Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-07-25
state of Vermont.
xsws Condensed and Rewritten
i've for Our Readers.


IT, 4S,,eenty-four persons took the civil
ice examinations at Newport last
week t,,-...
h.' been filed by Payson /. Hawkins,
u Tilmwood cemetery in Mortified has
,.an enlarged by the purchase OF three
acres Of land.
The new directory of Barre city and
Fast Barre shows population in the
I'M Of about 10000.
The number registered in the classes
:. he Oueen City Park summer school
bst week was fifty.
meter system of water service will
an into effect Oct. at all the stone
SoIisbing mills in Barre.
With the exception of one case OF
5phtheria Montpelier is entirely free
T6m contagious disease.
The work OF putting the New Eng
land telephone wires under ground
Ind begun in Burlington.
Visitors to Lake Mansfield report
that the extreme heat has cleared the
famous ice cellar OF ice.
Among the plays now booking at
New England theatres for next season
ia drama entitled vermont"
The Barre police have been instruct
ain the board of aldermen to stop all
sunday picnics within the city limits.
The state board Of railroad commits
sloners began its annual inspection
crilroads July %, starting with the
NJ Central Vermont.
dog went mad at Enosburg Falls
NJ AZ week Monday. Its owner clapped
INTO box stall in the barn, went for
Fl hi, gan and shot it.
Al Ithaca, n. T., mechanical engi-
Fl reer declares Burlington to be the finest
II Citv he has ever seen as regards archi-
4 lecture and streets.
Norwich university expects to be
4 represented on the gridiron next fall
by ihe best football team II ever had.
/ Pratt Of Bowdoin win be the coach.
The Rutland firm. Bassett 4 Perkins,
i one OF the first in Vermont 10 adopt
the custom OF putting straw hats on
the heads Of their work horses during
the hot weather
One of the coolest places in Vermont
is said to be the peak of Mount Kill
| irgton where last week Sunday even
| inc fire had to be kindled 10 keep the
| hotel quests caufortablp
The tennis courts OF the Waubana-
| kee Golf club in Burlington are said to
| be TIE finest in the state. Trap shoot
Ing and archery are the next sports to
be introduced by the club.
Over the grave of horse which he
bad owned p years, George NJ. Serb
1er Of Montpelier viii place marble
head,tOne bearing the inscription,
Here Lies Serbs Old Horse"
W. t. Terrill of Montpelier and his
brother Of Jericho made a record as
l'hermen a few days ago. They lished
for one day in Stowe and secured $50
nout which weighed n pounds.
The Old Green Mountain Home Is
the name Of a new piece OF music
which is becoming popular. The words
are by Margaret Holmes Francisco OF
Rutland ana the music by John Harry
Enges.
The yield of blueberries this year Is
uncOmmonly large and the fruit Is al
most drug in the market. Bushels
Of the berries are picked daily on the
hlgh ridges of Bald mountain and
Mount Anthony, near Bennington.
The force OF men at work on the new
gymnasium AT the University of Yer
mont is to be increased. a quantity /
q new material has arrived and Il i
hoped to have the structure completed (
before the opening of the college year /
Repeated tests show the water from
lne streams in Mendon, which supply
lle city OF Rutland, TO be full OF ~
mold germs. In spite of this fact,
however, il is said that there is almost
no typhoid fever in Rutland at present. /
Mrs. Polly ID. Scribner, the Oldest
millner in the United States. who died 4
: lew weeks ago at the age OF - years /
setequeathed to Heaton hospital, OF 4
montpelier 81 200. to Bethany church
500.
uhas. w. Mussey continues TO im-
prove in health ut the city hospital ana
I !, able to see members of his family
ne has regained several of the nifty
pounds Of flesh lost from the time oil
u, Imprisonment until his removal to
tle hospital.
Business in various parts OF the state
vas suspended last week on account Of
1ae Intense heat. In Barre Merton |
= Eastman, a trackman employed on the
montpelier x Wells River railroad.
ana John Mcleod. a quarryman, sur
ieiea severe sunstrokes.
g., Mayor Hawley has instructed the
burlington companies to deliver, dur
ing The heated term, ice in reasonable
glAntitles to the poor people q INC
NV who are i'll and unable to buy II.
Iae delivery VIII be made upon the
written order of the physician attend
.lg or on application to the overseer Of
ne poor.
The prize OF ten dollars offered by the
olslon Congregationalist for the best
essay hV a layfnan ~, the best way TO Il