The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-20
BETHEL


Mrs. Eliza +. Miller has been appointc
| administrators of the estate of her lat
husband, G. NJ. Miller She will carry Of
the drug business with J. Wesley Miller
a registered pharmacist, as manager, AM
Miss Julia Miller as assistant
Norman H. Carr, former resident
now of White River Junction, passed tn
physical examination before the loca
board and made no claim for exemption
He is brother of Mrs. r. p. Shaw o
this village, and son of j. L. IL, Carr o
Barre.
Mrs. George Andrews and her two
daughters, Margaret and Dorothy, of Sa
lem, Mass, are guests at Thomas Lees
Floyd Wilfore of Wiliamstown, a
member of Co. X, LIST Vermont infantry
spent Sunday at Mrs. Stella Grants
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Wilkinson and
Miss Dorothy Wilkinson of Foxboro
Mass, came to-day for stay at John
Morses.
The taxpayers of Barnard in good
numbers attended special town meet
ing last Saturday at which four arc'clcs
of the warning were acted upon A. n,
Merrill was elected selectman in place Of
James Maynes, who had enlisted. The
school directors were ordered to build u
new foundation at a new place for the
Locust creek schoolhouse and to move
the building and so enlarge and renovate
il as to satisfy the requirements of the
state board of health. The new location
will be near the present one. The sale of
the Selden Mott farm, owned by the
town, was ordered and John A Moore
was elected agent for the sale. A tax of
20 cents on the dollar payable this year
for state expenditures was voted.
There was well attended and success
full auction at Jerry Fitields Saturday,
conducted by B. G. Rogers.
Mrs. Herbert Fifeld has been critically
ill and is better.
Morning service yesterday at the
Methodist church took the form of a
memorial service for G. VI. Miilet, who
died suddenly week ago. There was a
large attendance at the service
A baseball game between the Bethel
and South Royalton town teams last
Saturday resulted in a victory for the
visitors by score of Is to Z. i
Roy Hamilton, who registered in Chit
tenden county, passed the physical test
and filed no exemption claim, but the
authorities may do so on the
ground that year from now he would
graduate in medicine.
Austin B. Noble, who had enrolled as
/ member of DIR. Watson's company at
N. H., of the medical re-
serve corps, has learned that the unit |
will not be called out. so its organiza
ion apparently falls through. Mr.. No
Die just now is uncertain what course to
pursue, but probably viii enter some
,ranch of the service.
Clyde Blossom, Henry Wilcox, Glenn
Twitchell and Eugene Parrott were at
heir homes over Sunday from Fort
ethan Allen. Other men in khaki who
pent the day here were Harry l.. Trask,
,harles F. Hart and Robert Fields.
The second call from .he local excmp
ion board came to Bethel last Friday,
hen several additional men were noti-
ed to present themselves in about a
yeek
Miss Marion Adams last evening was I
lected president of the Young Peoples E
hristian league, Earl E. Shepard vice
resident, and Miss Hazel Williamson, !
acretary and treasurer. The members :
oted to take charge of the Sunday even /
~ meetings in alphabetical order.
Special Officer r. w. Morse eneoun-
cred well dressed man of about 30
mong the lumber piles in A. n. Wash
,rn's yard about o'clock Sunday morn I
q and the stranger refused to give any /
count of his presence in the place He .
as ordered to move on and did so, TAX
g the Central Vermont track south +
ard
Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Chapman attended
fiddle Branch Pomona grange at East c
ethel Saturday. ii