that II
mileage was missing and thinks it must g
ave been stolen. The person who left ii =
I w. k. Junction, wrote last week from
Essex asking il the some had been sold II
nd II not to either send along the book or o
e would take S14.50 for it, which was a.
ute considerable discount
Arrangements have been made that the
rochester r. II. begin to carry the U. s. n,
lail Monday, Mar. 18th. Though not vet ~
rdered by the postoffice department, vet 81
is expected that when the route gets es 4,
lblished the up-river mail will be 10
Drted and arranged i'm sacks by the mail a,
Jerks on the trains for the respective Of n,
ces, thus saving much labor at the Bethel
ostofiice. As the train service on the Al
colchester road is only once day it will ~
e necessary that the ''smalln Gaysville Az
oute be served by team and the postoffice ~
apartment had just advertised for bids n,
n carrying this mail, which leaves Bethel a.
a. m, arriving at Gaysville at 10 a. m. n,
nd leaves Gaysville at p. M, arriving at 81
ethel at p. m. The present contract is ~,
t for Sl92.4S and is sublet at the same II
CURES. AZ
At the March meeting the town voted ali
Is for the Bethel free library. Quite on
lumber OF the farmers living at some dis wi