The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-23
CHELSEA.

Earl and John Doyle returned Satur
| day from Sharon, where they had been
/ visiting relatives for several days.
Albert w. Hoyt, who has been serious
ly i'll during the past week, is con
valescing, but is yet confined to his
house.
Mrs. Henry /. Bragg, who had been
keeping house for her son, Leslie A.
Bragg. for several weeks, left Tuesday
| for her home in Milford, N. H.
Mrs. Louise Marotte and son of Hol-
yoke, Mass. arrived last week and are
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Zephire Brunette.
Mrs. Marotte is daughter OF Mr.. Bru.
nellie.
The regular communication OF George
| Washington lodge, No. 81 +. and A. NJ,
will be held Thursday evening of this
week at O'Clock, when full attendance
| is desired
The baseball team from the local high
school expects TO play its first game this
season with the South Royalton high
school team at South Royalton next
Saturday.
Orlo S. MacNabb went Friday to Han
over. n. H., to remain over Sunday with
/ his family. He expects to commence
work this week for the Orange County
Telephone company, repairing the com
panys lines.
Rev. Paul c. Thatcher, pastor of the
local Methodist church during the past
year, left Friday for his new field o.
| labor in .Bondville, in the southern part
of the state. He was accompanied by
his wife and mother, who is their guest.
Orrin'Lyford, who has lived in Fred c.
Waldo's tenement house and worked for
Mr. Waldo during the past year. has
rented tenement in the Dana house on
Church street, owned by w. p. Town
send, and moved his family there last
| Thursday.
Lyle r. Beckwith, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Fred L. Beckwith, has been seriously i'll
during the past week with a combination
of tonsilitis and rheumatism, which has
confined him to the bed much Of the
time. At this time he seems to be slow
ly eonvaleseing,
! Zephire Brunette, who returned last
week from Holyoke, Mass, where he had
been for four weeks, hoping that the
change of climate would relieve him Of
his rheumatic trouble, finds that al
| though he is improving he is unable to
resume work in his blacksmith shop. and
his adj for a trusty, reliable, all-7eund
blacksmith may be seen in the columns
of help wanted
We clip the following from the Aurora
N. of ,,,tl,ItgbaA NJ
| Aurora, ILL.,, which we believe will be OF
much interest TO many farmers in this
and ad Joining towns: CAS- odd as the
carrying OF coal to Newcastle il the pur-
chasing of finely bred steers from Aurora
to ship back to the hills of old Vermont
! to perform the duties of meek and low
! " oxen. Last week James X Howe OF
! Tunbridge, Vermont, visited in Aurora
on attle-buying tour and before leav-
| ing he purchased from William Georges
stock farm at North Aurora thirtytwo
head of pure bred registered Hereford
| yearlng steers Mt a fancy price. These
steers are now being put through the
| tuberculine test, after which they viii
! be shipped to the Green Mountain state,
where they will be broken in in due time
and entered upon their career as oxen,
| pulling carts and blowing land, the same
as have done less aristocratic cattle in
| the hills of Vermont since the days of
the Pilgrim fathers. The cattle sold by
Mr. George TO the Vermont gentleman
are so uniformly marked and have horns
50 nearly alike that they can be assort-
ed into pairs. While an OK team is a
most unusual sight in Illinois, draft cat
tie have always been common in the
eastern states. Some years ago, when
horses and horse feed were cheap, many
eastern farmers substituted equines for
oxen; but now that horse flesh has gone
soaring and feed is equally high there
has been return to the old reliable OK,
who moves more slowly, but who is less
particular as to his feed and can live on
ranges where horses would starve. There
is class, however, in these days to oxen.
as well as to horses, and the so-called
scrub teams are being replaced by the
higher and more finely marked breds."
These steers arrived at South Royalton
April Ia and were taken directly to Mr..
Howe's where he is pleased TO show
them.