News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-05-26
STATE ITEMS,

John l.. Ager of Bennington has been APP
pointed examiner of teachers for Bennington
county, vice D. X. Simonds, resigned
Chapman's steam mill, on the mountain
five miles east of Middlebury, has been burned,
with the barns and aquantity of finished lum-
Der.
Gov. circuit has appointed E. P. Gibson of
Rutland, a trustee of the Vermont asylum for
the insane at Waterbury, vice VIM. r. Page
resigned.
A serious fire occurred at Lyndon Monday
morning. The Lyndon hotel, j. G. EatOn's
hardware store and the Patterson grocery
store were burned.
The 47th annual meeting of the Vermont
Homeopathic Medical society will be held in
the parlOrs of the Pavilion at Montpelier on
Wednesday and Thursday.
The Vermont Bee Keepers Association is
calling public attention to No. 100 of the
Acts of the Legislature at the session of 800,
relating to spraying fruit trees when in bloom.
Bishop Hall of Burlington and his chaplain,
George B. Johnson, will sail Tor Europe on
the steamship Britannica" June %. The
bishop will attend the Lambeth confer ence at
London. They will be gone until September.
Mrs. Maria McCuen of Burlington has the
proud distinction of having 81 children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren. This
remarkable lady is still in the best of health,
and expects to live long enough to see many
more.
The Green Mountain stock farm of Ran.
dOph is now furnishing the White Star line
of steamers with the butter they use going
both way S across the water. They are now
shipping $50 pounds of butter per day on an
average
The first foot ball game of the season was
played at Barre Saturday between the Light
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Rangers at Central Pacific Park. Two 45
minute halves were played and the Rangers
made a good each half.
The celebrated bull, Garfield Stoke Pogis
of the Billings herd at Woodstock died
Wednesday night of last week after a brief
sickness, of pneumonia. He was son of
Exile of st. Lambert, and one of the worlds
greatest butter sires, having thirty-two
daughters i'll the test list-a record eXcelling
that of any other living bull. He was eleven
years.
W. H. Minor entertained a party of II to
IA ladies and gentlemen with an out door
dinner at the Houghton deer park in Halifax
on Tuesday of last week. The beautiful drive
and the generous dinner made an ideal day S
outing. IL. T.. HOughton, who is now at the
park, stated that the animals in the preseI We
wintered well, and all have made good n-
crease. He estimates the number of deer now
in the enclosure at 100.
Rev. G. W. Morrow, first vice-prtsident of
the state Christian Endeavor union, has
undertaken to arrange for an excursion party
from Randolph to the national Christian Eu-
deavor convention to be held at San Fran
cisco, Cal, July to II. An attempt will BE-
made to secure enough members to charter a
special sleeper The party will start from
Vermont June u or %. Railroad rates are
SOS for the round trip, besides sleeping car
accommodations, which are not to exceed 81 ;
each for 10 days going. Mr.. Morrow will
answer inquiries as TO particulars if they are
sent to him at Randolph.
The last of the Lovejoy monument has been
shipped from South Ryegate. The state OF
Illinois appropriated $50 900 for this monu-
ment to he, placed in memory OF Elijah p.
LovejOy, who was one OF the first abolition