The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-11
CHELSEA
Annual Meetings of Fire District, Church
and Telephone Company Held.

ana Telephone company nelu.
AT the annual meeting OF the Chelsea
fire district held Monday evening, Jan.
3, the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Moderator, John NJ.
Comstock; clerk, Wilbur f. Dewey;
collector, Leon E. Grant; treasurer, Hi.
ram n. Madison; prudential committee,
10. Dickinson Tracy, Leon G. Ordway
and William w. Underhill; chief en-
gineer, George A. Tracy; first assistant
engineer, William w. underhill; second
assistant engineer, Albert p. Bugbee. A
tax of % cents on the dollar OF the
grand list was voted and it was also
voted to expend a sum not to exceed
500 to purchase rubber coats and boots
for the company, which is made up OF
| 10 men.
| At the annual meeting Of the Con-
gregational church held recently, the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: Clerk, John NJ. Comstock;
treasurer, Willard p. Townsend; bust
ness committee, Walter II. Emery,
Henry w. Burbank and Edward b.
Hatch; trustee for three years, DR.. Au
gustus T. Marshall; chorister, Mrs Rich
ard III. Bacon; deacons for five years,
Richard H. Bacon and Oliver u. Bur
CESS; executive committee to serve with
the pastor and deacons, Mrs. John NJ.
Comstock, Mrs. Leslie H. Bohonan and
Mrs. Stanley c. Wilson.
The annual meeting Of the Orange |
County Telephone company was held
here last week Tuesday with an at
tendance smaller than usual The old |
officers were elected without contest /
and the annual assessment was increased |
from $3.50 per year to $3.50. and some
changes were made in the bylaws.
With the increased assessment, il is
hoped by the stockholders that the in
dehtedness may be materially decreased
and at the same time better service Civ
EN-.
Neil McAllister, who for the past two
and one-half years has been a very eff
cient clerk in the Tracy hardware store,
has completed his services there and
gone to the home of his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles II. McAllister, in Wash
ington.
Attorney Stanley C. Wilson was at
Woodstock several days last week par
tieipating in the trial of a criminal case
in Windsor county court, after which =
he went to Montpelier to attend to j
some cases in supreme court. !
The National Bank Of Orange County r
mas recently paid its semi-annual divi- /
lend OF per cent to its stockholders. I
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace T. Walker have
'eturned from an extended western trip,
,..hi ah t.J H. |
n California, after which they visited
friends at other points on the Pacific
cast and also in the Middle West ON Y
heir return trip. k
Mrs. Eunice A. Adams, who has been
pending several weeks at the home of II
Ter daughter, Mrs. Evarts p. Brown OF
)ornish, n. H., has returned home. i
Isaac Recor, who sold his personal 81
roperty at auction last September, has
old his farm to Mr.. and Mrs George
'eattie, who come here from the great :.
rain belt of Alberta, Canada. Mr.. and !"
FRS. Beattie are young people and have D
urchased the property for home and n n
re buying stock to eat the produce, y
'hich they purchased with the place. o.
he consideration is said to be SO 800. Z,
HIS - BOuu farm anu wei iotdttuy
nd the buildings are in good shape, -
nd our people welcome immigrants of =
lis kind and hope there may be an in VI
TX sufficient to people every abandoned :,
Irm in the county. y
Mrs o. d. Tracy and son, Robert,
ent last week to Montpelier, where 10
ley are guests of the formers brother,
ert Spooner and family. bo
Miss Edith F. Hood, who for the past
iree years has held a responsible posi- ha
on as secretary to the president of the Co
ricultural college at Davis, Cal, ar
we'd in town recently and is the guest "
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra w.
ood NJ
DIR. and Mrs. William H. Cook re- to-
rned the first of the week from Tam
n, Mass, where they had been the pa
tests of relatives for a few days.
Chelsea grange finished moving from pa
e hall in F. A. Ordway's block, known ne
the Tarbell block, to the hall in io'
snry f. Gates block over the harness
op, and held their first meeting there pla