Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-04-07
Chelsea Home News.
H. o. B1xBY. Local Editor.

H. K. Darling was in Bradford last
week
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
James Goodell Mar. "a.
George Thompson is at work for Kings
bury & Son in West Fairlee.
Mrs. Erastus B. Dickinson broke her
left arm last week in falling.
Miss Rena Barnes returned to Meri-
den, n. H., Tuesday morning.
Miss Flora Corwin returned to New
Bedford, Mass, Tuesday morning.
b. II. Adams, Jr., has resumed work for
the Deering Harvesting Machine Co.
John Smith died Tuesday at the town
farm, where he had been for the past %
years. His age was about 65 years.
The new pastor at the Methodist
church is Rev. l.. n. Moody of Randolph
Center. He win occupy the pulpit next
Sunday.
Prentiss w George left Monday morning
for Waltham, Mass, where he has posi-
tion it the carpet house of Warren +.
Emerson.
Mrs. c. H. Allen of Barnard was in town
last week to see her father, Henry o. Bry-
ant, who has been confined to the house
for several weeks.
Edwin Sanborn and family moved to
Barre city, Monday. e. III. Kennedy
moved Tuesday into the Sanborn house
recently purchased by him.
Miss Alice Smith OF Barre is at Mrs. A.
NJ. Whitney's tor a short time, while she
is in charge of the branch millinery store
of Mrs. w. f. Shepard Of that city.
]. o. Perkins egg record for the month
of March from AZ Rhode Island Red hens
was 661 dozen, over IS eggs from each
hen, or about % eggs per day. Mr..
Perkins was one of the first to introduce
this breed OF poultry in this vicinity.
An adjourned annual meeting of the
Chelsea Entertainment association will be
held next Saturday afternoon in the
library at O'Clock. All persons in
terested in this association who hold
season tickets for the course just closed
should make an effort to attend this
meeting.
Mrs. Mary A. Heath has medal sent to
her by Edgar Terhune of Nevada. KY,
which he found on the battlefield at Per-
ryville, KY, forty years after the war. On
one side OF the medal is inscribed I'D. $.
Gay, Co. b, 9th Regt., VT. Vol, Chelsea."
On the opposite side, "War of 1861, United
States of America" Mr.. Gay went from
here TO the war and died there in 1862 or
SO.
Mrs. Geo II. Bacon has a flock Of IS
Rhode Island Red pullets that from
January LIST TO April LIST laid 81 dozen eggs.
During the month of March six Of these
hens were setting; three OF them have
ten chicks each and the other three are
soon to come Off Mrs. Bacon Justly
takes much pride in her management OF
the poultry department and feels well
repaid for the care she gives it.
Road Commissioners Meet.
The annual meeting of the Orange
county road commissioners was held at
Orange County hotel Tuesday. State
Commissioner j. o. Sanford Of Stamford
was present. The meeting was one OF the
best ever held in the county, although
there were several Of the towns not repre-
scented.
Those present were W. f. Medcalf,
Brookfield; MO. Gates, Chelsea; Edgar
Curtis, Orange; j. B. Wells, Randolph; B.
+. Jordan, STAFFORD; NJ. Z. Flanders, Tun-
bridge, c. b. Titus, Vershire; A. l.. Patter-
son, Washington; o. A. Blanchard, VIII
Jamestown.
Mr.. Sanford gave an interesting talk, as
usual, on the work throughout the state.
Among the veteran road commissioners
were j. b. Wells of Randolph, M.C.Fland-
ers of Tunbridge and o. A. Blanchard of
Milliamstown, who are each serving their
twelfth year, and c. B. Titus of Nershire,
who has started on his ninth year.
There seems TO be marked tendency
throughout the state to keep good road
commissioner in Office for long term. In
this county there were seven changes in
1898 while this year there were but three
new commissioners elected.
Throughout the state there were l49 new
commissioners elected in 1903, against "
this year; a. towns in the state elected two
commissioners in 1902 and only 81 in 1901.
Mr.. Sanford believes this to be move in
the right direction, as he believes in re-
electing good commissioners and concen-
trating the work under one commissioner
in each town.
Many OF the commissioners present gave
interesting and helpful talks on their eX-
perIence in building and maintaining
roads.
Col. c. s. Emery and several other of our
townspeople attended this meeting. BY
invitation OF Mr.. Sanford, Col. Emery gave
a brief talk concerning the highways and
how much better he believed the roads
were under the present system of main
tanning them than under the old way.
This town received from excess OF ap-
portionment over tax S2S6.54 and built 81
rods of new road at a cost of $1,000. There
are 81 miles OF road TO be maintained IN