Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-06-13
Chelsea Home News.
HALE K. DARLING, Local Editor.

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Mrs A. Osgood OF East Randolph Is IL
townV
x. w. Morse OF Hartford was in towr
Monday.
Miss Flora Corliss Of Barre was in tow
over Sunday.
Miss Nancy Hall OF Nantucket is visit
| ing her sister.
w. M. Sargent OF South Royalton wal
! in town Friday.
Frank Davis made trip to Lebanon
N. H. last week.
Miss Eva Thompson is employed at thu
hotel through court.
Mrs. w. P. Townsend and Mrs. Walker
were in Barre, Saturday.
The gate to Highland cemetery has re.
ceived much needed coat Of paint.
The selectmen have put the ce metery or
| the STAFFORD road in excellent repair.
Mrs. C. U. Lathrop OF Williamstown
has been visiting at Mrs. Waterson's.
James s. Morrill, OF Stra ford, son OF
Senator Morrill,, was in town Monday.
Mrs. Dickoy and daughter OF Lowell,
Mass, are boarding at A. w. Whitney's.
Bert Davis OF West Fairlee was in town
last week visiting his mother, Mrs. M. v.
B. Davis.
John Chynoweth and Kimball Chyno-
weth OF Barre were at A. w. Whitney,
last week.
Mrs. Alonzo Noyes and Miss Eunice A.
Noyes have gone to Boston to be absent
several weeks.
FEE. Allen has engaged the services of
Byron Berry and will do all kinds OF har-
ness work at reasonable prices.
F. e. Allen has bought Arthur Abbott's
interest in the harness shop and will con-
tinue the business at the old stand.
Mrs. Newcomb OF Boston, Mass, has
come to town and will spend the summer
with her sister, Mrs. e. w. Nation.
Byron Berry pays cash for hides and
calf skins. For hides, &C., Sc. and &c. per
lb.; for skins, from 35c. to 75c. each. Over
meat market.
The ice cream and strawberry festival in
the town hall last week, under the aus
pices OF the band, was quite successful,
something over s13 being Melted.
Miss Chestnut, the court reporter, is ac-
companied by two Burlington friends,
the Misses Benham. One OF them, Miss
Kate Benham, is court reporter for Chit
tenden county.
Children's Sunday was appropriately
observed at the Cong'l church last Sunday
by Rotations, songs, etc., In which the
decorated with flowers.
The selectmen have constructed a dirt
from the town hall corner to
point above the bank, which when well
trod down will be decided improvement
over the whimsical concrete affair that has
been in use.
c. A. Adams OF Post Mills,while coming
to court last week, met with mishap in
the shape Of a smashup. The pole to his
carriage was broken, and a large silver
was extracted from the foot of one of his
horses after the accident.
A man named Boyd, residing in the
town OF Randolph, was about the court
house Saturday, and showed so many
signs OF insanity that it became necessary
to put him in Jail, where he remained un-
Ill Sunday, when he started for home |
minus his hat which he claimed to have
ost.
The fact that all of the indictments
'ound by the grand jury are against Chel-
sea people, shows that this is either
,ough community or that the law is en-
'orced better here than elsewhere. We
claim that the latter reason is the true
,ne, while outsiders naturally attribute |
his condition of things to the former.
The liveliest runaway seen here in a
ong time took place Monday noon.
Charles +. Campbell's double team, stand
ng in front OF E. O. Tracy's shop loaded !
with milk cans, became frightened and |
AN up street. The horses collided with |
he lamp post near the town hall, broke |
I into several pieces and were thrown to
he ground. One Of the horses had |
hind leg broken and the other one was |
lninjured. The wagon was badly wrecked. |