Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-12-14
Chelsea Home News.
G. S. EMERY. Local Editor.


An elegant new sign adorns the front
of the bank building.
II. S. Annis is supplying the farmers
! with all kinds OF poultry food, and many
are waking up to the idea that there is
profit in hen farming, when properly
handled. Hens don't lay we'll with cob
meal for food and snow for drink.
Mr.. C. P. Dickinson and Miss May
Goodrich were married at the home OF
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Goodrich, on Tuesday, Dec. 9Th, BY Rev.
ii. Nj. Forrest.
Mrs. Mary S. Mcconnell fell as she was
going out of her house Thursday, the 7th,
and broke her arm.
j. r. Tucker and family are moving in
TO Barnes and Towlshend's tenement on
Library avenue.
$. 4. Harrington has his new gristmill
completed and has commenced grinding.
! Buy Standard Diaries of H. o. Bixby.
Now is the time TO leave your subscrip-
lions for 1894 with II. o. Bixby.
Frank j. Georges has out bills ,announc-
ing an auction for Friday, Dec. 10, at
which time he will sell his farm, stock and
tools.
The ladies took 81 at the bean dinner
last Thursday.
MI VIII raul U1 NCSi IdiIlcS SpeuA
few days in town last week, visiting
friends.
Lorenzo Scales has bargained for two
acres of land and the schoolhouse thereon,
near Nj. NJ. Dunhams. lie willrepair and
occupy The building as a dwelling,at once.
District Deputy G. f. Bigelow paid an
official visit to George Was hington Lodge,
+ ana A. M, Thursday evening OF last
week. The work Of the first degree was
exempliied.
The grip certainly has strong hold on
this community five Of the inmates of the
jail were taken down the same day. Each
day several new cases are reported.
The family OF Aiken Edwards, Sen, has
moved to Stephen Ayery's.
Nellie /. Bixby is at j. B. Corliss dur
ing the illness OF Mrs. Corliss.
The following are the officers OF Water
son w. II. c., for the ensuing year: Pres,
Mrs. Matte Atwood; S. V. r., Mrs. Sarah
j. Bohonon; j. V. r., Mrs. Lucy Beckwith;
Treas, Miss Martha Noyesi Sec, Mrs. A. Il.
Goss; conductor, LYDIA Smith; Chap, Mrs.
Philena Davis; guard, Mrs. Nancy Coriiss;
delegate TO department convention, Mar
tina Noyes; alternate, Mrs. Emma Meal
lister.
George T. Hebard Command, Z. Y. o.,
No. !, holds its annual meeting Saturday
evening, Dec. %, for the election OF off
GERS. All members are requested TO be |
present as several new members are 10 be |
initiated. "A
A most shocking accident occurred Sat
urday forenoon, resulting in the death OF /
one of our most estimablc young men,
Charles +, Edwards He, with his fa 7
ther-in-la law, MIR. Barnes, was at work in |
the woods on the Calvin Goodwin farm, I
recently purchased by him. He was fell !
ing tree, Is hen dead limb, about five /
inches in diameter, fell from a tree near 1
by, striking him just over the right tenn
pie and so completely crushing his skull
hat the brains came out at the nose and I
ears. The funeral was held Tuesday, Rev. .
Il. +. Reynolds of Williamstown offici- /
ating. Charlie was twenty -four years OF |
age the day before his death and was
married Oct Sd last. He was greatly be- /
loved by all who knew him. His wife and
the large circle of relatives and friends 1
have the sympathy OF the entire commu-
nifty.
That good farming has not gone by is
evidenced by the appearance Of \. q. /
Moore's favorite corntield, when looks
as though the late earthquake or the
'old boy" himself had had a resurrection
frolic there. IL was, however, n. g., HIM
self, who did 1t, and it is due to the over
turning of the boulders left there by
lateral current of ice during the glacial
period, and is called moraine, numbers
9f which are to be seen in our valleys.