125 Years Ago

The Northfield News

February 12, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year

Geo. H Richmond, editor

[If you find yourself responsible for raising a boy] the first thing to do is to feed him. A young boy will not live and thrive without something to eat. In the earlier stages of his existence, he should be fed on milk. Not until he is nearly a year old can the stomach be safely trusted to digest baked beans, cabbage, common pie, buttons, thimbles and pins. It makes but little difference what kind of milk you give them in order to secure growth. The most important thing is to give them enough. Some have fed cow’s milk with considerable success. There is only one danger here, and that is that it may develop bovine propensities, and no man likes to have his boy turn out to be a calf. A boy should be fed with reference to growth rather than to the development of fat, as in our markets, he has no value as meat. In raising a boy the next important thing to do is to clothe him. It does very well to blanket him at first, but after a time he grows restless under their weight, and loose-fitting garments become more suitable. This direction about clothing is local in its application. The direction to feed is universal. Boys must have something to eat wherever you find them. As to clothing, climate and custom have much to do with the matter. There are sections of the globe where neither of these demand that boys should have anything to wear. This is a great saving of time and expense. In those countries where boys do not need anything to wear the can devote their whole attention to securing an education. It is quite possible the practice might be introduced here if there was not danger of securing more talent than could be made use of. As the boy grows it will be found necessary to increase the amount of his clothing, and you will always find that he needs more clothes and those he has always need mending…

100 Years Ago

The Northfield News

February 8, 1910

3 cents a copy/$1.25 year

Fred N. Whitney, editor

In pursuance of a plan to eliminate Berlin Pond as a summer resort and reduce the contamination of its city water supply as much as possible the Montpelier city council has just purchased the property of Chauncey G. and Ella Poor and S. B. Sibley, bordering on the upper pond and aggregating about 50 acres. The cost was $6,500. In addition to this, the city recently purchased the lots of James M. Boutwell, and Messrs Hastings and Cleaves. By the Poor purchase, Montpelier comes into possession of the land and cottages on the upper side of the road in the eastern bank of the large pond, up to the Clark Stewart line, excepting the Blanchard and Tobin lots. The city proposes to dispose of those cottages as soon as acquired. Mr. Poor gives 16 boats and his boating business to Montpelier for $2,500, with the stipulation that he will not rent any boats on the pond. He is also given $2,500 for 30 to 40 acres of land bordering on the pond. The Sibley purchase includes the Bosworth house and 10 acres of land on the brook leading to the pond…It is intimated that Montpelier will purchase other land bordering on the pond from time to time, in accordance with recommendations of the state board of health, and gradually wipe out the summer outing business in Berlin. Clark Stewart, one of the chief ones interested in the renting of cottages and boats, is reported to be hostile to the plan as would seem quite natural, as it affects his business very unfavorably.

75 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISERFebruary

7, 1935 5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

Police protection will be given to children of the village who wish to slide on Vine street Saturday afternoon from 1:30 until 4:30; also on King Street the same hours until further notice.

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The local entertainment given for the support and endowment of the fight against infantile paralysis at Warm Springs, Ga., in the form of a community card party at Armory Hall last week netted a fund of about $62. Thirty per cent of this amount goes to a national commission for research in the treatment, cure and control of infantile paralysis and 70 per cent will be left in the community to take care of local people who have the disease...There were 28 tables of whist and bridge in play. All prizes were donated by local merchants.

50 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISERFebruary

11, 1960

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

The Ladies Reading Circle met at Margaret Holland Inn Monday. Mrs. Ernest N. Harmon, the president, presided. There were 33 members present. Following the opening exercises Mrs. Vernon Pinkham offered Lincoln's Birthday Thoughts with a reading entitled "What Made Lincoln President - the Cooper Union Speech."...Mrs. G. A. Buck introduced the speaker of the afternoon, Jack Woolley. His subject was "An Eye for An Eye." Mr. Woolley in 1940 was injured in one eye and gradually lost the sight of it. He had a successful corneal transplant in 1956. After a number of years of blindness in one eye he now has 20- 25 vision.

25 Years Ago

NORTHFIELD NEWS

February 7, 1985

25 cents a copy, $2 a year

Erik Nelson, editor

Col. Anthony J. Carbone has been named Commandant of Cadets at Norwich University. Col. Carbone is a native of Jamaica, New York who graduated from Norwich in 1958. He comes to Norwich from Fort Devens, Massachusetts where he has been chief of staff. He will assume his new position on July 1. Col. Carbone's new position is his second assignment to Norwich by the Army. During 1967 and 1968 he served with the Army ROTC detachment as assistant professor of Military Science.

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A federal mediator called in to help settle contract negotiations between the village and the Northfield Electric Department has done his job, the village trustees learned Monday night during their regular meeting...Under the terms of the new contract, electric department workers will receive the following: a $75 clothing allowance to pay for special clothing the workers must wear on the job; a five percent pay hike in 1985 and another five percent hike in 1986; an additional week's vacation after 25 years of service; 20 percent cash payment of accumulated sick days over 100 days upon termination or retirement; Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday will be a paid holiday beginning in 1986; the village agrees to follow the state's lineman apprentice program salary schedule; and utilities borrowing workers will pay that worker's salary plus 10 percent. ...Also during Monday's meeting, the trustees set in motion Jack Baroffio's application process. Baroffio wants to operate a junkyard at his service station on North Main Street...The trustees will hold a public hearing on the matter Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the municipal managers office to hear public comment on the issue.