Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-05-29
state of Vermont:
us News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

fourth OF July celebration is to b.
beId at Proctor this yeaL
r.. Warner of Vergennes has re
Gently been granted patent on al
asthma inhaler.
DIR W. S. Webb shipped to New
York MAY q thirty saddle horses to BE-
sold at auction.
Jefferson Chase, the well-known in,
vcntor. who died in Portland, Me-
hit week, was born in Concord, Vt.
Since May l there have been 81
cases of measles in Rutland. Two
deaths from the disease have occurred
Nav nth was pay day in all the
slate auarries of Poultney, and from
$4,000 to $4,000 was put in circula-
ton.
A Barre medical society has been
formed BY local physicians to better
fine profession socially and probes
s.0nally.
Alison S. Sherman, who is the oldest
surviving mayor of Chicago and who
celebrated his ninety-first birthday an
ufversarv recently, is a native of Barre
where he passed his early life.
Isaac Pratt captured his seventy
third bear in one of his traps on East
mountain in Pownal May Is. The
hear was alive when he reached it, IL
/, one of the finest specimens that he
ever caught.
The Independent band of Chitten-
den will attend the Fourth of July Gel
eration at Rutland in full uniform.
There are three women musicians in
the band, which also has woman
drum major.
HID. Mcdonald of Burlington has
been appointed a fourth assistant eX-
aniner In the patent office, Washing
ton, and Geo. q. Gridley Of Windsor,
has been given a patent for a stay bolt
and Tor It's manufacture.
Divers from Boston have been in
speeding the pier OF the old toll bridge,
BmttIebOro, spanning the Connecticut
river between the village and the
island, ia order TO determine its con-
ditIon preparatory to building a new
bridge.
F.H. Shepardson of Richmond, has
received from the managers Of the
Paris Exposition a medal and diploma
/ given the Vermont Condensed MIX
Co. for is exhibit at the exposition.
The medal is a handsome one and en-
closed In a suitable case.
The Barre city assessors are com
p.1ting their labors for the year.
There are l45 persons in the city pay
Ing taxes on an assessment OF over
5000. The assessors report that the /
total valuation OF property is about |
$4,000 larger than last year
Sir Wiltrid Laurier, premier Of Can
ada, accompanied by Lady Laurier and 1
a lew friends, arrived at Woodstock BY /
special train Wednesday afternoon of
las, week. The party came in a gov
eminent car and are being entertained /
a, the Woodstock Inn few days.
Il The Montpelier city council has tax
en steps to secure the same rates for
i Tickets 20 the school children who ride
on The electric cars as are given to
workingmen. At present the pupils
have to pay l-2 cents a ride, while
he working men pay only l-2 cents.
\ large wolf was seen by A. c. Ber-
" and family, Of Richmond, May 10th.
he came within twenty-five rods of
Dir. Berrys house and was lame IN
one leg, and was doubtless one shot
q by Noble Kenyon a short time ago.
he wolf was going toward Hines
burg.
The proceeds of the concert and
dance given in Armory hall. Montpel-
ler May 10th for the benefit of Frank
townsend were about $40. Mr. Town
send Is recovering from the effects OF
Oh accident which occu rred in the Al
mon slate quarry, Northheld, some
time ago.
Mrs, Paul f. Odell, wife of the chief
.uain dispatcher OF the Rutland rail-
road, was found i'll with smallpox at
Rutland Thursday. She was at the
hospital when the disease broke out
there and was allowed to break quar-
anine and 90 home. She is now
BACK in the hospital
The grand list of the town OF North
Held for 1902 has been completed and +
II Sl2,uo6.4u, as against Sll,O0b.i5
iast year. The number OF polls this
years tl9, an increase OF 81 over last
year. This shows a substantial gain .
"a both property and population OF the
gown during the past year.
Il, f. G. Todt OF Brattleboro has in
.'Ae collection of curios which he gath
cred in his trip around the world as
laymasters clerk in the United States
la'E, a piece Of tile which he took Il Z
years ago from the room in which the
Impress Josephine was born, In a
small house in st. Pierre, Martinique.
The fact that four people have al
e'ly lost dogs by poisoning is caus-
iAs a good deal of excitement in Bel /
lows Falls, A reward OF $50 was Of
leIe1 for the detection and conviction
p me person who has caused this
ioublc, and later the reward was
aised to 5000 and has nineteen sign
Inc life insurance payments in Yer
mont Of $4,000 or more reported 10