Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06
County Mention.


Treasurer, O. D. Pitts; Auditor, Robert
Forbes. The following is the financial
statement of the District, which shows
the expenditure for teachers and inciden-
tails were $5.330.55. The details of re-
ceipts are as follows: Tuition, dues and
public money, $1,791.22; raised by tax,
$3,614.03 debt of 1891 As has been
paid; present liabilities, 1882 81; tax
voted so cents.
The Brandon House is being reftted
preparatory to the summer business.
-Zadock Remington was the first re.
preventative from Castleton in ITS.
-Castleton is in latitude 43 deg, "a
min, longitude 3 deg. 56 min.
The first constable of Chittenden was
Jeffrey A. Bogul in 1889.
The most prominent man who has
resided in Chittenden was Aaron Branch.
He fought under Wolf on the heights OF
Abraham, served his country through the
war of the revolution, and was prevented
ouly by the solicitation of friends from
being with the Green Mountain Boys in
the battle of Pittsburgh.
Clarendon has 254 taxable heads.
The people of North Clarendon have
new and attractive school building
which they have furnished with a clock,
outline maps, and ornamented with taste
full notices, and steel engraving enti-
tied 1.-THE School" A double reed, five
octave E-ty organ, at cost of S125, has
been placed therein.
One per cent. on the Grand List of
Dandy amounts to $4,339 05.
AT the annual school meeting in DAN
by, the following school officers were
elected: In District No. 5, Moderator,
Plyn Holton Clerk aud Treasurer, Ira
Fl. Vail; Committee, Plyn Holton; Col
lector, J. G. Williams In District No. s,
Moderator and Clerk, A S. Baker; Com
mittee, o. B. Hadwin, Phineas Hill,
Loren s. Waldo; Treasurer, James Fish !;
Collector, J. s. Perry. Tax Is cents. Tax
in No. D, ~ cents.
-Fairhaven has 9,692 taxable acres of
real estate.
Business in Fairhaven is reviving
and the village is recaperating from it's
recent fires, dwellings, and stores are ris-
ing Pboenix-like from the ashes. The en-
terprise and wealth and material re-
r,,ll lxn F,.rho,o % oo,-1,
day one of the first towns in the county.
-Hubbardton has only 81 dogs.
The first selectmen of Hubbardton
were Ezra Hickok. William spaulding
and Jarra Churchill, in 1885.
The appraisal of real estate in the
town of Ira in 1870 was $120,332.
-Madena Clark, daughter of Isaac
Clark, was the first child born in Ira.
The list for State taxes in Mendon is
sl,7Os.89.
The names of the first settlers in
Mendon are unknown.
The Middletown Springs are to be
under the supervision and management of
Leouidns and A. Y. Gray, two enterpris-
ing and reliable young men. They are
both now in Boston making arrangements
preparatory to the opening of summer
travel. The new hotel, it is confidently
expected, will be opened early in the sea.
son to accommodate the earliest of the
summer bosrders.
The appraisal of personal property in
Middletown for 1870 was $62, 261.
Rev. Daniel Packer was town clerk
of Mt Holly from 1915 to 1916 Except
one year, thirty years.
There were 313 horses in Mt Holly
in 1910.
The first Justice of the Peace in Mt.
Tabor was John Stafford in 1888.
The number of sheep in Mt. Tabor in
1910 was SS3.
The township of Pawlet is divided
nearly in the centre by range of noun
tains extending through it from south to
north.
-Lemuel Chapman was the delegate to
the constitutional convention of 1891
from Pawlet.
-Pittsford in 1910 made 1878 lbs. of
maple sugar.
The Congregational Church in Pitts
field was originated in 1893.
"A choral society with forty members
has been formed at Pittsfoad.
-Pittsford is 433 feet above the level
of the sea.
The Oddfellows of Netis Lodge,
Poultney, are to celebrate the Thanks
giving Day of the Order on the Goth of
April.
The Empire Stale Compay at Poult-
ney, recently took two blocks of stone
from their quarry, which were IS by "a
inches, that split into com plete and per-
feet slate of the thickness of ordinary
window glass.
Otter Creek enters the township of
Rutland about the middle of its south
line and leaves it about the middle of the
north line, cutting the town into two
nearly equal parallelograms.
Rutland raised 16,72a bushels of oats
in 1910. -s.
The town of Sherburne was chartered
by New Hampshire, July Z, 1761, to
Benz amin Ellery, Ezra Stiles of Newport,
R. l., and sixtyrfour others, by the name
of Killington, and changed to Sherburne,
November a. 1900. Mr.. Ellery was the
grandfather of the late Commodore Ellery
who died recently at Castleton.
Twelve thousand two hundred and
forty-fve bushels OF potatoes were raised
in the town OF Sherburne in 1910. -