The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-04
CHELSEA.

A dance at the town hall Monday
evening under the auspices Of the young
people was fairly well attended.
Warren Victor OF West Fairlee spent
Sunday and Monday in town, the guest
of his sister, Mrs Burt II. Kent.
Roy B. Sanborn has recently pur-
chased new motor cycle and he en-
Joys the distinction of having the only
one in town.
Mrs. Laura Berry, who has been
great sufferer with neuralgia for the
past five weeks, is convalescent, as IS
also Mrs. Fred L. Goodwin, who has
been seriously i'll with the grippe,
Leon G. Cilley has finished work for
George f. Griffith and is stopping for a
time at the home of his foster parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Hoyt, and is work.
ing for Mr.. Hoyt, who is confined to
the house with broken leg.
MIR. and Mrs. Titus II. Wilfore of Will
Jamestown are in town this week and
are guests of the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Will A. Hood. They came
Sunday in their Haynes touring ear,
purchased from Barre parties last week,
Guy L. Hood, who is travelling
salesman for grocery house in Hart
ford, Conn, and who has his headquar-
ters in Schenectady, n Y, was in town
few days last week and was the guest
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra w.
Hood who live on the West Corinth
road.
The selectmen have appointed W. II.
Sprague school director, to fill out the
unexpired term of Rev. Fred Daniels,
whose removal from town caused the
vacancy The board, as now made up,
met Monday afternoon and organized
BY electing II. n Mattison chairman,
and w. II. Sprague, clerk.
Stanley G.. Wilson was in Williams
town Tuesday in the capacity OF states
attorney to prosecute one Irving Will
fore for breach of the peace and inn
peding an officer. The respondent was
bound over to county court and bail
was fixed in the sum of five hundred
dollars, which was furnished.
Mrs. DENIS w. Densmore, whose
beautiful garden on North Main street
is the envy of most every passerby,
each summer surveyed and laid out a
plot OF ground, measuring it of into
small squares and at each angle set a
strawberry plant, and at the end OF one
days work she found she had taken up
and reset eleven hundred and forty.four
plants besides measuring and laying out
the land
Miss Hope Abbott, the older daugh-
ter OF Mr. and Mrs Rufus X. Abbott,
who has been seriously i'll and in a
decline for several months, left Monday
for the Mary Hitchcock hospital at Han
over, N. H., for treatment and an opera
tion if it is found necessary and ex.
pedient to operate. She was accom-
panied by her grandmother, Mrs. i. ).
Farnham. Miss Abbott, who has been
hardly able to sit up for several weeks,
stood the journey nicely and with much
less fatigue than she anticipated.
Clarence d. Stems, who has lived on
the George III, Bacon farm on the west
hill for the past two years, has ex-
changed his farm and also the Warren
Stearns farm, also OH the west hill, for
store and stock of goods with J.. A.
harrington of South Walden; posses
sion in each instance is to be given
about May 10. Mr.. Stearns advertises
to sell large amount of personal prop
erty which includes stock and farming
tools, at public auction, Saturday of
this week, at which sale Charles F.
Smith of Barre City will be the auc-
tioneer.
About o'clock Tuesday morning a
chimney on W. p. Townsend's house
burned out and Mr.. Townsend remained
at home during the forenoon to keep
watch of the chimney. About II o'clock
he discovered that there was fire in a
partition near the chimney, and he at
once gave the alarm. In a short time
several men with fire extinguishers ar
rived and hole was cut through the
partition and by using the extinguishers
the fire was soon extinguished. Had it
not been. discovered until few minutes
later it would have been hard fight
to have saved the house, and in the
event it had burned it is more than like
ly that the store occupied by 0rdway,
| Holmes & Co. would have burned.