Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-06
Bethel Local Intelligence.
GUY WILSON, Local Editor.

charms for sale. de u
d. NJ. Strong, Bethel, Vt.
For Sale:-Wagon, sleigh, set platform
scales and oil tank. 2w ae
Guy Wilson, Exr. H. Fl. Gibson estate,
Bethel, VT.
rs gold and gold-filled watches to be
sold for cash or 50 per month until paid
for; Waltham and Elgin. All new.
Write for catalogue and prices. ae tt
d. NJ. Strong, Bethel, VT.
A stock of new pianos and organs this
week and next. Secondhand organs
half price. % instruments to choose
from. Cash or instalIments. Write for
catalogue and prices. 4w ae
d. NJ. Strong, Bethel.
Pearl NJ. Savage is laid up with Sc
we're attack of the grip.
Mrs C. F. Waldo is is recovering
from four weeks illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Waters were at
East Granville over Sunday.
Hon. Frank P1umley of Northfield was
in town on business Monday.
A leap year dance will be given Feb.
Ia for the Library building fund.
DR.. r. NJ. Chase was in Boston over
Sunday, having dental work done.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ H. Harrington of
Philadelphia were guests this week of
Mrs. Mary E. Harrington.
DIR. H. w. Holden has recently placed
in his house fine new Hughes & Son
piano, bought of D. NJ. Strong.
Miss Caroline ID. Weymouth of RAN
dolph Center has been spending the past
week with Mrs. Adelaide R. Stearns.
Miss Mary L. Chadwick of Swanton, a
former teacher in the Whitcomb High
school, is visiting at the home of Mrs. E.
A. Davis.
DR.. Chase was in Boston Monday to
procure plates to be used in an illustrated
talk ON his California trip to be given
Feb. &c for the Library building fund.
The thermometer registered about "a
degrees below zero Tuesday morning, the
coolest yet of the season. Work at the
Woodbury. shed was omitted on account
of the cold weather.
Miss Jessie Spaulding, instructor in
the second primary department of the
Whitcomb High school, is laid up with
grip and her school is being taught by
Mrs. James A. Graham.
The seventeen-months-oId daughter of
Heryey Mills of Stcokbridge got hold of a
box OF quinine pills Sunday and swal-
lowed several. Medical assistance was
soon summoned, but the child died in a
few hours.
w. II. Kittredge, blacksmith on the
quarry, who has lived in the Wheeler
house on the Wing farm the past year,
has hired the farm OF Fred Stevens in the
east part of the town and will take pos
session March 9Th.
Mrs. Emma Durham Holmes of Wal
pole, n. H., has been in town the pas. t
week. She has employed Park Wight 10
carry on the S. C. Durham farm I'll e
coming year and Mr.. Wight will take
possession the first of March.
Mrs. Blanche Gleason Wilson was
granted divorce last week from her bus-
band, Frank NJ. Wilson, on the ground
of intolerable severity. Wallace n.
Batchelder wes attorney for Hrs. Wilson,
and the petition was not opposed.
John Gilman has rented his home
farm, known as the Tcrrey farm, to
Frank Olrnsted for the term of three
years, with tie stock and farming tools.
bir. and Mrs. Gilman hgvo made arrange
meuts, to carry on the iarm OF Aaron Il.
Wilson.
Rising Star grange met Saturday even
ing ard ia spite OF the storm there were
fifteen that brayed it and came oat. An
invitation to give the program at Good
VIII grange Feb. S was accepted. Il is
expected that Deputy George C. Flint
viii be present.
The snowstorrn Of Saturday was the
worst known fer a long while The
snow fell to tie depth Of about IS inches
on the level and was SO light that it
drifte3 easily. Travel was well nigh I'M
possible Sunday on any but the river
roads and on them nothing could be done
except at q walking pace Lee Cady,
called out as undertaken by the death of
Mrs. Horace Hatch of Barnard, started
out early Sunday morning and took three
hours to get to Mt. Hunger in Barnard, a
distance of eight miles On Christian
hill drifts were eight feet deep in places.
Two teams got stalled on the hill and
were with difficulty shovelled out.
Whitconb High School.
Washburn, '09, has been absent this
week on account of illness.
Misses Zilpha and ZiIpah Ranney were
absent last week and this week on ac-
count of the illness of the former.
Susie Stafford, '0s, has been unable to
attend school for several days, being de-
tanned at home by her mothers illness.
The senior class in Greek has finished
all the requirements for college and is
now reading the Odyssey, first-year col
lege work.
The class in Caesar has completed the
"Bridge" translation in Book 4. The
hour Monday was spent profitably in
making diagram of the bridge and then
explaining it.
At a meeting of the Athletic associa-
ton, committee was elected to make ar
engagements, if possible, for renting the
hall in the Locust Creek house for play
ing basket ball.
Foley's Honey and Tar cures the most
obstinate coughs and expels the cold
from the system as it is mildly laxative
1t is guaranteed. The genuine is in the
yellow package.
H. A. Leonard, Randolph, c. E. Black
South Royalton, and all druggists else
where.