Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-07-23
Chelsea Home News.
FL. O. B1xBY. Local Editor.

Fav Allen has gone to The Weirs, n. II.
IN work this summer
Mrs. Myra +. Davis of Orange is visiting
az me Misses Andrus'.
Miss Emma Nelson OF East Barre is Wis
fling at e. A. Corwin's.
daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Kingsbury July II.
Mrs. Elmer Bradbury and son OF Keene,
n IL. are visiting at E. F. Peters.
Miss LYLE Tracy of Boston is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Tracy.
Mrs. Abbie Mattoon has a fusehia that
has 10 buds and blossoms. Who next2
Riehard d. Perkins of Gloucester, Mass,
zane Friday TO spend his vacation at r. NJ.
Perkins
Mrs. Lang of Brooklyn, n. Y, mother
ofMrs. Huntington, has come to the ho-
lei Tor a few weeks.
Mrs, J. e. Stewart and children OF Bos-
ton are spending the summer with her ia
tber. George w. Cleveland.
Rev. Mr.. Wyckoh will preach in the
church at South Washington every Sum
day afternoon until further notice.
Mrs. William f. Hood, Mrs. Willard s.
Hstch and DR.. and Mrs. S. n. Goss are
visiting friends in Plainfield this week.
Miss Lena Richardson, who had been
spending two weeks with Mrs. +. j. Titus,
returned to her home in STAFFORD Sunday.
Quite a delegation from here attended
the Barnum & Bailey circus both at White
River junction and Montpelier. All re-
ported a fine show.
Miss Lizzie Dickinson went 20 st.
Johnsbury Tuesday for a few weeks visit
with her sister, Mrs. j. A. Moran, and
brother, Willie, who is an employe in the
psinting and lettering department OF the
fairbanks scale shops.
Gay's glass blowers are here this week
Al Densmore's hall. IL is a company that
has never been here before and its work,
Of course, will be on a different line than
those who have exhibited here before.
They give an entertainment each evening.
Anew departure in the mail service has
been arranged for this place and we now
have a Sunday mail. The stage leaves at 9
am. This mail goes on the night train
reaching New York or Boston Monday a.
b.. The stage arrives at u m, bringing
the mail we have not been receiving until
1870 Monday. Remember this is for SUM
day only; other days same as formerly.
Notwithstanding the rain n the abb
.euce Of some Of its members, the Junior
Benevolent society gave its Porto Rican
entertainment on Monday evening. Roy
al Townsend, with a dusky face and white
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native boy OF Porto Rico. Some account
Of thg island and its people was given and
sUtcimens Of the beautiful drawn work
made By the native women were shown.
Nr. Wyckofs remarks, in which he spoke
Ci the Introduction Of baseball into the !
island and its beneficial effects, were
much appreciated by all. \
Mary Chamberlain Bennett died at the
bone Of her daughter, Mrs. n. 5. Fits.
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been sick since September, gradually fall y
ing from old age. She left three daugh-
tiers, Mrs. John Il. Sprague and Mrs. Clara Y
j Fits, who reside in Manchester, y. H., 5
aud Mrs. II. $. Fits, with whom she lived.
Her daughter, Clara, bad been here for J
several weeks assisting in the care OF her \
mother. Mrs. Bennett was born in this :
for the past 35 years. She was the
Of Simeon Bennett. The funeral .
was from her late home Tuesday after Z
noon, Rev. W. +. Allen officiating. The 2
lnterment vas in the Hunt cemetery at !.
Iunbridge beside her husband. !
During the severe thunder storm OF last a
week, the wife of Alexander Coutermarsh, h
who lives on the East hill, was struck by I
while frying doughnuts and y
ieath. The bolt, 1t seems, struck the ga \
bic end Of the house, going through into \
he chamber, where il tore things up gem !
went down the s~tovepipe, removed
the covers from the stove without even
tracking them; struck Mrs. C~outermsrsh's
'orset steels and passed down her right
leg; after which il tore a hole OF two or
.hree inches under the cellar door, which "
directly back OF her. The lightning
turned a strip about two inches wide from >;
here il left the corset steels - the ankle. -
Pr. +. III. Godfrey was summoned. she
lad regained consciousness when be n
her, but was in a very critical con-
She is still unable to use her Vi
light limb, but in time Is expected 70 full
y recover. II was a pretty close call. 81
Coutermarsh does not keep a tele- .
phone or reside very near a line. |.