Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-06-11
Chelsea Home News.
Il. o. BIxBY, Local Editor.

Mrs. James stacy OF NerShlre spent last
week with Mrs. Philena Davis.
Mrs. Annie L. Kent of Grinneu, Ia. is
q guest at w. II. Emery's this week.
Mrs. B. F. Smith, who has been yerv
sick the past week, is more comfortable.
E. A. Davis and family of Bethel were
in town Sunday for short visit at Judge
G. L. Slows.
j. A. r. Corwin and daughter. Nellie.
left Monday for Lowell and Boston to
visit relatives.
Ray Titus and Lyle Beckwith each got
trout Friday that measured IA inches
long and weighed II ozs.
F. ". Lewis is building new porch
over the end door in his house, which is
q great addition to the looks of the place.
Hugh Clark, who is engaged on a milk
farm few miles out from New York
city, was in town Monday and Tuesday.
Milton E. George has gone to the
White mountains for the summer, where
be has good job in charge of gang of
painters.
Mrs. Charles R. Hoyt of Cambridge.
Mass, visited her son, Walter Hoyt. and
wife at the Misses Andrus' Friday and
Saturday.
Mrs Emily Marshall's brother, Albert
E. Hentz, and daughter, Miss Fannie
Maude Hentz, of Boston are visiting her
this week.
The lecture last Thursday evening by
Rev. F. A. Poole of Barre was very inter-
esting and instructive. There was good
attendance.
Mrs. Emeline Noyes returned home Sat-
urday from Randolph, where she had
been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Fl.
Powers the past week.
Mrs. Martha Cushing of Bethel is visit
ing Mrs. Adelia Whitney on Main street.
Her son, c. D. Cushing, brought her Fri
day in his touring car.
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Hatch of Mil
ford, n. H., came Saturday and are
spending the week in town with head
quarters at G. A. Densmore's.
John NJ. Comstock left Tuesday morn
ing for st. Adams to attend the state
conference of Cong1 churches, of which
he is corresponding secretary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erdix N. Bacon have
been visiting their son, Richard Bacon,
at North Charlestown, N. H., the past
week and returned home today.
The Orange county conference of
Cong'l churches will be held here next
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 16 and IL
A large attendance is anticipated.
Miss Rachel Comstock went Friday to
Montpelier, where she is visiting her
friend, Miss Nora Taylor, at Montpelier
seminary and attending commence
ment.
Charles H. Baraw's father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Baraw, and his
brother and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. P. f.
Baraw, all of Lyndonville, are visiting
him this week.
Miss Blanche Townsend, who is teacher
of dramatic art at the National Park SEM
mary, Washington, d. c., came Saturday
to spend the summer vacation with her |
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Townsend. |
E. G. Reed, member of the Division
council, left Monday morning for Ben
nington, where the annual encampment |
of the Vermont Division, Sons of Veter-
ans, u. S. A., was held Tuesday and |
Wednesday.
VIM. F. Davis and wife, and Charles G. |
Warren and wife of Waterbury passed |
through here Sunday night on their way
home from Lake Morey, where they had |
most expensive touring car that has been |
through here this season.
A. B. Carpenter of Somerville, Mass,
member of the firm of G. R. Corwin &
Co., Boston, is in town this week visit
ing his mother and sister, Mrs. Irene |
Carpenter and Mrs. T. D. Spear. Mr.. |
Carpenter has been having nice monu- |
ment erected in Highland cemetery.
Thomas H. Perry of Mooers, N. Y, |
who for several years was tinman in |
this town, occupying that part of the |
old Tarbell building before it was re-
paired where Aliens store is now, is Wis
iting friends about town this week. Mr.. |
Perry, with his eighty odd years, looks /
remarkably hale and hearty.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Chaplin and son
OF Springfield, Mass, came Saturday and |
were guests at w. P. Townsend's, return
ing Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Chaplin,
who was formerly Miss Grace Ordway of
this town, is sister of Mrs. w. P. Town
send and Fred A. Ordway. Mr.. Chaplin
is proprietor of the Massasoit House at |
Springfield.
Ralph Walker had a narrow escape |
rom serious accident Friday. While
driving down the hill above A. Barnes,
accompanied by his housekeecer, MIS-.
Bennett, the harness broke, letting the |
wagon onto the horse, which naturally |
kicked and started to run. Mr.. Walker
guided it into the bank, throwing them
both out, but the only injury sustained
was severe shaking up. The horse did
not escape.
Miss Carrie Spear, who lived just over
the line in Vershire, died at the Mary
Fletcher hospital, Burlington, Monday
noon. The remains were brought home
Tuesday night and the funeral was from
her late home Wednesday afternoon at
O'Clock. Miss Spear went to the hospital
last week for an operation for tumor,
which was for the time being reported
successful, but complications developed
later which resulted in her death.
VIM. F. Hood returned from Lowell,
Mass, last Thursday, where he attended
the big auction sale of Jerseys at Hood
farm. There were 100 head sold, some OF
them being part of the herd OF 81 inn
ported last year by Mr.. Hood from the
Isle Of Jersey. This annual sale at Hood
iaTm has become an important event to