Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-05-19
NEWS In TOWNS ABOUT


home.
Stephen Hoar was in st. Adams on bust.
ness last week.
Alfred Abbott was in Burlington on
business recently.
R. G. Guernsey and son OF Windsor were
in town Saturday.
Rev. E. R. Davenport preached at the
M. e. church Sunday.
Lawyer Southgate and Sheriff Thomas
We're in town Thursday.
Mrs. Chas. Lewis is suffering from Sc
we're attack of rheumatism.
3. F. Foster was in Rutland last week
selling baskets of his own make.
Mrs. Flora Reed OF West Lebanon, N.
H., is visiting at j. r. Cham beriin's.
Albert Stearns and May spaulding OF
Bethel were in town day last week.
W. F. Davis attended the Sunday
School association at Bethel Saturday.
Anna Coughlin has. returned to Wood
stock, where she will resume work at the
College Hill House.
The boiler, engine and machinery for
the creamery have arrived and will soon
be in working order.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. @. Cady OF Bethel and
Mrs. Wilmot of Mortified were at the
Silver Lake House Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. Lucian Richmond attend
ed the funeral OF Mrs. John Walker at
East Barnard on Friday last.
Prof. Emerson and family OF Boston
recently passed through here on a car
rage drive, stopping at the Silver Lake
House.
Rev. e. A. Reed will address the q. A.
r. veterans in the Universalist church
Sunday, May 18th, at 2 p. m. All the old
soldiers are requested TO he present.
Mrs. John Walker, wife OF a prominent
farmer in East Barnard, died May 18th.
The funeral was May ID, Rev. j. f. SIM
mons OF Woodstock officiating. Burial
was in East Barnard cemetery.
Lieut.. e. A. shuttlesworth, 18th Infan.
try, U. 8. A., who has been stationed In
Arizona for the past three years, has been
ordered to Jefferson barracks, Missouri.
Ed is a Barnard boy, raised In the noted
war district, No. II, Chateaugay.
Leo. d. Reagan is breaking colts for W.
f. Davis and among them Is Brandy by
Bradlaugh, own brother to the fast pacing
mare, Brandoline, once owned by Leo.
Their dam was the well-known PAGER,
Topsy, by Darkey, S25, the sire OF Hiland
Grey. Brandy should prove success.
Hay is plenty and prices low. There
was hardly ever so much old hay left In
the barns and seldom does grass look so
well at this time OF year. Some farmers
will have to build more barns or stack the
coming crop. Potatoes are scarce and go
quickly at one dollar per bushel. Most
fields are already planted and the first
early ones will bring the full price. Many
farmers have caught the true secret OF
success in having their products in mar
ket while prices are high and the demand
good.
II is requested that all interested in the
decoration of the soldiers graves meet at
the town hall Monday, May 30, at l
O'Clock p. m, for the purpose of making
wreaths and bouquets. The children are
especially requested to bring flowers for
that purpose. When the flowers are ar
ranged the children will march TO the
cemetery and decorate the graves, after
which they will return to the hall, where
there will b. singing and few brief ad-
dresses. Ice cream and cake will be on
sale Dy the ladies OF the Unlversalist So
ciety during the afternoon.
John Hewitt, G. p. Tarbell and Others
have leased the South Royalton Driving
park and intend to hold race meeting in
July. Whatever these men advertise will
be carried out. South Royalton has a
mand liberal patronage. How easy it is
for Barnard to slide down to other towns
and lend q helping hand in their enter
prises In fact we have to 60 out OF town
to trot our horses, for there are no level,
smooth roads to drive on in town. 1t is
easy enough to raise good colts here, but
no place to train them for races. Should
a man buy one of our colts which has
speed, he can be assured that II Is natural
and not made.
The trotting and pacing rules OF the
National Congress as made last February
in New York are not satisfactory to the
whole country, as shown by the report OF
the American association, which held its
meeting in Chicago this month. The
American is now much the largest associ-
alton and numbers about eight hundred
members, scattered over 30 states. II is
exceedingly well managed by good and
horsemen who have had prac-
tical experience. They report assets
to 81, 1886 81, with liabilities OF
only S442 30. This association held its
fifth biennial congress in Chicago May Sd,
with 208 members present, and the new
rules of the National we're proposed for
adoption. The rule for Earring horses
wearing hopples, to start in races after
Jan. /, 1893, on grounds of members, and
the rule requiring drivers to obtain a
license before performing over tracks OF
members was voted down by ballot OF 20i
to 2. This almost unanimous decision
must be looked upon as direct cut to the
few men who sought notoriety in the
and adoption of rules SO OBJ
noxious to majority of horsemen, but
pleasing to the National Trotting associa-
tion, or few breeders who virtually con-
troll it.
GOOD ROADS.
The New Hampshire Board OF Agricul-
ture is making an effort to get farmers
more interested in having good roads; but
II their laws are like ours, it must be up
hill business, for 1t is poor encouragement
to vote more highway taxes when they
have no voice in the expenditure, even on
the road leading through their own lands,
but are subject TO the whims and caprices
Of one man who, to satisfy bis revengeful
feelings or bis friends, neglects to make
good use of the money or sometimes neg
lecis the road entirely over which heavy
taxpayers are obliged to travel all the sea-
son.
In oIden times. when farmers had the
care Of their own roads, the repairs were
made in the spring and all got the benefit
Of smooth highway through the summer.
Now in many districts the commissioner
ia rof h1a IN do the work hirnaolf unfil