Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-09-23

at ten and three-fourths pounds. IL you 4
do not believe that is q large chuck, just 4
weigh the next one you see and find out. I
The Bethel baseball team went to Hard l
wick Saturday and won in 3 game with I
the team from that town by a score of s
to 8. The Bethel battery was Wefer and
Commoli and the Hardwick Smith and
Poulin. The Bethel boys victory is the
more remarkable in consideration that /
they had to drive twenty-four miles from /
Montpelier to Hardwick before the game. I
There will be a recital in the Town hall
Friday evening, Sept. "a, for the benefit
OF the Library Building association.
Miss Dora NJ. Rowe and Irwin L. Potter,
graduates OF the Emerson School of Ora
tory in Boston, will give selections from
A. Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens and
others. These two artists appeared in
Barre, Sept. 8, and their entertainment is
very highly spoken Of
The monthly list of publications Of the
United States Department of Agriculture
for August OF this year contains two arti-
Giles by Perley Spalding, formerly Of
Bethel. now pathologist in the Office of
investigations in forest pathology at
Washington. The articles are "The Pres
emit Status of the White Pine Blight"
and European Currant Rust on the
White Pine in America"
Says the Rutland News:-"Two Bethel
men had an expensive Joy ride behind q
livery mans horse. They abused the ami
NAL frightfully and the GA, gold watch
and rings they left him did not counter
balance the damage done. For their
cruelty they were given 80 days in jail
and for their drunk they we're assessed 20
days more. That's proper medicine to
administer to people who violate the
speed laws"
/ Mrs. II. E. Flint Of Springfield, Mass,
called on friends in town last Thursday.
/ Mrs. Flint is the daughter of the late
/ ID. A. Guptil, former resident of Bethel,
who was married to Elizabeth Rix of
Royalton about the year 1857. The mar
rage is supposed to have taken place in
the Congregational church. Mrs. Flint
is much interested in trying to find a
record Of the marriage of her parents, but
has been unable to do 50.
Henry Cheney Rice died Monday even
ing, Sept. 10, at his home on Church
street, Of senile decay, at the age of IS
years. He was born in Stockbridge and
had spent most OF his life in this vicinity
with the exception of the time that be
served in the Civil war. He was married
in September, 1854. to Miss Janette Ohm
sted, who survives him. He is also sur
vived by two daughters, Mrs. Fred L.
Davis and Mrs. John Foley OF Bethel,
and one son, Earl Rice, of StonehAm,
Mass. The oldest daughter, Ada, wife OF
Frank Olmsted, died in August, 1901.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon and the interment was in Cher
} ~ Hill cemetery, Rev. q. F. Fortier OF
Mortified officiating.
John Keleher was the innocent but
suffering party to an auto smashup on
} the Barre road a short distance out OF
: Montpelier Wednesday evening OF last
! week, the other car being run and owned
! by o. ID. Shurtlen, oversser of the poor
OF Barre. The affair happened on por,
I tion OF the permanent new state road just
built and Mr.. Keleher had turned out to
: meet tine other machine approaching
, giving more than one-half of the road
Mfr. Shurtleff was not a skilled operator
aud turned out too far, when his machin,
began 10 slip down In the soft new road
! The driver pulled the machine too sharply
/. to the left and brought it back and upor
the other side Of the road, hitting Mr.
Keleher's machine and taking the spokel
7 all out OF his left front wheel. Both ma
! chimes were soon stopped, with no injurl
2 TO the occupants, and a new wheel VA
temporarily obtained from Montpelier FOL
7 Mr.. Keieher's auto. With MIR. Kelehe
was a touring party consisting OF r. {
= Mcintyre OF Bethel aud A. L. Wells RnC
. Z. NJ. Buchanan OF Boston.
i Death Of Mrs. David 7. Dyke.
Esther A. Dyke passed away Tuesda,
evening after short illness. She wa
b born in Bethel, April :, 1888, the daugh
!, ter OF Thomas Williams. She was mar
n ried at the parsonage at Randolph Center
a March IA, 1858, by Elder Con to Davi
d I. Dyke of Bethel. Three children wer
t born to them, Effie, who married MeIvI
Cox OF Barnard and died March 26, 1883
If Delbert H., now living in Bellows Fall,
n and Mabel, who makes her home wit
a her parents but has been teaching the IA
70 term OF school in the Preston district
y Practically all the married life of Mr.
i Dyke has been spent in Bethel She
also survived by her husband and the 70
=. lowing brothers and sisters, AmpliT
y Williams, ]. K. Williams, Mrs. Frankli
a l.. Parsons, Mrs. Jane Bowen and Mr.
! Amanda Morse, all living in Bethel. NJ
- and Mrs. Dyke celebrated the fiftieth al
- niversary Of their marriage March 1
1908. when they we're greeted by a lars
number of friends and relatives.
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Dyke have lived the pa
twenty years in their present home an
'ir Mrs. Dykes kind ways and hospital
er nature had endeared her to a large Giro
y, OF acquaintance.
~ Funeral services will be held Friday
2 D. m.
Railroad, Stockbri6ae to Chittende
he Plans are being rapidly perfected
M building a railroad from the Stoc
rst bridge station Of the White River Vail
nd railway to Chittenden. The plan is
av ing backed by the same parties that a
in interested in the Bayonne Lumber
and the nbad is primarily intended
facilitate the removal OF the lumber fro
81, that company's land. There is plen
'su of funds back of the scheme as these ps
- ties are intimately connected with
Standard Oil interests. The Bayon
"a Lumber Co. is a New Jersey corporate