Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-02-23

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ae MRs o. n. BARRows, Bethel, Vt.
For SALE Six horses, a. follows one
pair grey mares about 10 years old, one
black mare about Y years old, one bay
colt three years old, one two-year-old colt,
one yoariing colt. Apply to G. +. Riley at
Wing farm, Christian Hin, Bethel. ae Az
George B. Chase returned TO Boston
O. H. Ridder is in Boston this week on
business.
Miss Mabel Dyke is visiting friends in
Springfield, Mass.
Miss Ella Wilson OF Burlington has
been a recent visitor ia town.
National Bank Examiner Frank p. Fish
was in town on official business Saturday.
William a. Edmunds went TO Brattle-
borO Tuesday 10 attend the state q. A. X.
encampment.
Miss NJ. s. Allen. trimmer for Mrs.
Mary HOdgkins Ia 1903, called on friends
in town last week.
Miss Mary Isabelle Norton OF Bethel
and Mr.. Arland Monroe Rose OF SPRING
field, Mass, were married Feb. 1.
The bobbin factory had to shut down
for short time Saturday on account Of
the illness Of 20 many Of the help.
Miss Harriet Wood has completed a very
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and Is now stopping with Mrs. NJ. A.
Cushing.
Dr. r. +. Steele, formerly OF Gaysyille,
was In town Friday. DR. Steele is now To-
Gated at Montpelier, where he has secured
large practice.
Mark o. Chamberlin has leased the S. G.
Durham farm for the coming year. His
place on the w. A. Durham farm will be
taken by Ulysses Howe OF Royalton.
Mrs George S. Wright, who has been
under the care OF Miss Kate Bullard at the
Child block, had sufficiently recovered TO
be moved to her rooms at the Bascom
House Friday.
Rev. j. W. Miller was unable to hold
services last Sunday at the Methodist
chapel and he meeting WAS taken charge
OF by Rev. Il. +. FELTON,. Mr.. Miller has |
a case Of the grip.
Mrs. Adella Ray passed away Sunday |
morning, after a long and painful illness. /
She was the daughter OF the late Amos aud 4
Caroline Chamberin, and is survived /
by her mother and two daughters.
Mrs. Mary Quimby has leased her farm
situated about three miles westerly OF the Il
village to her son, Arthur Quimby, for the /
coming season. Mrs. Quimhy expects to 1
take rooms to live in Bethel village.
Some OF the younger boys attending the |
village school have devised q new sport h
which consists in turning somersaults \
down the bank back OF the schoolhouse.
10 is quite a sight to see a row OF them
rolling down the bank like barrel hoops.
Dean b. Topper was taken sick Sunday
with the prevailing influenza, and his
condition became so serious that Monday
summons was sent to his daughter, Mrs.
Anna Upper Tucker, Of Ipswich and
William II. Topper Of Orange, Mass,
and the services OF nurse obtained
Says the Ludlow Tribune in its issue of
Feb. 9th;-"E Everybody detests the spotter.
The Bethel spotter who secured the con-
yiction Of a man by gaining bis confidence
and inducing him TO purchase liquor is
giving our ncighboring town good deal
OF undesired notoriety"
In a recent issue OF the st. Adams
Messenger it Is announced that at the
headquarters OF the G. " Ry. in that
city a reporter for that paper was in
formed that the building Of the branch
road 10 Bethel QuarrIes viii be begun
as soon as the weather permits.
Mr. and Mrs. William Briggs brought I
here Monday from the Adirondacks the
remains OF their daughter, Ethel Briggs,
who died Of consumption. Miss Briggs
had gone TO the mountains hoping TO be
relieved and her condition had so im-
proved apparently that u was expected to
bring her home last week alive.
speaking OF poultry LOT profit hlfhs
+. b. Markham writes that she started
in January 1st, 1901, with AZ hens and re-
ceiyed from the product OF those hens TO
January ist 1905, $1,000; the cost OF the
feed was si0i09, leaving a profit Of ~9i.5l.
She keeps single comb II. l. Reds only.
She also has hen eight years old that
laid in the last 22 days OF January II eggs.
T.. ID. ellison lost valuable horse out
OF his stable Monday, caused by the
animal slipping and breaking its leg.
The party who rented the animal was
coming down the cemetery hill on his
way from The gugrries, when he tried 70
turn out Of the deep ruts and tipped over,
The horse ran, Tipping IN the ruts, falling
and breaking one mind leg. 1t bad to be
shot. The driver was l.. b. Ellis pay
master from Mortified.
Mrs. Martha Chadwick Of West Hart
ford VT, died Monday morning, Feb. 20,
at the home OF her daughter, Mrs. r. [
Scott Adams, in this village. Funeral
services were held Wednesday at West
Hartford. Mrs. Chadwick was born
IN Hartford, VT. in July, 1929, aud resided
in the town OF Norwich nearly all her
life. She was the wife OF the late Joseph
Chadwick, She is survived bT one son,
Henry Chadwick, OF West Hartford, and
two daughters, Mrs r, Scott Adams, Of
Bethel and Mrs. William +. Ladieu, Of
Iowa City, Iowa.
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son tried last Thursday afternoon the
well-known kerosene oil method Of max
ing things lively in a coal stove. The coal
IRE was low and 10 was thought matters
would brighten up with little kerosene.
So full can OF kerosene oil was tipped up
and the fluid allowed To run over the heat
ed Goals. Things did liven up. The can
Of kerosene was blown 10 pieces. The
affair happened in the cellar and the oil
vested itself on the dirt bottom ana no
serious damage was done, but ii certainly
was narrow escape from a serious catas-
trOphe.
s. G. f.. viii give an address. an are
welcome.
King GRIP is holding supreme dominion
over a large portion 81 the population OF
this town. Many Of the business men are
confined 70 the house with the sickness
and the doctors cannot Keep up with the
demand for their calls. Drs- @. y.
Greene and .. v. Greene have both been
laid no az home. The enrolment Of pupils
at the Whitcomb High school - 2l3.
Monday morning but lis pupils responded