Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-08-08
state of Vermont.
x.,vs Condensed and Rewritten
i's for Our Readers.

E.. III THUOehA
parre is to have six days OF horse
aing beginning Aug. Y.
,ont Mary Yarney. " years old, Is
NJ Oldest person in Lincoln.
u.rows Falls complains Of INSULT
- hotel accommodations.
rbs hay crop in Lincoln exceeds
,bst of last year by 1000 tons.
~ dates for the Addison county
az n NIiddlebury are Sept. l0-l2.
rbs annual Dog River valley tair
vii he held at Mortified sept. y, p
81 and %.
r,1 hos been discovered near the
r,gage Of Howe Pond in Bennington
! county.
usrds of from 10 to 20 deer. are
rednently seen in Lincoln and
4 vicinity.
r. Spaulding OF Taftsville found
make three feet long in rat trap in
4 his pantry.
Edward Rhodes of Richmond has In
n front ward an elm tree II feet in
circumference
Iobn RYAN OF Plainfeld, a cattle
bqrer recently lost a 500 roll Of bills
IN Montpelier.
Burlington humane officers have de-
,israd war on drivers of horses with
CALLED shoulders.
r-om the state fish hatchery at RoX-
bury 10000 lake trout have been sent
mCvstal lake in Barton.
Waterbury has more summer visitors
E than ever before. Fifty are registered
N the Green Mountain Inn
Walter Burnham of Westford has
fsr III GOOD condition in bis barn that
VA. harvested q years AGO,
ur e. 4. kinsman, a shelburne
dentist has recently been granted
patent on a root-caual filing.
THE rounds around the Edmund.
hIgh school building in Burlington are
being regarded at a cost Of soOa
Tae New England Fire Underwrit
er. association Il investigating Tx
uH1Iency OF Barre's water supply
Newport holds its annual fair anl
aee, N Memphremag0g driving part
August 1916 with Sl,7Oo IN purses.
EN- Bartlett broke all haylng rec
ord, IN Norton BY putting into tn
harms BOG two-horse loads OF hay Jul.
~
Two hundred teachers attended th'
SIMMER school Tor teachers OF Orange
ana Windsor counties At White Rive
Junction
The Governess. owned By J. Ed
ward Bailey Of Montpelier, won sec
Ond money in the ? ~ pace at Holyoke
Mass, last week.
The total attendance at the North
field public schools last year was 33l
Fl pupils. In the high school alone 10.
4 pupils were enrolled.
Statistics taken by the censu,
bureau on the subject of live stock
show that there are but five asses in
the state Of Vermont.
Nearly all the cottages at Westmort
arg tlled with summer guests and
every room in the hotels is engaged
Tor the month OF August.
20 prevent an outbreak OF typhoid
fever similar 10 that of last year the
" town Of Lincoln is investigating the
Fl purity OF It's water supply.
Newburys population in 1900 was
2l25 The listers appraisal for the
same year was $3.50. $50, making a
n per capita wealth OF s649.l9.
e % the Burlington city taxes there
remains $4,000 to be paid before
Aug ~. OF the Montpelier taxes there
remains only $4,000 to be paid.
George l.. Clark. postmaster at
Island Pond. has resigned on account
81 Of III health and will probably be
succeeded by Ora NJ. Carpenter.
In settling a family dispute that was
carried into city court the other day,
Judge Hawkins advised two Burling-
Ion mothers to spank their children.
Newbury's school directors have
engaged Lewis Lawrence of West
0hazy, y. Y tor principal of Newbury
seminary and the town central school.
81 Az the August meeting OF the st.
Johnsbury Woman's Club. Bliss Perry,
editor Of the Atlantic Monthly. will
give an address on Literary Fashions.
81 Newport streets are now lighted
with long burning arc lamps and in-
\ candescents. and they will burn the en-
lre night instead of until midnight as
formerly.
L is estimated that there are over
loVoO electric incandescent lights now
N use in stores and residences of Bur
nngton and probably 500 additional
connections.
novel eating contest took place IN
burlington recently when Edwars
rasha, son OF Joseph Pasha' ate II
bananas and drank three quarts OF
milk on a wager.
) $. Viles of Montpelier has pur'
chased two steam launches, one -
looter and the other an lS-footer. Inc
smaller one will be placed on his mill
pond at Middlesex.
Many horses throughout the state
ans suffering from mysterious mai
aady which is said to have originated IN
New York city and thence to have