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

fourth OF July celebration is to be
baIl al Proctor this year
W. r. Warner Of Vergennes has re-
Gently been granted "a patent on an
asthma inhaler.
Dr ". S. Webb shipped to New
York MAY y thirty saddle horses to be
Sold at auction.
Jefferson Chase. the well-known in
vepfor who died in Portland, Me,
ls.f week. was born in Concord, Vt.
since MAY there have been 50
ss.q. of measles in Rutland. Two
deaths from the disease have occurred.
MAY nth was pay day in all the
slate auarries of Poultney, and from
$1,000 TO $4,000 was put in circula-
ton.
Barre medical society has been
formed by local physicians TO better
Inc profession socially and probes
si0nally
Alison S. Sherman, who is the oldest
surviving mayor of Chicago and who
celebrated his ninety-tirst birthday an
uiversary 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 il. IL
i one OF the finest specimens that he
ever caught.
The Independent band OF Chitten-
den will attend the Fourth of July cell
ebrgtion al Rutland In iull uniform
There are three women musicians IN
the band. which also has woman
drum major.
II. d. Mcdonald of Burlington has
been appointed a fourth assistant ex-
amiuer in the patent Office, Washing.
t9n. and Geo. c, Gridley Of Windsor,
las been given a patent for a stay bolt
and for It's manufacture.
Divers from Boston have been in
speating the pier OF the old toll bridge,
BmuIe5orO, spanning the Connecticut
river between the village and the
island, In order to determine It's con-
dti0n preparatory to building new
bridge.
+. II. Shepardson of Richmond. has
received from the managers OF the
Paris Exposition a medal and diploma /
given the Vermont Condensed Mix +
Co. for its exhibit at the exposition. /
The medal is handsome one and en-
closed in a suitable case.
The Barre city assessors are COM
petng 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,acoompanied by Lady Laurier and
lew friends, arrived at Woodstock by
special train Wednesday afternoon of
last week The party came in a gov
eminent ear and are being entertained
at the Woodstock Inn a few days.
The Montpelier city council has TAX
en- steps to secure the same rates for
tickets 70 the school children who ride
onihe electric cars as are given to
Workingmen. At present the pupils
have 70 pay l-2 cents a ride, while
ile working men pay only l-2 cents.
a large wolf was seen by A. c. Ber-
" and family, of Richmond, May 10th.
lie came within twenty-five rods OF
Alr. Berry's house and was lame IN
one lee, and was doubtless one shot
q by Noble Kenyon a short time ago.
me vol 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 81
an accident which occu rred in the Al
mon slate quarry, Mortified, some
time ago
Mrs. Paul +. Odell, wife of the chief
irain 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-
aantine and 90 home. She is now
back in the hospital.
The grand list of the town of North
neid tor 1902 has been completed and
Is sl2,0s6.40, as against Sll,656.t3
last year. The number of polls this
Years il9, an increase OF 81 over last
MS oAnA = a NhNoA*ttAtAt*a
III both property and population OF the
Town during the past year.
Il. f. G. Todt of Brattleboro has in
tle collection of curios which he gath
cred in his trip around the world as
laymaster's clerk in the United States
navy, piece of tile which he took Il L
Years ago IRON the room in which the
impress Josephine was born, in
small house in st. Pierre, Martinique.
HE fact that four people have al
ready lost dogs by poisoning is caus-
ing a good deal of excitement in Bel
lows Falls. reward OF $50 was Of
Tered for the detection and conviction
OF the person who has caused this
Uouble, and later the reward was
raised to 5000 and has nineteen sign
egs.
The life insurance payments in Yer
mont Of $4,000 or more reported TO