News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-10-04
STATE NEWS.

Inc trustees oil the University OF vermont
will meet at the Van Ness House on Friday,
October @, to choose a new medical faculty
and take action regarding the closer union
OF that department with the University.
Winston Churchill, author of Richard Car
vel" one of the most widely read books OF
the year, hos recently purchased a home at
Windsor, where he will at once resume work
on historical novel which he has in hand.
In 1898 Vermont produced more slate than
any other state save Pennsylvania. hepro-
duction this year is expected to show con-
siderable increase over that of last for the
re-opening of the Mortified quarries will of
course add something.
W. B Gates Supervisor of the census for
Vermont, went to Boston recently to meet
the assistant director of the census and the
other Supervisors of the New England states
for conference on matters pertaining to the
18th United States census.
The Committee from the Montpelier city
council to provide for hitching posts and
stands for the out OF town teams Dewey day,
is making arrangements for places III four
st ctons of the town which will give hltchlng
positions in all sections of the city close to
the avenues of travel to and from Montpelier.
The Valley Falls creamery of Hinesburgh
received in August / 900 pounds of milk aud
made 46, 59S pounds of butter 3,945 aver
age test, and paid 80 cents tor per cent
milk; per cent highest test; 1.125 per cent
highest test price paid any patron; 40 per
cent lowest test; .765 per cent test price paid
any patron.
The officers of the First Vermont Regiment
met in Burlington Friday evening to elect
successors to Lieut.. Col j. ii. Mimms and
Major, II. D. Fillmore, resigned Major Chas.
NJ Bonette of st. Johnsbury was unanimous
ly elected Lieutenant Colonel, and Captains
II. E Dyer of Rutland and ID. T. johnson of
Bradford we're elected Majors.
The Grand Jury for Franklin County ter
the September term of court reported "a
true bills and 81 not found. One Item of in
terest in connection with their labor is the
fact that no true bills were found on com
plant of the Anti Saloon League or its
agents, which is considered remarkable in
view of the strong efforts of the League.
Besides the regular trains there will be "a
special trains into Montpelier Dewey day.
OF this number 26 will enter over the Central
Vermont. For the accommodation of che
immense crowd which will come from all sec
tions of the state the Central Vermont will
construct 2 tracks on the Landon meadow
and will enclose the whole with q fence II
feet high with gates at each end of the track.
The trustees of Goddard Seminary at Bar e,
Thursday voted to close the school for a
short time pending an investigation into the
cause of the two cases OF typhoid fever exist
ing among the mem bers OF the school. The
matter does not cause much alarm as it is
thought the source of whatever nature can
be speedily removed. The water aud SAM
tary arrangements at the school are excellent
Doctor. James Conland of Brattleboro,
Vermont, feels himself to be the richest man
in his part OF the country, says the Phiadel-
phia Saturday Evening Post He Is the Kip
ling family pay stefan, and he accompanied
Mr. Kipllng IN his various trips to the Great
Banks when the famous author Was getting
Information for his Captains Courageous.
The other day Mr.. klphng made bis doctor II
present of the original manusc ipt.
The output of the marble and slate quar-
RES of Rutland county will undou Oteuly he
larger than in any previous year. Some
slate quHrries have been compel ID to REUSE
orders for this years delivery. But ies
years ago quantities of roofing slate were i'm
ported into this country from Wales. Now u
large part of the prO0uct of the Vermont
slate quarries goes to England and the con-
tiueDt
Four prisoners escaped from the county
hail at Newfane last Thursday during the alb
sence OF the jailer They sawed off the bars
leading to the corridor and then induced a
little girl to unlock door leading out doors.
Arthur Baybrook, Jerry Downs, Arthur
Greene and Frank Pratt, who had been sen
| tened to terms of Imprisonment that week
gained their liberty. Bsybrook was sen
fenced for larceny and the others for horse
stealing. l.. q. Harris. convicted for assault,
and two prisoners held on charge of drunk
enness, refused to leave with them.
Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, has d.
rected that the photographs Of all commits
| OIL thn
of the United States service be sent to the
War Department. Some time ago the Gov
| ernor of Vermont directed that the photo
| graphs of the officers in the First Vermont
Infantry Volunteers, war with Spain, be col
| lected and placed in an album, to be sent to
the War Department for safe keeping. This
album is almost completed and will soon be
placed in the library of the War Department
where are also the photographs of many Of
the Vermont men who served III the war foT
! the Union.
The canning factories at Windsor, West.
minister and Brattleboro take the bulk of the
corn grown in Their sections. At Westmin,
ster about 100000 pint cans will be filled
with excellent corn this season, and the de.
mand exceeds the supply. A bushel basket
| of corn is taken from a load, husked and
weighed, and the shrinkage of the load il
| thus averaged. The average price per acre is
about $32 or $12 ton after it is husked
This years crop is below the average. The
husks are used in silos and are said to be SUI
peror to the husks of ordinary corn, the
product tor canning being entirely sweet
corn. The corn canning season lasts about
five weeks, during which more than a hun
! bred hands ara employed, the huskers recsiv-
ing four cents bushel. The average mum
her of bushels which a person can husk is
about 80, though some can husk nearly
| twice that number.