Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-16
County Mention.

QOn Manufacturing 0onPouy Compeie
them to make additions to their build.
ings.
The number of tsxable acres in the
town of Brandon is 22,138.
in 1s4S the graves of about thirty
soldiers were visible near the site of the
old fort in Castleton, which is situated
nearly opposite the present residence OF
s. H. Lsngdon.
The appraisal Of personal estate in
Castleton in 1870 was $20S,s57.
Among the mountains in Chittenden
are several oaverns, but they have not
been extensively explored.
One per cent. of the tax of Chitten.
den is 81, 928.62.
In School District No. /, in Claren-
don. in the winter school Of 16 weeks, the
whole number in attendance was 80
average attendance 90 1892 The fol-
lowing is a list of the pupils who were not
absent during the term, viz: Louis Pot
ter, Chauncy W. Potter, Nathan Potter,
Alonzo Potter, Daniel Round, Frank
Round, Joseph Round. Those who were
not tardy during the term: Ida Round,
Frank Round, Joseph Round, Chauncey
W. Potter, Louis Potter, Alonzo Potter.
Ida Round was absent only day and q
half, and that from sickness.
Clarendon has SO dogs.
w. B. Pond has purchased the hotel
at Dandy recently kept by l.. Vance.
The Harlem Extension Railroad
Company have purchased of Thomas
Nichols the wood on twenty acres of land
for $4,000 About twenty men are en-
gagged in cutting the wood.
-Fairhayen has five hundred taxable
heads
The surface of the town of Fairhaven
is different from that of any other town
in the county, consisting of swells and
wales, but there is nothing which deserves
the name of mountain.
The first frame barn was built in
Hubbardton by S. Churchill, in 1885, the
boards for it being brought 124 miles on
an OK sled.
The population of the town of Hub
bardton in 1891 was 404.
The Baptist church is the only relig-
ious denomination that ever had an Or
ganization in the town of Ira, and was
organized in 1893.
Hon Bradley Fish is the only County
Senator the town of Ira has ever had.
-Mendon had 1O7 horses IN 1870
The latest haunted house is in Men
don. Unseen feet stamp upon the steps,
and an unseen horse whinnows at the
door, and the origin of the noise is undis-
coverable.
R. r. Woodland Is the owner of
Lovers Rock 10 Middletown, fayorite
place Of resort.
The appraisal of real estate in the
town of Middletown in 1870 was $685.
681.
In 1918 there were 81 deaths in
Mount Holly, most oocasioned by the
epidemic of that year
No High Sheriff of Rutland county
has ever come from the town of Mt
Holly.
The first Town Clerk of Mt. Tabor
was John Jenkins, in 1888.
Mt. Tabor had BAL cattle in 1870
The ''Crapo farm" in Pawlet has been
sold by the administrator of Fl. R. Hos
ford's estate to Horace Winchester, for
$500.
john Thompson, David Castle and
Joel Harmon were chosen "Townemen" of
Pawlet in 1776. These officers were
probably Selectmeu.
The first settlers of Pittsfeld were
Thomas Hodgkins, Stephen Holt, Mr..
Woodward, George Martin, Daniel and
Jacob Bowe, in 1886.
-Pittsfeld had 1858 sheep in 1910.
&C. A. Hitchcock was elected, at the
annual town meeting First Constable and
Collector of Pittsford for the 21st time.
The State tax has been promptly paid to
the State Treasurer, before the date fixed
by law, during that period.
"A correspondent from Pittsford says:
son the 18th of March one of our business
men, N. II. P, took ride on the cars for
the first time in his life. He is about 90
years, and always lived in Pittsford and
Rutland.
The Methodist church in Poultney
have rendered the use of their church to
the Congregationalists for an afternoon
service.
The item in the Rutland Indepen-
dent, that the death of the mother of Hon.
Merritt Clark was "almost hourly ex-
pected," was incorrect.
There were LOTT hogs in Rutland in
1910.
Rutland votes no taxes this year.
Josiah Wood was a Justice of the |
Peace in Sherburne 10 years.
There are school districts in Sher-
burne.
The first child born in Shrewsbury
was Jonathan Smith, May 4, 1880.
Mr.. Hewitt's new mill erected to re-
place the one destroyed by fire is to be
opened to-day, Thursday, with a cele-
oration of the event.
There were 1,4SS bushels of wheat
raised in Sudbury in 1910.
The prospect for summer visitors at
he Sudbury hotels is more fattering than
aver before.
Hon. Thomas Porter lived in Tin
mouth from 1899 until 1888, and died at
Granville, N. Y, in May, 1888, aged 90