The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-05-20
BETHEL


Mrs. Annie Chilson of Boston, for
mer resident, is visiting Mrs. May
Townsend.
| John J.. Parrott has finished the con
tract on which he worked 10 weeks at
Nashua, N. H., building the cement
| tioor and watts in a new tannery Tor
| j. I. Carr & Co. Mr.. Parrott will be
in and around Bethel this season. With
| him worked at Nashua his nephew,
Eugene T, Parrott, +. C. Mcintyre and
G.. 4. Burrell, who have returned to
Bethel, and Roscoe L. Merrill, who is
still in Nashua.
Jesse t. Moody has moved to the
third floor Of the Child block, and Mrs.
Grace Dean has moved to the second
floor in the same building. Harry Dean
will board at X. c. Cowdrey's during
vacation, and Mrs. Dean will continue
her work at the Brooks g. Washburn
store.
Mr.. and Mrs Wilbur N. Salter, for
mer residents, are moving from South
Royalton into Rollin Gilson's house,
opposite the Bethel inn.
MIS-. +. n. hldTsH Has teal utu vi tht
death recently at Ontario, Cal, of
her uncle, Joseph +. Brow, aged 81
years, well remembered as former
resident of Gaysville, where he owned
the present Methodist parsonage, still
spoken of as the Brow house. He was
born in England, about 40 years ago
went from Gaysville to Webb City,
Mo-, and IL years ago from there to
California. He was a successful wooden
manufacturer and past grand chap
lain of the Masonic fraternity in Cali
fornia. A son and a daughter survive
him.
i. A. Davis, vice president and for
mer cashier of the National White
River bank and for the last two years
ON the staff of the Federal Reserve
bank in Boston, has accepted the posi-
ton of assistant cashier OF the Shaw
nut National bank of Boston, enter
ing upon his duties this week The
Shawmut bank is the second largest
national bank in Boston, being a close
rival of the First National bank. The
Shawmut bank and the White River
bank have maintained close relations
many years, and Mr.. Davis will retain
his official relation to the local bank,
although his duties in the larger in
stitution will require most of his time.
Cashier H. P. Perkins attended the
annual meeting of the Northern Bank
ers' association at Woodstock last
week.
Mrs. Charles J. Grafton is i'll with
a hard case of grip.
Dr. f. A. Edmunds returned Mon
day to his work at Endicott, n Y.
Austin Annis has moved from Stock
bridge into the David T Dyke house.
The baseball field laid out last year
on the public playground is not yet
ready for use, and local games and
practice viii occur this season on ]. A.
Graham's meadow, which was used sew
eral years for baseball games. The
Graham field is in good condition for
playing, and the first home game of the
season, v. S. A. VS.. w. II. S., will be
played there on Saturday, The new
field was seeded down last year, and
the surface is much too soft for imme
date use. H. NJ Totman of Randolph
was here recently and expressed the
opinion as a lawn expert that the field
will be one Of the best he has seen.
c. c. Washburn lately caught in
Lympus brook one of the immense
river trout which sometimes move up
the small streams at high water, and
unless they return at once are easy
prey for fishermen. Small boys have
been known to catch seven or eight
pound trout under these circumstances
by clubbing them.