Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-03-21
NEWS IN TOWNS ABOUT,
SILVER LAKE.

SiLNEh LNNIs
Whoever attends service at the NJ. E
church on Sundays viii notice larger con
gregations and more interest than hal
6ee9 manifested for wears. This improved
state of things is largely due to the zeal
GUS efforts and popularity OF the present
pastor. Rev. S. p Fairbanks. 1t is hoped
he will be returned for another year
The honorable selectmen were in session
Tuesday, the 18th, in order to receive anc
approve bonds of town officers. We
never could see the necessity of requiring
a bond from the road commissioner any
more than the school directors. Neither
handle money. but pay their help by
orders on the treasury. As these orders
are all endorsed we fail TO see danger OF
defalcation. We understand the board
agreed with John A. Moore to again have
1.-THE care OF the hearse and with George Il.
Wheelock to have charge of the town hall
Unpaid taxes were transferred from +. s.
Putnam to the new constable, Richard +.
Hoar, with orders to collect the same
forthwith. Delinquents will be timely
warned in order to save them any further
cost.
BARNARD SCHOOLS.
The school board organized with A. G..
Perkins chairman and clerk, Fred W.
Chase again superintendent, who in town
meeting made a verbal report OF the
schools for the past year. 1t was not
elaborate but very comprehensive TO those
who heard it. When finished, the gentle
man from Turkey Hollow rose to a
question of privilege, asked the superin-
tendent, "How long, under the present
! system OF education, must a child attend
school before parents can see improve
ment?" The moderator decided the
question not in order. Turkey Hollow sat
/ convinced thun that
| parents were not in it only to pay the
taxes. The moderator took up the next
article i'm the warning and machine
commenced to grind.
The ten schools of Barnard will soon be
under full steam at a cost Of about 200 per
school. Superintendents always urge
parents and others interested to visit the
schools, and by the registers in some
districts they have responded, but not in
all. The directors names appear but little,
/ no doubt because they cannot afford to
\ give the time. The town would hardly
| find fault for reasonable charges in looking
closely after these expenses. Neither one
of the board would allow private bills TO
run up to 5000 without giving personal
supervision often. Bear in mind, gentle
men, that registers talk.
PASSING OF THE PACING HORSE.
Is he passing Yes, rapidly to the front,
not only as the best race horse but getting
TO be exceedingly popular as a road driver.
A few OF the old school breeders who
would never countenance a PAGER under
any circumstances, are now in perpetual
squirm, calling upon all of a like opinion
to join in a last dying crusade against the
lateral gated horse and persist in asking
the turf congress to bar hopples on all
national tracks as this would deprive
many PAGERS from competing.
10 4 hrag hfneH old a. M pf
will not be considered, as popular opinion
at the present time is so largely in favor of
the side-wheelers that they will be bred
and trained in every way possible TO
satisfy the demand.
All alarm from the deadly hopple seems
to have faded in thin air, as few, il any,
accidents from their use were reported the
past season. Now the old foggies make an
urgent appeal to all their friends in
swelling the entries at Readville, the only
meeting of the grand circuit where the
stops are barred, but it must be uphill
work, as without doubt the PAGER has
come to stay. No class of horses ever
suffered under such past difficulties. /
can easily remember when the State Fair
refused his exhibition and no county
would give one cent for his speed How
changed at the present time. These
societies could hardly exist now with the
PAGER eliminated.
| sometimes think OF the years gone by
when farmers cried out in hot peril
against the use of moving machines and
many agricultural scribblers wrote long
articles for the country press, saying this I,
ungainly continuance would eventually |
destroy the grass crop, if continued in
use. The wheel marks of the machine on
the meadows were pointed out weeks after |
haying was finished, but there was no |
stopping of this enterprise, for popular |
opinion will have its way, and today were |
machinery taken away crops could not be
harvested.
When we think OF Star Pointer. the king
of all speed, 1851, the big black stallion, |
Joe Patchen, the red bay, John r.. Gentry, |
Robert j. and others hardly a second |
behind him, all ready for a race this
season; when we think of the Hamlins |
paying ten thousand for two-year- |
pacing colt; when we see the black |
pacing gelding, Coney, 2.024, a horse that |
goes in hopples, sell at Si100, and before /
and the bay gelding, Anaconda, 2.025, sell |
at auction for $500, and other fast PAGERS,
in and out of hopples, at almost fabulous i
prices; when we know that Frank 1
Bogash, 2.03}, Prince Alert, 2.03B, both /
PAGERS going IN hopples, held at such high !
figures, ready this season TO beat their !
records, then again ! say the PAGER is still |
passing to the front.
As sample of the rapid rise in PAGERS
value take the black gelding, Coney, 2.023,
sold as a colt for 800 and after his first
out Mr.. Butler paid $500, sent him to
trainer, and last summer he won 5000,
and then to the auction block where he
brought sil00. j. II. Bronson of Hartford.
Conn.,, is now the owner and Dickerson
will race him this season.
Anaconda, the pacing gelding, 2.O23, is
owned by +. B. Rice of Boston, young
man who paid $500 in order to get a
champion race horse, and viii b driven
by John Trout, who says he will match
this PAGER against any horse in the world
that wears a harness for one or two
thousand dollars a side.
Coney was sired by Mckinney, he by
Acyone BY George Wilkes.
Anaconda sired by Knight, he by Wood
ford Wilkes, by George Wilkes.
The Best of All and
For over ffty years Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup has been used by mothers Tor their children
while teething. Are you disturbed at night and
broken q your rest by sick child suffering and