Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-02-07
NEWS INTOWNS ABOUT.
SILVER LAKE.

One whole week and not single race to
,anort The horses with drivers and
spectators are taking rest. Wlthou''
doubt the sport will be continued Win
greater zeal this week.
Bonnie Bell an elegant two-year- oln
Brsdlsugh FLY, is owned oy fraaK 5.yIes
and handled this winter for the 1rst time
nv leo d. Reagan. She IS good size,
handsome. chestnut in color, with one
front leg white nearly to the knee, gentle
Tor q child TO handle, but when walked up
has ali the nerve Of a Maud 5. She is
natural, smooth going PAGER, without
straps or boots, and is the fastest Two
year-old ever raised In Barnard or ever on
this ice, Leo let her pace furiong
Saturday in II IL seconds, 20 gait,
making no particular effort.
Elisha Flower drives a chestnut mare
sired by Moxey that is good locker ana
can pace fast.
BYRON o. Hathorn has a three-year-
Bradlaugh, handsome bay geldipg pscer,
no handling but shows well, looks IKE a
prospect Mr. HathorD refused sl5o casn
for him a few days ago, but nothing
under $50 will take him.
A letter from a friend in minneapolis
enclosed clipping from 81. Psul paper
giving a long account OF ice racing in
which all records we're broken. One half
mile heat was covered in one minute ana
one second, none as fast ever hearn OF
beforey Judge Howard says: at was
either down hill with the wind blowing
gale at his back, or a Barnard man wrote
the article"
Should any stranger visit Silver Lake
ice meeting and see large ,portly- looking
gentleman about the size OF Jim Jenries,
wearing a new tifty.dollar fur overcoat,
walking about with commanding
presence as though he owned the premises,
taH nnffQQ for this 1Q
Judge Howard.
BETHEL FAIR.
Our old, esteemed friend and genial
horseman, +. Kittredge, has taken leap
up the ladder OF fame, that would make
many men dizzy. From a swipe to
presidents chair is climbing like cleo
tricty. To some, il Is a shock, but to Us
no surprise. Knowing the man, we
expected IL.
Hand bills in large type have been
circulated for a grand meeting OF Blue
| Light Driving Club on the ice this week
This news Is encouraging and will show
that there is much life, enterprise and
public spirit still in Bethel. We are
looking for the germ of expansion TO
increase until the encircling arms OF this
cub take into its fold Barnard, Stock
bridge, Pittsfeld, Rochester, Hancock,
Randolph, Braintree, RoyaltoD, Sharon,
Pomfret, and other towns, and that 1t
will be the beginning OF great agricul-
tural society, such as the community
demands. Buy the old fair ground, ut 1t
up for an exhibition and dedicate 1t July
a. 1901. Let history repeat itself and show
a net profit on that day OF Sl4OO. Why
not No such location on this side OF
the Green Mountains and no better
ground for the exhibition. Eighteen
miles along the banks OF White River can
80 - .1u mi
Within radius OF ten miles are many
rich stock farms, including some OF the
best In Vermont, which are anxious Tor
good place to exhibit their products. Ii
is an opportunity too good to be lost, but
harmony and unison In feeling is the one
great object, to obtain which Bethel must
use her best efforts to accomplish. Most
OF the old pessimists and cold hearted
men who helped sink the former society
are dead. Their places are filed with
younger blood. These new men are
more wide awake, enterprising and as
general thing better farmers. just the
material for thriving organization. Let
the Driving Club be the nucleus. Let 1t
be the start which will eliminate in
making Bethel, at least one week In the
year, the Mecca Of all the population for
miles around.
MARTIN KELLOGG.
Through the politeness OF Scion ID.
Putnam, the able North Barnard CORE
spondent, was shown two letters written
some years ago by Martin Kellogg OF
Norwalk, Ohio. One OF these letters was
written when the writer lacked but few
months OF being 100 years old, and the
other at almost 102. The greatest interest
conferred In the style OF penmanship and
composition. There are four pages OF
each and they can be read about like
print, evidently written without any
effort for an exhibition and without the
aid OF glasses, although he admits in the
last letter that he doesn't see quite as
we'll, but has no use for spectacles.
II Is safe TO say that these letters cannot
be equalled, as they show the writer's
mental faculties unimpaired at the age Of
102 years.
Mr.. Kellogg was one OF the early settlers
from Vermont to Ohio, and Will be
/ rauaana hQrQd Qnmq of the older