Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-18
State ews.

The editors and publishers of the state
propose a pleasure trip to Mount Mansfield,
June Oath.
The Council of the Order of High Priest
hood convened at Burlington, June 10, and
elected the following grand officers for the
year ensuing:
NJ. L. Edward s. Dana, Cornwall, President.
N. Z. Lewis Rdmonds, HartlSnd, vice President.
NJ. L. John b. Hollenbeck, Burlington, Recorder.
81. 4. Alfred 4. hpsil, s.. HlSsnsi, steward.
N. L. T. A.. Co.'S, VerEenns, Sentinel.
The Masonic grand lodge at Burlington
last week elected the following officers:
M. W. Nathan P. Bowman, St. Johnsbury. Grand
r.. W, Edmund G. HOughtOn, North bennington,
RI W. Levant NJ. Read, Bellows Falls, Grand Senior
RI. W Henry II. Smith, Rutland, Grand Junior War
den.
r. W. Henry Clark, Rutland, Grand Secretary.
W. James Holloway, st. Adams, Grand Senior Dea-
W. william 8. Hopkins, vergennes, Grand Junior
Deacon.
ADDISON COUNTY.
Parkman Davis, Of Andover, last week
had 700 bushels of potatoes on hand, nearly
all of his last years crop.
Jonas N. Smith has erected a tower sixty
feet high on Grand View mountain in Ad-
olson, where large numbers repair to take a
look.
A fire at Ferrisburg, Monday afternoon,
destroyed the railroad and highway bridges,
Barnum's saw.mill, Perry & Martins grist
mill aud several dwellings and barns; loss
$4,000, and no insurance on anything
except the railroad bridge. j. X. Barnum,
lost, on saw mill and contents, $500
Jackman Brothers, machinery, stock, ETC..
s400 Martin & Perry, grist mill, machin'
cry, dwelling house, etc., $4,000 q. X.
Green, an employee Of the Jackman Broth
ers, tools, etc, $500 town bridge, about
$500. The railroad bridge cost about So,
600, was l61 feet long and stood go feet
above the river. The fire caught from
sparks, from a locomotive.-Since the above
was in Il type a correspondent writes that the
loss was about S15,0 600 and no insurance
that some buildings within fifty feet Of tn,
bridge we're saved but fire caught on thu
store and dwelling house of Geo. Field, l5(
rods away.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Hon. John r. Gates Of Bennington die,
Friday evening last.
COUNTY.
A miller at Hardwick has sold 1000 bush
els of corn since the first of April.
Hardwick farmers have generally sol,
their wool-washed for 40 cts unwa she
for 80.
A lot of school children in WAeeloc
were lately RECALLED with the sight of a bea
and two cubs.
The programme for the picnic at Lyndon
vile is not quite completed and its publica
tion IS therefore deferred until next week.
Why don't Sheffield turn out and catcI
that bear2 He was again seen by Mr.
Montgomery near the Bradley saw mil
Edward f. Root, Of She field, has a flu
blooded Jersey bull which he bought i
Massachusetts, for the improvement of dAir
stock.
Charles ID. Brainerd dug up in his doc
yard at Danville, a Spanish silver piece
the supposed value of twenty-five cent
bearing date 1921.
S. d. and /. X. Gray, Of Sheficld.have eI
changed their farm of $50 acres for Geo. an
G. G. Meserve's farm Of 100 acres and tv
thousand dollars difference.
l. Il. Blake, a longtime resident
Sutton, recently died in Texas, leaviI
by will 800 to the town Of Sutton, h
interest to be expended every year in trir
ming up the cemetery.
Merritt Hunt, formerly Of Peacham, no
on the editorial staff Of Manchester pap
is Frustrated with a paralytic shock, al
hardly expected to recover. He was late
married to Augusta Martin, Of Peachal
who went down to take care Of him.
oHITTENDEN COUNTY.
The Burlington and Lamoille railroi
company have purchased at the foot Of Phi
street in Burlington seven or eight acres
land for $500, for the freight and storal
business OF the road. The wire and 9th,
fixtures for the telegraph over the rOu