St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-04-10
THE NORTH STAR.
What Our Exchanges say of Its seth

What Our Exchanges Say of It's Setting
The Danville North Star has ceased
to be- The last thing it did before
going into ''innocuous desuetude'
was to declare for Carroll S. Page
for governor.-[ st. Adams Messen
ger.
The North Star no longer wrinkles
at Danville. The ST. Johnsbury Gale
donian will shed its beams in the
houses darkened by this planetary
extinction and they will not dwell
in the outer darkness. A good ex-
change is no robbery Ludlow
Tribune.
The Danville North Star has sus
pended publication and the subscrip
ton list has been purchased by the
st. Johnsbury Caledonian, the sub
scribers to be given the Caledoniar
to the end of their subscriptions, and
as an exchange says"are in luck. y
| [St. Adams Sentry.
Through the columns of the St
Johnsbury Caledonian we learn that
our old friend, the North Star, second
oldest newspaper in Vermont, has
ceased to shine, and that brother
Hoyt has left the fra ternity and gone
! to farming,-nOt on one of Valen-
tines but his own We shall miss
our weekly northern light. = Cam
bridge Transcript.
The Danville North Star, one of the
oldest papers in this section of the
country, having been started in 1906
I7oc c,,cDap1e6 ,11,IIico tio11 and sold IT c
subscription list to the st. JOhnsbury
CALIFORNIAN. The Star was once one
of the leading journals of this section
but of la tie years has declined until 1t
ceased to be paying property. The
subscribers will find in the Caledo-
nian an excellent paper, one they
will do well to tie to- Littleton Re
public ournal
During its earlier history it took
high rank in journalism; but by
the removal of the county seat from
Danville to St. Johnsbury and other
local causes, the paper partook of the
decadence of the locality. The fire
that devastated the village last year
burned out the Star, but its pro-
prietor pluckily continued its publ
cation until last week, when it sue
cumbed, the st. Johnsbury Gale
DOMAIN taking over its subscription
list. The county does not lack for
newspapers, there being two in st.
Johnsbury, two in Lyndon and one
at Hardwick- [Stanstead Journal.
The North Star at Danville has sus-
pended publication. This means that
the paper is dead We remember
this paper in our youthful days as
one of the solid papers of the state
and it's falling out of the ranks ofour
newspapers would have been as much
surprise as the dropping of its
namesake from its place in the heav-
ems. But it has yielded to circum-
stances it could not control. Dan
vile did not rally from its great fire.
ST. Johnsbury is near and its papers
are pushing. The fact is, some ofthe
villages are suffering from depletion
as well as the rural portions of the
state. We want more manufactures
as well as more agriculture.-[ West
Randolph Herald and News.
The venerable old newspaper, the
North Star, at Danville, VT, has sus-
pended publication, and thereby an
old journalistic landmark passes into
oblivion in Vermont. 1t was
founded in 1906 by Ebenezer Eaton,
and was the second oldest newspaper
in the state For 60 years it was
kept in the Eaton family, and for
years was one of the leading journals
of its section. In politics, it was
intensely old-school democratic
throughout, and stuck by its party
with answering loyalty and zeal,
exercising great influence upon the
public. The writer of this well re-
members the old North Star away
back in his boyhood days when he
reveled among the exchanges in his
fathers Sanctum in the old Banner
office at Bennington, VT, and with
the news of its demise lives over
again the boyish rage melted by its
political editorials. The senior pub
Usher of this paper, also, finds his
mind running back for half-century
when, with other Vermont publish
ers, he ranked the North Star as
among the prominent and influential
papers of the state.
Units name, as also in the fact that
it originatedin and for 65 years was
controlled by, the well-known Eaton
family, the old Star was certainly
unique, and we cannot repress feel
ing of regret that its career is finish
ed. But year by year, like many
other once prosperous towns, shut
off from railroad COmmunica ton,
Danville, really one of the most at
tractive towns in Vermont, has
found itself going down the other
side of the hill, until now it finds it
self unable to longer sustain its ven
cradle home paper, once strong and
influential, and which gave the town
name and reputation throughout
the state Milford, Mass, Journal.