Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-08-27
Chelsea Home News.
n. O. BIxBY, Local Editor.

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Miss Olive, daughter of h. T. Walker
an the West hill, is ill with appendicitis.
Mrs Oliver D. Medcalf went Saturday
.,Nswburv, n. H., where she is to spend
400 weeks with friends there and at The
Weirs.
1uIisu C. Hood, manager OF Hood farm,
,owsII. Mass, spent last week in town
With bis parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
F. Hood.
Mrs. F. NJ. Perkins went last week to
q Iohusbury, where she is the guest OF
Mrs. Gertrude Hyde Goodrich, returning
Saturday.
e L. speare and John Scribner of
corinth were in town Tuesday, as also
rpre ex-Mayor Gordon and family of
Barre city.
Mrs. Fred Braman and Mrs. Josie Lou
see went to ominster, Mass, Saturday
n visit theft brother, Philip j. Little,
and family.
Miss Jeanette Marshall, who has been
snending the summer in STAFFORD, came
Friday and is visiting her brot her, DR.. A.
T. Marshall
Fred A. Hardy of Denver, COL, is East
for month, visiting friends in this vi
ciniv. He is son of the late George H.
Hardy of this town.
Miss Ida Lougee left Monday morning
FIR Gambia. n. H., to visit her aunt, Mrs.
Frank Alien. before returning to school
st NorthfieId, Mass.
E. Allen Dickinson's daughter, Mrs.
Moran, and family of st. Johusbury visit
ed him last week for a day. They came
in their automobile.
Miss Jessie MacWilliams, who had
been spending two weeks at the Misses
Andrus', returned to her home in New
Haven, Conn, Friday morning.
The STAFFORD Dramatic club are to pre-
sent a play in their Town hall next Satur-
day evening, Aug. 20. Several of our
people have suggested attending.
Mrs. Rose Bixby entertained as guests
last week her nieces, Miss Alma R. Hunt.
lev of Mortified and Mrs. Frank Morse
and daughter of Somerville, Mass.
Rev. H. s. Scarborough of Amityville,
L. l., came Tuesday afternoon and joined
bis family at the Misses Andrus', where
they have been the past three weeks.
c. H. Allen and family of East Barnard
were in town Saturday and Sunday to
visit Mrs. Aliens mother. Mrs. Elizabeth
Bryant and her brother, Harry F. Bry-
ant.
nine-pound son was born Saturday
10 Mr.. and Mrs. George Nichols of
Montpelier at the home of Mrs. Nichols
aunt, Mrs. Hattie Jones, on Vershire
street.
Mrs. George Hutchins of East Barre,
Mrs. W. E. Poole of Barre city and Miss
Bertha Hazslton of Boston visited at DR..
F. Il. Godfrey's Thursday and Friday OF
last week.
Mr.. Gallison of the firm of Gallison &
Walker, civil engineers of Barre. was in
town Tuesday to investigate the prospects
Of making a trout preserve of Beaver
meadow on the farm of A. F. Morey.
About so participated in the picnic last
Friday in the pine grove on the Moore
iarm and we're transported to and from
the picnic grounds through the courtesy
Of DR.. George J. Helmer and Charles Il.
Corwin in their automobiles.
Mrs. Walter Merrill and Mrs. c. W.
Foster of Haverhill, Mass, are guests at
A. ". Whitney's. Mrs. Foster is niece
of Mr.. Whitney and is daughter OF the
late Simon French of this town. She had
y
Mrs. c. E. Woodbury. of Cambridge,
Mass, came Friday and is visiting her
sister, Mrs. w. P. Townsend, and broth
er, F. A. Ordway. Mrs. Woodbury. was
formerly Miss Ella Ordway and is the
daughter of the late Martin Ordway OF
this town.
The ceiling of the Methodist church is
being newly papered and whItened, Il. A
Dickinson doing the work. This is the
last of the extensive repairs made on TINS
house in the past two years. There were
no services last Sunday owing to TIE re-
pairs in progress.
Walter Hoyt finished work in the store
Of J. A. r. Corwin & Son Saturday
night Mr.. and Mrs. Hoyt have moved
to STAFFORD, where he takes possession al
once of the store recently purchased O.
Frank Quimby. We are sorry they die
not conclude to remain in this town.
Mrs. Henry Rogers of Nashua, N. Fl.
accompanied by her daughters, Mrs. III
den Barnard of Hollis, n. H., and MIS-
Edith Rogers of Nashua, n. H., is II
town for two weeks visiting her mother
Mrs. Ann A. Spear, and her sisters, Mrs
Ruth Bohonon and Mrs. w. II. Hill.
Many suspicious looking individual
have been held up and Investigated as L
their intentions and past history by GU
town officials in the past few days. In
last was supposed to be Kent, the escape'
convict from Waterbury asylum, out
proved his good intentions and wa
passed along.
Mrs. Ann A. Spear was agreeably SUI
prised last Saturday, it being her SUI
birthday, when about twenty OF ne
friends and relatives came ana an
nounced they had come to her birthoa
party. The guests made it very enjoy
able afternoon for Mrs. Spear ana q
promised to come again in ten years
possible.
DR.. George ]. Helmer was called to r.
land Springs, Me-, Saturday to visit pr
tent. Mrs. Helmer and two chldrel
Miss May and Master George, Jr., ana ne
brother, Julian c. Hood, OF Lower
Mass, also Miss Carroll and Leon Hatci
left Monday morning for Lowell by aut'
mobile, where they are to meet Or. he
Iner and proceed to their home at Nyaci
n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson D. Allen OF u
NrOsse. Wis were in town for q 1e'