125 Years Ago

The Northfield News

October 22, 1884 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year

Geo. H Richmond, editor

The creamery patent litigation, D. B. Wooster vs. Vt. Farm Machine Company, part owner of the Cooley Creamery patent, will be heard in the United States court at Rutland today, Oct 22. This litigation is in the main to prevent the company using Wooster's invention in the Cooley Creamery. Wooster and his counsel, S. C. Shurtleff, will be present at the hearing.

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At the target shoot of the New England Guard on Friday, the first prize, a gold medal, was won by Capt. Howes; the second, a hanging lamp, by Walter Hanson, the third, a clock, by F. J. Eastman. The prize for the best single shot was awarded to Walter Hanson. The breather medal, given for the poorest shot on the board, was won by J. F. Johnson

100 Years Ago

The Northfield News

October 26, 1909

3 cents a copy/$1.25 year

Fred N. Whitney, editor

Pending a settlement of their differences with the Sutherland Granite company of Waterbury, a member of whose firm worked with them without holding a union card, the granite cutters there returned to their work yesterday morning after a three days' strike, according to information received at the headquarters of the Barre Granite Manufactures' association. As a concession by the manufacturers, John Carroll formerly of Northfield, over whom the difficulty arose, has abandoned his work as a granite cutter for the present, or until the matter can be settled by the executive boards of the parent organizations... Carroll, the member of the Sutherland firm, whose work at the "banker" caused the dissatisfaction of the cutters, was formerly a member of the union, but he took out his withdrawal card when he went into business for himself. The Waterbury union wants him to return his withdrawal card and resume payment of union dues if he is to continue at the occupation of granite cutting along with the members of the union.

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A new granite cutting firm has opened business in Northfield. W.F. Kittredge, a granite man of long an successful experience, has associated with him his two sons, E.W. and L.T. Kittredge, under the firm name of Kittredge & Sons, and will do a general line of work in the monumental, vault and building line, using any granite quarried in Vermont, as may be specified. The new company has rented a portion of the E.B. Ellis Granite company's cutting plant.

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Articles of Agreement between Retail Clerks' International Protective Association and Retail Merchants Association. We...merchants of Northfield hereby agree to close our place of business. All day on Sunday, all day on the following Legal Holidays: New Year's, Washington's Birthday, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day; and to close all day the second Wednesday in August as clerk's Holiday....To close Mondays at 9 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 10 p.m.; also to keep open the night before a holiday and to keep open six nights before Christmas.

75 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

October 26, 1934 5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

Porter H. Adams of Thetford, prominent aeronautical expert, left a sick bed Monday to be inaugurated sixteenth president of Norwich University. The new president, who had been confined to his hotel suite in Montpelier for the past week suffering from a cold contracted at the Norwich Dartmouth football game, was administered the oath by Supreme Court Justice George M. Powers. Eleven college presidents and men prominent in many walks of life were present in Norwich Armory as the exercises, presided over by Governor Stanly C. Wilson, vicepresident of the University were opened by President Paul D. Moody of Middlebury College.

50 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

October 22, 1959

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

Company E's rifle team has achieved outstanding distinction on being named winner of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau's Indoor Team Trophy for the First Army Area. Northfield's National Guard rifle team competed against all other National Guard rifle teams of the First Army Area which comprises all of the New England states, New York, and New Jersey.

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A stormy showdown between management and labor over the $500 million annual feather bedding waste on the nation's railroads is imminent...U.S. railroads are determined to modernize the work rules dating from 40 and more years ago...according to Alfred Steinberg. These rules require surplus men on trains, erect jurisdictional barriers between various work groups and otherwise promote waste and inefficiency among 200,000 operating employees..."There can be no doubt to the question that featherbedding abounds wherever one looks," Mr. Steinberg declares. The toll, he ads, is measured in higher passenger fares and freight rates and dwindling business for the long-troubled railroad industry. The fireman who "has no fires to stoke or boilers to tend" on the modern diesel locomotive is cited as a primary example of featherbedding practice. Another obsolete rule gives each engine-crew member a basic day's wage for every 100 miles he travels. This rule dates from 1919, Mr. Steinberg reports, and results in such "high pay for short hours as...a Pennsylvania engineer's collecting 4 1/2 day's pay...or about $100, for making the 452-mile round trip between New York City and Washington D.C., in a single day.

25 Years Ago

NORTHFIELD NEWS

October 25, 1984

25 cents a copy, $2 a year

Erik Nelson, editor

The public is invited to come and learn the how-to's of basic personal and family money management at a workshop on Thursday, November 1 at 7 p.m. at the Northfield High School home economics room. The workshop is offered by the UVM Extension Service and Northfield Creative Education.

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The Northfield Board of Civil Authority added 404 names to the voter checklist at its meeting Monday night in the municipal building. There are now approximately 3,700 people on the Northfield checklist