News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
ALL OVER n STATE.

Bridgewater, with 1904 people, has
Is places where goods are offered for
sale.
A St. Johnsbury man had his lose
broken and scalp hurt by ice falling
from the roof.
The Swanton Courier celebrated its
18th birth day last week and brother
Tobin is happy.
A sixteen-years-old boy was picked
up, dead drunk, on the road near Rut-
land the other day.
The sales of liquor by the Chitten-
den county agents during the past
year amounted to SS015.39.
DR.. Gleason of Middlesex Falls has
recently sold about a hundred and
twenty-five fine market steers.
Mr.. Francis Phelps, a we'll known
hotel proprietor and deputy sheriff,
died at Grafton Saturday, aged IA.
Over 100 dozen window screens
were made at the Abbott mill in West
Randolph on each day of a recent
week.
Gen. Henry has been renominated
for mayor by Burlington Republi-
cans and I'll. S. Peck is named for
City Judge.
The Republicans of Fair Haven
have the banner club of Vermont,
which already numbers nearly 800
and has an excellent glee club of about
20.
The slate men at Poultney report
the outlook for their business as very
favorable. The stock of slate on hand
has not been so small for many years
before.
The next annual muster Of the YER
mont National Guard will probably be
held either at Newport or Essex, the
former being said to be the choice of
most of the officers.
The sales of the copper mines at
Ely has been ratified by the payment
of $500 to the receiver by o. K.
| Krouse of New York, he having taken
the assignment of the purchase.
Orrin l.. Clark of Georgia, who
died Friday night, aged Al years, was
a prominent citizen of Georgia and
we'll known throughout the country,
both as a farmer and a horseman.
Amos Robinson of East Swanton,
who died ON the 22d inst. had a shock
of paralysis a few weeks ago, but
was apparently on the road to recov-
erv therefrom. His funeral occurred
Saturday.
The executive committee of the
Eastern Vermont association of Road
and Trotting Horse Breeders have
decided to hold the second annual
park meeting at St. Johnsbury on
Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 5
and 6.
The following pensions are %announc-
ed; Original, Geo. S. Flint, North
Randolph; Hiram H. Morgan, Shell
don Springs; Henry G. Cormack, So.
Halifax; increase, Gustavus Perkins,
Burlington; original, Hattie, widow
of Albee H. Hayden, Mortified.
It is stated that the Merchants bank
of st. Johnsbury voted to pay its
$780, 900 assessmentin the Bradley Bar
low bank cast if all the other banks
interested would do the same. The
First National bank of St. Jo%hnsbury
and the Passumpsic savings banks have
the question under consideration.
At the annual meeting of the YER
mont International Telegraph compa-
ny, the following-named directors
we're elected: Franklin Fairbanks,
Horace Fairbanks, George W. Hen
dee, o. S. Rixford, Waldo Brigham
and William P. Fairbanks. This is
the only telegraph company in the
country that pays dividends on its
| actual stock.
iona. Adams of st. Johnsbury East
has a cow, three-quarters Jersey, from
which he has made since April l, 1887,
APP pounds of butter, sold 250 quarts
of milk, ard used what milk sandeream
his family of two persons needed.
The cows feed has been grass in sum-
ner and hay in winter with the addi-
ton of one quart of corn meal daily
when feed was short in summer and
two quarts of meal daily in winter.