News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-29
Vermont State News.


Many 1inm0uth horses are sick
Just now,
Readsboro bids fair to have a new
pulp mill soon.
Ashley Blodgett of Norwich died
Sunday aged nearly 80 years.
Charles Smith fell on the ice at
Rutland Friday and broke his leg.
W. p Stafford will deliver the
Memorial Day address in st. Johns
bury.
Grand Isle, at a special meeting on
the Goth, voted two to one in
favor of the bridge.
Cha f. Wheeler has been nom
mated by the president as post
master at Burlington.
Rutland's high school debating
club has decided that the United
States has no use for Canada.
Deacon J. N. Bartlett died in
LyndOnville, January 10, aged 81
years. Mr.. Bartlett was born in
Brookfield, Mass.
Junia D. Barber of Townshend
has given the Brattleboro Universal
list society $500 toward the debt
on the parsonage.
Robert GiIfllan of South Ryegate,
died January II. He was 90 years
old. He was the son of Robert
Giltillan of Barnet, one of the pion-
GERS
"a Model New England Village"
Is the little of the illustrated article
on st. Johnsbury which appears
in the next number of the New
England magazine.
Dr. Seward Webb is going into
game breeding at his place near
Shelburne. By the aid Of imported
eggs and English gamekeepers he
expects to raise 5000 pheasants
each year.
Miss Prout of Bellows Falls fell
on an icy sidewalk recently and
hurt her head so severely that she
was unconscious for six hours and
has been more or less affected men
tally since.
The outlook for building in Rut-
land Proctor, Centre Rutland, West
Rutland, Brandon, Fairhaven and
Poultney during the current year
is said to be far more promising than
for the past few years.
Ewdard Ross of Independence,
Iowa, who died January Is, was
born September 81, 1929, in Water
ford, being the fourth child of the
late Royal Ross and brother next
younger of Chief Justice Ross.
Towns hotel at Bellows Falls |
was visited Thursday and a quaint
ity oil liquor found. The case was
carried over until next Wednesday |
to premit Mr. Mason, the manager,
to go out of town to see his sick |
wife
Another Vermont woman has |
been honored in the West. Mrs Lor-
raine J, Pitkin Whose maiden
name was Sheldon and who is
relative of the Rutland family, of
Chicago, has just been appointed
pOstmistress of the Illinois Leg;s-
lature.
The farm house on what is
known as the "Allbee farm" stu
ated near the Rockingham and
Springfield town line, was burned
on Monday night. The house was
once occupied by an uncle of James
A. Garfield
L. B. Harris is wintering over
200 sheep at Lyndon Mr.. Harris
firmly believes that sheep raising
is one of the most profitable branch
es of farming and has often urged
that Vermont farmers pay more
to raising sheep for NUT
ton and wool.
Messrs. E. L, Ripley and James
Buckham of Burlington, the latter
gentleman having been connected
with the Free Press for many
years, have purchased the Self Help
and Home Study of Boston The
already has a circulation
of about 10000, and the new pro-
prietors have every assurance of sue
cess.
The Manchester Journal is re-
sponsible for this: Two physicians
got badly left on their return home
from a visit to Peru one night last
week. Getting tipped over in the
snow the horse left them obliging
them to walk several miles to the {
home of one of them. The horse ]
was found at l o'clock in the MORN
ng in front of the tomb |
The New York Press recently an
bounced prizes for household designs. {
The first prize, for which there were t
about 200 contestants, has been !
awarded to Miss Gertrude E. Fon-
la of st. Adams, who submitted I
| novel and neat design for book
,ase. The case is in the shape of s
IN open volumn and the design is {
10Th original and attractive. Q