Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-09-15
Bethel Local Intelligence.
GUY WILSON, Local Editor.

Walter Baker of Boston is with his
father, Wesley f. Baker.
DR.. II. w. Holden and family of Rutland
are visiting at 5. L. Gillette's.
Lorenzo ID. Bowen has received an in
crease of pension from $40 to sl2.
Harry Emery OF Barre has assumed the
management Of the Bascom House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton S. ellison of Nyack.
N. ", are visiting relatives in town.
Mrs. Robert Sturtevant Of Hartford.
Conn, is stopping with Mrs. Sarah Sturte-
want.
Mrs. Mary Morse OF Charlestown, Mass.
Is visiting her brother, G. l.. Hopkins, for
month.
Miss Alice Bradley returned Saturday to
Holyoke, Mass, after a months visit to
relatives in town.
John Thurston has moved from Bethel
70 Enfield, n. H., where he has a position
IN bobbin factory.
Mrs. NJ. S. Davis, who has been stopping
at the BascOm House, left for Centre har-
Dor, n. H., Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. II. Dewey OF South
kramingham, Mass, arrived Friday 10
visit relatives in Bethel.
Rev. Alfred Taylor will officate at the
Episcopal church next Sunday. Com
munion service at 1915.
Miss Grace Upper left saturday for
TyngsbOro, Mass, here she has position
as principal Of the Winslow school.
Mrs. L. Nj Greene will hold a Whist
party for the benefit OF the Village I'm
proyement society next Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. w. 4. King was absent last week
visiting the family of State Treasurer
Bacon at their summer home in Quechee. |
Miss Rebecca Bundy returned Saturday
IN her hnuHp Knaua al grtE
Of several weeks with her uncle, b. G.. |
Bundy.
The ladies of the Universalist church 1
will serve their annual harvest supper in |
Harrington parlors tomorrow, Friday even
ing, from 8 s.
A. d. Hopkins, an employee Of the Ellis
Granite Co, has moved into the house of
clayton Allen in the rear Of the northerly
side OF Church street.
Mrs. Ida Lewis came home Monday from
her trip TO New Hampshire, accompanied
10y her niece, Miss Agnes Lewis, who will
spend month in town.
Mrs Frederick Jewett OF Albany, n. Y.
spent last week with her sister Mrs E'N. l.
Quirin, returning to Albany FRIDAY. Mrs.
Quirin accompanied her.
The next meeting of White River Valley
Pomona Grange will be held with South
Royalton Grange Saturday, Sept. "a. Bethel
and Gaysville patrons take notice and
come. ii
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Wright returned
90 Bethel September Z TO get ready for the
fall term, having spent most of the sum- !
mer vacation at the farm OF Mr. Wright's !
father, situated near Middlebury. I
New connections on the Farmers tele. {
phone line of Z. d. Cushing include Don
wilson, james Mudgett boarding house
at quarry Il. G. Fisher tannery foffice ana
shop, and the store OF Abbott q Cadv.
Mr.. Frank Tileston Smith will hold his G
annual pupils recital in Town hall In
Bethel Wednesday evening, Sept. n. Mr.. /
smith Will be assisted by Miss Flora Ken T
dali, pianist and accompanist, of San Fran !
cisco, Cal.
Friends of Mrs. William r. Adams ten t
1ered her very pleasant farewell recep- ,
ton Tuesday afternoon. The ladies served y
tasty lunch and left with Mrs. Adams as !
slight token OF their esteem a comforta- I
pie, leather-trimmed rocker and handsome !
rug. /
+, n: Hemenway began Tuesday the I
work OF weighing the mails on the st. Al +
bans and Boston mail route The mails 4
VIII be weighed carefully for sixty DAYS \
md from the figures thus found basis is /,
made Tor the payment by the government 4
Q the railroad for carrying the mails.
Chas. Burrelle died last Friday from the Ii
N'AAN eAAhNh several Weeks u
go. Mr.. Burrelle was the survivor Of n
hree brothers, Peter Burrelle, Lewis Bur- v
ellie and Chas Burrelle, who came to ID
5ethel from Canada about IS years ago. N
funeral services were held Sunday and the "
nterment was in the town cemetery. b
Mrs. 3. NJ. Wade of Boston arrived Tues p
ay at Mrs. A. L. Stearns'. Miss Nav 81
paulding, who has been visiting Mrs. =
learns, has returned to Wallingford. al
.onn., and Mrs. Mary Bagley White left
wednesday for her home in Yankton, SD. C
irs. W hite Will make short stops on her u
'ay home, to call on relatives at Detroit s.
nd Milwaukee. Il
Cong'l church Rev. J. Hall Long. pas 2
Or. Next Sunday at 1915 a. m. r.
.iille y nj sing solo entitled, "Fear Not. =,
e % israel," and anthem, ale Shall al
ONE Down Like Rain, " and at 1880 d. m.
lrs. X. NJ. Chase viii render the solo en-
tied, angel Eyes," and the choir will
ne an anthem. All are cordially invited
these services. NJ
The meeting of Rising Star Grange last
lturday was fully attended. A class of so
'ur was instructed in the first and second :
agrees. and one new application for adj -
ission received. The next meeting will re-
held next Saturday, Sept. 18th, when a
ass VIII be instructed in the third and NJ
urth degrees. Ladies are requested 10 81
ting cake and rolls for supper.
number Of men have been EMPLOYED 10
veral weeks at the Bethel electric power Nj
alton filling in the crib az the west end
the dam with stone and sand so thar II rec
III stay put and facing il upstream err
lth planking. The abutment on the ,
her end is to be relsid, the racewav c;t
cared out and deepened, so thar an ~
ditional ] feet Of head will be secured ,a 'e
ie work Is being done by Receiver Heath Srs
lder { be courts order, and the outlay
u be about 1000.
\ great fan; s. b. Day on top. little {
arley Shepard underneath, and il han col
ned this way:-George /. Abbott was On,
wing cut some large maple shade trees Fer
'front.' Of his house and Il was thought cur
= 70 fall them in a certain direction. Cm
70 iusty choppers were at work on a tree STR
d y was thought advisable to help the in ,
e along with a rope and some men / a nj
l1nE. 50 rope was procured. About use
Yen l.1ln we're pulling with ali their hot
length. Little Harley Shepard was A. me
e END Of the rope and s. b. Day WAS my
xt. some one shouted spui rder.W We
icy did and the rope partee. The heav- an