Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-26

There will be meeting Of Rising Star
Grange next Saturday evening, the 18th
At the last meeting four candidates were
instructed in the first degree and eleven
applications for membership received.
Hazen p Sanford has bought the Ellis
Curtis farm on Christian hill of j. c.
Austin. The Curtis farm adjoins the old
home farm of the Sanfords that has been
in the Sanford family for over a century.
Morris Hunt OF South Barre has bought
the Brigham farm situated on the stage
road to Barnard, formerly owned by II.
NJ. Boutwell, and then by Arthur j. Wes-
ton. The sale was through the Wilson
Real Estate agency.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo G.. Emery and
daughter of Denver, Col, are visiting
relatives in this vicinity. Mr.. Emery is
brother of Mrs. Ahial Putnam, with
whom they spent several days and the
first of the week went to East Randolph.
Various signs of warm weather are
being noticed. Many of the earlier birds
| have arrived and another sure indicator
is the tramp travel has begun. Freight
trains afford a favorite means of travel
| for these men and ON one train passing
last week three tramps were noticed
! closely ensconeed over the couplers.
Miss A. Hutchins has engaged to teach
school in Barnard in the Perkins district
on the North road. She has sold her
piano, Through an advertisement i'm the
CoURIER) to r. n. Stackpole and will
break up houseke aping with her mother,
Mrs. Warren Hutchins, and will board
with Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton this summer
AT the special town meeting yesterday, /
Bethel voted, 1853 to IA, to grant licenses
for the sale of liquors of all kinds, instead .
of combining sales to malt liquors. There
was no excitement Only one license an
Mi hos baaT1 filed ga
have been awaiting the result of this vote
and will now apply, about half dozen in
ali. Bethel is entitled TO but two licenses.
Spring removals;-Fred Dutton from
the Boutwell, farm in Barnard to the
dwelling house of II. II. Dinsmore; Mr.
Dutton is to carry on the farm OF Mr.
Dinsmore, who is engaged in his work
in the bobbin factory; Mrs. Adella Ray
from the tenement house OF Rollin ellison
on North Main street to the house OF
Mrs. Rodney Shedd; Arthur Elliott from ,
the Shedd house into the Foster house
opposite the Bethel Tavern.
B. g. Howe. who has been spending
the winter with his daughter, Mrs. w. y
!. King in this place, has bought the
Putnam House, the leading !
hotel in Bennington county. Associated q
With him in the purchase is his son, D
Fred B. Howe. The new proprietors I
viii take possession May 1st. the sum c
1aid for the property being $4,000. Mr. "
Howe is no novice in this business as he j
vas at one time the owner of the Avenue s
House at st. Johnsbury, d
A heavy landslide occurred on the road :
Detween Bethel and Gaysville Monday
lear the watering trough on the Chas.
lsgood place. There was a slide i'm the
anne place last year which caused CON
iderable Inconvenience, but this was q
more serious one. A large mass of soil,
edges and trees came down off the side A
4 Nulture, Jr., mountain, covering the
Dad several feet deep and also the tracks !,
I the Rochester railroad below. 1t will
axe several days to dig out and mean
me the road is impossible u ~
Owing to the oyererowded condition y
} the room taught by Miss Fisher in
he Whitcomb High school, the pruden- =
al committee have decided to carry out g
ne provisions of the law and not admit
upils the spring term that have come
school age since the school year began
st fall. The provision in the law is as
,llows:-The term illegal pupilsn shall
lelude all persons between the ages OF 81
We and eighteen years. No child under "
We years OF age shall be received as a %
upil into any of the public schools OF "a
ne state, and children attaining the age as
five years after the beginning OF the
I'll term of the school shall not be
'ceived into the public schools until the ITO
eginning OF the fall term OF the following :,
sar unless said children shall have the &c
ritten permission of the superintendent NJ
schools ms