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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05

In 1913 Mr.. Bacon opened a genera
countr' store ut Chelsea, and the car
had then GOT to Concord, n. III. III
paid 8 cents pr hund ell pounds from
mere TO CHELSEA. Heremalned in trade
at the old stand 3S years, and during
about one-third of the time had sue
cessively as p lrtnerS, Alden Speare, J
Dana Bacon, his brother, and w. p
Townsend. While in company witt
his brother in 1865, Mr.. Bacon made q
trip of observation to the West Indie,
on board the schooner Flash, Il snbma
rine diving expedition. He stopped al
Turks Island AMI saw the process oil
making salt. The water Of the ocean
is let in by bikes on VIII 1t are called
salt pms, blsins OF hard ground, and
the hot trade winds evaporate the wa.
ter and the salt is raked into heaps by
the dlrkies. There is no vegetation
and filtered rain water is used for drink
INC water.
Mr., Bacon married Slrah p, dangh-
ter Of Mara IT, and Persis A.. Morey, in
1858. Three children were born to
them, Sarah f., who died in infancy,
John Lement, gradu tie of st. Johns
bury academy, organizer and cashier
Of the National INK at White River
junction, and Mary Sigourney, who
died at the age Of seventeen.
Mrs. Bacon died in 1898. She was a
lady Of fine musical talent and for many
years was organist ofthe Cong'l church.
Mr.. Bacon was chorster Of this choir
20 years, has been IL member Of the
Cong'l church SO years and has been
one gifts deacons during ID to 2Oyears.
lie was director OF the Orange Conn-
W National bank, was vice president
and president OF the First National
bank and is vice president of the Nation
III Dahk OF Orange county.
lie was first sclectman in go, '61 and
" and enrolling officer Of the town.
lie was town treasurer from 1851 to 80,
n years Of continuous service, and was
county treasurcrtwo years. He served
lhrce years as postmaster under Presi-
dent Fillmore as II Wing, and nineteen
years as Republican, preceding Cleve-
Ilahd's first administration. In Septem-
per, 1894, he was the recipient of legis-
lallve honors, and the same month we'd
d , ). Ada, only daughter of Capt. w.
H. Ii. Hall, his early friend. She is q
Mdy of rare culture and accomplish
mentS.
May his last days be his best days, is
lhe wish Of this community.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05

" seven months with her father, Ed
ward Douglass. The service came n.
ter, for Mr.. Scales worked for him tol
thirteen successive seasons, and mean.
while during eight winters taught nine
terms of school.
Caleb and Dea. Ivory Douglass came
to Chelsea in 1889. Caleb reared a
family OF ten children, all but one OF
whom lived to be 10 years old. Eight
of the children met at the home of Ed
ward Douglass and their combined age
was more than 600 years. 1t is Il sad
reflection that not one male descendant
Is living that bears the name Of Doug
lass. Edward Douglass built the eX-
cellcnt block of farm buildings and was
a noted breeder Of Durham cattle, Ches-
ter swine and Merino sheep. He died
in 1890, highly esteemed, at the add
vanced age of Sc years. Mr. Scales
bought the farm in 1881. He is pro-
Sressivc, and has changed from the
beefy Durham to the creamy Jersey.
He has thoroughbred and registered
English Berkshire swine, obtained Of
{. l. Hood, probably the only ones in
this section, and they are beauties.
Mr.. Scales has been engaged in the
sale agricultural machinery for about
10 years. He began in u small way,
but now handles plows, harrows, cul-
tivators, weeders, tedders, moving ma,
chimes and sugar and dairy implements.
lie puts them on trial. He is not now
dealing in leather goods. He is a Re-
publican in politics, Congregationalist
in theology and a good fellow" in So
ciety. He is affiliated with George
Washington lodge. His only child is
Mary Ellen, ID years Of age
Mr.. Scales believes that the times re-
qnire the application Of business prin-
ciples to farming and acts on that be-
lief.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05
Willis Scales.

Willis Scales is the original Yankee
Oh the town. He was born in Washing
ION IN 1913, one of the seven children
VI Charles Scales, all of whom are liv-
ING He found his mission in life in
t1lS wise, when he was ID years old.
ne found sad old lady wearing a pair
ol tIght shoes, which he bought off her
leet at handsome discount, and sold
lhein to another old lady at Il handsome
advance. Both of the old ladies were
maze happy and so was Willis, who
realized net profit of % cents on the
operation, and his sphere of future use
laIlleSs' At 20 years Of age he mount
W y TN pcddler'S cart, sold off his stock
~ ten days, and took a commercial
tourSe at the same time. lie followed
snG TN peddler's business very success
lu'Iy one year, and had engaged for the
second, when his mother died and he
W moS compelled to return to his home,
i'e demonstrated that modern Yankee
~ Il. least twelve times Us smart Us an
"lcleht jew. Jacob, who was not ac-
LLo o slow for his time, obtained the
,.allu OF Rachel in marriage after seven
te"Is service. Willis Scales obtained
.ue hahd Of Ellen NJ. Douglass, really
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05
Eccentric Character.

Anariah Bohonon, Il cousin of DAME
Webster, was remarkable and ready
wit. Tom Emerson, as the once
rich president of the old Windsor State
bank was tamiliarly called, once ac.
costed him thus: Maj. Nah, don't
you wish you were Tom Emersonp
"Ugh.' replied Bohonon, ats bad
enough to be myself" On another oc-
casion Emerson asked him why he
talked to himself so much. 1.-TWO
reasons" replied Bohonon. 81 like to
talk to a sensible man, and like to
hear Il sensible man talk.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05
tIt,Ou.

The "Old Blake Store building,
erected in 1918 by Amplius Blake, has
been occupied asa drug store by Amos
II. Hood a. Son since 1872.
The business was established by A.
r.. Hood in a small way in 1880, por-
ton ofthe present residence Of William
+. Hood being used as Il store Mr..
Hood, the elder, conducted the business
alone until 1866, when his oldest son,
William F.. became his partner. The
latter gentleman had thoroughly
learned the pharmacists art in Lowell,
and was well qualified to gradually as
sumo, control of the business, which
the increasing age of his father re-
quil led him to do.
Amos r. Hood died in 1881, after an
honorable business career Of over fifty
years in his native town. He was Il
man highly respectfully all with whom
he came in contact. Since Mr.. Hoods
death the business has been successful
~ conducted by his son. The old firm
name Of A. r. Hood a. Son is still re-
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05
John II. Bacon.

Deacon John b. Bacon is connect.
inc link Of the past with the present
Gen ration, and for mlny yeus IA
miliar figure ut Chelsea. Though his
hair is silvered with the frostS of three
score and ten, he his the keen eyes,
the erect form and the elastic step OF
youth.
His father, Lement Bacon, came to
Chelsea 1921 from Woodstock, Conn,
and tornearly a decade kept the village
hotel 1t stood on the site of the Or
anoe County hotel and was afterwards
burned. John was one of family of
EIGHT children, an | his mother was Ce-
liz. daughter of John Butler. John
Butler, his maternal grandfather, was
a lieutenant in the regullr army in 1914
and saw sharp service on the western
frontier.
John b. Bacon en- gagged rs a clerk
wi h Nathan G.. Hale in 1S44 and re-
manned with him two years, an later
clerked for two year in Boston. He
notes some interes inc changes in the
course Of trade during the half century.
Sale tootin9s and trocking were the
princiQa >olrres OF PIN money with
the women folks, while cheese, poultry,
pot ashes and perrl ashes were relied
on to keep the cash bal nee right. The
merchants in ~ used to employ the
farmers during the winter to draw bur
ter produce to Boston, AMI to return
with groceries. They also brought
back fresh fish tn 1t they exchanged in
Canada tor herdsgrass seed.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05

man in town, AMI, he can tell very
nearly every New Years day where he
will be each hour Of the coming year.
That mo lei of maiden diifidence,
the special editor ofthis special eG.tion
OF the HERALD, blu>hin9l.y hints at pos
sible public services that it might be
proper for Mr.. Bixby to speak OF, but
as he also possesses something, though
Il small per cent, of that excellent quail
ity, he dislikes to "cXplltteratc" ON
any such possible may-h ave-beens; if
such acts there be, and if they cannot
speak for themselves, let them rest in
deserved oblivion.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05

tanned and the house is widely and III
vorably known throughout this section
Charles /. Hood OF Lowell. youngcs
son of A. R.lIood is without doubt ON,
OF the bc>t-Nnown men in this country
| in civil liz. He Is II native of thelse;
and was educ tie in the schools OF thi,
town His business education was al
so comncnC ed here in his father,
store. where he obtained Il GOOD gen
eral underst lndlng OF the business he
afterwards IN stored in detail. At the
age of H., Mr. Hood went to Lowell
and after beng employed in pharma.
cy there for five years went TO Boston
entering the employ OF the old and re.
liable firm oI I, .uetcalt Il Go. He re.
manned with this house five years and
by close application to business ac-
quired the reputation oi being an eX-
pert phirm tcist.
In 1870, Mr.. Hood cmb uked in bust
ness for himself, selecting Lowell Us its
location. with partn r. he opened a
drug store, adopting the II me of G. l..
Hood II Co. ln-ln'3, the young drug
gist began to PIT mp the famous com
pound known as Hoods Sarsaplrilla.
This prep lralion soon came into great
favor VITA the pubic IN in Isl, the
demand ior il became so great that it
was found necessary to lit up Il laborato-
~ in which to compound it, The next
year still larger quarters were found
necessary, and in 1883. II tour-story
f. EIn,,i- t.l
on Tholndike street. In a few years
an addition lNrger than the original
building was constructed and several
extensive additions have since been
made. until Mr.. Hood now has the
largest laboratory in the world devoted
to the manufacture of proprietary med
icines.
The limits OF this article do not adj
nit of anything more than Il passing
glance at the vast business OF which Mr..
Hood is at the head. In addition to
Hoods Sarsaparlla, the house also man
Hoods Vegetable Pills, Hoods
Olive Ointment AMI Hoods Tooth Pow
der.
We doubt if there isa business i'm the
world conducted upon more systematic
principles than Mr.. Hoods. Of course,
Mr.. Hood can have very lit to do with
the details, which he entrusts to heads
OF the various departments, but it is
said that he can tell just how his bust
ness stands at the close Of each day.
Mr.. Hood is well known throughout
the country rs the proprietor OF the
Hood Farm, which is located about
three miles from the city. A visit to
this farm and IN inspection Of the val
liable stock kept and bred on it, is Il
treat of which many Chelsea people
have awaited themselves.
Personally, Mr.. Hood is the most I'M
assuming and approachable Of men.
He retains an active interest in his ma
tive town and its people, and his visits
here, while not so frequent as we could
wish, are a source of much pleasure to
his old friends.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05
Business sketch.

j. Frank Hemenway is a well-known
breeder of bronze turkeys and thorough
bred Jerseys. The head of his herd,
Harry Khedive, is from one Of the best
strains of the noted herd OF c. |. Hood.
He has for many years been sue
cesst'nl breeder oftrrkeys which he has
shipped to all parts of the country.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05

In Poland it was once the custom to
sentence all baclSbitcrs to go on all
tours and bark like dog for the space
of quarter of an hour. This mode OF
punishment was introduced during the
reign of Charles ", but it was soon
abolished, as it had to be applied SO
frequently that his majesty's rest was
disturbed, for the barking went on all
che forenoon while the courts were sit
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05

enterprise of the town. The Conere-
gationll church was repaired under his
direction and care. He was promin mt
in the organization OF the creamery
and he served the town very accepla-
bly, for several years as selectman and
overseer, Socially, Capt. Hall is one
of the most genial of men and rel ties
his varied experience with zest and
wit,
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05
Dearborn.

Capt. Wilder Dearborn was born in
Chester, n. H., in 1874, AMI came to
Chelsea with his parents in 1900. He
married Persis Hamilton in 1920 and
they brou 5ht up family Of three sons
and four daughters. He was a captain
of the Chelsea infantry.
Dea. Franklin Dearborn was born on
the home farm in 1929 and has II sided
there ali of his life In 1889 he mar
ricd Sylvia Folsom, and they reared II
family Of one son and three daughters,
viz: Frank H., Persis 5. (Mrs. John
NJ. Comstock), Minnie i. and Hattie
N. Dearborn. Mr.. Dearborn is II
valued citizen, has served acceptably
as selectman and has been deacon OF
the Congregational church nearly %
years.
Hamilton w. Dearborn was born on
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26

people were crushed and burned to
death, and two trains burned. 1t was
a complete wreck. caused by the care
lessness of the railroad company. |
got together what was left of the
fragments and went to Detroit. There
the merchants offered to raise $4,000
and start me out, but | refused.
Later, attachments came upon the
heels of my reverses and the little
that was left of my property was sold.
II sued the Wabash for $500, 900,
got verdict for STA, 900, but never
got cent of the money. / was
ruined again and went out of the
business. / have my horses now and
can make living. / have been Of
fered big money to go back into the
circus business, but have always re-
fused and will never go back. My
family are opposed to it and they are
all have left.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
SELECTED SCRAPS.

A Chautauqua circle, the first ever
formed among those of the He bre w
faith, has been organized by the
New York Society for Religious
Study"
balloonist who made an unex-
pected descent on the outskirts OF
Metz was found to have been en-.
gagged in making sketches, presuma-
bly, for the French.
The new academy at Athens is
built of marble from the same quar-
ries which furnished the marble for
the Parthenon, and its sculptures are
beautifully decorated in red, blue and
gold.
A recent strike Of women in Vienna
caused an investigation to be made,
which elected the fact that one OF
the workreoplc in the factory there
had labored daily for twenty three
years, and had never received more
than Is Cd day.
An old man in n Cheshire, England,
workhouse, lately admitted to the
poor law guardians that he had e5 in
his possession, to provide for his being
buried beside his wife. The guar
dams decided that as he was not des.
titute he had no business in the work
house, and ordered him to be turned
out At dinner the next day the poor
man seized knife, cut his throat,
and so relieved the guardians Of their
en- barrassment
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
NATURES HANDIWORK.

In India books have to be carefully
protected against insects.
The lowest order of animal life is
found in the microscopic jellyfish. 1t
is simply minute drop of gelatinous
matter.
The mole is an excellent civil en-
gineer. He always secures his own
safety by having several entrances to
his dwelling.
= The outer layers of the alligator S
skin are said to contain large per-
centage of silica, hence the hardness
of the animals hide.
The serpent moves by elevating the
scales on it's abdomen and using them
to push the body forward. The
windings are always horizontal. The
artists who represent the sinuosities
as vertical have never observed the
animal in motion. 1t is impossible
for it to move in that way.
A country cat can always be kept
at home by cutting off her ears, or
for time by clipping out the hair of
the interior. The long hair serves to
keep out the drops of dew that fall
from the plants of the leaves and
grasses, and when the hairs are re-
moved the cat will stay at home
rather than claw the water out of
her ears.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
ODD AND ORDINARY.

In Canton, China, 800, 900 live in
house boats.
Tank cars are now being used for
the transportation of wine in bulk bv
the Paris-Lyons- Mediterranean rail
road in France.
Pakhoi in China exports over 100. 600
dried lizards, valued at So, 500 yearly:
they are used for making "lizard
wine" medicine used for eve
troubles.
A New York man, weighing over
200 pounds and measuring six feet in
height, had fight with a German
dwarf recently, who is but thirty
inches in height
Half pound of dried currants, in
lieu of oats, is said to be fed to the
sultan's horses in Egypt and this is
claimed to be the secret of the
animals great endurance.
A Colusa, CAL, school teacher sent a
pupil who had misbehaved to get a
switch. On returning she gave him a
severe beating, and has since been
quite i'll, for the switch had been cut
from poison oak bush.
Glass houses on wheels are now en-
ployed by horticulturists for forcing
plants. The structures run on fixed
rails, and may thus be easily moved
from place to place to points where it
may be desirable to protect vegeta-
ton or to force its growth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
EASTERN ARMS.
The People Always Ready to Cut or
Shoot.

The People Always Ready to Cut or
Shoot.
Almost everyone in Hyderabad is
armed to the teeth, and the spears,
sabers, daggers and pistols which
CLEAN amid the white and crimson
robes, or bristle in sash and turban,
convert the entire city into formid-
able armory. Bazaars filled with
deadly weapons brighten dim alley
and Wondering arcade with the pol
ished steel and FURNISHED brass of q
hundred unfamiliar native instruments
of attack and defense.
Sheages of slender Persian rapiers
are held in place by the sharp sickles
of murderous, double-edged scimiters,
and swords with watered blades of
fabulous value fence off a jagged heap
of pointed "serotis" and crooked
"talwars." A strong handle of twisted
camel sinew guides the yielding blade
of the subtle GAMBIA" narrowing to
vicious looking hook; and the tur-
baned armOrer leaves his anvil to
show us the needle-like 'tkaroli, !"
minute enough to be concealed in the
palm of the hand, and used by dis
traught lovers to inhict the wounds
provoked by jealousy or disappoint-
ment.
Spiky ''marus" of sharpened black
buckshorn, and piercing blades known
as "bichwas" or scorpions" fill q
brazen tray, and a bundle of elephant
goads, inlaid with ebony and silver,
leans against stack of shining spears.
Daggers, curved and straight, rough
and smooth, curved and pointed, show
endless possibilities of inhicting every
degree of punishment, from a death
blow to scratch, from the severing
of an artery to a puncture deep and
deadly, but small enough to defy de-
lection. The muslin turbans of the
passing multitudes are thickly set with
inlaid daggers and glittering blades.
The merchant who smokes his
nargileh among green and purple bales
of costly embroidery carr srrles a ssIarp
'stiletto behind his ear, and pricks off
a list of goods with his war-like in
strument. A haughty-looking noble,
on richly-caparisoned elephant, ex-
amines the temper of huge sword
which he draws from jeweled scab-
bard as he rides on his way, according
to All the Year Round, and money
lender, ehinlking- the heavy native
rupees into silver bowl looks I'D as
curtained palanquin darkens his
doorway, and offers the caller parch-
ment scroll on the shaft of a long
knife without rising from his seat.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
A Strange Tree,

One of the curiosities of Brazil is a
tree whose wood and bark contain so
much silica that they are used by pot
tiers. Both wood and bark are burned
in equal proportions with clay, pro-
ducing a very superior ware. The
tree grows to a heighth of 100 feet,
but does not exceed foot in diane
ter. The fresh bark cuts like sand
stone, and when dried is brittle and
hard
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
NOTES AND NOTIONS.

In the military schools of Germany
French is being dropped from the
course of instruction and English SUBJ
stituted.
All told there are about 400 mission
aries engaged in work on the contin-
emit of South America, with its popu-
lation of $1,000, 900.
A fine specimen Of gold ore was
picked up on Gaddiston street, Dab
lonega, Ga, the other day by a little
negro boy. It was the size of mans
thumb and contained probably eight
or ten grains of gold
Anew thing in women's clubs has
been organized at Princeton, Me.
They call it the Snow Plough club,
and its members hold teas, socials
and fancy fairs during the winter
with the object of raising funds to
keep the streets and sidewalks clear
of snow.
Musical shots are the latest thing
out in the sensational line. A sharp
shooter of the name of Pardon fires
at the metal bars of set Of bells.
The ball in striking bar sounds the
note, and the shots follow each other
in such rapid succession and with such
accuracy that Pardon is capable of
shooting any tune required.
A pneumatic typewriter has been
invented in England, in which COM
pressed air does the work az ..thEs lev lev
ers in other MACHINES. A small India
ruooer 9niIb takes the place of the
Ssg1s, the pressure of the finger pro-
ducing the impact of the type on the
paper. 1t is much cheaper than any
of the existing types of high grade
instruments.
The Miyalko Shimbun, a Japanese
paper, speaks in enthusiastic terms of
certain work of art, of great age, now
in Corea. This is the image of a
dragon, most skillfully sculptured in
soapstone, tie size being quite that
of an ordinary dwelling house. The
huge figure is carved with special at
tention to details, and its like is not
to be found in any Eastern land. A
Japanese of means contracted last
month to buy this giant curio, the
owner asking only 5000 yen for it. 1t
was calculated that it would take be-
tween 90, 900 and 10000 yen to trans
port the dragon to Toxic.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
A Civil Service Answer.

A bright youth undergoing examination
for admission to one of the governments
departments, found himself confronted
with the question:
what is the distance from the earth to
the sum-"
Not having the exact, number Of miles
with him he wrote In reply:
II am unable to state accurately, but
don't think the sun is near enough to
interfere with a proper performance Of my
duties, if get this clerkship."
He p0t If
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
500 .coward 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least enc dreaded
disease that science has been abe to cure
in all its stages, and that is Catarrh Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
AmnsSng nature in doing its work. The
ave so much faith in its cura-
hat they offer One Hundred
y case that it fails to cure
# testimonials
( + + & a. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
10y Druggists, 75c.
family Pills 25c.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-12-26
Hottest Citrlin the World.

Inc hottest city in the world is Cal
cutta, India, the mean temperature for
the year being 80. 4. Tobolsk, Siberia,
is the coolest city, the mean tempera-
ture for the year being 800. Cherra-
pongee,a city in Southwestern Assam,
is the wettest city in the world.