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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27


CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct 26.-The
Chattanooga and Hamilton County Board
Of Health, at a meeting held to-day, de-
cided to forbid the entrance to this city
of the bicyclists who. with Ed Spooner, are
making a tour of the Southern cities, be-
cause they would come here directly from
Memphis that city being under quarantine
on account of the yellow fever. The man
ayers of the local Coliseum made an effort
to secure a modification of the regulation,
agreeing to guarantee that the racers
should not come into the city and that they
would be thoroughly fumigated, but. the
board was decided, and the races have been
declared off.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, Oct. 26.-The National
Bicycle Circuit was forced to cancel one of
its dates in this city on account of the yell
low fever. The two Memphis dates were
Oct 25 and 26 The concluding perform
ances were to have been given tonight. The
races were abandoned because the coun-
ty physician feared a gathering of sew
eral thousand people would give the disease
an unusual opportunity to spread, The Ma
tional Circuit chasers left Memphis tonight
in their two special cars for Atlanta.
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of the Lamoille, with such a no.
BILE background of mountains, is
here displayed to the best ad-
vantage. Every variety of soil
and surface is combined in this
view, from the fertile, alluvial
flats in the state to the utterly
barren SUBMITS of the rock hills,
like Mount Elmore.
The surface of the town, reach
ing it's lowest depression at the
Lamoille, near the southern line,
gradually ascends northwardlv
until it assumes almost the char
acter of mountains, in a few To-
calitips. The village of No. Hyde
Park, in the northwest corner, is
however little higher than the
principal village at the southern
line, the latter being situated on
a sand bluff some 70 feet above
the alluvium of the river. With
the exception of a few sandy
plateauS, the largest OF which is
in the eastern part of the town,
crossed by the old Wolcott road,
the soil away from the river beds
is clay, and well adapted for
wheat and grazing. This is
speaking generally, for the usual
variety of soil may be found in
terspersed with the clay ground
work. The deciduous trees pre-
dominate, the pines occurring
upon the rough side hills and
upon the sandy flats. The sugar
maple is very common, the first
growth of this valuable tree hav-
ing been quite generally spared.
PONDS.
The most striking, feature of
the surface is the cluster of ponds
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At No. Hyde Park about 1865
the Adventists and Christians
organized a class and church.
There are also many Universal
lists and Unitarians in town.
NATURAL FEATURES OF HYDE
PARK.
We quote from the following
graphic description ofHyde Park,
from the pen of D. H. Bicknell.
The Lamoille River enters
Hyde Park from Morristown
nearly two miles from the south
east corner, and follows the
southern line at a distance not
exceeding half a mile, passing
into Johnson near the southwest
corner. The principal tributa-
ries of the Lamoille from Hyde
Park are Green River, which
takes its rise from ponds in the
northeast part of the township
and reaches the Lamoil1e in VOL
colt; and Mill Brook, which
rises in Eden, passes through the
center of Hyde Park and unites
with the Lamoille in Morristown
about half a mile from the Vii
lage of Hyde Park.
Although there are no mount
aims within the town boundaries,
the surface is very uneven and in
many places quite billy. From
the summit of almost any OF the
hills in town may be seen a fine
panorama of mountains located
in neighboring towns. Com
mencing in the southeast with
the bare and rocky summit of
Mount Elmore, the eye sweeps
over a prospect which for grand
eur and variety is not n'sur-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-11-03
EARLY HISTORY.

In presenting the early history
of Hyde Park, illustrated by the
brave deeds and selt-sacri6cing
exertions of the pioneers, we are
oppressed by a feeling of inabili-
ty to do justice to the subject.
Volumes might be written
where we can present pages only,
and it is to be hoped that one
who is we'll qualified to do so
will ere long prepare and present
a historical article which will do
Justice to those rare master
spirits who laid broad and deep
the foundations of Hyde Park s
material prosperity.
Capt. Jedediah Hyde, an officer
of the Revolution, with his son,
was the first to explore this
wilderness. AS early as 1871 he
procured the charter, surveyed
the boundaries of the township,
and the town was appropriately
named Hyde's Park, the posses
sive afterwards being omitted.
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came in before 1900, and his son
Breed Noyes was for many years
the only merchant in town.
During the first score of years
Of its early history, Capt. Hyde,
John Mcdaniel, Lieut.. Aaron
Keller and Capt. Jabez Fitch
seem to have figured as the "big
four" of the town, but the Saw
yers soon became an important
factor in shaping the destinies of
the growing community.
The first town house was erect
ed near the center of the town,
and it does not appear to have
been anticipated that the princi-
pal business of the town would
ever be located at the present
site, in the southwest corner of
the town. In 1907 Nathaniel P.
Sawyer erected the first frame
house in the village, an imposing
structure for the times, and COM
handing a superb view of the
Lamoille Valley and the noun
tain panorama. 1t is the oldest
dwelling house now in the village.
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The list of grantees was made
up largely from personal friends
and associates of Capt. Hyde in
Norwich, Conn, and vicinity,
many of whom had distinguished
themselves in the army and
navy. The letters written by
these grantees, and other con-
current evidence, show them to
have been men of unusual intelli-
gence and culture.
About 1882 Capt. Hyde re-
moved to Pawlet, and soon after
to Poultney, VT, where several
meetings of the grantees were
held, and in 1888 he removed
with his family to Hyde Park
He came on in the winter with a
number of small children on an OK
sled. They had their own road
to make for many miles in the
last part of their journey. The
first settlement of the town had
already been made by John Nc.
Daniel, who removed with his
family from Northfield, N. H., and
arrived at Hyde Park July 4
1887. The same season he was
joined by Vim. Norton from New
York, and these two were the
first and only families that win
tered in town that year.
They were joined by Jedediaf
Hyde, as already mentioned, and
soon after by Peter Martin, ia
be- Fitch and sons, and Ephrian
Garvin. These pioneers were
joined within a few years by
Aaron Keller and sons, Joshua
Trueman, and Hon. N. P. Sawyer
and others, with their families
These settlers suffered at first al
of the privations of the life o
pioneers in the wilderness, oh
tanning their meal from Cam
bridge, Is miles distant.
The organization of the towf
was coeval with the admission
of the state in 1871, and it
growth during the next thirty
years was very rapid. In 179.
a grist mill was erected by Heze
kiah Whitney at Wolcott. Olive
Noyes, the first store keeper
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Supplement.

of the town on the Wolcottroad,
the other near Capt. Hyde's.
In this year there were Al
scholars in the eastern school
district between 4 and 10 years
of age, 3S in the western dis
trict and II in the northern dis
trict. In May, 1912, at special
meeting, a tax of seven mills on
the dollar was voted to defray
the expense of furnishing the
town of Hyde Park with ammu-
milton. In 1919 at a special
meeting, it was voted to Hire
preaching with the social wor-
ship money, and that Elder John
Newland, David Clemens and
Robert Hastings be employed to
preach it out, said money to be
divided according to the different
societies in town"
In 1927, at a special meeting
September 4, "Voted unanimous
ly to unite with the several
towns in the vicinity to petition
the General Assembly for a new
county" In 1929, a superin-
endingcommittee of schools was
elected, Ariel Huntoon chairman.
The town house was first occu-
pied at a special meeting held
December 7, 1885, at which it
was voted ITO see what action
the town will take to raise funds
by tax or otherwise to build and
erect buildings for the new Coun-
| ty of Lamoille, located at Hyde
Park, to wit: A court house,
Jail and the appendages apper-
tanning thereto"
In 1850, at a regular meeting,
the town voted to establish a
burial ground at the village or
street. At the same meeting it
was voted that the "town of
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Hyde Park will giveup such por-
ton of their roads and highways
as shall be wanted by the La
noble County Plank Road Com
pany." This was accompanied
with resolution expressing the
conditions, viz: That the COM
pany should clear the town of
damages and allow free passage
to the citizens of the town.
March 3, 1857: "Resolved-
That the inhabitants do remove
the holding of town and free
mems meetings hereafter to Hyde
Park street; that the town vote
to build a suitable building as
town hall for the same; that
there be room for a high school
or academy in the upper story,
for which the said village of
Hyde Park agree to contribute
$500, and that the said town
borrow of the surplus fund a
sufficient sum to defray the re-
mainder OF said expense of erect
ing, completing and finishing
SAID building; that the same be
paid back to said surplus fund i'll
four annual installments, at such
periods as the town may hereafter
direct" The vote on the resolu-
ton stood, aye 107; no 100, a
close division.
This was the first long step in
securing an advanced school.
These brief quotations will suffice
to show the questions that
from time to time engrossed pub
lie attention and will outline the
progress of the town.
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passed, even in Vermont. The
undulating outline of the noun
tains east of Morristown and
Stowe carries the eye indefinitely
into the blue distance, and in the
extreme south we have glimpses
of the hills beyond the Winooski
In the southwest are the most
imposing of all the Green Noun
tains. Mount Sterling marks
the highest point of the horizon.
Although there are loftier sum-
mits in the state, there are
none that more completely salts
fly the eye. The neighboring hills
assist the imagination and make
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outlet, as lack Woods Pond.
Some were entirely surrounded
by the primeval forest, and float
ing in a birch canoe one may
silyimagine himself transferred
to the primeval days when the
yell of the redskin was the only
human sound to break the silence.
Wild ducks frequent these ponds
and occasionally a blue heron is
shot in the vicinity. Some OF
these ponds might be easily
drained and thus discover beds
of muck, the deposits of ages.
A bed of "terre de seine" has
been worked in the gorge of the
Green River, and deposits of ochre
have been discovered in the same
vicinity. A few sulphur and iron
springs are found in different To-
calities. At No. Hyde Park g
mineral spring of great strength
exists. 1t empties into the Gihon
a branch of the Lamoille.
TOWN RECORDS.
The early records of a Vermont
town are the most available anC
authentic repository of the sail
ent facts of it's early history
They are the mile-stones which
mark the steps of it's progress
from primeval to present condi
tons. The town meeting was
the medium of every important
measure, and was much more
than at the present time a law
making body,
For a few years the election O
officers comprised all of the bust
ness transacted at the towr
meetings, and this list was short
consisting of Moderator, Clerk
three Selectmen and a Constable
The meetings were held in pri
waite dwellings, the houses of ia
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The next house was the Aaron
Keller house, long occupied by
his descendants. A hotel was
kept at this time at the farm of
John Mcdaniel, and another on
the road to Cady's Falls in
Morristown.
FIRST EVENTS.
The first births in town were
Diadama, born in 1889, and ia
be- Perkins, born in 1871, chill
dren of Capt. Jedediah Hyde.
The first death was that of
David Parker, a step-son of Capt.
Hyde, killed about 1906 by a log
rolling on him.
Lorenzo Dow, the famous Meth
odist revivalist, was the first
preacher in town.
The first school was taught Ly
Elizabeth Hyde in Judge N. P.
Sawyer's barn, about 1900.
COUNTY BUILDINGS.
The growth of the village re-
ceived a great impetus by the To-
cation of the county seat. The
erection of the court house and
jail in 1886 was a great event,
and permanently changed the
business center of the town. Be
fore this, a store had been kept
for many years by Oliver Noyes
and his son Breed Noyes on their
farm, a mile northeast Of the vii
lage on the Craftsbury road, and
there was the postoffice and bust
ness rendezvous for several years,
but in go the trade came to the
village. In 1910, according to
Thompson's Vermont Gazet-
teer," there were in Hyde Park
street, 20 dwelling houses, two
stores, three hotels and several
mechanics shops.
RELIGIOUS HISTORY.
The first preaching in town, as
early as 1893, was by Lorenzo
Dow, the noted evangelist. Rev
Nehemiah Sabine followed, and
formed the first Methodist class
of whom Elizabeth, daughter Of
Jedediah Hyde, was the first
member.
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be- Fitch, Darius Fitch, John
Searle and Oliver Noyes serving
as town halls, the latter being
the usual resort from 1904 until
1918, when school houses were
used for the purpose.
In 1893 the Selectmen were
directed to erect a sign post in
some public place near the pres
ent dwelling house of Capt. Jede-
diah Hyde, in said town, and
that for the future all warnings
for town meetings for said town
shall be set on said sign post"
In 1899 it was voted at a special
meeting that " the Selectmen be
directed to petition the Legisla-
ture of this State at their next
annual session, to levy a tax of
two cents on the acre on all lands
in said town, public rights ex-
cepted, for the purpose of making
and repairing the roads in said
town" This was an application
of the theory of Henry George,
based upon necessity. 1t was
also voted that 1.-THE Selectmen
be directed to lay the main road
of said town four rods in width. !"
About this time the town was
divided into two school districts,
eastern and western, Mill Brook
being the division line between
them.
In 1905 at a special meeting
held June 3, provision was made
for the support of two paupers,
the first record of action for such
a purpose. The same year, it
was voted to petition the Leg
islature for a road tax for the
purpose of making and repairing
a post road through said town,
to correspond with the one from
Danville to Lake Champlain. At
a regular town meeting held that
year, provision was made for
two cemeteries, and a committee
appointed to select suitable sites
for the same. In 1906 the Select
men were directed and empow-
cred to purchase thelots selected,
of one-fourth an acre each, and
| located, one in the eastern part
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in thenortheast part of the town,
varying in size from $50 acres to
one, and nearly a score in num-
Der. Green River Pond is the
largest. These ponds are stocked
with fish of different varieties,
some of them being named after
their fnny deilizons, as Perch
Pond, Pickerel Pond and Trout
Pond, each of which contains
only one species. Most of these
ponds are supplied with springs
beneath the surface, and are the
sources of brooks which ultimate
ly reach the Lamoille. A few
have apparently neither inlet nor
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Since that time the Methodists
have been numerically the stron-
est denomination in town. The
first Congregational church was
organized at No. Hyde Park in
1853, with Rev. John G. Bailey,
as its pastor for many years. AT
the organization of the Cong'l
church at Hyde Park, Rev. Mr..
Bailey became its pastor and
supplied both churches, preach
ing alternate Sabbaths at each
place, but in 1869 began to de-
vote his time wholly to the Hyde
Park church.
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Hyde Park Street.

There are few villages in Yer
mont that can compare with
Hyde Park in healthfulness and
beauty of situation. 1t is nat
ural sanitarium. Situated on
an elevated terrace of sandy
ground, it secures perfect drain
age and is famed by fresh breezes
of mountain air. The long, wide
and beautifully shaded Main
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it easy for one to look up with
reverence to Mount Sterling as
the monarch of them all. Over
the left shoulder of Sterling is a
glimpse of the chin of old Mans
field, the highest elevation of the
Green Mountains.
The recession of the hills in the
west leads to the lowest point in
the horizon, down the valley of
the Lamoille in Cambridge. In
the west and northwest the view
is bounded by the outlying ridges
of Round Mountain and Mount
Belvidere. The beautiful valley
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HYDE PARK
LAMOILLE COUNTY'S SHIRE TOWN.
An Outline O Hstory-s Early Settlers
Natural Features-Its Business
Biographical Sketches, &C., &C.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12
The Antis in a Majority at
the State Convention of
Ohio Populists.
Surprised the Opposition and
Perfected Organization
Without Them.
Kentucky Republicans Go on
Record as Opposed to
Civil Service.

COLUMBUS, o., Aug. 1.-The anti
fusion delegates to the Populist state
convention sprang great political coup
during the day. All the arrangements
for the convention had been made by a
committee composed principally of fu-
sionists and were calculated to further
the fusion policy. When the anti-fu-
sionists discovered that they had a ma
iority of delegates they prepared to
strike while the iron was hot The dis
trict meetings were to have been held
during the afternoon and the con-
vention in the morning but this
arrangement was ignored and the
delegates We're hastily convened in the
Auditorium at 2 o'clock. A temporary
organization was formed with John
Seitz of Titfin as chairman and A. S.
Lightwalter of New Philadelphia as
secretary. Mr.. Seitz is leader of the
anti-fusion faction. A recess was then
taken and the district meetings were
held, the committees being reported
when the convention reassembled. Ad-
journment was then taken until morn
ing. When the committee on permanent
organization met it was decided to make
the temporary organization permanent.
The committee on credentials seated all
the anti.fusion delegates where there
were contests.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12
IOWA GRAIN CASES.
Interstate Commerce Commission Re
sumes the Hearing In Chicago.

Interstate Commerce Commission Re-
sumes the Hearing In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE interstate
commerce commission has resumed the
hearing Of the petition Of the North
western Iowa Grain Shippers associa-
ton. who complain that rates from
points in Northwestern Iowa to Chi
cago are extortionate. The hearing was
begun last Friday in Sioux City.
A. @. Bird, general traffic manager
for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul, was the first witness. He was
put through long siege of questioning
in an endeavor to ascertain the basis
upon which rates are made.
w. J. Edmunds, president of the
Northwestern Iowa Grain Shippers
association, was the only other witness.
AS an instance of what it was costing
him to ship grain to market he pro-
duced bills of lading, which showed
that the freight on car of corn was al
most equal to the price he received in
the market for the corn itself. Fre-
quently on some kinds of grain he said
that the freights came to more than the
grain. He says he paid $S1.69 for the
freight on carload of oats for which
he received in Chicago $44.60.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12
KENTUCKY REPUBLICANS.
State Convention, Contrary to Expecta
tions, Was Entirely Harmonious.

State Convention, Contrary to Expecta-
tions, Was Entirely Harmonious.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. n.-Contrary
to the expectations of many the Repub-
lican state convention, which was held
in Music hall, this city, for the purpose
of nominating clerk of the court Of
appeals, was entirely harmonious in it's
work There was an idea in some quar-
ters that there would be bitter fight
between the Bradley and Hunt-Todd
factions but the generalship of the
party leaders on and off the floor of the
convention prevented the anticipated
clash. The state and national ad-
ministrations were indorsed and
civil service was opposed along
the lines laid down by the recent
Ohio Republican convention. In other
words, according to the Kentucky Re-
publican view, civil service is good
enough in its way, but there are certain
offices which should be removed from
its control. The convention was quiet
one. There was no enthusiasm to speak
Of, the only real applause coming when
the speakers referred to civil service
reform.
James G. Bailey of Magoffin county
was nominated for clerk of the court Of
appeals by acclamation.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12
CRISIS FAST APPROACHING.
Result of the Miners Fight Against De
Armitt Will Soon Be Known.

Result of the Miners Fight Against De
Armitt Will Soon BE Known.
PITTSBURG, Aug. IA crisis is fast
approaching in the miners movement
against the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal company. The next few days
should determine whether or not the
strikers object will be realized. The
days work, while not viewed in dis
appointing light by the campers at Tur-
tie Creek, Sandy Creek and Plum
Greek, yet the happenings were not of
the most encouraging sort. A sum-
mary of the days developments finds
conditions much the same as they were
the previous day, save that the COM
pany claims to have made further
break in the strikers ranks at Turtle
Creek and Sand Creek
Operators Charged With Bad Faith.
District President Dolan accuses the
operators of the Pittsburg district with
having broken faith with the striking
miners in this district. He has also
outlined the policy to be pursued by the
United Mine Workers i'll carrying their
fight into the Central Pennsylvania dis
trict where it is proposed to close down
all the mines. He cannot predict when
the strike will be settled but claims his
organization can stand the strike until
the last of September. The operators,
he said, had promised to pay the price
when the supply at De Armitt's mines
had been cut off. This has been de-
feated, but the operators had failed to
keep their part OF the contract.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1897-08-12
Authorities at Coffen, Ills, Pre-
pared to Resist an Inva-
sion of Strikers.
Five Hundred Now in Camp in
the Vicinity and Others
s. Are on the Way.
Strike in the PittSburg District
Fast Approaching the
Critical Point.

CoFFEN, Ills, Aug. 11.-This was a
day of feverish excitement in Gotten.
There were fears of an early attack by
Bradley and his army.
The miners went to the shafts in twos
and fours but they refused to go below
until long after fears of the strikers
approach had been dissipated. Out at
the camp everything is orderly. Mrs.
Bradley, the leaders, mother, came in
during the afternoon with wagonload
of provisions and whole beef. With
her came four other wagons filled with
potatoes, -four, bread, etc. The sup
plies came from Staunton and Mount
Olive. Five hundred men are now in
camp and 100 are on the way from
towns south. Trouble is feared by the
people of Coffen who think that Brad
ley is lying low for reinforcements be-
fore marching on the works.
The sheriff has ordered out $50 armed
men to reinforce the guards against in
vasion. He also telegraphed to Noko-
mis- for 30 more men.