Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-14

and modern conveniences with steam
heat installed.
Word was received Monday by relatives
in Bethel of the death May 10 of Mrs.
Zenas C. Bowen of Waterbury, Conn.,,
| from consumption. Funeral services
were held Tuesday. Mrs. Bowen will be
remember in this vicinity by the name
of Miss Hattie Clark. The Clark family
at one time lived on the farm now occu-
pied by David Allen.
| Announcement is made OF the marriage
of Burnap Wilson Southworth and Miss
Bessie Munson, which took place
Wednesday evening, May 6, at the home
of the officiating clergyman, Rev. j.
Wesley Miller. Mr.. Southworth gradu-
ated from the Whitcomb High school last
June and Mrs. Southworth is at present
teaching school in the Christian Hill dis
| trict.
Friday, May s, the following officers
were installed in the I. o. G. T.:-P. c.,
F. B. Smelling; V. T., May Blossom; Sec.,
Mae |. Savage; Treas, Mrs. Annie Ora
ham; Sen., Miss Blanche Graham; Dep.
Mar, Miss Blanche Shepard; Reg, Miss
Jessie Graham; Chap, Rev. j. Wesley
Miller. The next meeting will be May
%, when literary program will be furn-
! ished.
| Mrs. E. A. Markham has presented the
Courier with a copy of the Herald and
News of date Oct. IS, 1879. II is inter
esting to compare this paper with the
present production. The earlier paper
was a four-page affair. Two columns
were devoted to editorials. The reading
matter on the two inside pages was all
"plate matter" The local news was all
contained in six columns and of this over
one was report of the Funbridge fair.
t There we're only six short items from
Bethel.
! About 40 friends and neighbors of Mr..
and Mrs. G. I. Wheat gathered at their
home May to, help them celebrate the
ltwenty-fifth anniversary of their mar
rage. During the evening they were
presented with lamp, two rocking
chairs, one dollar in silver and Mr..
Wheat with pair of rubber boots and
shoes. Refreshments of ice cream and
cake were served and all departed to their
homes in the wee small hours, wishing
Mr.. and Mrs. Wheat many more years of
happy married life.
An event of general interest in reiig-
ious circles will be the 25th convention of
the White River District Sunday School
association to be held next week Friday,
! May %, in Hancock. These conventions
have been occasions of much interest and
| profit. Delegates from every Sunday
school should be elected next Sunday il
they were not elected last Sunday. The
convention will open at 10:45 and will
close about o'clock, SO that all may
reach home before dark. Besides papers
and discussions by several local workers,
there will be addresses by Revs. w. Fl.
Watson of Rochester and George r. Stair
| of Middlebury. The Hancock people
will furnish dinner at noon.
Mrs. Albert o. Thayer and Mrs. Eu-
gene B. Chamberlin call attention to What
they consider a very careless act and one
that easily might have resulted in the
death or serious wounding of zone of
them. They were on the meadow of the
Taggart farm near Gaysville Tuesday,
May 5th. They noticed some men on
the other side of the river between the
Abbott farm and Gaysville. These men
were engaged in firing. Soon a bullet
passed between the two ladies, so closely
that they could hear it whistle. The
missile hit stone wall in the rear. The
distance that separated the parties was
about half mile. Efforts are being
made to identify the parties doing the
shooting.
The officials of the local branch of the
Granite Cutters International union have
shown at the Courier Office a list of the
minimum prices paid in seventeen gran
ite-cutting towns in New England, being
practically all of the large towns engaged
in that business. The average rate paid
is So. 10ls per day, ranging from IS in a
number of the Maine towns and Cape
Ann, to 1896 at Milford. The commit
tee having in charge the matter OF the
strike are doing all in their power to set
tie the trouble. A conference was had
May with the officials of the Woodbury.
company but no new developments fol-
lowed The committee state that they
are ready to meet the officials of the
Woodbury. company at any time to try to
come together. They also state they do
not ask pay for the Saturday half.holi-
day.
The many friends of Percy Adams will
be glad 10 learn that he underwent an
apparently successful operation in the
early part OF April at the Baptist hospital
at Roxbury, Mass. Thirteen years ago,
Mr.. Adams had severe and prolonged
attack OF rheumatism, from the results of
which his limbs and spine were twisted
Dduly. anu So mucu SO tudL hllef the
rheumatism had left him be was nearly
helpless. The operating doctor was DIR.
Goldthwaite of Boston, one of the lead
! ing specialists on rheumatism in Boston
and the orthopedic method was used, be-
ing the same used by the Austrian sur
geon on the young Armour child in Chi
cago few years ago, which in substance
is the forcible breaking apart of abnormal
adhesions while the patient is under the
influence of anesthetics. The operation
was performed in sections, a week apart,
the first to straighten the spine and the
second to produce the natural curve Of
the spine. The operation is described az
one of the most delicate and painful
,, known to the profession and one that car
only be performed by very skilful and
strong doctors. Mr.. Adams has done well
since the operations and, when he was
!, visited by his friends, was able to rise
from his bed and stand erect, which hs
had not been able to do for thirteen
, years.