The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-12-15
BETHEL
Whitcomb High School Defeated BY Ran
dolph High School.

notieesbly.
r. H. s. W. II. S.
0sha, f...,....,......rg James Wilso
Colby, ri ...,....,,..,....,lg *, Richard
Allen, g,...............rf, John Wilso
Jones, rg .....,.,,.....,.. If, Newto
Baskets from the floor, 0sha 4, Spauld
ing B. Colby 2, Newton 2, Barrows
James Wilson 2, John Wilson; iron
fouls, Osha 3, Newton 3.
The Randolph girls won 10 to iron
the Whitcomb girls, but the latter ralle,
finely in the second period
r. II. S. Girls. W. Ii. S. Girls
Ford, RI Observation-Disclosures. Parson
Morse, If .................. .rg, Have,
Thayer, c.,................ Ceresi
G. Marshall, re-. .........l IL, A. Marshal
Stockwell, IL. ...".......,...rf, helehel
Baskets from the floor, A. Marshall 3
Morse =, A. Marshall; scorer, p. Ralph.
Mrs. Tia Roberts of Gaysville is passing
few weeks with her aunt, Mrs. George
f. Rowe.
Lewis II. Abbott went yesterday to
Lancaster, n. H., to pass the winter with
his son, Thomas j. Abbott.
Fourteen inches of snow fell Thursday
night and Friday morning, the heaviest
fall of snow remembered so early in the
season.
+. l.. Persons and Samuel Jebb have
gone to Springfield to work.
In addition to the more than 500 mem
bers of the Red Cross with which this
town is credited, an attempt will be
made next week to secure 9S new mem
hers, this towns share of the 100000
which it is hoped to enroll before Christ
mas. John j. Wilson, who is directing
the local campaign, has the village well
covered with advertising matter and has
arranged that the postotfice and the Cliff
ford pharmacy shall be furnished the
cards, buttons and flags which form the
enrolling outfit. He also has appointed
Revs. Will C. Harvey and j. Wesley Mil
Ter to enroll members as they have OPP
portunity.
Mrs. C. i. Hepburn has distributed
quantity of Red Cross Christmas seals
among the stores of the village for sale.
The remains of William NJ. Briggs,
aged ~ years, of Chelsea, were brought
here last evening from Bolton, where he
died Thursday after a weeks illness of
pneumonia, at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Fred May. The Briggs family for
merly lived here and Mrs. Briggs died
here | years ago. Those accompanying
the remains were Mrs. l.. S. Mackizer
and Fred Briggs OF Chelsea, Alton Briggs
of Hartland and Mr. and Mrs. May. The
funeral was held to-day noon at the
Methodist church, and the remains were
entombed at Cherry Hill cemetery, await
ing burial at the Lypmus cemetery be
side Mrs. Briggs.
Mason W. Huse has gone to his home |
in White River junction preparatory to
taking up his work in the army. The /
pupils of Whitcomb high school, of which |
he has been acting principal the last two
presented him.a Gillett safety |
razor and other army requisites, and
there was speech by Rev. w. c. Har-
vey, whose services as temporary prin
cipal the prudential committee has been
fortunate enough to secure.
Misses Blanche Smith and Harriet
Jebb are out of school because of illness
with German measles. Miss Ruth War
len has returned to school after an at
5ack of the same disease, and Max Bar
'ows recently recovered.
Miss Mary Stearns has learned of the
leath in NIedford, Mass, of her half
William G. Stearns, most of
whose boyhood and youth were passed
lere. As she had not learned of his ill
Tess, Miss Stearns believes that his death
vas without much warning. He was a
on of the late c. C. Stearns, was born in
lorthfeld, attended school in Bethel and
'outney, studied law in Hunton &
'tickney's office and was admitted to I
he bar but never practiced that profes
ion. He took up civil engineering, which ]
1as more to his taste, and was success
III in that calling, being called repeated 4
Y out of his own state on professional n
rrands. He visited here four years ago. J
Ie is survived by his wife. who is a
lember of the Pease family in Hartford, Q
son and two daughters The funeral /
as held to-day in Medford. =
A. n. Washburn is receiving at his mill
lme fine logs which he cut on the Par {
,ns lot, the Arnold lot and in Bethel
lead
Mr. and Mrs Elmer Smelling of Lyndon o
re visiting their son, F B. Smelling. =,
Miss Hazel Williamson is housekeeping h
" her brother Fred during his wife's
Dsence at the sanatorium for treatment u
Harold White of Barnard is in town O.
II few days with friends. il
The Demers bakery is now doing a d.
holesale business of 200 loaves daily.
ak Bliss has been added to the working Ii
rec. F.
Read the Peoples National bank adj ii
rtisement on page ADV. az az