Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-04-18
SILVER LAKE.


noon at the town hall last Sunday.
Altho' the roads are mostly impossible
with teams a fair number came out on
foot The next service will be May 9th at
$50 a. m.
The body of Mrs. q. W. Welch, late of
Boston, was brought to Barnard for burial
in the Central cemetery Monday, the 18th.
Mrs. WEIGH was a sister of our townsman,
George Brown, Esq, and is inferred in the
family lot beside her father and mother.
Rev. L. P. Fairbanks preached his fare
well sermon at the NJ. +. church before
going to Vermont conference Sunday, the
| 14th. All wish that he might be returned.
| His Iabors the past year have been very
successful, perhaps more than any prede-
cessor for quarter of century. The at
/ tendance on Sundays has increased to
noticeable extent. Whoever takes the
charge next season will find work in filling
his place.
The noted Bradlaugh pacing mare,
/ Bundle Bee. is sold and viii go to Massa-
chusetts, where she will meet foes worthy
of her steel. This mare without much
doubt has more speed than any horse ever
raised in Barnard and still her record is
only 237-made by an opponents tire
running off and obliging her to win the
heat. Those who attended the last two
years fairs will recollect her winning
second money number OF times, forcing /
others out in fast time and showing her
capacity for making low record. When
in earnest no horse could reach her head /
ice racing on Silver Lake She often
showed better than 2.10.
Excitement is still on in regard to YER
mont's timber land. lot in Barnard,
formerly owned by Hiram Bellows, pass
ing into the hands of Hon. +. A. Sowles
of st. Adams, son-in-law and executor
OF Mr.. Bellows estate, has recently been
sold to VIM. H. Edmunds, c. ID. Cushing
and Chas. III. Kidder Of Bethel at largely
heaviest timbered lots in town, lying in
the west part, well up on top OF high
range west OF Geo. II. Kellyis place and
south OF the well-known Hayes lot. 1t
would be grand place for steam mill as
the lands on each side are about as heavy.
Not long ago most every man that went
into the lumber business in this part of
Vermont failed; now all are making ,
money.
HISTORICAL.
A letter from the United States sub-treas-
ury to the town clerk asks this informa
ton; "Whatis the shortest distance from !
the Thomas Freeman farm, so-called, in /
Barnard, TO White River Junction also
the approximate height of said farm !
above sea level ~
George H. Cleveland, Esq, who for more !
than IS years has made heights and dis !
tances a study, answers these questions,
distance, 20 miles by nearest road, but by !
air line not Is; height, 1850 feet" Mr.. :
Cleveland, being native Of Hartford and +
a longtime resident Of Barnard adjoining I
this celebrated farm, whose son is now the !
owner and occupant, is good authority for /
and is quite sure the location I
has not changed since 1775.
Some of the Barnard people are wonder
ing about this inquiry and its object.
In the different gazeteers OF Vermont /
they give an account of Thomas Freeman, .
his son, Thomas, and John and William :
Newton hearing the firing of the battle of :
Bunker hill June II, 1775.
Your correspondent, when boy, work. i
ed one season for Lucius Freeman, son of 1
Thomas, who was then alive and fond of :
telling incidents relating to the early set
.lement of Barnard, he being one of the !,
irst that spent winter in town and one =
IF the four who heard this firing.
| well remember his talk about the bat =
lie. He said they were clearing land on !,
hat hot day, going frequently to a spring q,
If water, and when lying upon the ground ii
could distinctly hear the rum r
bling noise. II gave them some alarm, but /,
when news came of the great battle it was ~
'asily accounted for, as in no other in Il
tance while drinking at this spring or I,
With ears to the ground did they ever hear 4
he same noise. =;
We sometimes fear that scientists will "
how that sound could not be carried 100 a
niles to an elevation Of 1850 feet. II would n
,e deplorable If quiet, modest, peaceful r.
Barnard should be robbed OF its most in :,
eresting historical event after calling it -
ecure 1876 years. =, =,
MAPLE SUGAR. q,
No other branch Of farming industry h
las improved in late years like the making hi
4 maple sugar. We can well remember W
When trees were tapped by what was r
allied boxing, which was done with an