125 Years Ago

The Northfield News

September 17, 1884 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year

Geo. H Richmond, editor

The skating rink opens on Thursday night. The Northfield coronet band are to furnish the music, and it is expected that the occasion will be very enjoyable. Admission 15 cents; skates, 10 cents. Until further notice the rink will be open each afternoon and evening. Roller skating is something of a novelty hereabouts and the new rink will doubtless prove a strong attraction.

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Some sort of a wild animal is making havoc with the sheep on the Winch hill.

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Dr. C. W. Locklin, formerly resident dentist...has made a radical change in his business. The profession of dentistry that he honored so many years, has lost a good and skillful member, and Northfield a good and genial citizen... His present position is no less than that of superintendant of the subscription department in the house of Lee & Sheppard, Boston, one of the largest and best known publishing firms.

100 Years Ago

The Northfield News

September 21, 1909

3 cents a copy/$1.25 year

Fred N. Whitney, editor

President E. H. Kennedy of the Orange County Telephone Co. takes exceptions to a recent report in the Barre Times to the effect that "the New England company has swallowed up the Orange County Telephone company, which has maintained an independent existence up to now.: He isn't knowing to such a condition, and says that the report "Is entirely untrue from beginning to end. The Orange County Telephone company is not swallowed up by the New England Telephone company, and still stands on its own feet and is able to continue to do so. The Orange County Telephone company is competent to manage its own business, and does not take any dictation from the New England Telephone company or any other company, and is ready to business in Barre the same as we have in Montpelier when the same generous cooperation is accorded us."

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Taking advantage of the absence of the families, who were in attendance at the fair Wednesday afternoon burglars entered the residences of E. B. Ellis on Central street and F. W. Dutton on Prospect street...The burglaries were particularly bold breaks for entrances were made in both cases through windows which were visible from other houses and from the street.

75 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

September 20, 1934

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

The voters of the town of Northfield, at a slimly attended special town meeting held in the armory Saturday afternoon, voted against the purchase of a motorized pumper for increased fire protection. No ballot was taken on a motion that the article be laid on the table as a yea and nay vote was sufficiently emphatic to determine that the voters did not care to authorized the purchase of the motorized equipment. It was voted at the meeting to give the selectmen power to sell the Cannon property on North Main Street, the Melcher property at Northfield Falls and the Bowman property in Little Northfield, all of which are owned by the town. The town clerk was given the authority by the meeting to sign all deeds if purchasers are found for the property.

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The state board of public works opened bids last week for the removal of the monuments and markers from the North Branch cemetery in Middlesex to the new location made necessary by the construction of the flood control dam at Wrightsville. There were eight bides, of which the lowest was from Davis Brothers of Riverton, to whom the contract will be awarded for $4,995.

50 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

September 17, 1959

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

"The Adventures of LuLu May," the story of the experiences of the canine pet of the boys of an upstate New York school, will be published Friday by Exposition Press of New York. The author is Frederic N. Crabb, Sr., a teacher and director of visual education at P.S. 615 in Esopus, N.Y., and a Northfield summer resident. The book recounts the adventures of a beagle at the Wiltwyck School for Boys in Esopus and on a nearby farm, where she is taken because she is approaching parenthood. Afraid that she is being taken away because she is unloved, and most fearful of being done away with, LuLu May runs away, is lost, and finally learns - and earns - trust.

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Effective this fall, the Northfield Town School District will administer the hot lunch program with the exception of that at the Northfield Falls school where the program is sponsored by the Parent Teacher Association. The School Board would like to take this opportunity to express its appreciation to the Northfield Mothers' Club for the fine and generous work it has performed for the past few years in sponsoring the hot lunch program. It has been a pioneer in establishing the program her in Northfield and has devoted a good deal of time and effort in carrying it out.

25 Years Ago

NORTHFIELD NEWS

September 20, 1984

25 cents a copy, $2 a year

Erik Nelson, editor

The Fish and Wildlife Board held a meeting September 12 at Norwich University to give landowners on Mill Hill a chance to hear about proposed management plans to move existing deer yards. According to John Buck of Fish and Wildlife... he hopes the yarding project will be started by early October. Fish and Wildlife is mandated by the state to make plans for the relocation of deer yards [which will be destroyed by the proposed new Route 63 access road to I-89] The proposed road will have two 12 foot traveling lanes with eight foot shoulders. The steep part of the road from Route 12 to the top of the hill will also have a truck escape route and an uphill passing lane.

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Municipal trustees gave a 160 page codification a cursory preview at the Board of Trustees meeting Monday night. The codification, according to Town Attorney Peter Monte, is "a means to see what you do and don't have." Also, Monte said, "if you want to know the speed limit, you can look in one place," rather than go through the minutes of trustee meetings to find out...Monte counseled the trustees that "unless there's something glaring and important that's missing," they should "adopt this and get the show on the road."