The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-28
CHELSEA.

y. W. PpoutiNll VI Noibnhtlu duNtitiHtu
his house and barn on Main street, known
as the Noyes place, for sale.
Mrs. Frances w. Bixby, who has been
suffering for week or more with an
attack of shingles, is convalescing slow
ly.
All the schools in town, with the ex-
ception of the high school, closed Fri
day for vacation and viii not commence
again until January.
Charles H. Button, who resides on the
west hill, went to Boston, Mass, Fri
day, with large lot of poultry for the
Thanksgiving market.
The local postoilce will be open on
Thanksgiving day during the following
hours: 8 to a. M, 10 to II a. M, 80 to
2 p. M, and 5 to 1880 p. m,
Dexter l.. Larkin of Tunbridge, who
also had for many years been resident
OF this town, died at his home Satur-
day from the effects of apoplexy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl +. Parker Of Barre
City spent several days of the open sea-
SON for deer in town and while here
were the guests OF the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred A. Ordway.
Active operations will begin at the
bobbn shop as soon as sufficient snow
has fallen to enable the farmers and
lumbermen TO deliver logs at the plant.
Mrs. Gail Hood Helmer of Nyack, n.
", is the guest Of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Il. Hood, who will return
to her home with her the last of the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin G. Harrington and
son, Edward, of East Brool1feld, were
in town Thursday to have dental work
done, and were guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. II. sprague.
Mrs Bertha Berry Gilbert, who has
been suffering for several weeks from
the effects of a felon on one Of her fing-
ers, seems now TO have reason of hope
that an amputation will not be neces-
sary.
Madam Ruth Kennedy, who has been
spending several weeks with sister
who lives in Worcester, returned Satur
day evening to remain for time but
expects TO return later to remain a while
longer with her sister, who has recently
buried her husband.
Thirty-five members Of the local grange
went to Washington Friday evening to
visit the Washington grange and report
fine time. with about two hundred
visiting grangers present. The Chelsea
grange furnished the literary and must
cal entertainment for the evening.
Willis Hill, the younger son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Nathan ]. Hill, who has been
employed in Lowell, Mass, for the past
month as fireman in the Lowell General
hospital, has returned TO his home.
While there he passed, with a high mark,
the examinations that fremen are RE-
quired to pass in Massachusetts, but
was not old enough to take a perma-
nent position.
Cyrus w. Burbank, who for several
years has lived in Providence, Mass, has
recently returned TO Chelsea with his
family and has moved onto W. nj. Mat
toon's farm on the east hill for the win
ter and proposes to buy farm in the
spring. This decision on the part OF
Mr.. Burbank is especially pleasing to our
townspeople and we wish that more OF
our boys would return to their old home
town to locate.
Mrs. George A. Tracy, who has been
in town for the past two weeks making
arrangements to rldses their home near
the courthouse fer the winter. left for
Plattsburg. Y. ", Thursday. where she
will remain during the winter. MFR.
Tracy, who is travelling salesman with
territory in New York, finds that at
present, Plattsburg is more central
location for him than Chelsea would be,
which fact occasions the closing Of their
home here for an indefinite time
News came from Tunbridge Friday
morning that the venerable George
Cleveland was found dead that morn
ing in the rear of a near neighbor's barn,
and it is supposed that death resulted
from an attack of heart failure, as he
has suffered more or less for a year or
two from heart trouble. The deceased,
who was in his eighty-fourth year, was
a former resident of this town and for
many years conducted the Chelsea livery
stable. He had made his home in Tun-
bridge for the past three years and is
survived by one son, Fred w. Cleveland,
Of Barre City, and two daughters, who
live in Massachusetts,.
Citizens of Chelsea and the neighbor-
ing towns win bear in mind that the
New Chelsea Dramatic company will pre-
sent at the opera house Thursday even
ing of this week the popular rural COM
edy drama entitled. "The Country Com
stable" after which the company will
hold their annual Thanksgiving ball.
The Barre opera house orchestra has
been engaged for the evening and viii
give one-half hours concert from ;45
to sis, at which time the curtain will
rise for the first act of the drama, The
cast Of characters. who will present this
play, are especially well placed. Tickets
are now on sale at Colonel Bixby's store.