The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-28
CHELSEA.

Mrs. Ada Whitney went last week to
Boston expecting to remain with friends
there during the winter.
Madam Ann E, Goss has gone to Cam
ton, Mass, to spend the winter with
her daughter, Mrs. j. Euclid Fish.
Curtis 0. Slack has been granted an
increase of pension at the rate of S24
per month, dating from November 1910
Ned Hayward, who has been visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs George L.
4 Hayward, on the east hill, has returned
to Rutland, where he has a position as
clerk at the Bardwell house.
Arthur F. Dickinson, who is a student
at Mount Hermon school for boys az
Mortified, Mass has come home to
spend the holidays with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Erastus B. Dickinson.
Miss Margaret McCree of Washing
! ton came last week to work as maid
in the family Of Hale X. Darling, TAX
! ing the place of Miss Belle Sabine OF
Barre who has gone to the Orange
County hotel to work.
Miss NJ. Blanche Townsend, who holds
4 a position as teacher in the National
Park seminary at Forrest Glen, a suburb
OF Washington, ID. G., is spending a two
weeks vacation with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Willard p. Townsend.
/ Miss Jane Laird, who went recently to
the home Of her niece, Mrs. Arthur +.
Stearns, in Williamstown, is seriously
/ i'll, and it is feared she has sustained a
slight shock. a trained nurse from Tun.
bridge went Saturday to care for her.
The high school and the grades closed
| Friday for vacation until Tuesday,
January 3, and Prof William II. Garter
left Saturday morning for his home in
Vergennes, and Miss Rosetta Ward lett
Saturday for her home in Amherst,
Mass.
Sheriff b. H Adams left Thursday for
Rutland, to commit to the house of
correction Harhe L. Ward, who was sen.
fenced to that institution at the term
of Orange county court, Just closed, for
a term OF not less than eighteen months
nor more than twenty.four months.
John Larrabee, who has suffered sew
eral attacks of appendicitis during the
past few months and who was expecting
to 60 to the hospital for an operation
next week, is again confined TO his bed
and will probably not be able to 60 to
the hospital as soon as he expected,
Madam Marie Parcello Bixby OF New
York City win give recital in the opera
house Saturday evening December 81,
the proceeds from which are for the
benefit OF the west Hill church. Madam
BiXby, who. as a mezzo eontralto, has
wide experience. not only in this coun-
try, but abroad, having sung before the
court of King Edward and also before
enthusiastic audiences in Germany and
Italy, will in her recital give songs of
Holland, France, Italy, Germany, Scot,
land, England and other countries. This
viii be a rare opportunity for the people
of this town and the surrounding towns
as well to listen TO so talented an artist,
and every seat in the opera house should
be filled. All seats for this occasion win
be reserved at one price, and the tickets,
which viii 90 on sale at Col, H. o. Blk
by's store on Thursday, Dec ~, are to
be but twenty-five cents II may be of
interest TO many to know that Nine
BiXby is the wife of George s. Bixby
of this town, and to honor and perpetu-
aate his memory il is largely due that
she comes here for the benefit OF the
west hill church, of which he was a lire.
long supporter and with which he was
so closely identified during the last years
of his life and was the power behind the
throne in the extensive repairs, which
were hardly completed at the time OF
his death,