125 Years Ago

The Northfield News

July 8, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year

Geo. H Richmond, editor

The first Normal Institute of Hygiene and Heredity called by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, convened at Bellows Falls June 25 and 26 in the Universalist church...It was voted to accept the invitation of the Vermont Medical Association to hold a joint session with them that evening in the town hall. The first paper was...on "Contagious Diseases; treating of their cause and nature, but especially of their contagion and how to prevent it." Dr. H. Holton of Brattleboro followed with a paper on "Some of the Sanitary needs of the State." which he had prepared for the Institute of Hygiene and Heredity.

100 Years Ago

The Northfield News

July 5, 1910

3 cents a copy/$1.25 year

Fred N. Whitney, editor

Deputy Sheriff E. A. Thomas had a lively time the 24th arresting Dr. Samuel Allen of White River Junction on the charge of performing a criminal operation on a young woman of the town of Norwich. State's Attorney E.R. Buck went there and gave papers to Sheriff Thomas to serve on Dr. Allen. The officer went to the house to serve the warrant and found Dr. Allen at home. When the officer was about to serve the warrant, Dr. Allen made an excuse to get away for a few minutes; but the sheriff followed. The officer says that then Dr. Allen made a move to reach his hip pocket, whereupon the officer grabbed his arm. At the same time, Mrs. Allen can in and also seized the arm. The sheriff says that he removed an automatic pistol from the doctor's pocket. The physician was taken to the county jail at Woodstock and will be arraigned for a hearing. It is probable that his trial will occur at the present term of county court. Dr. Allen is 50 years old. It is alleged that 20 years ago he was tried in Massachusetts on the charge of shooting a man and that in this state he paid a heavy fine for shooting H.M. Dufur, the wrestler.

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The long talked of prize fight was pulled off at Reno, Nev., the Fourth and the burly negro Johnson knocked out the white man Jeffries in 15 rounds - and did it easily Thousands of people were present from all over the country to witness the fight and the daily newspapers devoted pages to its details. After the battle there was some talk of killing Johnson because he had licked a white man, but the negro lives in New York and had some white backers in the fight so they let him go. In the south, however, the whites had to shoot up a few niggers because of the victory of Johnson. In other communities where the negro race predominates the celebration of the black man's victory took the form of beating and killing a few whites. Great country this. Let us hope that the poor unenlightened Spanish and Mexican devotees of the bull ring may sometime reach the high civilization of this Christian country that has been blessed by God and developed by the highest human intellect. When such a desirable end is attained for our foreign brethren there will be no more tortures in bull rings. When they want to see a fight they will train a couple of human beings and insist upon having them pound and batter and bruise each other until one or both... are picked up nearly or quite dead.

75 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

July 3, 1935

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

W.W. Holden motored to Burlington Tuesday to attend the 68th annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Vermont department. Mr. Holden was the oldest of the nine veterans present. He accompanied Dr. G. N. Welsh.

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Mrs. Marie Leonard has purchased Rossi's Restaurant in the I.O.O.F. building and plans to conduct it as a first-class dining place. It will be known as Leonard's Restaurant.

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Committees are being named to conduct the annual St. John's Church lawn party Thursday evening, July 25, on the parish grounds at the corner of Vine and Pearl Streets. A supper will be served at 6 o'clock in the Parish Hall, to be followed by an elaborate program of outdoor entertainment.

50 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISERJuly

7, 1960

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

The annual reunion of old timers who attended Northfield High School between 1890 and 1910 will be held in the garden of William D. Hassett Thursday afternoon from 3 to 5. All who went to N.H.S. around the turn of the century are invited to attend.

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Claude Dern, the Toulouse- Lautrec of the Strawberry Patch, was described as "un travailleur sur qui l'un peut compter." Pardon our French, but what it means is that Dern's a speedy strawberry picker you can count on.

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Sale of Culver's IGA Store at Northfield Center to Mr. and Mrs. Eustace Drought of Northfield was announced today by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Culver, owners during the past 11 years.

25 Years Ago

NORTHFIELD NEWS

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

Erik Nelson, editor

A July 4th celebration in Norwich, Vt. from 2 until 4 p.m. will honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alden Partridge. Included in the celebration will be a medley of patriotic selections by the Norwich Town/Dartmouth band, a rhubarb festival, and brief remarks by the President of Dartmouth College, where Partridge was a student between 1802 and 1805, and the President of Norwich University, which Partridge founded in 1819. Partridge founded Norwich University...to put into practice his educational philosophy and to train citizen soldiers.

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Travelers over the Warren Mountain Road in Roxbury would be hard put not to have noticed a huge new billboard which has been erected in the Village. Residents should not fear that Vermont's anti-billboard laws have been thrown out...The billboard is only a temporary one and should be removed in about three weeks. The billboard is to be photographed and used for an advertising campaign for Virgin Atlantic Airways, a subsidiary of Virgin Records, known for recording such stars and Boy George and the Culture Club...Thursday afternoon, June 27, the three-man British painting crew were busy filling in the outline of a jet plane against a bright blue sky.