Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-02-10
Chelsea Home News.
H.o. BIxBY, Local Editor.

The West Hill sociable was held at II. s
Annis' last evening.
There were 3S couples at the ball in the
Town hall last week.
MIR. and Mrs. Hale X. Darling went to
Montpelier Monday.
C. Albert Bliss of West Fairlee was in
town Monday night.
Mrs. Frances Bixby is visiting her sister
IN Washington this week.
Frank Lsrkins' people have little girl,
born last week Wednesday.
Miss Addie NJ. French finished her fifth
term OF school at Corinth Feb. 4Ih.
The Reading Circle will meet with Mrs.
". P Townsend next Monday evening.
Clarence Corliss of Whitefield, N. H., is
st his fathers, j. b. Corllss', for few
weeks.
Mrs. George Taplin was called to Boston
Tuesday by the severe illness OF her
mother
Miss Lillian Rich has returned home
after three weeks visit to friends in
Northheld,
All town officers are requested to hand
their accounts TO the auditors this week
without fail.
W. NJ. Flanders is painting the best
scenery LOT Tue AutinGu DtdiIdtiS SOiil lfahJ
that he has ever made.
John Corliss was called to Whitefield, N.
H., last week to attend the funeral OF the
wife Of his son, Clarence.
Mrs. Eulie Dutton Lane returned to her
nome at Lynn, Mass, Saturday, her sister,
Miss Lora Hood, accompanying her.
We have pretty much recovered from
the recent blizzard and most Of the hill
roads are once more in goUd condition.
The officers OF George Washington
lodge, No. 81, F. & A. M, were installed at
their regular communication Thursday
evening by Past Master Curtis s. Emery.
ASH. N. Madison makes good police
man in 1.-The Old Homestead" why would
be not be good man to call on for apecial
duty at times like the 4th of July or our
annual burglar scare
Earl Delno, who lives near the Randolph
line fell seventeen feet into his silo last
saturday night, sustaining severe injuries
which may prove fatal. How it happened
unknown as he was alone at the time
and still remains unconscious.
DR.. A. B.. Smith recently purchased q
pair of colts from fillmore Edwards which
will make desirable team for him. They
are own sisters, aged four and five years,
and are of peculiar mouse color, with
every mark almost exactly alike.
The school entertainment at the town
ball Friday evening was excellent and the
teachers, Misses W ellis and Spaulding,w no
had ii in charge, are to be Congratulated
IS we'll as the pupils. A small admission
fee was charged for the benefit of the
school library and the receipts were sl4.5O.
There is not a village around here that
bas its sidewalks kept clear OF snow any
bstterthan ours and there are not many OF
them that have it done free OF expense. Z.
?. Dickinson ought to have certlhed
sopy Of thanks signed by all the residents
On the street for keeping the sidewalks
clear Of snow.
The following is the record OF the wealth
e. Tor January as kept by George Dewey;
Maximum temperature, 49,, 18TH day;
minimum temperature, 1872 below zero,on
The Both day; mean temperature, l5.6@
mean temperature for January OF last
year, 10 50; total precipitation, 400 in,
against 3 So in. in January, 1897; total
snowfall, AZ inches, against "a the previous
January.
Scientists say that the bovine tuberculo-
sE germ has a round body ten times as
long as its diameter and that six hundred
placed end to end will reach only one-slX
zenith OF sn inch. VIII some OF the bright
ones find how many can be packed, with
cut eompressing, into cubic six-tenths-
el'an-ineh space and report results 20 Ed
ltor Bixby2 And Will DIR. Wakefield tell
Us now many years it would take him,
WIN the best microscope at his command.
70 cetect one of these mites in the body oil
slaughtered COW freshly infected.