The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-14
CHELSEA.

vailed. A.
At the annual meeting of the Or
ange County Creamery Company, on
Tuesday of last week, Frank Gilman,
N. H. Austin, Benson Sanborn, M
q. Gates, and c. M. Medcalf were
chosen directors, and w. p. Townsend,
e. A. Corwin, and w. A. Hood audit
ors. 1t was voted to apply half of the
ten per cent dividend to the debt and
to divide half among the stockholders.
The directors subsequently organized
by choosing Frank Gilman president.
"A. W. Whitney manager and treasurer.
and Mrs A. W. Whitney secretary.
On Tuesday of last week the village
was filled with large numbers of EN-
attled farmers, coming from all points
OF the compass to attend the first an
nual meeting of the Orange County
Telephone Company. A warm time
was expected, and this expectation
did not entirely fail of realization.
though the final outcome was peace.
fnl. The following directors were
chosen: @. l.. Speare, Corinth; Ell.
Kennedy, Chelsea; George Crane,
Brookfield; G.. e. Stacy, Vershire (:
George Brown, Tunbridge;. Martin
Chamberlain, Washington; Dr. H. II.
Mcintyre, Randolph. The directors
organized by choice of G.. L. Speare as
president, George Crane vice-presi-
dent, r. II. Williams of Corinth. sec
retary and treasurer; G. S. Emery of
Chelsea, auditor
X. e. Parkhurst has moved into the
Chase house lately vacated by E. L.
Harwood.
George M. Davis has gone to Mid
dletown, Conn to take position in
bookstore.
John Colby, the freight conductor
who was killed in collision at ROYAL.
ton on Wednesday night, was a son of
Hezekiah b. Colby, formerly of this
town, and brother Of Mrs. W. H.
3ugbee.
Rev. G.. E. Ladd of Randolph is to
preach at the Congregational church
next Sunday.
l.. Belle Chandler is here from Mont
pelier for few days, staying at j. B.
Bacon's.
j. X. Darling, II. X. Darling, and
U. l.. Stow at ended Ex-Governor
Farnham's funeral in Bradford last
Thursday.
There was largely attended sur.
prise party mt Azariah Barnes on Sat
urday evening, it being the seven
teenth birthday of his daughter. Min
ME.
A son was born on Sunday to Mr..
and Mrs. Elisha Burgess.
The board of civil authority will
meet for the revision of the check list
at the town clerks office on Saturday
are not on the list but who are en-
titled to vote on the license law refer.
endum should come before the board
at this time.
Late on Tuesday afternoon of last
week the alarming news came that
Hira l.. Bibxy had been seized with
an apoplectic stroke while at his work
III South Royalton. He was removed
to the hotel there, soon became I'M
conscious, and so remained until his
death on Wednesday evening. The
body was brought to the West Hill
meeting house where, at the funeral
services on Saturday afternoon, the
house was completely filled by as sim
cere mourners as ever gathered for
similar service. An appropriate and
touching tribute was paid him in the
address by his pastor, Rev. w. E.
Allen. Hira Lewis Bixby was born on
September 10, 1888, on the farm where
for nearly all his life his home re-
manned. He was the youngest of ten
children of Ichabod and Susanna
(Lewis) Bixby, and a grandson of
lchabod Bixby, ST., the ancestor of all
of the name in this vicinity, who settled
in town in 1888 ORG, coming from
Stafford, Conn. The subject of this
sketch remained on his fathers farm
until he was thirty-one years of age,
when he went 20 Burlington and
learned the photographer art. After
eight years in Burlington he returned
to Chelsea, and ever after combined
the pursuits of photography and farm
ing. Some years ago he opened studios
at Brookfeld and South Royalton also,
and spent one day of each week at each
place. He often held public office
Though never at his own solicitation
having been selectman, school di-
rector when the town system was first
adopted, for the past nine years a trus-
tee of the public library, and for many
years a justice of the peace In 1886,
he was chosen to represent the town
in the General Assembly, after a men,
orable contest on moral issue, which
will never be forgotten by those who
participated in it. His whole life
was devoted in remarkable degree to
the service of his fellow men. To
those who measure mans life by the
abundance of the things which he
possesses, he would not seem to have
been successful; but by the truer
standard of unselfish service, he must
rank very high among the men who
lived in his native town Though a
man of deep religious conviction and
experience, and untiring in his efforts
to maintain religious services in the
part OF which the town where he lived.
he never connected himself with any
church for reasons which the few
friends who knew them heartily re-
spected. He was never married, and
his only living brother, George F.
Bixby of Plattsburg. n. Y, was I'M
able to be present mt the funeral SER
vice. Two nephews, Wilbur f. Shep.
ard of Barre and George L. Bixby OF
New York city were here and also
more distant relative, Mrs. Emma w.
Lewis) French of Shirley, Mass.