Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-17

Henry c. Soper OF Randolph was IN
town Monday.
A. B. Brooks is confined to his house
with bronchitis.
e. l.. Messer has moved into the A. l..
Stearns tenement.
Miss Lizzie Whitmarsh Of Mortified is
visiting friends in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ. Dufur of Waterbury
were in town over Sunday.
John Reed and family win in the near
future move to Jericho, Vt.
Mrs +. l.. Martin and Mrs. Lee. Cady
visited in Rochester last week
Mrs. B. G. Walker is spending a month
with friends in Leominster, Mass.
Irving Barrows of So. Royalton visited
his brother, o. n. Barrows, Sunday,
Fred A. Edmunds returned Monday
from the Baltimore Medical college.
Electric lights have been placed on the
temporary bridge over White River.
o. N. Barrows is at work at the fish
hatchery, at RoXbury for few days.
Alexander Comrie has moved from the
Miss Lucy Paine house TO Randolph.
Mrs. Luella Hemingway OF Granville
is visiting her mother in this village.
Frank Olmstead OF East Barnard attend
ed grange in this place Saturday evening.
''J0ck Gay mas 6tNeIeu MS connection
with Topper q Graham as clerk in their
store.
Miss Mary Washburn returned Friday
from a months visit to friends in Massa-
chusetts.
Mrs. 0. N. Barrows and Missis Kelsey
and Souther, visited the state fish hatchery
Saturday.
Phe temporary bridge over White river
was completed Saturday afternoon so that
teams could cross.
Park Wight, wife and child OF Windsor,
spent several days last week with his
father, George Wight.
The Glee club OF the Whitcomb High
school will give a concert at the town hail
Wednesday evening, Apr. sd.
d. w. Shaw, proprietor OF the new bob
bin factory has moved into the Il. l.. |
Messer house on Church st.
W. c. Waldo and family started on |
Tuesday for Tacoma, Washington, where |
they expect to make their future home.
n. A. Davis favored many OF his friends |
last week with some handsome fish in the |
way of pike perch, caught near Swanton.
Miss Jane Todd has left the employment |
of Mrs. Il. n. Quirin and resumed house |
keeping at her house on Highland avenue. |
Rufus Wilson who went to Springfield, |
Mass, last fall where he is employed as /
conductor on the electric car line, visited /
in town last week.
Mrs. Lewis Burrelle is moving from the |
John Williams house back onto her farm
on Christian Hill. Her uncle, Chas. Bur-
relle, will live with her.
w. q. Whitaker was exhibiting in the
village Saturday handsome specimen OF
the snow owl shot by him and measuring
IS inches from tip to tip.
Miss Eunice Byam has made this season
from two trees in her yard p pounds Of
cake sugar, also what syrup a family OF
two have eaten in the time
Mr.. Clapp has moved from the Jane
Todd tenement on Highland avenue, to
River street, where he has obtained en-
ployment from Mrs. NJ. e. Harrington.
n. L. Sheldon Of Boston was in town the
first OF the week. He has bought the Cram
dali place i'm daysville OF O. j. Richardson,
and his father, Egbert Sheldon, will occu-
Ply it,
II. G. Thomas Of Stowe, successor of
John w. Titcomb as United States fish
commissioner, was in town last Friday in
consultation with State Fish Commission
er Il. A. Davis.
Mrs. John NJ. Burnett is in town this
week from Concord, n. IL. Upon her re-
turn to Concord, the family are to move to
Haverhill, Mass, where Mr.. Burnett is to
work in a shoe shop.
There are unclaimed letters at the Bethel
postofice addressed to Clarence Green,
Mr.. 4. l.. Charatte, Mr.. Geo b. Parrish
IL. A. Nelson, Harry White, s. b. Living
stone, G. +. Allen.
AT the Vermont State ME. conference at
St. Adams this week, Rev. j. Wesley Mill
er was assigned 70 Bethel and viii supply
Gaysyille. His parishioners are very
much pleased that Mr. Miller is to remain
with them.
Word has been received from the de-
partment that the rural free delivery route
covering 'Lympus and Camp Brook will
be put in operation July LIST, and that John
Beckwith has been appointed carrier. MIR.
BeckWith has taken orders for 81 delivery
boxes. il
Candidate for the republican nomina-
tion for governor, p. W. Clement. will de-
liver a lecture ia Bethel town hau Mon
day evening. Apr. 2lst, at pm. His sub
iect viii be Local Option" Come carly
and get your seat, for the hail viii be ,
crowded. Admission free.
The members Of the graduating class Of 2
the w. II. s. gave q largely attended whist
partv at Cushing hall Tuesday evening.
The first prize Tor ladies was won BY Miss
Harriet Fisher. For men il was tie be-
tween Robert Soper and Willis Whitaker
The tie was played of and won by Mr..
Soper.
The town schools Of Bethel viii begin
Apr. 2sth. except the Mountain district.
The following teachers have been engaged
East Bethel, Miss Caroline Weymouth
Christian Hill, Miss Alice Newton Of Roeh-
ester; Lillievill1, no school % Be held
South 'Lympus, Miss Frances Leavitt;
Flynn Dist, Miss Blanche Dunham Of
Rochester, Middle Camp Brook. Mrs Jen- ,
ME Dustin; Mountain Dist. Scott Lewis:
Giiead. Miss Olive Hanks Of South Ram
dolph, Old Church, 20 be supplied.
Bids for the construction OF new steel
bridge over White River were opened by
the seiectmen Tuesday. The lowest bid
was BIZ the American Bridge Co for about
$500. The sciectmcn had reserved the {
right % reject any or all bids and they
availed themselves oi this option. Lsterthey ,
closed contract with the American /
Bridge Co a. s1dl0 for a bridge 19j feet
long, with - fest driveway aud SIX fee, :
fo0t-walk. % one span. The ahutments .
are 20 be rebuilt by the town reldv for
the bridge company August Isl and fhe s
contract calls Tor the C0mriefiun of IN {