The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-02-29
CHELSEA

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j Mrs. Holton S. Annis, who has beer
i'll for several weeks, does not gain as
: fast as her many friends would wish
:. and is still in a very feeble condition.
Mrs. Alice II. Lord OF New Rochelle
n n. y, was a guest last week of Mr.. and
r Mrs. John p. Davis
: Archie f., Sanborn who has been con
fined TO the home of his parents, Mr..
7 and Mrs. Milo NJ. Sanborn. for two week
7 with jaundice, has so far recovered as
to assume charge at his store again.
r Frank +, Bixby has purchased the
: freight business between Chelsea and
South Royalton, which has been conduct
! ed for several years by Hale w. Nation,
and has also purchased portion of Mr..
Mattoon's outfit, consisting of horses.
harness, wagon and sled, and takes pos
session March LIST. Burt Sargent will
drive one team and have charge of the
business for the present.
Mrs. George Robinson of Boston was in
town last week as the guest OF her
daughter, Miss Olive Robinson, at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred III. Stanton
on Maple avenue.
Fred A. Greene of Lebanon, y. H., has
leased the bobbin shop owned By the
Chelsea Bobbin and Wood Manufactur-
ling company, and has already commenced
to take in logs and as soon as the stock
is sufficient TO warrant he will commence
the manufacture of bobbins, for which
there is a greater demand at this time
than for several years. He will move his
/ family here in the near future, and will
occupy the tenement house owned by the
corporation near the plant. Mr.. Greene
has been associated with the manufae-
ture OF bobbins in New Hampshire for
many years and the people of this vicin- |
| ity welcome him here and wish for him
much success.
! The annual town reports were COM
pleted and reached the hands of the |
voters hot from the Chelsea Job Press /
last week and show several things which /
are of interest to our townspeople, among |
them, being the receipts and disburse- +
ments of the town during the past year.
the expense of the schools, the highways,
the towns poor, and that the indebted i
ness is slightly decreased from what it
was year ago Attention is also called
to the fact that there are several bridges
which must be repaired this year and
the selectmen recommend that at least /
one permanent bridge be built this year;
the school commissioners also call at
tention to matters that the taxpayers
should think over seriously and carefully
before the 18th of March and be prepared
to vote on the various questions of mo-
ment to the town with a. clear under
standing of the needs and requirements t
of the town and vote tax sufficient to
meet those requirements.
News has been received here of the
of Clarence II. Corliss, former
resident here, and Mrs. McI1and of Gran
iteyille, which was solemnized recently.
Mr.. Corliss has been for The last two
years the landlord at the Monument y
house in Wiliamstown.
Attorney Stanley c. Wilson was in $
Burlington last week, as he is this week, \
IN the trial of the case of Hattie Moses
vs.. James X. Howe of Tunbridge in the p
u. S. district court. The action was t,
by Mrs. Moses, who seeks to 0
-ecover $4,000 for personal injuries she
,laims to have received last summer by D
,eing thrown to the ground, trampled
ipon and gored by bull owned by Mr.. t,
Howe. Mrs. Moses is represented by Il
Attorneys Wallace Batchelder and a
lharles Batchelder of Bethel and Alexan-
Ter Dunnett of st. Johnsbury, and Mr.. C
lowe is represented by Stanley C. viii G
on of this town, David s. Conant of
Bradford and John G. Sargent of Lud- N
ow. o.
Mrs. Celia Flanders and daughter, Ha
Ell Flanders, of South Royalton arrived 70
n town last week for two weeks va .,
alton, which they are taking from their
FORK as cook and waitress, respectively,
t the South Royalton inn.
Cup to Freddie" two-act comedy,
resented last week Thursday evening by
he members of the senior class of the 4
Ugh school, drew full house and the 81
resentation was excellent, tine charae n
Frs being well taken and especially well Y
repaired and rendered. The proceeds from
he entertainment netted the class about
Is, which is 20 be used TO defray the ex-
enses of the Washington trip.
The schools in the outlying districts 10
osed their winter terms last Friday.
DIR. W. II. Cook and wife spent We'd
esday and Thursday Of last week with
.lstives in West Fairlee.
Mrs Neal Allis of Thetford, Miss Helen
ECKER Of Nershire and Mrs. Clyde Hop
rs Of Brookfeld were among those
ON out OF town who were here last
eek TO have dental work done.
A special communication Of George wi
'ashington lodge. No. 81. r. & A. NJ. wi
IN be held on Thursday evening Of this mo
rex Let there b. a full ATTENDANCE acl
Prank c. Dickinson returned 60 Mont at
her last Thursday, after having been goa
e guest Of friends in town for a few
IS fro
o. Fay Allen and William W. Under 'of
u, proprietors az the Chelsea job Press. in
- in Barre City on business last eve
.ursday- the
Among the business visitors in town bra
!. - - g.. 50 a. d "A