News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
Vermont state News,

Oi 0tetbO ANS"o'
Robert Gilfllian of South Ryegate
is dead at the age of %.
A few cases of la grippe are report
ed from various parts of the state.
Diptheria has reduced one school
district in Ferrisburgh to two schol-
airs.
The catch of a pickerel weighing
l5A pounds is reported from Poult-
ney.
Mrs. Charles WEIGH of Wheelock
pieced a quilt containing 1868
pieces.
The golden wedding of Charles
Clines of Fairhaven was celebrated
January %.
There is talk of putting in at Nor
gan a steam mandatory for max
ing Overalls and coats.
The creamery at Springfield was
broken into last week and 1874
pounds of butter stolen
Fairhaven is full of sweet sounds
at present, there being no less than
five full fiedged orchestras in the town.
A firm in Ohio wishes to locate in
Rutland or vicinity, and where wood
is plenty. They manufacture shoe
lasts.
Messrs. Lynde and Cheney of
/ Williamstown are to add two new
machines to their granite polishing
works.
The county teachers institute will
hold a three days session at North
Bennington the 18th, 18th and 18th
of February.
Rev. V. NJ Hardy of West Rand
olph is editor of new monthly
paper printed in the interests of the
| Congregationalists.
Royal Sanborn of Tunbridge
| was recently struck on the head
by a falling tree and rendered I'M
conscious. He is improving.
The capital stock of the Rutland
Electric Light company has been
increased from SOC, 900 to 800, 900,
divided into 5000 shares of$20e each.
Casts at the Bennington foundry
are now being made every day in
stead OF every other day, and the
knitting mills are running full ca
pacity.
The London Daily Graphic of jan
uay II, has cut and description of
the famous Brattleboro postage
stamp of 1916, which it says is val
ued at $3.50.
Col. L. X. Fuller of Brattleboro
has just presented Sedgwicz Post
G. A. r. with a case of relics from the
Gettysburg battlefield, containing
over so pieces.
The "Kirmess," given at Brattle-
boro by the ladies of the Universal |
ist society was a great success. The |
gross receipts were $1,000 and about |
500 were cleared.
The locomotives employed on the
Rutland branch of the Delaware and !
Hudson railroad will hereafter be
repaired in the new machine shops of |
the company at Whitehall.
Trouble from the recent thaw is
reported from various parts of the
State. A number of bridges have
been carried away, houses flooded
and stages have been unable to
make their trips.
The Champlain district Union /. 0.
of G. L. will meet at Swanton, Feb
ruary f. An interesting programme
will be carried out and in the evening
there will be a public entertainment
by members of the union
Potatoes will probably command
81 a bushel next spring For the
last three years the tubers have
paid Vermont farmers better than
any other crop, i. e., when they
happen to be decent yield.
The centennial of the Jericho
congregational church is to be
celebrated on the 18th of next
June. A Historical address will be
given by Rev. A. Hazen ofRichmond,
a former pastor for several years.
The Jericho Reporter is responsible
for the following log story: Last
week choppers in NJ. V. Mattimore's
woods felled a pine tree from which
they cut 10 12-foOt logs, 6 14-foOt
and / 1O-fOot log. This is fact,
not felton,
The Burr and Burton seminary
is trying to secure an addition to ,
its library by raising fund ofS2OOO
to be called the Lyman Coleman
fund, from the first principal, the
interest of which is to be used in
buying books.
A meeting has been called by the :
stockholders of the Windsor Nation {
al Bank to be held at the banking :
rooms Tuesday February "a, for the y
purpose of placing the bank in vol +
1ntary liquidation, and to appoint -
an agent to close up the affairs OF y
the bank. The bank was organized '
about seven years ago with a capital =
Of 100000.
The Tunbridge Farmers league d
has created a sensation by ar p
bouncing that at it's next meeting. to S
De held February Z, it will take son e
steps towards making up slate il
or the coming town meeting, stating /
hat the affairs of the town have p
been mismanaged and that many e
officials are careless when purchas- I
ng supplies for the town, buying b
1T a premium, though in buying F
or themselves they always endeavor Il
% get low prices. The league is n
Composed of men belonging to differ Ii
mt parties, but parties have moth 81
NO to do with town affairs, they d
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