Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-09
County Mention.

Benson votes town tax OF so cents
to pay Its current expensns the coming
year.
One per cent of the Grand List Of Ben.
son is $4,540.9e.
i. An exciting contest occurred in
Brandon at the annual March meeting.
The town officers published report CIV
ing their statement of the condition of the
town officers. On it's appearance re-
view of the report of the town officers was
issued and circulated SO that the voters
had the two documents side by side.
Harsh things we're said in both documents
but we learn that the party which oontes-
ted the statements of town report were
sustained by the people, they eleoting
their candidates by a large~majority.
The Brandon Musical Union give a
concert under the direction of L. Ell. Toby
of Burlington, at the Town Hall in Bran
don. The class has been successful and
the concert will be well worthy the pat
ronage of the public.
-Castleton has 745 taxable heads.
"A session of the Legislature was held
at Castleton in 1890, commencing Octo-
Der 14th, and closing October 28th, after
q session Of fifteen days.
The town Of Chittenden bad never
county Senator.
The time of meeting Of the Lodge of
Good Templars has has been changed to
Thursday evening Ten were initiated at
the last meeting.
Rev. William Z. Herrick, Pastor of
the Congregational Church, spoke in the
Town Hall on Monday evening last on
the subject of temperance.
Joseph Smith was the second repre-
sentative from the town of Clarendon in
1880. He also represented the town in
1881 aud also in 1888.
DANNY voted a tag Of so cents on the
dollar
Daniel Sherman was the delegate to
by in the conventions of 1871 and 1898.
-Fairhaver. had $50 inhabitants in
1891.
-Fairhaven has 81 dogs
-Hubbardton votes a town tag of Sol
cents on the dollrr.
The appraisal OF real estate in Hub
bardton in 1870 was $153,486.
The amount of taxable acres in the
town of Ira is 11,152.
-Cephas Carpenter was town clerk in
Ira from 1899 to 1919, 81 years
-Mendon voted TAX of 100 cents on
the dollar
The appraisal of personal property in
Mendon in 1870 was S13,179
A town tax of sixty cents on the dol
lar was voted in Middletown.
The list for State taxes in Middle
town is $2,8O142.
C. w Priest was elected constable of
Mt. Holly at the annual meeting on Tues
day last. The name of this officer was
not reported to 1ls in the list published on
Wednesday.
Mount Holly has one insane pauper
in the asylum at Brattleboro.
The town tax of Mount Tabor the
present year is one hundred cents on the
dollar.
mi
lied March Is, 1888
An interesting account of the silver
wedding of Daniel Folger, Esq, which
took place at Pawlet recently was receiv-
ed too late to be published in this weeks
HERALD. It will appear next week.
-Pawlet town tax is 40 cents on the
dollar. #-
Daniel Cushman was elected first
constable of the town of Pawlet on Toes.
day last, died the next morning We'd
nesday.N
Tho wife OF Jerome B. Bromley of
Pawlet, one of the Assistant Judges of the
Rutland County Court, is dangerously i'll
Que hAs DSoh al Ausalio soI SonS J 0aAc'
The first town clerk of Pittsfeld was
Thomns Hodgkin in 1898.
No Judge of the Rutland County
Court has resided in Pittsfeld
-Pittsford voted it's annual town
meeting on Tuesday tax of fifty cents
on the dollar.
Albert Buck was the first white male
child born in Pittsford
The Good Templars of Poultney gave
Neck Tie Party at Joslin Hall on Mon
day evening last. 1t was an interesting
and successful affair.
Julius J.. Stowe, Esq, of Hampton,
n. Y, has purchased dwelling house in
the village of Poultney, and is about to
make it his permanent residence.
The voters of Rutland should not
forget the annual town meeting takes
place at West Rutland on Monday next
at 10 o'clock, a. m.
Israel Smith of Rutland, held the
Office of Governor but one year. He earn
estly urged in bis annual message, the
present penitentiary system Of the State
and secured its adoption.
Sherburne voted tax Of one hundred
cents on the dollar for town purposes, and
fifty cents for the highways.
More money was paid to the residents
of the town of Sherburne last year for
bounty on bears than 70 any other town
in the State.
The total town debt Of Shrewsbury
is SIS, 1887.