Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-01-07
Chelsea Home News.
H. O. BIxBY. Local Editor.

oon Salter Of Montpelier was in town
Monday. He drove over in four hours.
9th r.. Mills. who has been at j. b.
Atwoods this winter, left this week ior
Michigan.
Ernest and Lester Bates OF Bellows
rails spent this week with their father,
Geo. ID. Bates.
Miss Nina Tillotson OF Washington has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred Good
win. the past few days
Mrs Hattie Jones is sick so she is con-
fned 10 the bed most OF the time. Mrs.
Relic White is with her.
The band will give a masquerade
homemade in February and is beginning
10 prepare for it already.
AIya Bohonon OF Dixon, ILL.,, is visiting
,ld comrades and friends in town this
week. He is the same jolly old Alva.
DIR. Fred L. Beckwith has gone to
Danville for his semi-annual dental work
and will be absent ABOUT three weeks.
Cborene o. Barnes returned to KIM
hall Union academy, where she Is MEM
ber of the senior class, Tuesday morning.
The coolest known here for the past
thirty years was experienced Tuesday
morning, when the thermometer regis
Tered from "a to 49, below zero.
Jason o. Cook OF Rumney, ~ H., who
ia a member of the sophomore class at
Brown university was in town over Sun
day, the guest of Miss Blanche Townsend.
This week OF prayer is observed In un-
ion services Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings at the Cong'l church, Thursday
and Friday evenings at the Methodist
church.
LYMAN A. Burbank has sold his farm
on the West hill TO his son, John w.
burbank, and is to move to the Sar-
cent place ABOUT one mile south OF Chelsea
village.
Theron Spear OF Corinth has rented the
Orange Densmore place on South Main
street and is to move there at once. He
Is 10 work for {. II. Baraw in the Chelsea
market.
Waterson POST, No. As, @. A. r., and w.
r. c. will hold joint installation OF Off
GERS al the hall Saturday afternoon, Jan. 9,
at2 o'clock, 10 be followed by a supper for
the veterans and their families and all are
invited.
The Geo. IL. Hardy farm was sold at
auction by the administrator OF the estate,
w. p. Townsend, Saturday afternoon.
e. f. Godfrey was auetioneer. George Il.
Colby bought the place, paying slsO for
the property.
AS Benson Sanborn came out OF the
house one Of these cold mornings, he
slipped on the door mat and fell to the
piazza. fracturing one bone OF the right
arm Just above the wrist DIR. Godfrey
reduced the fracture.
Married in Boston, Jan. 1st, by the
Rev Frederick w Hamilton. Mr.. Ned A.
Griffin and Miss Cora T.. Robinson, both
Of Chelsea Mr.. and Mrs. Griffin return
"a home the first OF the week. The HER
AID ext snds its congratulations and wish
es them a pleasant and prosperous voyage
through life.
Maggie BLACK burn, wife OF Joseph
Mcconnell, died at her home Dee 22d,
aged a. years. The funeral was Thursday,
the 2ith in the Congn church, Rev. III. j.
Wyekoff officiating. Mrs. Mcconnell had
been sick for the past four years with can
Ger OF the blood and was very great SUI
ierer. she left, besides husband, five
children.
The girls basket ball team is making
steady progress, practising twice week.
Misses Maude Clifford and Jessie Davis
have Joined the team as substitutes, ana
Miss Bessie Burgess is playing again as
center on the Crescent team. The next
outside game will take place with the
Thetford academy girls next Monday
evening. Come and give the girls the sup
port they deserve.
The attendance at the annual meeting OF
the Congl church last Saturday was large,
considering the very unfavorable weather.
Oh the 100 members Of the church, resident
and nom resident, li9 responded either in
person or by message at the roll-call. At
the dinner the tables were more than full.
During the year two members have been
received on confession and three by letter.
Three have died and one has been dis
missed by letter. In spite OF unusually
large expenses, the church building hay-
ing been painted and other special work
done, the business committee was able to
~ a fat,ra lIa 81 the finances
There will be an election of lay dele
gate to the annual conference to be held at
Montpelier, March 30th, after the regular
meeting Friday evening at the Methodist
church, All members over p years OF age
arr requested to be present. II may be OF
interest to our readers to know that the
guadrennial general conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal church meets at Los
Angeles, Cal, May LIST next. This is the |
supreme congressional body OF this church |
and is composed OF ministerial and lay
delegates, numbering in all about 200
members. This, Vermont, conference is
entitled to two each, ministerial and lay /
delegates. Each charge elects one lay del |
egate. These delegates meet as lay cleo /
toral conference on Friday Of the confer /
ence week to elect the two delegates TO 4
che general conference. 1t is this delegate I
TO the Vermont conference who is 10 be I
Elected tomorrow night.
Orange County Telephone Company. |
The second annual meeting OF the Or
ange County Telephone company was
held in the Town hall, Chelsea, Tuesday,
Jan. 5. The meeting was called 10 order
by the president, c. l.. Speare, at IL:
O'Clock and Hale X. Darling was elected
chairman. 4
The report of officers showed many
miles of new wire strung in the last year.
The company is now operating about 500
miles Of line. There are no debts and no
liabilities beyond the capital stock
The treasurer reported cash on hand
sSi9 and the toll fees for last quarter,
about 500, not yet come in.
II was voted to raise the capital stock of
the company from $4,000 to s25,0O0.
The chair appointed one from each town
represented to constitute nominating
committee aud report seven men for di-
fectors. The committee were as follOws:-
Chelsea, II. o. Bixby; Brookfeld, DIR. +.
=, Ellisi Randolph, Charles Waldo; Cor
NTH, b. b. Scribner; Tunbridge, A. j.
dansoni Vershire, +. X. Fits; Washing
ton, A. i. Newman; Williamstown, l.. NJ.
seayer; Plainfield, Nelson sanborn Mont
Reler, Henry Town; East Montpelier,