Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-06-09
Bethel Local Intelligence.
GUY WILSON, Local Editor.

r. NJ " tht0u Was III DURING toA NAoAI-
day.
Miss Mary sHckney arrived home last
Saturday.
John Thurston is clerlzing in the F. L.
Martin store.
Miss Josie Morse was in Mortified with
relatives last week.
Miss Pauline Read of Titusville, Pa, is
visiting al L. NJ. Heath's.
j. w. Steinhauser returned Tuesday
from sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Mrs. Lucinda Eaton Of Rochester visited
at w. Il. Graham last week.
Mrs. Nettie Washburn. a town charge,
died last week at Alonzo Spooner's.
Augustus Putnam Of Tunbridge visited
relatives in town the last Of last week.
Reuben Whitcomb olGaysville is assist
ing in the meat market OF G. H. Kimball.
Edward Burrelle is taking the place of
John Wefer as porter at the Bascom House
this week.
Mrs. +. A. Davis and son, Edward, are
spending two weeks with her sister at
Arlington, Mass.
Mrs. o. p. Northrop returned Thursday
81 last week from weeks trip visiting
friends at Rutland.
There are unclaimed letters at the Bethel
pOstotiice addressed to Mrs. Charles Dwyer
and Mr.. Takole Davidson.
II. r. futile, blacksmith for the +. b.
Ellis Granite Co., has moved into the house
of David Dyke on Church street,
W. b. @. stickney and John j. Wilson
are attending county court at Woodstock,
and ". y, BatChelder the county court at
Chelsea.
j.. NJ. Clough received word last week
that his son, Fred Clough, OF Mechanics
Vile, n. Y, was seriously in, having suf-
fered a shock.
Miss Ida Huntress has closed her season
at Mrs. Hodgkins' millinery store as trim
mer and left Tuesday for her home at
Dorchester, Mass.
r. A. Roundy and Wilfred Iarock went
10 Woodstock Tuesday to serve on the
petit jury. james ID. Wheeler is the grand
lnryman from Bethel.
Deacon AIonzo Emery starts on Yer
mont Bible society work in WIndham
county this week, leaving Bethel by team
Thursday Of last week.
The local lodge OF Free and Accepted
Masons will observe st. Johns day, June
2ith, bya service at the Cong1 church on
Sunday evening, June rs.
Tyler d. Strout has moved from the A.
l.. Stearns house to the dwelling at the
lower end OF the village bought by r. d.
ellison last year OF William Brooks.
A fire escape is being placed on the
easterly end OF the Sylvester block for the
convenience OF the members OF the Mason
ic lodge who occupy the third story.
Rev. Enoch NJ. Thompson OF Washing
ton, ID. C., viii officiate for the coming
month At the Episcopal churches in Beth
81 and Royalton, beginning June 18th.
Rev. Thos Simms Of the Middlebury
school board was in town Tuesday inter-
viewing Principal Wright with a view OF
MIR. Wright's taking the position Of prin-
cipal Of the Middlebury High school.
Jack Weter went to Morrisville last
week TO visit his parents, and while there
a despatch was received announcing the
death Of his uncle in Boston, so he and his
father went to Boston to attend the
funeral.
John Hartwell went TO Burlington to
look over the University of Vermont and
John Mccormick TO Middlebury to look
over Middlebury college last week. Both
young men are thinking OF entering coll
lege this fall
The Kennedy Family troup played at
the Town hall last week and Monday OF
this, having good houses. A most popu-
lar baby contest was conducted which was
won by Master "Billyh Clifford, with Miss
Anna Burrelle second.
The graduating exercises OF the Whit
comb High school will take place in the
town hall June 18th. Music will be fur
nished by Wilder's orchestra, both for the
exercises and for the seventh annual COM
mencement ball which viii follow.
The month OF May has passed and one
week in the month OF June under no Ii
Ceuse. There have been no arrests so far
Tor intraction OF the liquor law since May
LIST. During the same time in 1903 under
license there were sixteen arrests for in
toXicatlon.
G.. ID. Gushing intends in the near future
TO extend his farmers telephone line and
20 build good cedar line from Bethel viii
tage through Bethel Gilead and Camp
Brook, connecting with Mr.. Cushing's
other lines and with the Peoples exchange
at Randolph.
The first and second primary depart
meuts OF the Whitcomb High school will
give a cantata, entitled "Red Riding
Hood, y IN the town hall next Monday
evening under the direction OF Miss Edith
Greene, musical instructor OF the school.
There will be about one hundred voices in
the chorus.
AT the Democratic caucus held Tuesday
evening IN Cushing hall, L. W. Clough
was elected chairman, G.. II. Upper. Sec.
The delegates to the state and congress
sional convention elected were L. w.
Jlough, G.. II, Topper and John Keleher
the alternates, G.. F. Fortier, {. l.. Sanders
and Q. p. Coy.
Frank Foster Of Barnard hitched a horse
10 a telephone pole in front Of the house of
Mrs Martha Levere last Saturday. Il is
thought that the horse was alarmed by a
passing bicycle. The animal threw itself,
and upon rising, became entangied I'm the
shafts, which were broken. The moral is
10 hitch to the stars.
Cong'l church-Service next Sunday at
10:35 will be Children's day. There will
be appropriate exercises and a special
collection for the work "The Cradle Roll .
Babies are invited. Mrs. r. NJ. Chase and
Mr.. X. r. Lilley will sing. There will be
no evening service next Sunday. Mrs
Chaso's solo will be '.The New Kingdom"
The Windsor County Veterans associa-
tion has appointed July l4th for its annual
Reunion and picnic al Silver Lake in Barn
ard. Further particulars will be publish
ed later. These reunions have been
source Of great pleasure to the old soldiers
and this year will probably prove the
same.
The Woodbury. Granite company made
new shift Wednesday when Fred GRAY
the foreman az Bethel. was transferred to
Hardw lex and w. q. Clark, the Hardwick
foreman, sent to Bethel 1t viii be re-