Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-09
Bethel Local Intelligence
GUY WILSON, Local Editor.

GUY WILSON, Local Editor.
Something new in monograph records.
IndestructibIe. 4w ae d. M. Strong.
Clocks, gold chains, br acelets, iockets
charms for sale. ae III
d. NJ. Strong, Bethel, VT.
Wanted To buy timber land for
cash. ae
Green Mountain Lumber Co., Room
1872, 90 State ST., Boston.
Just received new stock of gold
watches, all kinds. Cash or 81 down and
81 month until paid for. Write for
catalogue and prices. 3 W ae
d. NJ. Strong, Bethel
Wanted To buy portable saw mill
complete, with boiler and engine that
will saw 5000 or 10, 900 feet per day.
Write Green Mountain Lumber Co., SO
State street, Boston, Mass. Telephone
number 1892 Main. 4w ae
Buy Atwood extra super carpets at the
Brooks & Washburn store at SOC. to Doc.
per yd. Others ask 65c. to Zoe. Styles
are good. They will close out their stock
of this kind, and while they are going
you can save at least 50 to $3.50 on car
pet. wv ae
son was born March 81 to Mr.. and
Mrs. G. Henry Wight.
a daughter was born March % to Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Nelson.
Charles H. Ledger of Phillipsburg, N.
j., is making test of electric drills at
the Woodbury. quarry.
The Bethel Mills, operated by A. N.
Washburn & Co., have sawed out about
foo IF Inn 1har in 6
weeks.
Mrs. r. L. Cotton has returned from a
trip to northern New York, where she
was called by the death of a grandchild
and the serious illness of a daughter.
Austin F. Gillette, formerly of Bethel,
continues in very critical state at the
home of his daughter, Bertha, in Brattle-
boro. No hope of his recovery is given
by the physicians.
Mrs. c. A. Shepard of Braintree has
spent some time with her daughter, Miss
Blanche Shepard, teacher of the fifth and
sixth grades, who is recovering from her
illness of last week, and hopes to be able
to resume her school work next week.
Roy L. Stearns has come from Jackson,
Mich, where he worked during the fall
and winter, and will spend the summer
Springfield. Business in Jackson is very
dull, there being employment only hall
the time.
Mrs. Frances Sargent has stored hel
household goods and gone to Randolph
for the present. Her son, Francis, will
board at W. NJ. Fishers and continue to
work in the Office of the Woodbury. Gran
lite Co. Mrs. Sargent's removal is much
regretted by large circle of friends, who
trust that it is only temporary.
Teachers have been engaged as follows
for the town district schools East Beth
ell, Caroline B. Weymouth; Christian
Hill, Bessie j. Munson; FINLEY Bridge,
Mrs. w. G. Brooks; Camp Brook, Ruth
Draper; Old Church, Mrs. G. c. Robbins
Mountain, Mabelle Dustin. The Findley
Bridge school will open next Monday.
the others week or more later. Mumps
in the Old Church neighborhood will de-
lay the opening there a week or two.
There is some doubt about the mainten-
ance of school at Bethel Gilead, owing
to the fewness of pupils. A teacher for
'Lympus has not yet been found.
With the large increase of business at
the local G. V. Ry. station, the company
found it necessary during the last year
to increase its yard trackage, aud lately
has been more than limiting to the own
ers of buildings railroad land that the
time will soon come when the land will
be needed for railroad purposes. One
large property sale was at least delayed
last week by the prospective buyers dis
coyery of railroad claims upon part of the
land 1t is understood that the railway
people claim that the lumber sheds are
entirely built on railway land, and that
the owners Of the sheds have been noti-
fled that the sheds must be removed at
once.
Work is being rushed on the Cushing
light and power system, with view TO
the opening of the line for business April
20. This date applies to the Randolph
lights and power for the granite she'd 1t
is expected that service at the quarry will
begin about May 1. The building at
Gaysville is nearing completion, the
wheels and draught tubes have been set
and the wire is being laid. Temporarily,
the old line to Randolph will be used.
but later it is proposed TO discontinue the
more dangerous part of the old line and
run new line from the quarry to c. w.
Haraden's on the Randolph road. There
seems likely to be no lack of electricity in
this neighborhood after May for any
possible purpose.
Since the discontinuance some weeks
ago of regular trains on the Bethel Gran
lite railway, the E. B. Ellis Co. has been
served by the way freight, which until
Monday of this week had come when or
dered. The company had three carloads
ready for shipment to Baltimore, where
the cutting is being dome on the National
Museum contract, Washington, d. c.
The engine failing to arrive as ordered
inquiry at the local office of the c. V. Ry
elected the Information that orders had
been received to ship no more carloads o.
the granite to Baltimore until % car
loads now in the yard there should be un
loaded. The reason for this accumulation
of Bethel granite in the Baltimore railway
yard has not yet been learned.
This town has become SO we'll known
in recent years by its large granite indus
try that the general public may be il
some danger of forgetting that it has
been for many years very importan
leather town. In the midst of quite gen
eral business depression in the country
the Fisher tannery is doing almost TN,