125 Years Ago

The Northfield News

March 19, 1885

3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year

Geo. H Richmond, editor

Northfield News - Will you allow me to say a few words through your columns, regarding what seems an urgent want of our village. Some one who wants to make an honest dollar and make it in a legal and respectable way, should open a lunch room in some place easily accessible, and furnish what would be needed for supplying a low-priced meal or lunch, on short notice, at any hour of the day or evening. This place should be kept with sufficient regard to neatness and decorum so that any gentleman or lady would feel sure of becoming usage whenever disposed to call. A well prepared stew of oysters, a nice cup of coffee with a piece of pie or doughnuts; or even a bowl of milk and oatmeal pudding or crackers - with nice bread and butter and cheese - is a bill of fare that would just suit people from out of town, who come here for the better part of the day and don't care for a meal at the hotel. The cost of these supplies should be placed low - as low as a living profit would allow. If our own citizens from the hills could know of such a place, handy by, where a nice lunch could be obtained at a small cost, and where they could quietly sit down to eat it and not be almost suffocated with tobacco smoke, or be offended by the fumes of strong drink, they would aid in supplying the amount of patronage needed to make the enterprise a paying one. A Citizen

100 Years Ago

The Northfield News

March 15, 1910

3 cents a copy/$1.25 year

Fred N. Whitney, editor

The Minstrel show was certainly all and more than was expected. It is doubtful if anything ever took so well in Northfield before. Armory hall was packed at both performances and the audience proved to be a most appreciative one. It is estimated that fully one thousand people attended the two performances. While it is extremely difficult to pick out any one star act, owing to the bill being so well balanced, the honors probably should go to Colburn and Light's sketch in the areoplane which was a remarkable piece of work. The areoplane was built by Cadet Tnayner, and is probably the first one ever seen in Northfield.

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The last benefit of the Senior class Washington fund, will be given by F. J. Dutton, manager of the Pearl Theater, Friday night. The pictures will be good and music will be furnished by Heber Shaw, flute, Edward Collins, violin, and Miss Harriett Whitney, piano.

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Masters Raffaele and Domenico Pisani of Hardwick, who are visiting in town, made a big hit at the Lyric last evening, when they gave several selections on the guitar and mandolin accompanied by Edward Connell, pianist. The youngsters are only nine and ten years old and their ability as musical entertainers is remarkable. They will play again this evening and it is expected at other times during their stay in town.

75 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISERMarch

21, 1935 5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

Led by Prof. A. W. Peach of Northfield, opponents of the proposed $18,000,000 Green Mountain Parkway dominated the hearing held in the Hall of Representatives before the House judiciary committee Tuesday night as completely as the proponents controlled the hearing of last Thursday. Again crowded House galleries and lobbies marked the discussion surrounding the most controversial subject before the Vermont Legislature. Professor Peach, who led the attack on the parkway last week, opened for the opposition. He declared, "I am still convinced the construction of this parkway would be the end of the traditional development of Vermont." Basing his argument on "fundamental issues," he quoted a passage from a paper printed in 1792 which said referring to Vermont, "The people in that State enjoy a liberty as pure as the air they breath and which is unexcelled." It is such values as these, he asserted, that will be placed in jeopardy if this great highway ties the little state of Vermont with the great area populated by 14 millions of people.

50 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

March 17, 1960

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

This is the first of a series of reports which, I hope will help Northfield citizens to understand the various departments and their doings. As your municipal manager, I have been busy during the past week getting acquainted with the various department heads and the personnel who work with them...I paid a call on Mrs. Cordelia DeLary, superintendent of Mayo Memorial Hospital, to explore our mutual problems, the foremost of which is the "Nursing Home Bill" recently put into operation by the Social Welfare Department. We now have seven patients chargeable to the town resident in the hospital for whom the town is billed as high as $13 per day. If part of the hospital can be designated as a nursing home, the state and federal government will pay 70% of the cost of maintaining qualified persons in the nursing home. This will relieve the town of much of the financial burden now carried by the poor account. George L. Young, Municipal Manager

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The total proceeds of the 1960 March of Dimes campaign in Northfield amounted to $824.08...The total contribution in Northfield came from these sources: Mothers' March, $686.00; special events, $43.60; individual gifts, $10; coin collectors, $5.13; club gifts, $3.

25 Years Ago

NORTHFIELD NEWS

March 21, 1985

25 cents a copy, $2 a year

Erik Nelson, editor

During its regular meeting Mar. 18, the Northfield Village Board of Trustees learned that Municipal Manager Ed Gadbois is getting ready to prepare a rate case for the village electric department...Gadbois also brought the trustees up to date on the Seabrook nuclear power plant. The first reactor of the plant is almost finished. Trustee Dean Severance said he had read in the Boston Globe that the first reactor was nearly ready to be tested...A second reactor which had been planned for the Seabrook project has been put "on the back burner for the time being, Gadbois said. Northfield's indebtedness for the plant will have to be paid beginning 1986, Gadbois told the trustees; and the villages share of the debt will come to roughly $37,000 a year.