The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-13
CHELSEA.
County Roads Meeting Well Attended
Teachers Engaged for Spring Schools.

from Randolph, Brookfeld, Williams
| town, Washington, Yershire and Tun-
/ bridge were present, besides those Off
eials from this town and many inter
ested spectators. The afternoon session
was devoted to an illustrated lecture
! by j. II. Dodge OF Washington, ID. G.,
from the good roads department, and
who is touring the state with State
| Highway Supervisor g. W. Gates OF
| Franklin, attending the meetings OF the
| selectmen and road commissioners in the
various counties appealing to them by
| his lecture on good road making, which
/ in itself, is a clear-cut word picture
! which is explained illustrated and drv-
| Ell home to his auditors by large num'
| Der of stereopticon views showing the
| different methods and material used IN
/ permanent road making, not only in this
! state. but in various states in this
country and in foreign lands. Follow
| ing this very instructive lecture, State
| Supervisor Gates spoke most impress
/ sively for over an hour, appealing to
| the commissioners to be thorough and
! painstaking in their work, to enter into
! it with a spirit OF love for the work
instead of greed for the dollar, and he
gave instruction to the selectmen con
/ cerning the cutting OF brush beside the
| highways and the performance OF other
duties pertaining to their Office which
| has to do with the highways, These
meetings are very instructive and are
worthy OF the patronage of the people
in general as well as the various town
officials, for whose benefit there are held.
Thomas y. Hill has engaged to work
/ ~ H.. .tt.i,
way under Road Commissioner Will
narth H. Luce, and has gone to Mr..
IaIces to work until the work on the
highways can be commenced.
Mrs. Edwin Sanborn, who has been
/ seriously i'll for the past week with an
affection Of the heart. is improving slow
w. She is being cared for by her daugh-
ter. Mrs. James Field OF Barre, who came
last week.
Curtis NJ. Hail. who moved two weeks
ago from his farm at the north end OF
the village, which he sold to Albert \.
Austin. to his tenement house on South
Main street, was stricken with shock
Sunday, since which time he has been
in a serious condition and grave doubts
ar entertained as to his recovery.
John Doyle is working for Leslie A.
Bragg of South Washington during the
sugar season.
Mrs. Henry Sharp. who buried her hus-
band about two weeks ago will vacate
the Townsend tenement on Main street
III once and will move to Bethel to re-
side,
Anyone desiring to obtain eggs for
setting purposes from a fine strain OF
having stock. should consult the adver-
tistments in another column of this pa
per, where they will find among nu-
merous others, the ad. of O.. +. Burgess
Col. II. o. Bixby is seriously contemplat
ing irving his hand at the breeding of
Thoroughbred fowls. his attention and
ambition being devoted to the Houdans.
Wesley H. Bugbee has moved from
his farm into one of the tenements i'll
the Ira Hood house on Main street which
is owned by Houston S. Fits. His son
who has lived at home and assisted III
carrying on the farm will carry on the
farm for himself this year.
News has been received here of the
death Of Asa II. Pepper Of Washington
which occurred Tuesday morning at his
home in the village. where he had lived
and conducted small grocery store for
several years. Mr.. Pepper was well and
fayorably known here, having married
daughter of Andrew Burnham, who
was a prosperous farmer Of this town
many years ago, living on the farm on
the west hill now occupied by John A.
Edwards. Mr.. Pepper was about IS
years old and is survived by one son,
Willard A Pepper, who resides in Wash
ington.
Miss Hazel f. Bixby, stenogapher in
thu office of States Attorney Stanley
G. Wilson, is taking two weeks Va
cation and went Thursday to Boston,
to visit her sister, Miss Myrtle i. Blk
by. who is student at the Bryant and
Stratton Commercial college.
Superintendent Herbert ID. Casey of
WilliamstOwn was here Wednesday on
an official visit to the high school and
village grades.
Harry n. Sanborn has moved his fam
lily from the w. NJ Mattoon tenement
to Truman Spears house near the
Orange county creamery and Mrs. Della
Flanders, Mrs. Sanborn's mother, has
also moved from another tenement of
W. VI. Mattoon's to Mr.. Spears house.
John Flanders. who is occupying the
Cleveland house on Main street now
owned by B. II. Adams, will move into
the tenement vacated by II. n. Sanborn
and Fred z. Hall will move soon from
his fathers house on South Main street,
to the tenement vacated by Mrs. Flan-
ders.
The seectmen have closed contract
with A. b. Lane of Barre City to move
the high school building from its present
site so that work can be commenced
on the foundation for the new school
building as soon as the frost is out of
the ground. Mr. Lane will be here with
his force Of help to commence the job
on Monday, April y. The building,
which now faces the north, will be
turned one-quarter round, fasing the
west, and placed upon permanent foun-
daton and will have a basement under
it. Mr.. Lane Is an experienced mover
OF buildings and estimates that this
job will engage his attention about two
weeks. What the old building will Ill
timately be used for is not definitely
known at this time.
The following teachers have been en-
gagged for the spring terms in the out
lying Districts No. l, Morse district,
Miss Martha Moves; No. s. Emery dis
triet, Helena Sargent; No. Q, West Hill |
district Blanche Carpenter; No IL, !
Luce district, Ethylind NJ. Sargent; No. |
10, Boyd district. Hsttie Bannister. The !
above schools, with the exception OF the |