News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-01-24
SONS OF VERMONT.
The Brooklyn Society Holds Its FIT
Annual Banquet.

| The praises OF the Green Mountain
State were sung last Thursday night
in verse and speech at the fifth an
nual banquet oi the Brooklyn Society
of Vermonters at the historic Pouch
gallery on Clinton avenue. A host of
prominent men and women surged
through the spacious rooms of the
beautiful mansion and were intro
duced to the special guests of the
evening, Gov. Woodbury. and Lieut.
Gov. Mansur OF Vermont,
At 1870 p. m. a splendid banquet
was served in the large bali room,
which was handsomely decorated for
the purpose. At 10 O'Clock Presi-
dent Robert j. Kimball introduced
the speaker of the evening, Governor
Woodbury.. He said in substance
81 am sure that the people of YER
mont, if they knew that | was here
tonight, would have me extend to
you their warmest greetings. They
have warm place in their hearts for
those sons of Vermont who have emf
grated to other States to better their
condition. Our people appreciate all
the affection you still retain for the
Green Mountain State and of all the
men of Vermont Ethan Allen is our
chief idol. The conspicuous part
that he bore in the struggle of Yer
mont to establish her rights to the
lands granted by the Governor of
New Hampshire and in her subse-
guent struggle to maintain her indie
pendence and gain admission into the
Union, had endeared him in the heart
of every Vermonter. To-day the peo-
pie OF Vermont possess in a great de-
gree the characteristics of their an
cestors. | make the statement ad-
visedly when say that no State in
the Union equals Vermont in purity
of politics. 1t is an unknown thing
for money or other immoral influence
to be used in our elections, except
very rarely in the large towns. In
seven-eighths of all the towns such
thing as bribery is unknown. Our
legislators are absolutely incorrupt-
ible. Vermont is justly proud of the
influence she has exerted in the coun-
ellis of the nation for the past fifty
years. Though one of the smallest
of all the States in population and
acreage she has eXerted an influence
in Congress notequalled by any other
State, however large. In politics
Vermont is conceded to be Republi-
can and had New York gone as
strongly Republican last fall as Yer
mont. Gov. Morton would have had
over 100000 majority
Senator Redfield Proctor was the
next speaker. He spoke of the re-
nowned men Vermont had sent forth
and of the influence she had exerted
in national politics.
Among the other speakers of the
evening were Lieut-Gov. Mansur,
Hamilton Ormsbee, and Mayor Schi-
eren of Brooklyn. The Chicago So
ciety was represented by Hon. Geo.
Edmund Foss, the Buffalo society by
DR.. Joseph G. Greene, and the Bos-
ton society by Col. Albert Clarke.
IRRIGATION IN New ENGLAND
The Irrigation Age suggests that a
large proportion of the so-called
abandoned farms in New England
might easily be made of great value
by the practice of irrigation during
the drouth season, which is the CHIEF
cause of the crop failures and low
values for these places, and also re.
marks :-"To find an abandoned
farm in the irrigated valleys Of the
J West would be about as easy as to
pick up gold nugget on the streets
E of Chicago" No doubt there are
many farms in Maine that could be
very much improved in this way, and
if there is no available supply of wa
ter from river or lake, there are few
farms where wind mills could not
raise all the moisture needed from
: springs or deep wells.
, RUNNING ABOUT ON TME.-Pro
lessor NewcOmb declares that the
earth went slow and lost seven sec
onds between 1850 and 1862, anC
J then went fast and gained eight sec
! Onds between 1862 and 1872. From
! this all anxious passengers on Oul
: terrestrial train through space viii
: observe that we are conforming will
] a fair degree of accuracy to the SEIZED
Q ule time table. If we are late at ONT
l station we make it up before we gel
} to the next.
., A FARMERS BOOK-Farmers' Bull
: letin No. % of the United States De
partment of Agriculture has been re
= ceived at the Agricultural College
Burlington. The work was prepared
e. by DR.. Atwater, former director o
: the office of experiment stations il
t the department, and is full of gooC
practical suggestions to farmers
Copies may be procured free by ad
dressing Agricultural Experimental
ton, Burlington, Vt.
j VERMONT THE GRANITE STATE
e One of the facts" appearing in {
: newspaper almanac is that 9TH,
j Granite State" New Hampshire, pro
t duces less of the material from which
: it is named than any other state il
t New England save Vermont. Accord
4 ing to the statistics of the interior
: department for 1898 New Hampshir,
t stood eighth in the list of grant,
: producing states while Vermont wal
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