The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-02
BETHEL.
Universalist Church Celebrated Its Cen
tennial Recently.

ne iHlNfTSNllsl tHHlfn ol TINS NillhB'
which has stood the test of hundre,
years, celebrated its centennial last Sat
urday and Sunday with simple exercises
appropriate TO the occasion, the pastor
Rev. Will c. Harvey, contributing AZ
historical address on Saturday evening
and suitable sermon on Sunday morn
ing. The celebration, which but for the
war, would have drawn many outside
guests, was limited largely to members
of the local church and parish. There
was good music on both days by choir
of trained voices, Mrs. Fred c. Putnam
directing the singing and Mrs. A, Lee
Cady serving as organist. Many of the
early settlers of the town were Univer-
salists and many of the older families of
the town are of that faith.
Mrs. w. A. Maynard and her three
children are in Windsor for short
| visit.
c. Ii. Goss, shortly after rising Sunday
morning discovered fire in the gable end
of his house ON Pleasant street and gave
an alarm TO his neighbors by telephone,
By his own and their well directed eff
forts, the fire, which was caused by Il
hot chimney, was confined to the part of
the house in which it originated, with
loss of about 800 Mr.. Goss never
has carried any insurance.
Miss katherine Rogers has returned to
Walpole, Mass, after spending the holi-
days at home.
Corp. Paul +. Wilson was at home
from Camp Devens over Sunday.
Mrs. Charles NJ Angel is making good
progress toward recovery from the effects
of an operation which she underwent re-
Gently at the Randolph sanatorium.
NJ. A. Lilley froze his fingers while at
work Saturday so badly as to be unable
to work yesterday.
Little Fred Grafton has been seriously
ill, but is recovering
w. L. Parsons is running the saw at
A. n Washburn's mill during the illness
of +. Il. Wallace.
Ebert Jebb is learning the BARRIERS |
trade at Fred f. Burrells shop.
The Vermont School of Agriculture !
will play basketball with Whitcomb high |
school at the town hall Friday evening. |
Miss Kate Billiard visited Mrs. Belle |
Goddard in Stockbridge during the Holt
days
John Wynn is in charge of the pool
room during the absence OF j. Howard |
Myott,
The regular meeting OF the Woman's
club was held Monday at Mrs. Alice
Bartlett's.
Mrs. Lillian Sanborn of Rochester. n.
H., guest of Mrs. Bartlett, read high
ly instructive description of her visit to
Athens three years ago in company with
her son, Ashton. who at present is
in Egypt with a party of psychologists
engaged in excavating on the site OF an
,ient Memphis under the auspices of the
University of Pennsylvania department
IF archaeology. With her son, Mrs. San
BORN spent the spring and summer of
1914 in Greece, leaving when the Euro
Dean war broke out. Mrs. c. g. Clifford
cad John Keats 'Ode to an Urn in
with Mrs. Sanborns paper
current events were given by Mrs $. l..
Abbott.
Mr. and Mrs. G. 4. Bartlett OF Boston
rave returned after a few days visit
Miss Mary Carr and Miss Edith Buck
zee of New Haven, Conn., came Saturday ,
o spend New Years with Mrs. c. i. i,
Hepburn.
The members of Daniel Lille corps
ave Mrs. G. A. Marsh d surprise party d,
t her home last Friday.
Merton G.. Preston of Burlington
ormer resident, is calling on friends in !
own. II
Oliver Fl. Luce recently of Bridgeport, .
onn., former resident, was here and
t Gaysville for the holidays, his wife a
eng with relatives at Gaysville On .
.aving town he went to his future home 8
l Baltimore, Md
Miss May Campbell of Lyndonville,
ho teaches at Worthwhile and formerly h
aught at Whitcomb high school, visited =
gently at A. Lee Cadys.
The annual rolleall, supper and bust II
ess meeting of the Congregational o
lurch will be held Wednesday evening, Z
IN. ,. :,
Rev. W. Benjamin Reynolds enter :,
lined the members of his Sunday school
the rectory yesterday afternoon. A
Whitcomb high and graded schools win .,
open Monday, Jan. I, as originally
aimed. wood being substituted for coal /,
comply with the wishes of the fuel r
h,
Orlando t. Martin of Plainfield. lectur-
OF the state grange, VIII lHsJail Ihe | W
Wy officers of Rising Star grange next o,
onday evening, and will address the "
ange, Il
Miss Winifred Wilmot was at home
r the holidays from Maynard, Mass.
W. Trot King, jr., who enlisted several
seks ago in the aviation corps and was -,
lced in reserve, has received orders to n,
port Jan. at Cornell university,
haca, n. v. to take a course of train ~
2 at the governments aviation school. g.
Miss MARITIME Senay of Montreal is NE
re to visit her sister, Mrs. II. u. Bel =.