The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-10
BETHEL
Party Of Ten Starts on Automobile He.
gira to California.

Party Of Ten Starts on Automobile He
gira to California.
Frank Church, for many years resi-
dent of Royalton hill, near this village,
who lately sold his farm to Henry J.
Noble, yesterday, with his wife, mother,
four children, his sister, Mrs. Clara B.
Chamberlin and niece, Miss Vesta Cham.
berlin, and Joseph jackson, party of
10, started for Hanford Cal, their flu
ture home. The Chamberlins lately sold
their place at South Tunbridge. The
party goes in seven passenger Cadillac
ear and Ford truck, the latter carrying
the essential household effects and camp
ing outfit for the journey Mr.. Church
drives the passenger ear and Mr.. Jack
son the truck.
DIR. M. P. Stanley of White River
Junction. recently commissioned first
lieutenant in the medical reserve corps
and ordered to Fort Oglethorpe, is a
graduate of Whitcomb high school and
began the study of medicine in DR..
Greene's office here.
Miss Louise Austin, aged IS years,
native of this town, lives alone, keeps
house and does considerable work for her
neighbors, lately having made 70 button
holes for the gowns of some young lady
friends. Miss Austin's great GRANDPA
Their, David Stone, who recently, with
his wife and two children, had come
from Rutland, Mass, was seized by In
dams six weeks before the burning of
Royalton in 1880, and kept a prisoner IN
l.. n he % ha
end of which time he returned home to
the place now occupied by Dana Shaw,
known as the Lattimer place. With Mr..
Stone was seized and carried off his
neighbor from the Cleveland or Stanton
place across the river, the uncle of Cap
tain Stephen Cleveland, Miss Austin's
grandfather, who for 80 years was a
Justice of the peace. Miss Austin was
born in house still standing on the
so-called S. G, Durham farm, now owned
by f. A. Parsons. When she was four
years old her parents moved to the orig
inal of the present Hinckley residence
on River street and she has vivid mem
cries of village events so years ago.
Charles A. Batcheller has gathered IL
quarts of raspberries of good quality
from his garden this month and more
are ripening The variety is the Her.
bert, which is not supposed to yield fruit
at this season.
Mrs Jane Tolles, aged "a years, Of
Stockbridge, large part of her life a
resident of this town, is here for a few
days to visit Miss Kate Bullard and Mrs.
Martha Arnold. For her years, she is
very active, walking considerable dis
tanees ON the street or sidewalk.
Letters have been received from Leon
o. Barnes and j. +. Ripley, I'd, members
of machine gun battalions, who were
resting when their letters were written.
They have been at the front many
months, having arrived in France last
fall and seeing trench service almost
from the first.
R. L. Cotton of Barnard held an auc.
ton last Saturday at which the best
cows brought from $50 to 500.
Aguinaldo Peduzzi, who has worked all
summer in White River Junction, is
again at high school.
Mrs Albert Vickers and her daughter
Irma, of Hartford, Conn, are visiting
former neghbors.
Robert G. Bundy of Keene, N. H., who
VAS a jeweler in Hudson Mass, before
bis enlistment in the navy, is boatswain
on the Z. S. transport Mount Vernon
which was torpedoed recently with con.
siderable loss of life. His name does not
appear in the list of killed and it is as.
sumed that he escaped He is a native
Of this town, % years of age, and a neph.
ew of B. G. Bundy He has made q
dozen trips across the Atlantic
c. w Marston of Niagara, n. c., a
former resident, was a visitor last week
A complete summary of the Red Cross
drive last summer shows that the
amount raised and paid in Bethel was
$l,9ll43. G. G. Clifford was chairman
of the drive and deserves much credit
for its success, which was much greater
than was thought possible. The quota
of the town was 81 100.
Professor and Mrs. Sander Baruch are
visiting in Boston and vicinity.
James Carney, whose first call last
month was to Syracuse, N. Y, is now
doing guard duty at Philadelphia
Frederick Fairehild was discharged TO-
day from the sanatorium after a week
recovery from an operation on his foot
Lieut.. w. I. King, jr, is here on a Il
days leave and expects soon to 60 over
seas in the aviation corps of the army.
Forrest G. Aikens, second son of Mr.
and Mrs. Seth b. Aikens Of Barnard
who has been recommended as eligibl,
for appointment as a second lieutenant
after his training at field artillery off
GERS training camp, is graduate O.
Whitcomb high school and we'll known
and popular young man here.
Mr. and Mrs. Newman Smead Arthur
Smead and George Marsden, all of North
field, Mr. and Mrs, George Hunt of Yer
gennes, were B9scom house guests yes
terday, calling on Mr. and Mrs. B. H
Smead
w. E. Shampeney and w. M. Cooke o
Rochester were in town yesterday