The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-09-09
BETHEL
Streets Uttered with Debris After Fierce
Storm.

Storm.
A fierce tempest struck this village
about $3.50 yesterday and in minutes
time the streets were strewn with limbs,
branches and twigs from the many shade
trees which adorn the village. As usual
the power company and telephone com
pany were losers. A tree at James A.
Grahams residence was blown with such
force against a pole of the power COM
pany that the pole snapped like a pipe
stem 1t was propped up pending the
substitution of a stronger pole, but the
village was in darkness last evening.
Misses Ella Keeher and Hazel Whit
ney are away for a weeks visiting trip,
including Burlington, Barre and northern
Vermont.
The junior class at the high school has
reorganized by electfng Winston Dun
ham president Frances Southworth vice.
president and Blanche Smith secretary
and treasurer. The sophomore class has
elected Eleanor Graham president, Carl
Walker secretary and treasurer
Harold c. Gilman received letter
Sunday morning mailed to him Sept. l6
last year He left Fort Constitution just
before the letter arrived and after being
sent to several places in France it was
sent back to America and finally to his
father at Hinesburg, his emergency adj
dress, by when it was sent to Bethel,
where Mr.. Gilman is back at his old job
with the Standard Oil company.
Miss Anne Marshall has returned from
York Beach. Me-, where she spent the
summer, and yesterday took her place in
the senior class at high school.
Miss Ruth Leonard of Stockbridge is
substituting for Miss Olive Hanks in
the sixth and seventh grades during the
illness of Miss Hanks.
Bethel people have out-of-town teach
ing engagements as follows for the new
school year: In Vermont, Miss Charts
Billings in Barre, Miss Ella Sturk in
Royalton, Miss Jessie Parker in Mont
pelier, Miss Alice King in Stockbridge,
George f. Davies in New Haven, Miss
Amy Wilson in Lyndonville, Miss Nellie
Blake in Weathersfeld. In other states,
Miss Katherine Bartlett in Springfield,
Mass, Miss Helen Brooks in Indian Or
chard, Mass, Leon L. Chamberlin in
Adams, Mass, Joseph p Mccormack in
New York City, Miss Agnes Reynolds in
Lampeter, Pa, Miss Lucy Washburn in
Montclair, N j., Miss Winifred Wilmot
in Jacksonville, Fla, james ii. Wilson
in Madison, Wis, Ralph ID. Twitchell in
Detroit, Mich, Miss Marion Kendall in
Chicago ILL.,, Miss Ethel Buck in Hunt
ley, Mimi, Miss Mabel Miller in Farm
ington, n H., and Miss Bessie Batcheller
in Montreal, Canada. This list of 90
people includes more than per cent OF
the towns population and is believed TO
be an unusual proportion Of a towns
population engaged in out of-town teach
ing.
Mr. and Mrs, c. f. Bartlett of Boston
are in town.
Archie Williams is home from Wind
sor during the strike.
At the residence Of the brides parents,
Mr. and Mrs, G. w. Brown of Dandy,
to-day at o'clock, occurs the marriage
OF Ruth Amealia Brown and Thomas
Henry Holland, eldest son' Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Holland. A reception after
the ceremony was to be held.
Miss Agnes Preston is absent from
high school, due TO the illness Of her
sister, Mrs. r. NJ Williams, whom she
is caring for.
Mrs Henry White of Springfield,
Mass, came last week to visit her broth
er, w c. Bingham, and on her return
took back her son, Lawrence White, who
spent the summer here. and who now
has recovered the use of an arm which
he broke by falling from horse last
July.