St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-16
STATE PRESS COMMENTS.
What Some Vermont Editors are Talk
ing About.

| What Some Vermont Editors are Talk
ing About.
The prevailing epidemic has in
vaded the newspaper offices, but
most of the editors struggle to their
feet and come up smiling
Burlington Clipper: Col. Hooker
advises young men to run for pOl1t1-
cal Offices whenever they have a
chance The old men will do it with
out the Colonel's encouragement.
| By the way, is not the advice super
huous anyhow?
Londonderry Sitter: 1t was re-
ported here a few days ago that
farmer Hooker [Col. George w. had
ia grippe" Private advices from
Brattleboro say this is untrue and
that the Colonel will be all right
in time to do his spring planting.
Ludlow Tribune: Success is not
as of personality. If a man has
force of character he can make him
self felt in the Green Mountain state,
and if he has none, Alabama or Kan
sas will not be likely to bolster him
up Brethren, boom your own state.
Boom your own county. Boom your
own town.
Brattleboro Reformer: West Dan
vile has a post-office case very much
like Brattleboro's 1t is stated that
three-fourths of the republicans and
every democrat doing business at the
office signed a petition that John
Holt might be retained as post
master Nevertheless Mr.. Holt must
go according to the reports from
Washignton.
Fair Haven Era (PoeD: The
business man who did not advertise
in 1889, now tackles the inventory
in a frame of mind that is anything
but benign, and as he fails to count
the gains he calls himself a chump;
and straightway concludes to adver-
tise in a way to make the other fell
low hump, who gets more trade
| than he does in the year 1890.
Newport Express: Gov. Bracket
of Massachusetts, in his inaugural
| advocated biennial elections of state
| officers with annual sessions of the
| legislature There seems to be a
growing sentiment i'll favor of this
move in that state. He also advises
the purchase of farm near Boston
upon which to place the insane poor,
and for hospital purposes. Copying
| from Vermont as usual.
Rutland Herald: The American
Machinist well says that there is
hardly limit to the wealth devel-
opment that may be made in Yer
mont granite. Yet granite is only
one point of richness in Vermont re-
sources. After a few millions more
have been sunk in Western mort
cages and "wild-cat" booms Yer
mOnters may give little of their at
tention to the great business oppor-
| tunities that lie right under their
noses.
Montpelier Argus: Correspon-
| dents sending town news will please
| leave out anything about ia
grippe" There have been severe
colds in the past just as there is now,
and lots of this ia grippe" talk is
the sheerest humbug. The city
dailies are always seeking for a sen
one keep it up until it gets to be
| al
in the city.
Burlington Free Press: To what
| base uses have we come? The
Greensboro correspondent of the
Barton Monitor says that Babbitt
& Crane, have just shipped large
lot of maple sugar to Richmond, Va,
to be used in the manufacture of to-
bacco. 1t is a new departure, the
using of maple sugar, for that pur-
pose, and is said to be a grand sue
cess, making a tobacco superior to
that made in the old way.
Brattleboro Phoenix: Something
about Commissioner Valentine s map
| of our Vermont unoccupied lands is
| printed on our last page today.
| Truth compels us to say that Wind
ham county is painted the reddest of
| all the counties, but this does not
mean that this county has more
deserted or unoccupied land than
any other. 1t simply means that
the Windham county listers were
more faithful in reporting such lands
than those of any other county.
Hardwick Gazette: Four or five
state papers, among them the St
Adams Messenger and Burlington
! Clipper, can't see why a large ma
Jority of the people of Brattleboro,
| those who are most interested and
know what they want, advocate the
retention of Captain Childs as post
master. This illustrious syndicate of
civil service reformers demand that
every large or small Office holder in
the state must be ''in accord with
the administration regardless of local
preferences.
St Adams Messenger referring to
Commissioner Valentines map of de-
serted farms): Notwithstanding
this county, except Grand Isle, is