Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-10-27
CHELSEA HOME NEWS
q. G. WOODRUFF, Local Editor.

The next meeting OF Waterson Post No.
40, g. A. R., will be held in its hall Friday
evening, Nov. 4th. At that time there will
be reading of the "History of the Battle
of Gettysburg" All members are request
ed to be present. Per order @. NJ.
ia r. Corwin and v. A. Corwin "took
in" the Legislature at Montpelier last
week.
Frank L. Hudson left Saturday morn
ing for Burlington, where he will attend
the State Agricultural College.
E. V. Scott, butter maker for the Yer
shire Creamery Co., was in town last Fri
day.
ID. A. Beckwith has gone to Providence,
X. L., where ne has position in private
hospital for the insane.
Remember that H. G. Woodruff can give
you very low rates on the periodicals that
you are going to want this fall. II you
have never seen the Ladies' Home Journal
you would better call at the Bank and
look it over. 1t will be sure to please you.
Herbert o. Bixby was at home the first
of the week, taking a short vacation.
We think that there are several OF our
subscribers whose subscriptions to the
CHELSEA HERALD have expired. We
should be glad to have those call and re-
new.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. II. Caswell have re-
turned from a visit to Bridgeport, Conn.,,
and vicinity.
{. III. Abbott's affairs have been taken
out of insolvency and placed in the hands
OF two Boston parties-H. w. Shugg and
Henry l.. Holden-as trustees. These gen.
tlemen were in town Tuesday of last week
and removed the property belonging to
MIR. Abbott, from the shop here.
f. ii. Kennedy and T. j. Caswell attend
ed the horse race at the Valley Farm Trot-
ting Park, West randolph, Saturday. MIR.
Kennedy's stallion, Siphon, was entered
in the 2:40 race and kept up the good
work that he has been doing OF late. The
race was unfinished but Siphon came in
first in three out of the four heats trotted
but was set back in one. There were five
other horses in the race, one of which was
Stobo, with record in the 3Os.
BARRIERS or Fleischmann's Compressed
Yeast at w. S. Hatch's.
Albert Chandler has gone to South Roy
alton to work in the shoe shop.
II. S. Annis is in New Hampshire selling
the Champion Evaporator.
j. +. Waterman, Piano and Organ Deal
er at Montpelier, was in town last week
Thursday and set up very fine Worcester
organ for Walter H. Emery.
The first session of the Hamilton Club
Senate was held Monday night; several
bills were introduced, among which were
a woman's suffrage bill, bill abolishing
capital punishment and bill abolishing
three days of grace. These sessions will
be held every Monday evening at 7.30 and
it is hoped that there may be good at
tendances.
Columbus Day.
As announced last week, Columbus Day
nhaprxFad AT the fOnUfl qhnrph EridQV
Oct. 21st.
At2p. M, the hour set for the exercises
to commence, the large audience room was
well filed. The only decorations were the
stars and stripes, which were suspended
back OF the platform and were draped in
front OF the seats occupied by the choir.
Several members of Waterson Post, No. %,
q. A. r., were present and acted as color
guard.
The seats which had been reserved for
the pupils OF the public school and their |
parents we're well filled, the different /
school districts being well represented.
The somewhat too long program (f we
may be allowed To criticise) was well car I
ried out, Notwithstanding the fact that |
those who took part had to contend with, 1
as considerable number of the children |
present were afflicted with severe coughs,
" hich at times developed into an almost
deafening chorus, rendering the task OF |
the speaker anything but an easy one.
The program was carried out as follows;
After an organ voluntary, President Har-
rison's Proclamation was read by Princi-
pal John NJ. Comstock of the Academy.
The assembled school children then sa-
luted the flag and pledged their allegiance
to it and their country. The audience
then joined with the choir In singing "My
IT'S OF Thee;n Prayer by Rev. II.
Il. Howard; Paper, "Map of the world be-
tore Columbus discovered America" Miss
Lena +. Spalding of the Academy; Paper,
ssWhat Columbus expected to find" Miss
Laura Fuller OF Dist. No. II. The audi
ence Joined with the choir in singing the
''Song Of Columbus Day." Paper, "Ships
OF Columbus and Modern Navigation"
Miss Lillian M. Wells of the Academy;
Paper, Geographical and Material
Growth of the United States,N Miss Jen-
ME K. Moore, Dist. No. s; "Hail Column
bia," by the choir; Recitation, "New Eng
land" Ray Thorne. Dist. No. 10; Recita-
tion, Glover of Liberty" Miss Alice Cor
win, Dist. No. 2; Recitation, ''The Ameri-
can Flag Miss Genevieve Farnham OF
the Academy; "Star Spangled Banner" by
the choir; Rea ling OF the address which
was sent ont by the Youths Companion,
'sThe Four Centuries" Richard Bacon,
Dist No. y; Recitation, 30 Mother of a
Mighty Race, Miss Hattie Dearborn of the
Academy; Recitation, "0ur Country" by
Miss Addie French of the Academy; Read
ing Of the Columbus Day Ode, "Colum-
bias Banner" Miss Annie E. Goss. The
choir then sang "Keller's American
Hymn Rev. H f. Howard closed the
with the henedictioD.