News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-22
STATE NEWS.


lights.
There are 16 slate mills in opera
ton in Vermont.
The village of Bradford will eXpend
1925 on concrete walks this season.
A Vergennes three-year-Old felltrom
a piazza and broke an arm in two
places.
Two new cheese factories have re-
Gently been built in the town OF
Bridgewater
Brandon anticipates the re-opening
of what was one of her best quarrles
in days gone by. :.
A new post-oftice, called Granite
vile, has just been established at the
Barre granite quarries.
Sixty sheep were killed in the neigh
boring town of Weathersfield, last
week, by the small dogs.
A st. Johnsbury show window con-
tains a couple of live trout 10 and ID
inches long, respectively.
Hon. Homer E. Hubbell, a promi-
nent citizen of Franklin county, died
at his home in Fairfax on Saturday.
The Windsor National bank has
voted to reduce its capital stock one
half-tO $20,0OO-and continue bust
ness.
The insolvent estate of the Gale
donia Box company of LyndOnville
has declared a dividend of % per
cent.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Vermont State Medical society will
be held in Rutland June 26 and 81
next.
Mr.. and Mrs Dennison Hayward Of
Sutton, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tat
70 of Albany are recent golden we'd
ding celebraters.
Hiram Huse, aged 81, fell on "a saw
in the bObbin mill, St. JOhnsbury, on
the 18th, his leg being cut, and he
bled to death. He leaves wife and
one son.
The will of Mrs. Laura Mott of
South Hero, giving about $4,000
for the establishment of a home for
destitute children in that town, is to
be contested.
Congressman Grout, who has been
quite ILL., is reported to be much i'm
proved, with fair prospect that he
will soon be able to resume his official
duties again.
One school district in Wheelock
whose grand list is only $50 made
20,500 lbs. of sugar the present sea-
son. Another small district in that
town made SO, 500 lbs.
W. H. Stiles & Co., Montgomery
Centre, butter tub manufacturers,
are probably running the largest
works of the kind in the state. Their
daily average of nest tubs is 1900.
The body of George, the nearly
three-years-old son of Peter Black
hall, who was lost on the 18th, was
found on the 10th, in the mill pond
ofthe Sortwell & Morse granite works,
in Barre.
Asa, son of Rev. C. R. Hawley of
Brandon, and a member of the high
school of that town, has taken the
Youths Companion flag prize for the
best essay written by any member OF
any school in Vermont.
The governor has appointed as
members from Vermont ofthe worlds
fair commission Dr. Henry HI. Mcln-
tyre of West Randolph and Col. B.
B. Smalley ofBurlington; alternates,
Col. Aldace f. Walker of Rutland and
Hiram Atkins of Montpelier.
Philander Stiles, aged about SO
years, attempted to commit suicide
Friday afternoon at the town farm
in Brandon. He has been there some
time as a pauper. He went out be-
hind one of the outbuildings and
slashed his throat with a razor in II
places. His life was saved, but he
threatened to take it as soon as he
gets a chance.
The indications are that Col. Neazey
of the interstate commerce commits
sion stands a very good show for be-
ing elected commandments of the
G. A. r. at the Boston national en-
He is therecognized can
didate of the East, and in accord
ance with usage the office is to come
this way, this year Vermont should
be fully represented in that encamp-
ment
The firm of J. E. Smith & Company
of Black Falls, Montgomery, spool,
bobbin and lumber manufacturers,
are doing a large business. The cOm
pany has recently built up very large
buildings on the site of the late ruins,
put in a 100-horse power engine and
are now putting in new machinery
for finishing bobbins and spools of
all kinds, which will employ about
125 hands.
The engagement is annuonced of
Helen L., youngest daughter of ex-
Gov. ]. Gregory Smith of st. Adams
to Rev Donald S. Mckay, paster of
Congregational church of st. Adams,
who came to that place last winter
from Edinburgh, Scotland, and is a
young man of great talent. 1t is
understood the marriage will take
place in August or September, to be
followed by a tour to England and
Scotland.