Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-04-28
Bethel Local Intelligence.
GUY WILSON, Local Editor.

AAA1s ~ ~ AAlAAANs bNAAEAa
r. / Red and White Leghorn eggs FOL
Matching, 75c. per Is.
BIN Mrs. i, b. MAXHAM, Bethel, Vt.
Rose Comb Rhode Island Red eggs fol
Matching, 75c. and 81 for 10.
Am MIS-. o. n. BARRows, Bethel, Vt.
Clark Reed moves nextweek from Beth
81 10 Montpelier.
Scott Blossom was in Burlington on
business the first of the week.
Mrs. Myron +. Savage is visiting friends
and relatives In town this week.
Mrs. S. A. Parker and Mrs. j. f. Pease
are having their houses reprinted.
Measles are about town; two OF the cut
tiers of the Woodbury. shed are down with
them.
Mrs. Kenyon, mother Of Mrs. II. S.
Kent, and daughter are visiting at II. S.
Kent's.
Rev. l. S. Yerkes Of White River June
tlon was the guest OF G. o. Spaulding
Wednesday.
The Y. p. S. C. r. will hold a social at
the yestry Wednesday, May a.. Ice cream
and cake will be served.
A. l.. Currier has moved from the house
Of ID. +. Dyke on Church street back TO his
own house in Lulieville.
Guy Rogers has returned from North
Mallingford, where be has been spending
some time with relatives,
There are letters remaining in this Office
unclaimed for Peter Gray, Mr.. Thomas
Heaton and Mr., S. Jones.
Bank Examiner Fish was ina town Fri
day on his regular inspection Of the
National White River bank.
Miss Harriet NJ. Wood went TO Tun-
bridge Saturday, where she is to teach
school during the summer term.
The members Of the Bethel branch Of
the Sunshine society will meet with Mrs.
r. r.. Holbrook Wednesday, May 18th.
Ladies will please bring cake.
The chime whistle blown at the tannery
for several years past has been sold to the
Woodbury. Granite Co., and is now blown
TO summon the granite cutters to their
work.
win +. Markham has left Norwich uni
versity TO accept a short engagement as
shipping clerk for a firm at Chicopee Falls.
Mass.
At the Cong'l hurch:-Preparatory
lecture and business meeting on Friday,
tomorrow, at ? p. M; sacrament Of the
Lord supper and reception of members
Sunday morning at 1916.
Mrs. F. b. Markham has nine hens that
Matched from III Single Comb Il. !. Red
eggs lO6 chicks. Five eggs were not
fertile and there were three f|ull-grown
chicks that failed to come out OF the eggs.
Employees OF the N. p. Telegraph & Tele-
phone Co. are moving the central ex-
change from the room Of the Bargain
store to the room occupied by Miss MAY
at the north end Of the Marston
block.
Henry Miller, an employe in the tan
merry, has brought his family here from
aud viii occupy the tenement
IN the w. l.. Parsons house on Church
street, formerly occupied by Miss May
Blossom.
The listers have finished their taking
)t lists and have lodged the abstract I'M
.he town clerks office for the inspection a,
p the taxpayers. They will meet at the
own clerks office Tuesday, May 3, to hear
grievances.
j. w. Steinhauser is to move from the
Waldo house on Church street, recently 4
by Dr, Otto Greene, to the lower !
enement in the house OF F. n. Young
"a North Main street. Mr.. Young Will .
Seep house in the upper tenement. I
Henry Brooks returned Friday to Boston = :
liter three weeks stay at his home in :
itockbridge, stopping over a day in Bethel :
With his friend, q. IL. Upper. He will ,
eturn to stockbridge in June. His place !
here is being improved constantly. '
Condition of the sickle. II. Kimball is T
bic TO ride out Mrs. Rodney Shedd con- :
innes TO improve IN health; ID. w. Shaw
! confined to the house by illness; Mrs.
J. ). Wright is able to sit up; George .
lark is able to be ON the street again. !
The Bethel public library is the recipient !
rom senator Proctor Of a copy OF his :
ecent publication of the proceedings OF I
he convention Of 1777. 1t is very tastily q
often out and contains facsimiIies of the !
mlnutes and is of great interest =
o those interested in the early history =
( the state. Z
DIR. r. NJ. Chase was called to Riyerdale. n
seb., last week by a telegram announcing a
hat his mother, Mrs. Moses Chase, had 4
.Ad a turn Tor the worse. Mrs. Chase is
ighty-one years old. Early in April the
octOr was notified that she was s~eriouslyl
lex with pneumonia, but later news stated
hat she was better and il was supposed
he was on the way to recovery.
Postmasters on the line from Bellows i
ais 70 81. Adams via the G. v. Ry. are
gitattng the proposition of asking the a
ostotncc department to establish a rail- &
mail car on the north n south \
express trains, reaching Bethel at
w ana 1917 p. ma. respectively. This
give this section the New York
iail more promptly and be a great con- +
enicnce.
The remains Of Albion II. Spicer were a..
here for interment Apr. 2lst from
reenheld, Mass, and funeral services .
held that day at the home of A. B. 0
rocks on River street, Rev. J. Wesley
luler, officiating. The interment was in il
berry Hill cemetery. Mr.. Spicer was
ere last September and chose the lot, at 5,
ie time, though, he was in ordinary health.
rs last sickness was pneumonia, Of only
be weeks duration. Mr.. Spicer is sur
we'd by a widow formerly Elizabeth g.,
rocks OF this town. and a son and daugh- =
r. Mr.. Spicer was inspector in Wells -
ros.. tap and die shop at Greenfield. He =
as b0years old and was born in Water =
lry, Vt, where his father owned a tan ID
Try. Mrs. Spicer is sister Of ABB. Brooks,
q. Brooks and Miss Celia Brooks OF
lis town.
+. b. Ellis Of Northfeld was in town
and took a deed from Robert
ohle to the F. b. Ellis Granite company
a site Tor a shed on the Noble meadow.
his site is situated adjoining railroad
on the south and the new road on the
- and has a frontage Of twenty-five DDS.
r. Ellis states that be has Just closed a
intract with the Central Vermont rail-