Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-02

furnish beautiful cabinet specimens.
Small deposits of earthly manganese
occur in several places. and much of
the rock in town is that in which
gold may be found; but so far as is
known to the writer, never has been
discovered.
The only natural curiosity of in
terest in the town is cave on
Miles mountain. 1t is said to be of
considerable extent, but has not
been fully explored or described.
Deer were formerly very abundant
and long after the town was settled
they were quite plenty, but now are
not frequently seen, though more or
less are caught nearly every year.
Bears also were seen much more
frequently in former years than at
present. THE following authenic
bear STORY lis perhaps without a
parallel: A bear having been caught
in large trap, two or three men
were leading him along by rope at
tached to the trap; when the
muscles of his leg giving way, he
was liberated at once, and turned
directly for the woods. Mrs. Morse,
wife of Mr.. James Morse, and one
or two other women, with several
children, were following the bear,
and as he turned to run for the
woods, boy of Mrs. Morse's hit his
heels against some impeachment and
fell over backwards, directly before
the bear, when Mrs. NJ, seeing his
danger. caught the trap and, with
one we'll directed blow, laid the saw
age beast dead at her feet; but in
doing so, received quite a severe
wound herself, under her chin, by
one of the graphing hooks at the
end of the chain attached to the
trap.
Wolves were also very abundant
in town some Is years since. An old
hunter, by the name of French,
caught numbers of them in the
woods around Miles pond. The
bounty for xii ling a wolf being $40,
it was thought that the same animal
sometimes did duty" more than
once, by which means the state was
cheated into paying for him the
second time. Whether these surmises
were true or not we have not the
means Of knowing. A wolf has not
to our knowledge, been seen in town
for quite number of years.
Moose were formerly caught in
J the woods around Moose river, in
| the northern part of the town. Some
hunters, by the name of Hall having
killed a number of these animals, in
the north part of the town, offered
one-half of the meat to those who
would bring it in. A Mr.. Hunter
brought in 100 pounds upon his
back, and the father of the writer
95 pounds, travelling upon snow
shoes; it being a warmish day anC
the snow very light and moist, they
had to be often raped against the
t trees to unload the snow from then
, which made the travelling with S,
= heavy load very laborious. Moose
: have long since become extinct il
= town.
5 REPRESENTATIVES
from the organization of the town t
Y the present time: Elijah Spafford
S 1894; Jonathan Lewis, 1895 and '96
n Samuel Wetherbee, 1897, '99, 1900
&; 'O1, 'O2, '03, 'O6; John Frye, 1876
S David Hubbard, 1904, 'O5, 'O7, Is
:; Richardson Graves, 1909, 10, 10, IA
e Robert Taggard, 1912; Corneliu
+ Judevine, 1915, '16; Jesse Woodbury.
y jr., 1917, 10; James May, 1921; Ds
+ vid Hubbard, jr., 1922, '23; Dye
), Hibbard, 1924, '25, '26, '27: Arch
e bald Taggard, 1928, '29, 80, 81, 80
l. '33, "a, '35; Moses Hill, 1886, an
Is '37; David Hubbard, Sd, 1888, '39, Al
h '43, IA, '58, $50; Nathan J.. Grave.
1914, AZ; Harvey G. Frye, 1S45, Al
# William B. May, 1847, '4S; Jeneso
h Carruth, 1849, 80; Preston May
/. 1851; Eben Holbrook, 1852, '53; job
# Darling, 1853, '54; Chauncy Hill
It 1856, '57; L. H. Tabor 1860, 81, 6.
/, Levi Howe, 1863, IA; Harvey Jud,
/. vine, 1865.
j. TOWN CLERKS
/, Joseph Ball from 1894 to 1905
Il Nathan Fisher from 1903 to 1904
n BENJAMIN Nav from 1904 tn lSOl