News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-08-07
STATE NEWS.

From the state fish hatchery at Roxbury
40, 900 lake trout have been sent to Crystal
lake in Barton.
Three hundred persons are expected to
attend the reunion of the Wheeler family in
Calais, August 10.
The Bristol News plant has been sold to ].
NJ. Lull of Rutland, and E. W. Fuller who
have taken possession.
William Green, a Montpelier boy, received
a severe shock from touching the iron weight
attached to an electric light pole.
George W.. Squires of Rutland, caught a
~pickerel that weighed 14% pounds in Otter
creek. The fish was 80 inches long.
j. A. Gingras of Burlington was seriously
injured by sitting Town ON a letter spindle
which one OF the children had left in a chair.
Reports from the Vermont maple sugar
market at the Pan-American Exposition
show that the sales have been aslarge as was
anticipated.
Frank Culbertson, the bnttermaker at the
new creamery in Benson, sent q tub of his
butter to the Pan-American Exposition and
got a score of 80, which entities him to a
medal.
The granite manufacturers of Barre nave
yielded to the demands of the men and there
will be no shut out. The trouble arose over
the Interpretation of q clause in the bill of
prices.
The Bristol Manufacturing ~Company's dry
house, machine shop and engine room at
Bristol, Vt, we're Quilted by fire Thursday,
causing a loss of about $12, 600. Tit prop
erty was insured.
E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., OF st. Johnsbury-
have shipped by mail four boxes each con,
tanning nine postal scales and weighing "a
pounds to the director general of posts for
Cuba at Havana.
Some valuable and very interesting Egyp-
tian curiosities nave been added to the Fair
banks museum at st. Johnsbury. They were
brought by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank H. Brooks
from their recent trip to Egypt.
In Windsor county court |. C. Thompson.
charged with %defrauding Hotel keeperJ J.. Holt,
at South Woodstock, was fined $40 and
costs, and Joseph Hatch was fined the same
amount for driving a horse with a badly gall
ed shoulder.
Stanley Perry of Barre has shot a blue
heron that measured six feet from tip to tip,
near Dodge bridge in Berlin. Several of these
birds are seen in that section the latter
part of each summer and this was an unusu-
ally fine specimen.
Business is brisk at all the mills in Randolph
Salisbury Brothers are running the largest
gang for several years and will probably add
more men il orders keep coming. The Elmer
son Company is receiving much patronage
especially for interior finish for new buildings
being erected in Barre. About twenty five
men are now at work there.
Writing from Topeka, Kans., to the Secre,
tary of the Waterbury Old Home Week
Association, the Rev. Charles Vi. Sheldon
says: 81 regret | cannot be present at the
meeting Of the Old Home Week Association
Accept my hearty good wishes. | have many
pleasant memories Of nv first parish aud
shall always owe much gratitude to my
friends there who were loyal in their SUPPORT
Of the church and parish work. The Lore
bless you ALL"
The newest and largest ballounin the worlC
has been named st. JOhnsbury c. c.. Bon
nette, the w~ell-known aeronaut, who is pass
. ing his spare time with his father in Water
? ford, has just completed the largest balloon
ever made. The cut is 95 feet, circumference,
$50 feet, diameter 60 feet, and, when inflated
will stand 20 feet high. 1t contains 1,20(
yards of cloth and will easily carry five people
=, This monster has been named "St. Johns
bury" and the daring young sky-iyPr will
use it for the first time at Pl~attsburgh, N, Y.
fair. September 10. He has also completed
two monster parachutes, one all red, tn
other all green, containing 100 yards Of clotl
each The balloon contains 400 yards NOR
q than ever used by him before.