Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-08-25
Bethel Local intelligence
GUY Wilson, Local Editor.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Farr of Hancocl
were at John Foley's over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. b. Markham visitet
friends in East Barnard last Friday.
Bert E. Davis of New Salem, n. H.
Joined his family in Bethel last week.
Mrs. w. B. Clark OF Waterbury is stop
ping with her sister, Mrs. II. B. Lease.
Mrs. Cora Bradley and daughter o
Springfield, Mass, are visiting friends il
town.
Gardner ]. Wallace of Chicopee, Mass.
is spending few days with friends il
town.
Rev. f. r. Currier of Newbury called OF
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Currier
last week.
Miss Lulu Graham and Miss Emma
Clatiin are absent on fishing trip to Lake
Dunmore.
j. II. Carr was at Montreal over Sunday
TO be with his wife, who is in the hospital
for treatment
Miss Ann Sargent returned to Bethel
Thursday Of last week from a-tgo months
trip TO Europe.
Aaron J. Davis has been appointed sub
stttute carrier on X. F. ID. route No. 2,
christian HID.
Mrs. Ellen ellison and Rollin ellison
went to Underhill Tuesday for three
days visit to relatives.
Miss Alberta Parker returned to Boston
Tuesday, after spending a month with her
aunt, Mrs. Mary Parker.
James ManniX has sold to Levi Kidder
his Byam lot Of fifty acres, situated near
the Rochester town line.
Assistant Postmaster Guy Young left
wednesday for trip of several days to
Athol, Mass, and Boston.
Miss Mary Wheeler of White River
Junction and Mrs. Bigelow of Detroit ar
rived at Mrs. A. L. Stearns' Saturday.
Frank Currier returned to his home in
Chelsea, Mass, last week after spending
some time at the home Of q. w. Berry.
Thomas Downey has moved froE1 Pitts
field to the tenement in the house OF A. l.
Stearns formerly occupied by f. ID. Strout.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter O'Connen and
daughter, Mrs. f. A. Davis, are entertain
ing Mrs. j. p. GUILTY OF Cambridge, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Bradford OF Lynn,
Mass, visited his aunt, Mrs. II. c. Rice,
and other relatives in this vicinity last
week.
Miss Argene Kenney is visiting friends
in town this week. Next week she begins
teaching the fall term of school in Tun-
bridge.
Mrs, Charles Burgess is entertaining
this week her cousin, Mrs. Dora Ames, OF
Boston and her aunt, Mrs. Rose Rogers, OF
Waltham, Mass.
Mrs. Lucy Richmond, who has made
her home for several years past with her
niece, Mrs. ID. b. Freeman, has gone to
Woodstock to live.
9; ID. Cushing is changing the location
OIL the public scales in front of the Bethel
Mills from the north end to position op-
posite the office at the south end.
The many friends OF Mrs w. Il. Preston
are glad TO see her on the streets once
more after her illness, she and her sister
having both been sick with diphtheria.
The next regular meeting of Rising Star
Grange will be held Saturday evening of
this week. Messrs. Scott Gillette and
Hugh Wilson will have charge of the pro
gram.
George b. Chase of Boston is at the
home OF his father, DR.. r. NJ. Chase, for a
two weeks vacation. Miss Florence Cam
MN OF Verona, N. Y, is also the guest of
DIR. Chase.
Mrs. John Rourke, three children and
maid OF Boston are spending few weeks
with Mrs. Roulke's father and mother,
MIR. and Mrs. O'Connell, and her sister,
Mrs. +. Davis.
There will be New York picnic for all
New Workers on Thursday, Sept. 1, 1904, at
Silver Lake, Barnard. Come one, come
all and bring your good things. A good
time is anticipated.
Miss Hazel Rogers, daughter of Omer
Rogers OF Bethel, has been engaged to
teach the school in the Henry Preston
district on Camp Brook. The term will
begin next Monday.
Justice r. j. Flint has rendered a decis-
ion in the suit OF David Allen vs. the Il. G.
Fisher Co. that the plaintiff recover S36.73
and his cost. The plaintiff claimed about
S130 and the defendant claimed it was
owing nothing.
George Chamberlain and two daughters
of Hawkeye, Ia, arrived last week at his
brothers, +. III. Chamberlain's George
Cham berlain was born in Bethel on the
farm now owned by NJ. c. Chamberlain.
He left Bethel in 1874.
John Keleher rises to inquire il it is not
possible for the legislature to pass a law
that will keep off the highway skittish
horses that are proving such nuisance to
good, comfortable automobile rides.
Schools in the town district will begin
next Monday as follows sold Church,
teacher, Miss Josephine Emery; Christian
Hill, Miss Rogers; East Bethel, Miss Lena
Rhodes; Mountain district, Asa Chatfeld.
Leona, the -year-old daughter of
Howard Dyke OF Hyannis, Mass, died at
the home of her aunt, Mrs. W. y. Preston,
Of heart failure following diphtheria, on
EdAAAdhNs aug To- At 4 p III MI anu
Mrs. Dyke and children left for their
home Monday on the night train. Much
sympathy goes with them to their lonely
home.
Says the Mortified News :-sUncle
Galen Markham returned last Friday after
a weeks sojourn in Windsor county,
where he visited the old playground OF his
youthful DAYS in Barnard and walked |
over the route OF mile where he went to |
school II years ago this summer, when be |
was in his sixth year, but when he looked /
for old schoolmates be did not find them. /
He took foot tramp from Woodstock to /
Bethel. a distance of Is miles, and visited |
the Bethel granite quarry that he had |
heard so much about; when be came to /
see it be said the half had never been |
told.n
Carl ID. Cushing is extending his farm |
ers' telephone line into Camp Brook and /
Gilead vicinities. Connections have al /