Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-05-31
Chelsea Home News.

=. >. EMERY, Local Editor.
Ten thousand feet of poultry netting
sold at Berry's this month There is /
) little left. Come quick.
Screen doors, from 1-2x6 1-2 feet up t.
Sxl feet. Prices, 80 cents, and upward
at Berry's.
Screen windows, all prices and sizes, at
berry's harness shop. Come and see.
A. ~ King and H. E. Roberts are at
Woodstock court this week as witnesses
in the case of State VS.. L. C. Dickerman.
Mrs. Susie Campbell was called to Hous-
ton, Me-, the first of the week by the ILL
ness of her mother
Miss Alice Mills is engaged, as usual, in
painting some of the fine scenery about
| town.
! j. K. Darling was at Milton the 3Oth.
| where he delivered the Memorial Day ad-
dress.
Hale X. Darling is at home for two or
three weeks, from Aberdeen, N. c.
The Memorial sermon was delivered at
the Congl church Sunday morning by
Rev. b. b. Sherman. Ii was an exception
ally strong discourse. The church
was handsomely decorated with flowers
and flags, and Waterson Post. No. as g.
A. r., attended in a body, escorted from
the hall to the church by detail from II.
T.. n nan camp, >. OF v.
Mrs Clara Alexander Of Randolph yis-
lted friends in town last week
Mr.. J. F. Davis has removed to North
held, yacatlng the premises recently pur-
chased by r. E. Densmore.
A hens egg, weighing a quarter of a
pound and measuring 1-2xS Id inches in
circumference, was recently shown us as
being the product of a bird weighing only
four pounds. We are not informed
whether or not she has cackled since.
The item in last weeks issue concerning
the creamery should have read IS 1-2 cents
per pound for butter instead of is 10
cents per hundred for milk.
II. 5. Annis has just received the official
test Of his maple sugar and syrup exhibit /
"a at the Worlds Fair, and which shows 4
them to be nearly perfect.
The foundation for the library and 1
townhall has been finished, the number |
OF hands greatly increased this week, and \
the work upon the structure itself Will /
now oe rapidly pushed forward
The proposed town meeting mentioned
IN last week s news is not to be held
Herbert A. Luce, whose illness was men.
tloned in recent issue Of the HERALD,
died OF consumption at the home OF his
iather, Hiram \. Luce, on May 10Th al the
age Of twenty years. He was a very
promising young man. He learned the
trade, which he followed for
two years at West Randolph, and one wear
at burlington. In the spring OF 1898, he
went West for his health, returning only
about four weeks prior TO his death. The
funeral was held May Il at the home OF his
talher Rev. Mr.. Bicknell OF the Seventh
Day Adventists' church at Burlington Of
hciating, and OF which the deceased was
q member. He left a wife.
The ice cream and straw berry festival
given by the Epworth League at o. p
Jopeland's, Friday evening" was well at
.ended, considering the weather Between
llne and ten dollars were realized.
a new telephone exchange is TO be To-
,ated at w. X. Junction by the New Eng
ana Co., and will include all the sur
towns, II will be equipped with ,
ong- distance phones, and should the line !
Je extended from SO. Royalton to Chel-
ga, as Is now contemplated. we would
ave excellent facilities for communica
ion "down the river" The exchange at y
heJunction will be under the management 9
# X. II. Lyon, which will insure its eff E
iency. y
One of the large barns upon the farm of
!. |. Hood, near Lowell, was DESTROYED by =,
Ire May I'D, together with p head OF his i
inc Jersey cattle, many OF which he had i
zen TO great trouble and expense TO pro- !
ure, they having been purchased at vari- !
us points in the South and West. The =
)ss, as estimated by the Lowell papers. is :
rom $4,000 To $4,000. !.