The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-11
CHELSEA
Board of Trade Hopes to Be of Benefit
to the Farmers.


business men of a city or town and when
one hears of the Chelsea Board of Trade,
however, one must think of the term
as including the farmer, for one of the
principal activities will be to work with
the farmer in making Chelsea more wide
ly known as town of high quality live.
stock and comfortable farm homes, as
we'll as a town of great natural beauty.
The first step in this direction will be
to make survey Of all the farms that
come within the area that Chelsea nat
urally serves, for the purpose of obtain
ing the following information: The size,
description and location the condition
of buildings, crops produced, available
maple trees for sugar making and other
data which would be desired by person
investigating with view to purchasing.
There will also be secured information
relative to livestock of all kinds kept in
the community and especially in detail
as to purebred cattle, hogs, sheep and
poultry.
At meeting of the trlstees of the
Board of Trade held last week a special
committee was appointed to work out
survey, prepare blanks and have general
tihik t VI tHt Wuih. HIS
consisting of John p. Davis Fred G.
Waldo and Lyle r. Beckwith, has par
TALLY formulated its plans and hopes to
have the survey completed this moath.
For the actual field work they are to
call on other members of the organiza-
ton to assist so as to divide the labor
and get the work done as quickly as
possible. Each man is to have only
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work begins the general scheme will be
explained to all workers by Chairman
Davis and others so as to insure accur-
aey and uniformity. In some particu-
lars the farm bureau plan of survey will
be adopted. A meeting of the Board of
Trade will be held Friday evening, June
20, at the rooms of the Tyrian club, at
which the matter of the agricultural
survey will be taken up. At that time
also the duties of other standing com
mittees selected at last weeks meeting
of the trustees will be explained, new
members will be taken in and plans made
for the future will be discussed
Committees already chosen are as fol-
lows, in addition to the special commit.
tee referred to above; Membership, 0. Z.
Burgess, l.. II. Bohonan, A. +. Marshall;
highways, G. G, Tutherly, w. II Sprague,
Hale w. Nation, j. o. Perkins and +.
+. Bixby; entertainment, G. Il. Dickin-
son, G.. A. Buck, G.. n. Dearborn, NJ +.
George and Hale X. Darling; community
Improvement, II. n. Madison, p J.
Heath, NJ. G. Taft; electric power, II. X.
Darling, f. A. Ordway, II. N. Mattison;
new enterprises, o. d. Tracy, 4. A. Cor
win, G. A. Tracy; publicity, r. II. Bacon,
B. A. Goodrich, Stanley c. Wilson; leg
slative, Hale X Darling f, G. Waldo,
f. A. Corwin. Upon the completion of
the general agricultural survey, with the
information brought out by that work at
hand, other committees will be chosen
to take charge of an active campaign
to advance the community along the
lines shown by the survey to be most
practicable and important for the prop
er development of the farm and farm
home. The organizers of the Chelsea
Board of Trade are firmly convinced that
the future of the community TO large
measure depends upon making better
use of its natural resources. The trus.
tees plan to shape the work to that end.
1t is sincerely hoped that before the next
meeting many other members will join
in order to enable the broadening of the
committee work.
Mrs. Ernest NJ. Young has received
news of the death of her sister in law,
Mrs. Emily Young of Medford Hillside,
Mass. Mrs. Young was formerly Miss
Emily Pratt, who was here several years
ago as a missionary with Mary Rogers.
She has spent many vacations since at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. +. NJ. Young.
H. fr.n Is IUaI
and his sister, Rose Emery, will be in
terested to learn that they have pur-
chased q home in South Pasadena Cal,
together with what is known there as
double lot Of land, on which they have
number of fruit trees, most of which are
bearing, and among them are orange,
apricot, ounce, fig, walnut, peach, lemon
and pear trees.
Rufus X. Abbott, who had been a life
long resident of the town of Washing
ton, living near the Chelsea line and who
was as well and favorably known as our
own townsfolk, passed away at his home
on Thursday. June 5, after a long illness
q with paralysis of the throat and tongue,
with which he was stricken more than
two years ago. The funeral was held
r from his late home on Saturday at 2
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officiating The bearers were John NJ.
n Comstock and Richard II. Bacon of this
. town and Fred d. Blake and Carl l..
Rogers Of Washington, and interment
4 was in the family lot in the South Wash
a ington cemetery. Mr.. Abbott, one of
Washington's most respected citizens. al
ways lived on the farm where he was
born and carried on the same in company
with his brother, Frank E. S. Abbott, He
!. was the son of Charles r. and Roxana
o II. (Sargent) Abbott lie was a mem.
Der of the Congregational church of Chel-
r sea and head of the South Washington
Union Church society for many years.
. He had served many times as juror and
grand juror, had been a justice of the
/ peace for the past six years and repre-
i sented his town in the legislature in 1915.
During the past year his affliction had
v become so pronounced that he was to-
tally unable to speak. Besides the broth
err above mentioned he is survived byi
\ the widow, Winifred H. tFarnham) Alb
: bolt, and two daughters, Miss Hope,
7 teacher in Bristol, and Miss Blanche,
student in the University of Vermont
\ for two years, but having spent the past
wear at home tn assist in the "a RI nf her