Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-03-17

In town Wednesday.
Grant Cobb has moved from w. F.
Davis to Woodstock.
Alton Badger is working for Stephen
Hoar during the sugar season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Savage of Bethel
are guests of Mr. and Mrs e. S.Putnam's.
Rev. e. A. Reed will speak at the Uni
versalist church next Sunday at $50 p. m
Mr.. and Mrs. Burke and Mrs. Miller re-
turned from their sleighlng trip Satur-
day.
Henry Cheney of Rutland, son of the
late Moses Cheney, spent last week In
town.
Mrs. Alfred Abbott O fRutland is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. O. W.
Hathorn.
Miss Alice Reagan, who has taught
school in Shoreham for several years, is
home for a vacation.
Isaiah Benson of West Woodstock was
in town Friday, buying cattle of w. f.
Davis anc John Jewett.
@. f. Wheat is moving from the Moses
Cheney farm to that Of Amasa Bowen,
which he has lately purchased.
Miss Lucy Hammond is visiting friends
in Woodstock. From tbere she will go to
Putnam, Conn, for several weeks.
While working in the woods last Fri
day James Ward was so unfortunate as to
have a log roll upon his foot, crushing it
badly.
Edward M. Barney OF Tufts college, a
former pastor OF the UDiversalist church
OF mi place, paid a flying visit to his
many friends the early part OF last week.
Rev. l.. L Beeman gave an interesting
and talented discourse from John 3: l7,at
the Methodist church last Sunday. Mr..
BeemaD will retire from his present Of
fee at the end of the year.
Messrs. Spear and Wilson Of Woodstock
propose putting in a separator here, pro-
viding they can have sufficient encourage
ment to warrant the outlay. Many OF our
farmers are interested and We are sure Ii
will be a success.
Frank Chase started for California last
Thursday, accompanied by his sister. Miss
Lille Chase, who will go as far as Fair
field, N. Y, where she will visit her sis
ter, Mrs. r.. G.. Ashworth. After a six
months stay in California, Frank will go
on to Corea, with the intention of re-
naming several years.
Edmund PIERCE, who formerly owned
and lived upon the farm OF H. A. Eastman,
was the largest and best maple sugar
manufactures in his day that Barnard
could boast of. So much SO that he easily
bDt tuO uhnC VI OuEdI IClftc. Ilt maui
the flow OF maple sap a study to such an
extent that his predictions Of a sugar sea-
son were looked upon with interest. He
used to say, 'Give US a long thaw in the
beginning, let the trees all be warmed,
DOT and branch, then freeze, and you may
depend upon a grand season." IL this
prophecy proves true, surely we are in 1t
this year.
ID. s. Phillips OF Bethel has bought a
two-year-old pacing flly, by Bradlaugb,
that has one of the best prospects of any
raised in Barnard. She is a dark chestnut
and stands l5 hands now, will be two
years old next August, is a natural PAGER
and sometime will go fast. Her dam is
the chestnut, fast pacing mare, Daisy sired
by DAME Lambert. She is owned by Geo.
|. Abbott, merchant, OF Bethel and but
for an accident on Mystic track would
have had a low record. Daisy has another
colt by Bradlaugh that will DO a year old
next August. Mr.. Phillips is to be con-
graduated as the owner OF the fine two
year-old.
At a meeting in New York last Februa-
ry of the so-called Turf Congress, some
radical changes iE the rules to govern
race tracks which are under the jurisdic-
ton OF the National association were
made and passed with so much haste and
so little Consideration that loud com
plants ere coming in from all parts of the
country. Tit idea OF 1.-TWO or three men
making rules to be applied to $50 associs-
tions with no change for two years has an
unsayory look. Probably not one in
twenty OF the different tracks hsd any
knowledge OF the change, but bad sent on
their proxy to some designing wire work
err, who had written a fiattering letter and
enclosed a stamped envelope. Over 300
proxies were thus procured and an easy
victory was realized. Dur old friend and
townsman, DIR. N. p. Wood OF Mortified,
Mass, represented the Brattleboro track
as a delegate, and had the manliness to
stand up and argue against such hasty
legislation. But what was the use. The
doctor had one vote and close to him was
a man with more than one hundred. To
over a victory obtained in his way
and then brag That 1900 will be the earli-
est time when the members can help
themselves is a tTavesty on justice. Had
all the tracks acted like Brattleboro and
sent delegates with understanding and
enough to act, we shouid have
had the voice OF the members and would
have submitted quietly to the majority.
Already the perpetrators of this combine
are uneasy and there is strong talk OF
a special session to repeal some OF
the most dangerous attachments.
A. w. Thomson, who owns the Major
farm and was a former resi-
e n OF Barnard, has q long. convincing
article published in the Turf, Field and
in regard to the paternity of the
horse Ethan Allen. II seems like thresh-
ing old straw, but MIR. Thomson's five-
proof will bear the closest scruti-
ny, and TO many it ill be given credence
rs truth, and the sire OF Ethan Allen will
be thought to be Flying Morgan and not
Hawk. Those who feel an interest
should get the Feb. 18th paper and decide
or themselves. Although Ethan was
loaled in Ticonderoga, N. Y, yet we
considered him a Vermont horse
one of the best that ever lived. He
was an ideal ~trotter, and his free
Irictionless gait was the admiration of all
good horsemen. His name and fame have
every state in the Union and will
De remembered for ages to come. 1t is the
horse that we keep fresh in mind and not
owner or driver. A noted horse lives
n history long after his breeder or owner
5 lost and forgotten. Persons who have
leen Star Pointer in his races will describe
he horse with a great deal of enthusiasm, /,
ell you OF his conformation and describe
lis great speed, but would be unable to
ell who bred him or where and by whom
le was owned. The name of Ioe pafchen