Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-03-07
Main street Rutland, Vt" TIL

Main street Rutland, Vt" The last
number was printed November goth,
1894, and was said to have been printed
on paper made of equal proportions of
rags and Eastwood bark.
Mr.. Lyon after disposing of the Far
mers Library, as mentioned below, es-
tablished newspaper, the Gazette we
believe, at Fairhaven and continued it
for some time.
1894, December 9Th, "The Rutland
HERALD Or Vermont Mercury" 'Rut-
land; published on MONDAYS by s. VII
LIAMs & Co., in the MAIN STREET, few
rods North of the State House ="
MOTTO:
SIN the Knowledge and Virtue of the Peo-
pie, the Freedom, the Energy and Per-
manency of the American Government
have their Foundation"
In the first number the PrOprietOrs
say, GAS we have purchased of Mr..
Lyon, Editor of the Farmers Library,
the Printing Office, Apparatus, and
Privileges annexed by law to this Paper
it will, for the future be carried on by the
subscribers with the above title, under
the direction of DR.. WILLIAMS.
The price of the Herald will be nine
St5lEi1gs per annatn, to those to whom
we send the papers ourselves; seUen shil-
H71gs and sjrpe1ace to those who call at
the office and take them; and the low
est prices which are customary in Yer
mont, to those of the posts who take
them in considerable quantities.
Samuel Williams Cat that time Chief
Judge of the County Court, and Rev.
Samuel Williams, LII. d (whO was the
Editor Proprietors. Continued to the
present time, and published by Albert
II. futile.
We append the article from the Aut0-
graph and Remarker:
take this early opportunity of &C
knOwledging receipt of the Weekly HER
AID of the 9Th and 18th inst, in response
to my bespeaking in that quarter, for
which friend Clark will please accept
my thanks. An exchange with the
HERALD now and then will ever be a
desideratum with me on account of its
being the oldest establishment of the
kind in Vermont. | have seen and
known the paper occasionally as it came
out, and along into our parts ever since
| was old enough to read newspapers
Gam now in my 10th year, and my
father had three of them that dated in
October 1895, before | was born, when
it was published by Samuel Williams,
and printed by j. Kirkaldie And
here it is friend Clark, that you must eX-
cure me if | come to the rescue of neigh
Dor Benedict of the Burlington Free
Press, to sustain him in his statement as
to who started the first newspaper at
Rutland Sir, it was Anthony Haswell,
of Bennington, who first started paper
there before Williams had any thing to
do with one To be sure it was not with
the title Just as it is now, as adopted by
Williams, but with that of Herald of
Vermont, or Rutland Courier This |
know for a fact, because | have seen
and looked over a bound file of EN-
shown me by Nathan B. HasWell, late
or Burlington, one of AnthOny's sons,
In which it was expressly stated that 1t
was started there by Haswell as a branch,
or as you may say, a cOlOnized concern
of his. So that think it may be with
propriety set down that the first link or
foundation of the Herald was laid in
that Pioneer start of Haswell's, albeit
the present title Rutland HERALD, was
donned by DR.. Williams. 1t does not
appear that Haswell published his as
he begun it, more than a year or two;
and whether he sold out or not to Will
liams, or that Kirkaldic's was an entire
distinct new affair, is more than pre-
tend to know.