Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-30
the hope is that the interest will be kept

the hope is that the interest will be kept
up and much good be done.
The only hotel now open is the Val
ley Hotel, kept by /. Doble. Rumor
has it that the Valley Hotel is sold to
Alonzo Gates, who is soon to take pos
session The Montvert will be open
again in the spring, and then again will
be life and animation in our place. The
spring enterprise will be a success-mark
NV word on that ETHAN.
GRANVILLE.
The annual meeting of the Wash
ington County Agricultural Society was
held Wednesday. The Hon. Milo In
galsby was elected president, Russell w.
Pratt, secretary, and VIM. M. Holmes
treasurer Mr.. Ingalsby is also presi-
dent of the State Agricultural Society.
Warren H. Brown, prominent |
lawyer of Hartford, and clerk OF the |
Board OF Supervisors for the three past |
years, died on the 10Th.
-Ruel Pember, Justice of the Peace |
in Granville for twenty years, died Janu-
airy 20.
A few days since the chimney of
Mr.. r. Neil's house caught fire. 1t re-
suited in getting up quite little excite
ment, but no damage was done.
The measles are progressing slowly
towards this section. Their arrival is
expected daily.
One day last week Mr.. Wesley Paris
fell from load of hay and sustained
severe injury.
Thursday, January 10Th, the Metho-
dists had a donation for the benefit OF
their pastor, Rev. John Bennett. 1t was
held in two places, the older ones going
to the residence of Mr.. Charles CongdOn
and the younger ones to the hotel Over
eighty dollars was realized at the two
places.
Mr.. S. L. Griffith has now on his
lumber and coal job seventy men en-
ployed and thirty teams. Z. F. W.
CAvENDIsH.
The ladies of the First Universalist
Society, in Cavendish, held their annual
festival at the Eagle Hotel, in Proctors-
vile, last Thursday evening, Jan. 23d
The crowd was immense. Three hun
dred and fifty-two hall tickets were sold.
HoIden's band discoursed most excellent
music. The address of welcome was
given by Rev. G.. S. Guernsey. The
supper and entertainments, furnished by
the ladies, were of superior style and
quality, and richly enjoyed. The net
profits were $227.66.
LUDLOW.
The spring term of Black River
Academy commences February Goth,
1873, and continues eleven weeks.
vERGENNEs.
-Messrs. Hayes & Wright are busily
engaged on their boarding house, on the
west side of the river, and from present
appearances it will be finished early in
the spring. 1t will be large and roomy
| and will accommodate a large number
of boarders.
C. T. Dimmick has just returned
from Virginia and has rented the photo
graph gallery formerly occupied by j.
II. Stearns.
The factories are nearly all running
three-quarter time, as business is rather
slack BLACK.
THE Snow SroRM.-The Fridays of
January, 1878, will be memorable in
meteorological history. Three weeks
ago-the first Friday of the month";
thunder storm commenced in England
and, passing over the Atlantic, startled
the people of Rutland, about or soon af-
ter midnight of Saturday. The Friday
of the next week was remarkable for its
intense cold, and last week the rain
poured down as though the fountains of
the great deep were broken up, over
flowing rivers, inundating the land,
sweeping away buildings and washing
out railroad beds. Yesterday, the wealth
er passed over to the other extreme. !
/ The snow storm, commencing in the
West and announced in our telegraphic
| reports, yesterday morning, ''as a foot
deep" at indianapolis, "a terrible snow
and wind" at Milwaukee, ''the severest
storm of the season" at st. Louis, and
1.-The most violent snow storm of the
winter" at Toledo reached Rutland at
about two o'clock in the morning of
Friday. The fall, at first, was light and
dry, and was anything but a Fremont
ton of what was to come. But having
commenced, it increased in intensity
during the early hours of the morning
and, with short cessations in the fore
noon, during the day and evening up to
the hour Of the present writing. How
much snow has actually fallen, we have
no means of accurately measuring. The
estimates of different persons will, of
course, vary, but from ten inches to a
foot would probably be a correct state
ment. We can safely say that 1--WE are
experiencing the severest storm of the
season" Fortunately, thus far, there
has been no wind and consequently the
roads are not blockaded so as to serious
ly impede travel. The trains on the
! several railroads were more or less de-
layed, but not to the extent that might
have been anticipated from such heavy
fall of snow.