Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-13
Bethel Local Intelligence.
GUY WILSON, Local Editor.

GUY WILSON, Local Editor.
Clocks, gold chains, br acelets, iockets
charms for sale. ae tt
d. NJ. Strong, Bethel, VT.
Attend Board of Agriculture meeting at
Grange hall, Randolph, Feb. 20, after
noon and evening.
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
naIf price. % instruments to choose
from. Cash or installments. Write for
catalogue and prices. 4w ae
d. NJ. Strong, Bethel.
c. D. Cushing was in Canada on bust
ness the first of the week.
W. G. Brooks and Roy Savage have.
been sick with the prevailing distemper
Harold SalstonstalI of Lebanon, N. H.,
was the guest last week of his sister, Mrs.
George H. Arnold.
Mrs Laura Cady has returned from
visit of several months to her daughter,
Mrs. William A. Woods, OF Waterbury.
A son was born Feb. 6 to Mr.. and Mrs.
Matthew Foley of this town. Mr.. Foley
is stonecutter working for the Wood
bury company.
Remember the Leap Year ball to be
given in Odd Fellows hall Friday even
ing of this week for the benefit of the Lii
brary Building fund.
Otto Clayton, the five-months-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Tucker, died
yesterday morning after a weeks illness
of bronchial pneumonia.
John O'Connor, an employee in the tan
merry, has been obliged by ill health to
give up work for the present and has
gone to Woburn, Mass. to visit his pa
rents.
The safe in the old bank building was
removed Tuesday to go to Berlin, N. H.,
for the use of the First National bank of
that city, which was burned out in the
big fire of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Robbins have brok-
en- up housekeeping for the present as
Mrs. Robbins was called the first of the
week to her former home in Vinal Haven,
Me-, by the illness of relative.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. FL. Dinsmore left on
the sleeper Monday night (actual time of
leaving, a. m. Tuesday, for a trip to
Boston on business and to Providence, r.
l., where they will visit their son, Elmer
Dinsmore.
Edgar II. w. Owen, SON of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hiram Owen, of this town was mar
ried Feb 8 to Miss Mabel Agnes, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Mahan of
Pomfret. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. j. w. Miller CT this town.
The Bethel Printing Co. has installed
a two-horsepower electric motor and as
soon as connections can be made with the
lines of the Bethel Electric Light and
Power Co. will run both the small and
the large presses by electricity. Several
other users of small power are contem-
plating the installation of electric service.
William II. Edmunds closed real
estate deal of considerable magnitude
when he sold TO Joseph Greene of Boston
the Perkins Ward lot OF 100 acres, the
Hassam lot of 40 acres and the Gilbert
blanchard lot of so acres. all situated in
the town OF Stoektridge Mr. Greene
buys for the timber standing on the e
lots.
Mrs. Mary Bowen, widow of the late
Squire Bowen. died Feb. at tie age of
81 years FCneral services were held
Sunday, the officiating clergyman being
the Rev. Fraser Metzger Of Randolph.
Mrs. Bowen Was native OF Pruvf-
dence, z. j., and her maiden name was
Barber. For several years past she has
lived with her step-zon, Sylvester Bowen,
in Bethel I.ympus.
DIR. Il. NJ. Chase has 100 lantern slides
to illustrate "a Trip to Californian to be
given in the Town hail Wednesday even
ing, Feb. %, for the benefit of the Libra
ry Building fund. The doctors talk
promises to be one Of more than usual in
terest, as he took full minutes of his trip
and at large expense secured some Of
the best views obtainable. Remembe
the date, Feb. IS, and the cause, the Ii
brary Building fund.
The Flynn school closed Feb. I. Num-
Der of pupils, 10; average, III. Pupils
not absent, Leon Barnes, Arthur Bradley,
Kenneth Gardner, Peter LaRock, Leon
Wight. Those absent only one day, Ray
mond Barnes. Grace Bradley, Lizzie Wick
ers. The following missed no words dur
ing the term:-Hazel Hastings, Helen
Hastings, Leon Barnes, Grace Barnes,
Bessie Bradley, Flora LaRock. Mabel
Mabel Dyke was teacher.
w. B. c. Stickney and son, DR.. Will
liam Stickney, of Rutland took a pleasure
urlVe unCer strenuous circumstances
Feb. 4, the day of the big storm. They
started from Rutland at 9 a. M and
reached Bethel at p. m. DR.. Stickney
began his return trip alone at 8 p. M,
with the thermometer IS degrees below
zero, reaching Rutland at a. m. the next
morning, having covered about sixty
miles under the worst conceivable
travelling. A change of teams was made
going each way at Pittsfield
William Phineas Smith of East Bethel
passed away Feb. after long illness.
The immediate cause of his death was
grip, but he had been sick many years
with chronic abscess of the lungs. For
many years he had been a prominent
merchant in East Bethel. On account of
i'll health, he sold his business to Fowler
d Son two years ago. He was born in
Braintree Dec. 4, 1881, the son of Herman
Morgan Smith and Abbie Carley. He is
survived by his wife and by an adopted
daughter, the wife of w. j. Gould.
Bethel branch of the Granite Cutters
International union have presented to the