News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-04-09
STATE NEWS.

There are fifteen cases of typhoid fever i
| Vergennes.
John Dutton, 6S years old, of Lyndon sui
tered fall last week and his condition is con
sidered 81 rious.
The steel vault for the new bank building 10
Woodstock has arrived and is being placed
in the building.
William A. Hall of Bellows Falls has been
granted two patents, one for an adhesive and
another for a casein solution.
Daring the month of March 1927 books
were loaned from the Poultney public library
which is an increase of 173 over the number
loaned in February.
Wallace Chase, who attends the Newport
academy, broke one leg above the knee while
scufHlng with some of the boys on the schoo
house grounds last Wednesday.
The fund for the new parish house for st
Paul's parish, Burlington, is steadily increas
ing, So 900 of the SIS, 900 necessary having
already been collected.
A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by
William II. Lamphere, merchant of Ryegate
His liabilities are $2lS and assets 1924 20
of which 5000 is claimed exempt
T. Neville, of Vergennes, has an English ivy
about five years old, which is said to be the
finest one in the state. 1t measures about
$50 feet.
Some of the merchants and business IN IN o.
Burlington are agitating holding Fourth OF
July celebration to continue the entire week
of the Fourth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis T. wilkins of Bedford
Mass, have made an Easter gift to the Castle
ton free library of$25 and gift to the Cong
church of $50.
The water in Lake Champlain has reached
it's highest point for this season and is slow
ly receding 1t is higher than it was last year
but is twenty-nine inches lower than the high
water mark reached in 1869.
William A. Ellis of Montpelier has a pullet
that is only ten months old, but it has begun
laying eggs, starting collection of big eggs
by laying one which is 612 inches in circum
ference in one direction by IA inches in an
other.
Mrs. Sumner Proctor of Lyndonville, who
has been at Brightlook hospital, st. Johns
bury, for several weeks on account of trouble
with her eyes, had the right eye removed last
Thursday, says the Lyndonville Journal. The
doctor who removed the eye said it was af
fected worse than any eye he had ever oper'
| ated on. Mrs. Proctor returned home Thurs
day night and her condition is now favor
| able.
Following is the report OF the Valley Falls
creamery at Hinesburg Tor the year ending
March L, 1902: Amount of milk received
9,570,355 pounds; amount of butter fat
| 336,S16 pounds amount of butter made
| 400, 0S9 pounds amount of money received
$S5, S36 80 amount paid to patrons, 49,
| 3O7 20; average test, 90 cost of making
per hundred pounds butter, 81 $40; pounds
of milk for pounds of butter, FLAP prices
paid for per cent milk ,942 per cent in
crease, 1878.
The first passenger train between Troy and
Rutland made it's first trip over the Western
Vermont railroad fifty years ago this month
Three years later, the branch between North
Bennington and Bennington was completed
Forty-nine years ago Henry W. Marsh enter
ed the service of the company, and with the
exception of short time in the West, has
been in the continuous service of the different
companies that succeeded the old Western
Vermont. For 81 years he has held the pc
sition of car inspector at Bennington and
North Bennington, and during that time has
lost but few days by illness. No accident
has ever occurred to car from any defect
that passed him unnoticed.