Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-05-23
SILVER LAKE.

Daniel HufnaII Of teichNule, Chafle
c Downer of Sharon and e W. Tyson o
STAFFORD were visitors here last week.
a Pearl Chamberlin has sold his team o
heavy work horses to c. o. Hopkins, ownel
and occupant of the noted John Robinson
farm on Royalton hill. Mr.. Hopkins
recently came here from Somerville, Mass.
and has selected a good farm in one of tbs
best Vermont neighborhoods. His ven
, ture will, without doubt, prove a success
REAL ESTATE.
Frank II. Thayer has sold one hundred
acres OF timber land, situated in the south
western part OF Barnard, to the Bellows
Falls Pulp Co. This land is known as the
| Richmond lot and WAS conveyed TO Henry
: A. Thayer by l.. e. Richmond. Mr.Thayer
cut all the old growth spruce and some OF
the hard wood, but new crop of various
kinds, which are large enough for pulp,
has grown up.
HORSE GOSSIP.
At recent meeting of the Board of
Review held at Murray Hill in New York,
a ruling of importance was made by the
Board against Vance Nichols of Cleveland,
Ohio.
1t appears that Mr.. Nichols bought at
public sale the chestnut gelding, Arch w,
with a supposed record OF 2.19A. Soon
| finding out that he had lots of speed and
wishing TO campaign through the season
| honest and square, be enquired OF j. Ill.
Steiner, secretary OF the American Assoc
citation, who assured him the record was
right 2.19I, according the Year Book, and
also referred him to the association in
| Alabama where the horse received it,
/ Mr. Nichols wrote the society, getting an
answer from its president that Arch WIS
record by their books was 2.l94 and no
| less Feeling sure that all was right, he
made an entry in the 2.20 class through
i : bs 4 pf TQQ1 win III GD
and getting a record of 2.114
Now it turns out and is automatically
| proven that one cf Arch WIS heats down
| IN Alabama was in 2.16B, but the accom-
modating judges made it 49, so as 10 keep
him in the 20 class. The Board rules that
| Mr. Nichols shall return all his winnings
and be suspended, with the horse, until
said order Is complied with. This Mr..
Nichols positively refuses to do, as he
made the entry innocent of deceit and
according TO official record.
We are not obliged to go far from home
to see such tricks enacted at our county
| fairs.
Strangers from other states. who are
visitors out of curiosity, are asked by the
officers to officiate as judges and consider
ing it a compliment they accept. These
men may have a fairly decent reputation
at home, but they go into the stand and
act deliberate lie.
! HOW We'll i remember q IllflE Wntu the J.
late Prosper Merrill was serving as one OF /
the Judges at a Woodstock fair, he was |
asked to falsify a record in order to keep |
horse in a certain class. Mr.. Merrillis 1
reply was, if they (meaning the associa- !
tom want me to be honest, / will stay, /
but il not they have no further use for |
my services and / will go down. More /
such men are needed.
II is interesting to know how many
years good brood mare will continue her
breeding il properly cared for.
Primrose. the most wonderful of all I
brood mares, was sired by Alexander
A bdallah, by Rysdyke Hambletonian.
She lived to be rs and produced 20 living
foals, 19 i'm 20 consecutive years. Six OF
the twenty produced made standard
trotting records. Probably her best colt
was the stallion, Princess by Woodford
Mambrino. Princess is the sire of 81
standard performers, including some of
the fastest on the turf; thirty-nine sons
have sired III and Al daughters have
produced 81 performers.
Waterwitch, by Pilot, lived to be 2S and
produced 19 living colts and two dead
ones. Six became standard performers.
Miss Russell lived to be 80 and produced
Is living foals, seven of which went in the
list.
Green Mountain Maid, by Henry Clay,
lived to be 26 and produced IS colts, nine
Di which DtShHlG hiAIudIu DA ptFIuTIldntG. /,
Beautiful Bells, by The Moor, clay
horse, produced IS colts and is still living
at 20.
Alma Mater lived to be Is and produced !
l6 colts, half OF which went into the list. !
Don't give up the old mare until after !
she is 25, and don't stop her breeding !
every year unless you are obliged to. She :
will work enough to pay her keeping, !
leaving the colts clear profit. :
A rumor is in circulation that the !
greatest horse race of 1901 will be the fast i
brigade of hoppled pacers-Prince Alert, I
..02, Anaconda, 2.025, Coney, 2.029, Frank
Bogash, 2.034, Chehalis, 2.02b, Indiana. i
,.0I4 six OF the best horses in the world !
hat go with two sets of harnesses. 1t q
would pay long journey of miles to see
he fastest time ever recorded in race and
he largest crowd ever assembled to
witness an exhibition Of this kind. The
lorses are not all afraid of each other
Prince Alert, Anaconda and Bogash do
lot even except any other living horse.
80 one is afraid OF hopples now, the timid
having retired for rest.
NORTH END.
Commencing at the top OF the Hill this
de of Bethel village, my memory OF the
I'D residents more than fifty years ago,
toing south, were the Robinsons. Uncle
i'm, John and Dick; Leland Horton.
loring Clark, the Browns, Mark and
ock, Harry Durham; then we come to
Barnard line where Deacon Cyrus Paige
ived many years and where his son,
Willis r.. Paige, now resides.
Cyrus Paige was deacon Of the old
society in Barnard for
many years and / have often wondered
hat they went almost into Royalton to
md man orthdoxical enough to be head
nd front of that grand old church.
Passing on south We come to the Lewis
Eben and Aunt Polly
he Chamberlins- Clark and Lot, who
ucceeded their fathers, Bill and 10. on
be same farms; Jasper Clark with his
shop; Elders Down, Spear and
Aurin Cox, Nat Stevens; the
riginal and first Methodist church in all
bis section of Vermont and its rolls once
ounted 500 members; next is the now
eautiful North End cemetery, and then
'e come to Lewis Larnard, the tallest
ian in Barnard, except one, Lewis, his
on.
A little off was George Lewis, whose
roverbial tidiness in farming has
in a straight line to his grand
on, Eben NJ. Lewis, the present owner:
hen Simeon Gates, Madison Spauldiug |