Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-06-23
Chelsea Home News.
H.o. BrxBY, Local Editor.


E.o. Tracy is at Greensboro this week.
Mrs. Mary j. Scales is under the doc
tors care.
E. H. Kennedy's little boy has been
quite sick.
Miss Bessie Hackett is learning dress
making of Miss Rich.
F. ]. Titus has greatly improved his
house by a new piazza.
Mrs. Emma French of Penacook, N. H.,
is visiting at IL. L. Bixby's.
The selectmen have caused new fence
to be built around the cemetery on West
Hill.
Miss Georgia Dickey OF Newbury is
spending few days with her friend, Mrs.
T. d. Fuller.
Miss Nellie Corwin returned Friday
from trip to Boston, Mass, and Burling-
ton to visit friends.
Mrs. Jane E. New comb of Boston came
Friday to spend the summer with her sis
ter, Mrs. SIM. Nation.
Miss Minnie Whitney has returned
home from Lebanon, N. II. where she has
been the past six weeks.
VIM. F. Davis and wife left yesterday
for the Profile House, White Mountains,
to remain through the season.
Rev. Andrew Eastman OF. Bethlehem, N.
H., came Saturday and began his labors
with the Congl church Sunday.
New carpets have been placed in the
yestbules, clothing room and on the stairs
Of the M. e. church the past week.
There will be services next Sunday in
the church at South Washington at 3 p.
M. conducted by Rev. Mr.. Eastman.
Albert Fisher of Bellows Falls spent
Sunday with his cousin, Alonzo Noyes,
whom he had not seen for twenty years.
HIS. Annis will run his bakers cart
Saturday, July 2, instead OF Friday, July
/, to accommodate his patrons for the 4th
Of July.
Mrs. Frank Titus and Master Roy re-
turned from Claremont, N. H., Saturday
where they have been visiting the past
week.
The next regular meeting of Camp No.
Is, 5. ", will be held Saturday evening,
July I'd, when all members are requested
to be present.
Rev. w. E. Allen, Miss Katie Laird and
Miss Carrie Bickwell are in Burlington
attending the State convention of the
Epworth League.
Mrs.Albert Allen, formerly OF this town,
now living at st. Adams, has been at Mt.
Vernon,N. ", the past several weeks visit
ing her son Fred and family.
Alonzo Noyes, Fred Monkey and Post
master w. s. Hatch went to Montpelier
Tuesday as delegates to the district con-
vention. They were all Circuit men.
Owing to the unsettled weather the la
dies OF the M. E. church will postpone
serving ice cream on the common until
July when it will be served on the North
common.
Children's day came last Sunday at the
West hill and was appropriately observed.
The church was tastefully trimmed so that
it looked better than ever before,it is said,
and the children all did finely.
IS Emery, j. B. Bacon and Calvin
Goodwin went to Montpelier Tuesday af-
ternoon as delegates to the state conven-
ton. They went ready to work for j.. l..
Bacon of White River junction for state
treasurer.
The school in No. closed June IL for
the spring term. Number OF pupils, IL;
average attendance, 11.9. Sadie, Bessie,
Ernest and Cecil Mcconnell were present
every day; the boys were tardy once each.
Bessie Burgess had no marks; neither had
Lewis and Nelson Bowles after they en-
tered the school. Number of tardy marks,
4. Three more pupils would have been
there every day if they had not been i'll.
ADA J. SHERBURN,. Teacher.
There seems to be quite a mania for new
signs here. B. II. Adams, Jr., has new
double one swinging in front OF his livery
stable and W. II. Hill has one across the
driveway down to his shop. These were
both painted by w. H. Hill and are very
pretty. DR.. F. l.. Beckwith has neat one
At the stairs leading to his office, painted
6y W. NJ. Flanders, and one over his win
COWS, painted by III. +. Magoon. There
are more to follow soon.
AT the Republican caucus Saturday az
ternoon Hon. J. K. Darling was elected
chairman and G. p. Dickinson secretary.
delegates were elected as follows: Dis
ttriet, Alonzo Noyes, F. F. Monkey and w.
l. Hatch; state, c. S. Emery, ]. b. Bacon
and Calvin Goodwin: county, F. l. Whit
n1ey, Z. A. Corwin, e. w. Goodwin, z. >.
Emery and J. NJ. Comstock. The follow
ing we're elected Republican town COM
mittee: W. p. Townsend, g. L. Hayward,
!; W. Goodwin, J. M. Comstock, Horace
hhoxley, E. G. Thorne and Norman BUR