The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-10-16
MATTERS AND MEN IN VERMONT.
various Notes of Progress and Prosperity
Vermont is Enthusiastically on the Upward
Grade.-PatriOticW Work by DIR. Webb.

various Notes of Progress and Prosperity
Vermont is unmistakably on the UPw"r'
Grade.-PatriOtic Work by DIR. Webb.
The following item from Salisbury Is al
Indication that successful farming Is bein;
pursued In Vermont. This Is only one of
thousand other instances where rightly APP
piled labor pursued under intelligent farm
methods In this state secures rs good results
as can be realized In any state In the Union
ID. f.. Gibson sewed four acres of land be
longing to Mitchell Carter to oats last spring
and raised $50 bushels, and they weigh )!
pounds to the bushel. No pains were taker
TO raise big crop. 1t was greensward. ant
about 300 pounds of phosphate was applied
to the acre; the oats were the common west
ern variety and were sowed IL bushels tC
the acre. Brandon Union.
The state non-partisan w. c. II. u, are tC
hold their annual session on Tuesday and
Wednesday. October q and %. at Waterbury
The executive board are to meet on Tuesday
morning, and the general session opens at
go y. m. Mrs. w. 2. Dillingham; of Wafer
bury, Is to give the address OF welcome, and
Mrs. Ardner Brown OF Springfield has been
invited TO give the response. Mrs. A. l..
Stanwood of St. Adams, Is to conduct devO-
tiOnal exercises, and Mrs. Wheeler of Water
bury, the Bible reading.
There seems to be good ground to hope
that Judge Hovt III. Wheeler of the United
States District court may receive an appoint
ment to ore of the new United States Cirt ut
iudceships, and In that event It is understood
that while Judge Il. S. Taft of the Supreme
court Is not candidate for the place, bis
appointment to succeed Judge Wheeler will
he asked for and strongly urged by many
leading attorneys and other prominent cit-
zens of this state Burlington FreePress.
Caledonia grange will hold fair of the
dairy, fruit and vegetable products of the
farm and the culinary and fancy work of the
homes at East Hardwick on Saturday. Octo-
her II.
The West Randolph Herald and News, one
of the best and iveliest of our state en-
changes, has dcnned new dress of minion
type and to accommodate its advertising and
its remarkably efficient local news service Il
Is frequetly getting out and page numbers.
The first annual dinner of the Vermont
fish and game league will be held at the Van
Ness house IN Burlington Wednesday even
ing. November 4. Gov. Page, Secretary
Proctor and members of the government fish
commission will be present.
DIR. w. Seward Webb of Shelburne farms.
besides the present he has made to Rutland,
recently wrote to Hon. John W. Stewart
proposing TO give the town of Middlebury an
imported French coach or an English hack
ney stallion on condition that 1t be kept for
the use of the citizens of the town at a nomi-
nal fee, sufficient only TO cover the cost of
the animil's keeping. The proposition was
communicated by Mr.. Stewart to the select |
men, who promptly accepted the offer and
chose the English hackney. The animal ar
rived Wednesday of last week. He Is fine |
one. and cost DIR. Webb $4,000 in England.