Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-03-02

Eggs iuE nhtculhEf H. - H. = heus . All
DC. apiece, or q per 100. Am
ae Mrs. o. n. BARRows, Bethel, VT
Protect your homes by a Metropolitan
fire eXtinguisher.
2w NED 9. BUCK, Agent, Randolph.
For SALE. Six horses, as Yellowstone
pair gre mares about 10 years old, one
black mare about u years old, one bay
colt three years old, one two-year-old colt,
one yearling colt Apply 10 G. T.. Riley at
Wing farm, Christian Hill, Bethel. ae 4w
A daughter was born TO Mr.. and Mrs
George II. Waldo Feb. 10th.
Mrs. Billings, mother OF Louis Il. Bill
lings, arrived in town last Saturday to
make visit.
A daughter was born Feb. 2Sth to Mr..
and Mrs Frank Clough, who live in the
house Of A. A. Soper.
An account OF the 10Th anniversary OF
the organization OF the local q. Il. society
goes over TO next weeks issue.
Miss Mabel Dyke went Wednesday to
Portland, Me-, where she has a position az
teacher in the State School for Boys.
Miss Mollie Abbott is at home from
Mortified, Mass, for months vacation
from her duties as teacher in the public
schools.
Miss Annie Bradley and Miss Rose Gray
VI hNhAAM AhNN htNAl tkNtuA Nl6AhOIH VI MI
and Mrs. A. }. Graham, grandparents OF
Miss Bradley.
There arrived in town Tuesday Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Tolan OF Malone, N. ", the
new owners OF the Il. +. FELTON, farm on
Christian Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Il. c. stickney left
Tuesday afternoon for Boston, where Mr..
Stickney has business engagement this
week, after which they will proceed to st.
Augustine, Fla. They expect to be absent
about a month.
The friends and neighbors Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Dubois, living on the Scion
Putnam farm IN Barnard, gathered at the
Dubois home Saturday evening 10 help
Mr.. and Mrs. Dubois celebrate the 18th
anniversary OF their marriage.
Henry Page Munson aud Katherine
Ellen, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs Ii. n |
Cole, were married February rs by Rev. q !
+. Fortier, pastor Of the Universalist
church. Mr.. and Mrs. Munson will reside |
on the {. w. Curtis farm IN this town. 4
Mr.. Munson having leased the farm for a
year.
The Harrington creamery has run its
separator for the last time. Cream only |
VIII be taken in the future. Mr.. Fish is |
brought to take this step because Of the |
fact that so many OF his patrons use sep
arators the balance OF the customers do 4
not furnish milk enough to pay to run the /
separator.
Last Saturday, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Chad 1
wick Of st. Adams brought here for burial
the remains Of their daughter, Claribel /
Mae, who died OF pneumonia. Funeral
services were held by Rev. j. Hall Long,
aud the remains we're placed in the tomb
az Cherry Hin cemetery, but will eventual
~ be buried in the lot Of Mr.. Chadwick IN
that cemetery. Mrs Alice Allen OF Leb-
anon and Mrs. Belle Beekman OF Boston,
sisters Of Mr.. Chadwick, were In town
with the parents,
Bethel town reports advance sheets
show the following .-Iotal expenses for
the year, little over IS 600; reduced in
debtedness about $500; road commits
hioner returns about s225 not used from
appropriation, an uuheard Of thing; town
school district out Of debt and 800 ahead
town tax recommended, SIPS; town
school, 45c.i expense OF poor, $1,000. Con-
stable has filed list OF 80 names Of de-
iinqucnts, including all, going back six
years. There are no special items in the
warning.
Selectmen w. II. Edmunds, M. D.
Brown and y. y. Spaulding gave a public
hearing last Saturday ON the petition Of
several residents on Church and North
Main streets, asking TO be set out OF the
district ON The ground Of insufficient pro-
lection. The prudential committee Of the
district were present and opposed the
granting Of the petition and thought pro-
lection could be afforded. The seecimen
adjourned the hearing until next summer
20 gave the district a chance 10 make good
their claim.
W. I. King has received word that hIs
brother, Fred II. King, has been practi-
cally assured OF the appointment of post
master az Portland, Ne. Mr.. King had
been assistant postmaster under Mr.. Bar
ker, late postmaster Of Portland, and had
done such faithful work that ON the death
OF his chief the business men OF Portland
made aH almost unanimous cali for has
promotion. The petition for his appoint-
ment carried the names OF fully nine
tenths Of the business men, 10 out OF 40
lawyers IN the city, 90 out 81 10 doctors
and the same ratio through other callinrs.
Dean 3. Topper, aged Il, died yesterday
morning, 81 grip and pneumonia. He !
married Ellen, daughter Of BENZ Rogers
OF stockoridge. ia his younger days he
was sailor on whaler from New Bed
ford, Mass. Later he lived in Rochester.
and about ID years ago came 10 Bethel Ia
live. IL is a curious fact that his wife and !
his daughter Mrs. John d. Wheeler, died
Of the same disease, grip, in the same ,
house, 10 the same week Of the year about ,
eight years ago. He left one son. Will II. /
Topper, Of Orange, Mass, one daughter.
Mrs. Tucker, 81 Ipswich, Mass. aud one
grandson. Gardner Wheeler. 81 Bellows
Falls. he vas a cousin Of Geo. nj. and
John T. Taper. Funeral not yet ar
ranged.
The Oid-style greeting in this vicinity
used 20 be pretty cold, isn't itP" or
something like that. but the present win
ter has brought forth e new greetine-"ls
your water supply frozen yet eH The long
cold pull, with no break Or thaw. aud ne {
low stage q The springs has PLAYED havoc
with supplies 81 water considered unfaiI- &
ing. The water supply 40 the Lyman z
lhld premises, that has uut failed siurel
fEo family lived there. being sF wears. E
joined The strike. Whole utiEhbdrHouds s
are wlthaHt running water. The farmers
are driving their stock 90 the brooks ana
tlautng snow for house use. The Haieri
in White river b exceed nEly low and tbeI
electric Light station b Operated only until %
midnight
Henry kiusman Wing died 40 Dr. Bar- i
RVS sanitsrium, Burlington. yesterday /
morning % 3 complication 81 diseases. /
aged about s.. He vas born in Chitten- +
Den, VI, and in early life Wont o. Boston 2
and engaged In the stable business and
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