Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-09-06
Vermont.

The principal agricultural fairs &C.
cur this season as follows: State, st.
Adams, Sept. 1912; Chittenden
county, Essex Junction, Oct. is /;
Caledonia county, St. Johnshury,
Sept. 1913; Orange county, Brad
ford, Sep. 1926; Lamoille county,
Sept. 1920; Franklin county, Shell
don, Sept. 14-16; Rutland county,
Rutland, Sept. 40; Orleans county,
Barton, sept. "a, 25; Windsor coun.
ty, Woodstock, Sept. 24-26; Black
River Valley Agricultural Society,
Perkisville, Sept. II, IS; Connecticut
River Valley, Claremont, 25, 26; Pa
irons, Proctorsville ard Ludlow, Sept.
1920.
The house of B. D. Harris of Brat
tleboro' was entered between the
hours of 9 and 10 p. M. on Tuesday
and robbed of $500 worth Of silver
and jewelry.
Brattleboro' Academy commenced
the year Wedn esday, under favorable
auspices. G. E, Blake, the former
Principal, continues with the school.
Vernont's fat woman, Mrs. Albert
Smith Of Rochester, died recently, her
weight being over 400 pounds, and
the coffin in which she was buried at
Saxton's River was as wide as a COM
mon express wagon.
Plucky Woodstock women have set
to work to raise money for public
library without soliciting subscription,
and law party with which they stated
their enterprise the other afternoon,
realized about $50 for them.
Hogs Back Mountain in Bristol
has on its summit curiosity in the
form of a double rocking boulder, or
two boulders, one on the top of the
other, both of which can be made to
rock. The largest one weighs about
Is or 20 tons, and the other about six
or eight tons. 1t is said that there
was once third boulder upon the top
of the second one, but that it was
thrown down by some boys.
The St. Albans butter market was
quiet on Tuesday, with prices ranging
from 10 to Is cents per pound.
A man at Castleton 80 years Of age,
is the father of sixteen children, nIne
of them living; grandfather of thirty
five children, all alive and well, and
great grandfather to five great grand
children, all living,
Ephraim Tayler was found dead in
his he'd at Guilford on Sunday morn
ing,
Judge Poland Of Vernon who still
affects the old style blue dress Goa;
and brass buttons, was in Saratoga
the other day, and gentleman mis-.
took him for policeman and came up
and addressed him as "of1icer."
Bellows Falls, Aug. %. L. P
Moody, cashier of the Fall Mountain
Paper Company here, received to-day
telegram informing him of the deatl
of his son, Fred L., in New Orleans
from yellow fever. Fred was a jewelcl
there and we'll known here.
hyde Park, Aug, % Stephen E.
Rowell was last night caught in &
threshing machine and his right arm
crushed, necessitating amputation at
the elbow. The patients nervous sys
tenn was severely shocked, but he will
probably survive.
Sanford Lee, Jericho's Constable
and Collector, is said to have decamp
ed with $1,000 of State taxes, and The
State Treasurer has sued the town
A house at st. Adams, owned by
George W. Shattuck and occupied by
Ed. Brooks, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday night. Mr. Shattuck hac
$500 insurance on the building. Mr.
Brooks lost about half of his house
hold effects insured.
Mrs. Lombard of West Randolph
has among her many fine Towering
plants wonderful nlght-bloomins
cereus. The plant is now eight years
old, when it was three years old it bor'
its first blossoms, two in number
and each year increased the number
last year bringing nine to maturity
four opening in one evening, but on
Sunday evening last it produced nine
teen blossoms and on the next evening