Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-11-24
Chelsea Home News.
H. o. BIxBY. Local Editor.


4. q. Dearborn is home from Bethel for
a few days.
A son was born to MI. and Mrs. Milton
r. Hutchinson Saturday.
Miss Rena Barnes returned home from
Merden, n. H., yesterday.
There vas q husking bee Nov. q, after
Doo and evening, at j. NJ. Grants.
Morris ID. Roberts is at Lisbon, y. H..
this week, The guest Of Prank Robbins.
Miss Margaret Comstock is spending
this week with Miss Lena Spaulding in
Barre city.
Miss Grace NJ. Gannett is at home at HI.
S. ADnif' this week, from the Monument
House, WilliamstoWn.
Mss Nancy Han was called to Fitch
burg, Mass, Monday by the Heath Of her
brother, Martin ;. Hell, Of that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. John B.. Atwood went to
MeirOse, Mass, Saturday 10 spend the
winter with their son, Fred +. Atwood.
Mrs. Oliver ID. Medcalf, who had been
visiting friends in Newbury, y. H., the
past two weeks, returned home Saturday.
4. A. Corwin went to Boston Friday in
the interest o. his poultry business. He
was accompanied by Norman W. Burbank.
Miss Nellie Webster has finished work
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working in the family Of Rev. H.. J.
Wyekof.
Walter n. Beckwith cut his left hand
with a knife so 1t required three stitches
to close the gap. The wound was 2
inches long.
Fred A. Ordway left Sunday afternoon
for Aberdeen, N. q. He is to stop in New.
York for a few days, where his family viii
Join him next week.
ia. r. Corwin a Son took in only
about four tons OF poultry for Thanksgiv-
ing, the smallest invoice for many years.
The price paid for turkeys was Csc. a
pound-the highest ever remembered.
Mrs. Clara Skinner died Saturday after
noon at the home OF her daughter, Mrs. p.
J.. Little, on the East bill, aged II years in
October. She was the widow OF the late
| Francis skinner, a member OF Co. II, 4th
Regt. Vt. Vols, who died in AndCrsonville
prison. Mrs. Little was the only child.
The funeral OF Mrs. Skinner was held at
1870 p. m. Tuesday at the home, Rev. l.. y.
Moody officiating. The interment was in
Highland cemetery.
The annual meeting Of the ninth Ma
sonic district, Il. a. A. NJ, will be held
with George Washington lodge. No. 81,
Thursday. Dec. Sth. The f. A.. degree
will be conferred in the afternoon by
George Washington lodge, Chelsea, Geo.
T.. Hatch, w. NJ, and Phoenix lodge, No.
Is, Randolph, r. Il. Parker, w. NJ, will
confer the NJ. NJ. degree in the evening.
Albert j. Huse, ID. ID. @. NJ, Of this dis
trict will be present, M. w. Olin w. Daley,
grand master, X. W. Henry l.. Ballou,
Grand lecturer. and other grand officers
are expected also. An interesting meet
ing is anticipated.
An interesting relic OF the Civil war was
shown as by G. A. Clifford OF this town.
II was the muster roll and pay roll OF Co.
/. 4th Regt. n. Z. troops, Capt. Thomas
b. Beall aud Col. II. 4. Bennett command
ing the regiment. MIR. Clifford was a
member OF Capt. II. II Starts Co.. YER
mont Battery Light artillery, and as his
battery entered one Of the forts in front
OF Richmond to take possession April 2,
1855, he found this muster roll carefully
enclosed in an oil-cloth bag on a dead
Confederate fst sergeant. lie has kept II
very choice all these years and nov pro-
poses to present il to Waterson Post, No.
IS, G.. A. r., to be kept as a relic of that
great war.
Robert Ramsdell died at his home
Thursday, the 18th inst, aged 50 yrs,
8 mos, 3 days. He had been sick with a
kidney trouble and had been confined to
the bed most OF the time for the past year.
The funeral Saturday was at the house al
1880 a.. m, Rev. Almon Shepard OF Tun-
bridge officiating. The burial was at the
Fish cemetery in Washington beside his
wife, who died four years ago. Mr.. RAMS
dell moved 10 this town from Washington
twenty-three years ago. He left a son,
/ Martin Luther RamsdelL, and one daugh-
ter, Marion W. Ramsdeli, who came here
70 care for her father more than a year
ago from Whiting, Iowa, where she had
been a teacher in the same school Tor ~
years.