Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-07-12
Chelsea Home News.
c. S. EMERY, Local Editor.

) Regular meeting OF Camp No. rs, s.
v, July 18th. All members are requisite
. to be present
School in No. II closed June 10Th. PIT
pills having no MARKS during the teri
were Marion g., Harold c. and Dean |
Camp, Frank M. and Henry f. Gates an
Guy +. Monkey. Frank NJ. Button an
Nellie M. Luce were not absent.
MARTHA l.. MOVES, Teacher.
The Epworth League held a bushes
meeting July Sd and elected the following
officers: president, Miss Alma Adams
first vice president, .Chas. II. French; sec
ond, Mrs. Hattie Tracy; third, Miss Katie
Laird; fourth, Mrs. Eta Harrington; sec
rotary, Mrs. Julia Bixby; treasurer, Fred
Monkey.
Byron Berry is back from a two weeks
| visit to friends in st. Johnsbury and vi
cinity. He can also tell some true s'fish
! stories" which are very entertaining.
Miss Emma Darling gave a very pleas
ant dinner party one day last week to a
few young ladies, in honor of Miss Lena
Spaulding.
Mrs. Lucy Dickinson has returned from
an extended visit.
peculiar freak OF lightning was wit
messed on the 9Th instant near r. n. Ba-
cons. Mr.. Bacon ard his son Richard
were in the barn at work when loud re-
port was heard, coming at the same instant
with a flash. Thinking that the barn had
been struck, they rushed out to discover
that it was all right but noticed peculiar
red smoke arising near the house. 1t con-
tinued to increase for some minutes, and
to such an extent that quite a cloud was
formed and was seen by Mr.. Edwards, the
nearest neighbor. On investigation, it was
found that sixteen rods of wire fence had
tT.f,
OF few feet which had melted and fallen
to the ground. When no more fence was
left to operate on the fluid made "ground
connection" tearing up a considerable
amount of earth. Some may consider this
a judgment against barbed wire fences, but
1t certainly teaches that it would he I'M
wise to attach them to buildings.
Mrs. Kate Written from New York is
visiting her mother, Mrs. VIM. Goodwin;
Johnnie Atwood is at home tor a three
weeks vacation from Manchester, n. H.;
Cyrus Smith OF Boston has been spending
some DAYS at Nathan Noyes' Mrs. {. Nj.
Dickey OF Lowell is at q. A. Densmore's;
Mrs. Eulie ID. Lane from North Adams,
Mass, is visiting her mother, Mrs w. A.
Hood; Geo. A. Tracy was up from Lowell
a few days last week; Miss Fannie Boyd
from Derry, N. H., and her sister, Mrs.
Mansur of Manchester n. H., visited at
j. Il. H. 6OfN III $ last week.
Zebulon Marsh, though still feeble, is
able to walk uptown and, for the eigh-
tenth season, to wear the same Panama
hat, which appears as we'll -preserved, ac-
eordingly as does MIR. Marsh at eighty
seven.
School in Nc. Il closed July 9th. Ada
Wright, Jessie Davis, Wesley Davis, Her
man Davis, Esther Hutchinson, Hattie
Rogers, Arthur Rogers, Herbert Elmer
and Clyde Clogston were present every
day. Mary Scales, Lucinda Rogers, Mary
Larabee and Carrie Sleeper lost only one
half day each. LENA SPAULDING, Teacher.
A considerable number of people at
tended the celebration at South Royalton
the Inland few went to Bal re and Strat
ford.
School in Mol closed Friday, June 10Th. |
Those not absent during the term were /
Carl and Leon Bugbee. Simon Allen was l
absent one day OH account Of sickness. /
Those not G. ROY were Myntha Luce Simon |
Alien, Sim and Veraa Fits. Number OF |
pupils, :: average attendance, is 49,
EMILY +. DENsNoRE, Teacher.
Gen. ohas. X. Darling, formerly Of this
town, was recently given the degree of A. |
Nj. by Dartmouth college. 1t will be re-
rendered that he left Dartmouth before
the course, and entered West
Point.
Mrs. Geo. l.. Stow and Miss Nellie M.
Corwin are visiting MIR. and Mrs. +. A.
Davis at Springfield, VT; Mrs. Cooley and
Miss Nellie are at West fairlee, and Mrs.
2. ). Emery is in Montpelier.
mass convention, OF the Orange coun-
" Democrats will be held here Wednes-
tay, July 18th, to nominate county
ticket,
The National Bank OF Orange County
las declared dividend OF two per cent,
payable Tuesday, June 10th.
The ''old stand" meat market has again
changed hands, MIR. Bohonon having sold
% r. w. Allen OF West Randolph, who
axes possession this week.
The U. V. U. hold campfire in connec-
ion with their first annual meeting W hich
,tcurs Saturday eve, July 14th. All vet
rams and their wives, Sons Of Veterans
ind membersyot the Ladies' Aid, are in
Titei p attend.