Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-09-05
Chelsea Home News.
II. o. BIxBy. Local Editor.

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pr and Mrs. E. E. Ellis of Brooktiel
,,srs guests at +. q, Browns last week
Mrs.. May Dickinson is spending thi
,,,nth with her cousin, Mrs, A, w, Ed
son, At Brooktield'
Arthur r. Rogers Is now running th
elsrtric lights in place OF Carroll Little
Mo has left town,
y A. Corwin left for Boston Monda,
pipht and from there win go TO Chicagl
t1 remain several days
Mrs. Zelina sullivan, who has beel
cooking at the Orange County hotel, lin
shed work there last Friday.
Miss Janet Smith returned saturday /,
Nsdiord, Mass, after spending severa
weeks with relatives in town.
Leon c. ordway went Monday to Al
bspy n. ", where he is 10 take ooursl
IA tie Albany Business college.
C. II. Alkens OF Louisburg, Kan, wa
ia Town Monday visiting Mrs. NJ. h
Corwin. He returned TO South Royaltor
Tuesday.
oliver Burgess went Sunday Afternoon
10 West Lebanon, n. H., where he Ia,
engaged to work in the grocery store oI
James Hosking.
Ernest Mcconnell and sister, Miss Bes,
sid Mcconnell, have gone 10 kennebunk,
Me-, where their sister, Mrs. George +,
Jackson, resides.
The three Marshall brothers, Rev. Ben.
amin Marshall, Andrew Marshall and FL
lott Marshall, left Monday for Boston,
the home OF Andrew.
Mrs. Lucina French received word last
week that she was grandmother, son
having been born to Mr.. and Mrs. George
+. Morris at Lancaster, y. II.
J. b. Wells OF Randolph, county high
way commissioner, was in town Monday
ia consultation with Road Commissioner
". II. Luce. He went from here TO Fair
lee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph II. Griffin,
who have spent the past year in Manches-
ter. y. H., returned TO their farm in the
north part of the town the first Of the
week.
The Chelsea Brass band has been en-
gagged to furnish music for the Worlds
fair al Tunbridge, which is to be held
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. Z,
s and 8.
Henry Clark went TO Lowell, Mass,
Sunday afternoon. He is 10 attend the
Worcester fair this week and on his re-
turn will bring about rs head Of young
cattle from Hood farm to winter here.
Dan p. Dickinson returned to Montpel-
-.
study Of music at Montpelier seminary.
Dan plays the pipe organ Sundays at
the Hedding Methodist church, Barre
city.
W. e. Edwing, who bought the George
Bixhy farm and moved there from Chioa-
60 year ago last spring, is 10 sell out all
his property here and return to Chicago
al once. He has an auction on the prem
isss sept. II.
Among the teachers in town who are
engaged for schools In adjoining towns
are the following :-Miss Zoe f. Hill,
Webstsrville; Miss Cora j. Rogers, Tun-
bridge; Miss Emma w. Hatch, Orange;
Mrs. Hattie Banister, Williamstown;
Miss Leonie NJ. Thorne, South STAFFORD.
Rev. and Mrs. George Z. Lake and
Miss Eleanor left Wednesday for Nam
sroneck, y. Y. They will be absent I'M
Ill October on Mr.. Lakes annual vaca-
ton. They were accompanied part Of the
way by Mrs. Lakes uncle, Fred A. Dav-
export, and daughter, Miss May Daven-
port, OF Cincinnati, o., who have been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Lake the past two
weeks.
John ID. Eastman, who resided on the
Washington road, died Friday OF acute
Indigestion, aged "a years. Mr.. Eastman
was a veteran OF the Civil war, having
served in Co. /, 9th Regt., Vt. Vols. He
had been in feeble health for several
wears. He left, besides wife, two sons
and two daughters-John L., OF Wash
mgton; Fred g., who lived at home;
Nora Eastman, of Barre city, and Mrs.
Charles Waterman OF East Barre. The
funeral was held Sunday afternoon from
his late home. Rev. Mr.. Perkins of Wash
ington officiating. The interment was in
the family lot in the Ramsdell cemetery.
very pleasant family surprise party
was given Mr.. and Mrs. Ephraim Hatch
Of San Jose, Cal, last Thursday evening
by Mr.. and Mrs. Z. ID. Barnes, at whose
home they were stopping, the occasion
being the SD birthday of Mrs. Hatch.
The guests dropped in without ceremony
to spend social evening and at 8 O'Clock
Mrs. Hatch was escorted to the dining
room, followed by the rest of the party,
where the table was prettily trimmed for
the occasion and beautiful birthday
cake was center of attraction. The sur
prise as prepared by Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes
was complete in all the details and Mrs.
Hatch expressed the hope that she might
again have the pleasure of spending an
other birthday in Chelsea. After the re-
freshments had been served, an hour was
enlivened with stories of the past and Sc
leetions by Misses Rena Barnes and Eve
lyn Johnston.