125 Years Ago

The Northfield News

July 1, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year

Geo. H Richmond, editor

Frederick Billings doesn't take a particularly encouraging view of the business situation and of the outlook for young men just starting in life. He said to a New York newspaper reporter the other day: "I have been a close observer of financial matters for the last thirty years, but at no time within that period has business depression been so perplexing as it now is, or so general, indeed, for England and France and Germany are struggling with the same problem. The present time is particularly unfortunate for young men just starting out in life. Every department is overcrowded; supply seems greater than demand. There are shoals of young doctors and lawyers, and it is about as hard to get started in business as in a profession...I feel that the state of affairs which existed when we older heads were young is all changed. The boundless resources of our country and the energy of the people are evidence enough that prosperity must return, but the present outlook is very foggy, and if I were a young man just starting in life, though I were granted at the start all the experience which a rather eventful life has brought me, I should be in absolute doubt where to turn or what to do."

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One of the latest victims of yellow fever at Panama is Byron Morgan of Rutland, a locomotive engineer on the Panama railroad.

The long expected Democratic paper, the Independent of Burlington, has made its appearance. It is a six column quarto, well filled with advertising, and the editor seems well loaded with Democratic thunder. In fact, if Mr. Alger was not a Democrat we should think he might be classed as an "offensive partisan."

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As much as it is to be regreted, Hiram Atkins is a "power" in this state under the present administration, and nothing is to be gained by the "Independent" journals, that deny it. Probably no man enjoys a Democratic administration better than Mr. Atkins - not even President Cleveland himself.

100 Years Ago

The Northfield News

June 28, 1910

3 cents a copy/$1.25 year

Fred N. Whitney, editor

The Central Vermont railway has recently inaugurated a new and fast train service to the west for the special accommodation of the granite manufacturers of the state, which is bound to aid very materially in the development and exploitation of this great and rapidly growing industry. The service is for a special train carrying nothing but granite, and runs three days each week from Montpelier Junction to Port Huron, Mich., and takes on all product for the west from the manufacturers on Northfield, Montpelier, Barre, Burlington, St. Albans, Hardwick and Swanton. The first train consisted of 40 cars and left Montpelier Junction last Tuesday evening; it arrived in Chicago on Saturday, remarkably quick service.

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Frank Duffany, while trying to get his horse acquainted with an automobile, had quite a narrow escape from getting hurt, in front of Cross Bros'. Co., Thursday afternoon. The horse broke loose from the carriage and ran a short distance before being caught.

75 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

June 27, 1935 5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

Jason B. Hart, deputy collector of internal revenue, will be at Barre City Hall from 9 to 4:30 p.m., June 28, and at the revenue office in Montpelier from 8:30 to 12 a.m. on Saturday, June 29, to assist federal-taxpayers in making returns, and to accept such taxes as are due at that time. Dealers in liquor, oleomargerine, adulterated or renovated butter, and narcotics, should make note of the fact that their Special Federal Stamps expire June 30, and that new Special Stamps should be purchased not later than July 31, or penalty attaches.

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The weekly concert by the Northfield Coronet band was held Friday night and the largest crowd of the season was out and very enthusiastically received the varied program. Bradford Denny played a trombone solo and responded to an encore.

50 Years Ago

NEWS AND ADVERTISER

June 30, 1960

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

The Northfield Little League opened last week with games between the Cardinals and the Red Sox and the Yankees and the Cubs. The Red Sox downed the Cards, 8-2. Errors plagued both teams. Pete Boyles picked up the win and was relieved by Ray Bonney in the third inning. Craig Gillespie went the distance for the losers, allowing only one hit. Boyles and Bonney scattered five hits. The big crowd on hand saw the Yanks shut out the Cubs in the second game, 5-0. Again errors were many. "Butch" Stillson went all the way for the winners and aided his own cause with a single and a run in the third inning.

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If you see your doctor promptly and carry health and hospital insurance, you can have better health protection and save on your medical expenses, despite all-time high costs. So writes Albert Q. Maisel...More than 125 million people in this country subscribe to voluntary healthinsurance plans. "Such policies are a bargain," says Maisel, "especially when you can buy them at low group rates, with your employer footing part of the costs."

25 Years Ago

NORTHFIELD NEWS

July 4, 1985 25 cents a copy, $2 a year

Erik Nelson, editor

Approximately 65 individuals employed by Norwich University will find their jobs eliminated in an effort by University Administration to offset a budget imbalance of $2.5 million dollars. In an interview General Russell Todd, president of the university... stated that the cutbacks were being made to offset a decline in the enrollment of incoming freshmen at the University and blamed the present (federal) Administration policies on student aid as part of the reason for the decline in enrollment.

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An Atlantic salmon recently made history by climbing the Bellows Falls fish ladder and becoming the first of its species in almost 200 years to swim upstream of Bellows Falls in the Connecticut River to spawn.