News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-15
STATE ITEMS,

Lyndonville voted not to revive the tow
liquor agency.
Ex-Gov, E. j. 0rmsbee will deliver the
Memorial Day address at Vergennes.
| Application has been made for the estab
| lishment of lodge of Odd Fellows in Plain
field.
| Fire in a business block in Fairhaven
caused by the explosion of an oil stove
Thursday, caused a loss of from $4,000 to
| $4,000
The Providence Washington Fire Insur
surance company has decided to withdraw
| from Vermont, as its business in the State
has proved Improbable.
The st. Johnsbury Board of Trade is in q
fiourishing condition. The total receipts
were $1,O79.51, the expenditures 1921 As
leaving balance of $25S.O6.
The carriage factory, paint shop, and m
dertaking rooms of F. F. Mascot, at Castle.
ton were destroyed by fire Thursday evening
The total loss is about 81, 500.
Hon. Hugh Henry of Chester will delive,
the Memorial Day address at Hardwick
Hon. Henry Boynton of Woodstock AT
Chester and Hon. l.. M. Reed of Bellows
Falls at Ludlow.
There are now 30 Cinnamon in the State
10 less than last year, and Deputy Collector
Weeks of st. Adams, who has recently Wis.
tied them all, says they all intend to register
in accordance with the law.
A gold mining craze is TIE next thing to be
expected IN Vermont. Ex-mayor Swine
burne, OF Newport, il. l., bought a Vermont
turkey last week and in it's crop were found
small pieces of gold to the value of so cents
A. T. Pollard, formerly connected with the
Bomoseen house, has been engaged by III. b.
Ellis to manage the Hotel Prospect ut Lake
r reno and eestfic and bells SisssS
| In every room.
| Bigelow Still of Arlington, aged 80. while
! intoxicated, drove into the West River at
| South Londonderry riday niybt His
| body was found in the river Saturday morn.
| ing, with bank book in his pocket certify
| ing to 81, 200 dep osit.
James McGrath, alias lyman, a former in
mate of the Vermont State Prison, was re
Gently convicted of murder in the second de
! gree in New York City. and sentenced IL
| Imprisonment for life. MeGrath was an ugI,
customer while in Windsor, and was sent tt
Brattleboro and afterwards to Waterbury
because of insanity, befoSe the expiration O
| his term.
The House of Correction at Rutland hal
| been undergoing extensive alterations. TIL,
| general and private offices have been moved
| into the main buildings; the kitchen hai
been transformed into guard room; every
thing connected with the prisoners cells Il
visible now from the office and guard room
The chapel has been turned into a hospital
and a small shop is being arranged for ;
chapel. The main workshop will soon be en-
| larged.
The executive committee of the Vernon
State Press association, consisting of L. P
| Ihayer of West Randolph, U. E. Hubbard @
| Brattleboro, and Egbert c. futile of Rutland
met at Bellows Falls last Saturday for
preliminary discussion of arrangements 70
the annual excursion in June Variou
| routes were discussed Tho thraa yr,Cs+ ,,no,,,
lnently talked of were through Lake Cham
plain to Hotel Champlain, throuql
the coal fields of Pennsylvania, o
to Quebec via Montreal. Probabl
one OF these three routes will be selecte,
at a subsequent meeting, it being wholly de
pendent on the rates and terms for accom-
modations that can be made.
The first Masonic Lodge in Vermont wa
Vermont. Lodge at Springfield, which wa
chartered November 10, 1871, by the Massa
chusetts Grand Lodge. North Star at Man
chester was chartered January 20, 1885, bI
the same Grand Lodge. Dorchester at Yer
gennes was chartered MAY 5, 1871. by 81
John johnson Bart, Grand Master of tn
Grand Lodge of Quebec. Temple at Ben
nington was chartered May II, 1898, by tn
Grand Lodge of Connecticut, and Union a
Mlddlebury was chartered May Is, by tn
same Grand Lodge. The charter of Yer
mont Lodge is now in Windsor These iy
formed the first Grand Lodge of Vermont
Paul Revere was one of the wardens of tn
Massachusetts Grand Lodge that signed tn,
charter for Vermont Lodge.
A recent dispatch from Wisconsin state
that after being in ignorance OF his name
birthplace and parentage for 81 years
Frank Willis, the waif of the burning steame
Niagara, has learned who he is aud will in ,
few days, be reunited with the members O
his family who survived the memorable dis
aster off Port Washington in Sepetem Der
1856. When a two-year-old babe Wilt
foated ashore on q Tndnk from blazing
vessel. He has now learned that his name il
France Willctte, and that be was born il
Winooski, Chittenden county, Vt, 80 year
ago. His father, mother and three brothers
he being the next youngest child, were los
on the Niagara. On Monday Willis went tt
Fon du Lac and visited an aunt and intends
to go to the place of his birth and make tn,
acquaintance of relatives there.
A dispatch was received at Bennington
last Saturday evening announcing that tn
man pretending to be Judge Mason of Ben
nington, and claiming membership in Noun
Anthony lodge of Masous at that place, who
has been borrowing money in various places
in the northern part of the State, promising t.
return it when he got back to Bennington
| had been arrested in OsWego, n. Y, where h,
was trying to play the same game. He APP
| peared well informed regarding the lodg,
and its workings, and made a good haul il
| some places. No returns were received by
the men who listened to his tale OF woe, sc
they wrote the officers OF the lodge, only tc
be informed that the man is a swindler. Al
| the request of Judge Mason he will be held
| there until the Judge car go there, find out
who the swindler is and arrange for him to
be brought here. He has been heard from at
several places. procuring money in each.
The telescope which Gov. Fuller has pre-
| sented to the Vermont Academy at Saxton's
| River is excellent specimen of the work OF
John Byrne of New York, says the Brattle-
| boro Phoenix. This glass, of Az inches clear
aperture, has been thoroughly tested The
equatorial mounting is by Gall & Lembke OF
New York. with whom Mr., Byrne is 4ssoci
ated. Gov, Fuller, being DESTROYS that the
| instrument which he ntelded to present to
Vermont Academy should be of the highest
quality, was careful to pace his order with a
firm of telescope makers whose reputation
would, in ITSELF be guarantee of the superi.
GRITTY of the work turned put by them. This
telescope will easily bear a magnifying pow
er of 400 or $50 dameters when the atmos-
phere is in satsfaetorycondition for astro-
nomical observation. With such a magni-
flying power the moon is brought within an
apparent distance of less than 600 miles
| Under ordinary circumstances, however, a
smaller magnifying powG gives more salts
factory results. With power, for instance,
of 200 diameters on this telescope, the vast
craters, strange mountain ranges and broad
undulating plains of the moon are seen with
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