Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-02-04
Bethel Local Intelligence.
GUY WILSON, Local Editor.

Rose Comb Rhode Island Red eggs for
Matching, 75c. and q for IS.
Am Mrs. o. n. BARRows, Bethel, VI.
An eleven-pound son was born Jan. 26
TO Mr.. and Mrs. Fred l.. Davis.
Dr. Otto V. Greene and Miss Kate Bas-
com are to be married Feb. oath.
Exactly s19 WAS cleared for the benefit
OF the free library at the leap year dance.
ID. L. Child finished cutting this sea-
sons supply Of ice from Lake Ansel
this week.
son was born Sunday to Rev. George
Blodgett Gilbert and Mrs. Gilbert Of
Middletown, Conn.
A travelling man put up in the lookup
Monday night. II was pretty cold, but
he seemed to be satisfied.
Miss Grace Gilman left Friday for Rox-
bury, Mass, where she has a position in
the Woman's Charity hospital.
There will not be any preaching services
next Sunday nor any meeting next Tues
day evening at the Cong'l church.
Tuesday of this week eighteen cutters
were laid of from work at the shed on
account Of delay in obtaining stock.
Gardner Emery has moved from the
jackson house on River street to the
Edison house opposite the postotliee
There are unclaimed letters at the Bethel
postofiioe addressed to George Alexander,
Mrs. Fred DufOrd and Mrs. Gardner.
II, S. Kent, a carpenter by trade, has
moved from Holyoke to Bethel and will
keep house in the Hartwell tenement.
W. G.. Clifford, manager OF the Wood
bury Co. granite shed, has resumed his
duties after weeks confinement from
the measles.
Mr. and Mrs William B. Brooks went
TO Leominster, Mass, Monday, where Mr..
Brooks has a situation in the tannery of
Phelps q Harrison.
W. H. Edmunds has sold TO Frank |
Lyman the Nelson Ellison house and lot
on Pleasant street. Mr. Lyman expects to |
take possession April list.
The ladies of the Universalist church |
living on Church street will give one OF |
their famous suppers in Harrington par
Tors next Wednesday evening, Feb. 10.
The last quarterly statement of the |
Equitable Accident Co. Of Boston shows
claims Of s225 and s75 paid to l.. M. Heath /
and II. II. Dinsmore Of Bethel, respec-
lively.
Word has been received from Henry i
Brooks of Stock bridge, who is now in /
Paris, that he expects TO return to YER
mont early in March, in season, no doubt,
TO put in an early crop Of peas.
Dana NJ. Washburn and Miss Anna
b. Shaw, both of this town, were united |
in marriage Monday afternoon, Feb. 1st, /
by Rev. j. Wesley Miller. They are |
keeping house at Mr.. Washburn's farm
in Bethel Gilead.
Sheriff +. p. Wheeler Of Hartford was in
town Monday, having gotten possession
OF a horse that was stolen from Austin
Howard az White River Junction last
summer. The thief had snapped the
animal off TO Will Hoisngton in Roches-
ter Hollow.
L. M. Heath, receiver of the Bethel
Electric Light and Power Co., is making
preparations for blowing up the ice in the
electric light dam. II is OF unusual thick
ness this year, and Mr. Heath has had
made fifty tin cases in which the powder
will be placed and then exploded beneath
the ice.
Mrs. o. n. Barrows gives a banner re-
port in the hen business. From a flock of
10 Rhode Island Reds she has sold in the
past year slg3.31 worth Of eggs and chick
ems. The feed cost SS9,73. She paid out
Tor advertising, eggs for Matching, etc,
wi, leaving gain of s93.S6; she also has
a gain on stock OF 26 pullets, worth 75c.
apiece, and two cockerels, worth 81 apiece. Z
The whole gain on stock is S21.5O, making
. net gain Of sli5.36 for the year. c
Last week the COURIER made mention
Of ball card for dance in 1864. NJ. A. L
Moody has shown us an invitation to
Thanksgiving ball given in Aeolian hall =,
Thursday evening, Nov. "a. 1859. This l
hall was in the old "Depot House." later
known as the Wilson House, and now I
known as the Bethel Tavern. The COM
nittee Of arrangements included n. Whit "a
,omb, John I. Royce, s. T.. Coy, d. A.
Neservc, q. j. Wallace O. o. Bowen q ID ! -
lark, A. Sanford OF Bethel; II. A. Brooks, d
I. Faulkner and George Greene OF East
3ethel; w. G. Danforth, ID. A. Clifford,
Edwin Chamberlin, S. g. Cady, Barnard
Nelson Gay, Nelson Culver, Myron Cav q
md l.. B. Morey, Gaysville; f. p. Flint. v
4. X. stoughton, +. Edison, f. Chadwick.
randolph; John Trask, NJ. Hunton, John
upper, Elias Lyman, Rochester. The
loor managers were Franklin Riford and "a
1. l.. Dimiek and the music was furnished :,
" Cobb and Whitmore's quadrille band. n
even pieces. Tickets, g. n