125 Years Ago

The Northfield News

July 22, 1885 3 cents a copy/ $1.50 a year

Geo. H Richmond, editor

President Cleveland is taking a needed vacation and has gone to the woods of Northern New York, no doubt hoping to be rid of the hungry office seekers for a time.

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On picking up an Argus of last month I read a long article in defense and praise of Vermont and its men and products and read this: "To the last war Vermont contributed such men as Gen. Stannard and Commodore Foot. One of the most noted organizations in the army of the Potomac was the famous Vermont brigade that out marched and out fought any similar one for five years, and at Gettysburg under Gen. Stannard accomplished the daring movement that turned the tide of battle and saved the day to the North, capturing three times as many men as the brigade had men." Let me say in correction that this is all wrong. It was not the famous Iron Brigade of Vermont that "busted" the Rebel combination that day at Gettysburg and sent Lee back and saved the day, it was the new brigade, consisting of 12, 13, 14, and 16th regiments of Vermont, composed of rough, honest, hardworking farmers and their boys from schools and stores who came down from their mountain homes and enlisted for nine months, undrilled and undisciplined, who came just for fun, to help the other boys out you know, but determined to do their duty if ever given a chance...How do I know this? Well, because I was there as a newly feathered Lieut. of "buley Co. H, 13th," and have a faint remembrance of hearing and seeing something....

100 Years Ago

The Northfield News

July 19, 1910 3 cents a copy/$1.25 year

Fred N. Whitney, editor

The strike of conductors, train and yard men on the Grand Trunk and Central Vermont railway lines went into effect at 9:30 Monday evening, following a final rejection by the railroad managers to give them the socalled standardized eastern wages, all the men going out. The telegraph employees did not go out as was expected. Trains which left their starting points before 9:30 were taken through to their destinations by the regular crews. On the Central Vermont line no freights were running this morning...The general manager's office in St Albans said to The News this morning that it confidently believed that the passenger and mail trains could be kept running nearly on time. It will make every possible effort to do this. The freights will have to take chances and it is not known when any will be started over the road...On a strike vote of trainmen of the Grand Trunk and Central Vermont of the 3,350 votes cast on the two systems less than 50 were against the strike.

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Crosby Adams, Harold Ainley and Vard Libby, all of the class of '10, Norwich University, started from Springfield, Mass., Friday, for San Francisco, Cal., via automobile. The final destination of the young men is Washington state, where they have situations in civil engineering work in the Yakima valley. The car is a Mitchell, owned by Mr. Adams and as this will be a fine test for this famous make of machines the manufacturers are to pay the up keep on it, during the trip, which will include any necessary repairs and also the gasolene used. When the coast is reached, the company will purchase the machine of Mr. Adams...The car started out well loaded with baggage...the baggage includes a camping outfit and the boys will live outdoors for the most part. When last heard from the party was just leaving Rome, N.Y., for Syracuse, and expect to be in Cleveland, Ohio, by the last of this week.

75 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

July 18, 1935

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor Legion men and women of Northfield are planning to attend the country outing to be held Sunday at the Washington fair grounds in Washington. Friends of both the Legion men and women are invited. An elaborate program has been arranged. One of the novelties will be the imposition of fines on all who wear good clothes, including silk underwear.

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An attractive filling station for the sale of Texaco products has been opened on North Main Street by Ernest Bean and his son, Paul Bean. An electric computing gas pump, the first to be installed in Northfield, registers both the amount of gas and the price.

50 Years Ago NEWS AND ADVERTISER

July 21, 1960

5 cents a copy, $2 a year

John E. Mazuzan, editor

Each year there are fewer deaths [from tuberculosis] than the year before. Each year fewer come down with active TB than the year before. But...Right now, 36 million Americans are infected with TB. Based on what is happening today, it is estimated that some 156,000 of these infected people will break down with active tuberculosis sometime in the next four or five years...Nearly 20 per cent of all new active cases of TB each year are people under 25.

25 Years Ago

NORTHFIELD NEWS

July 18, 1985 25 cents a copy, $2 a year

Erik Nelson, editor

Laurie Drown of Randolph has completed her Junior year as a Mathematics major at Norwich. She was also a member of the 16-2 Cadet rifle team, which finished second in New England, she fired 535 at the New England Intercollegiate Rifle League Finals at MIT. A graduate of Northfield High School, she is the daughter of Everett and Gloria Drown of Randolph.

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vermont has received several offers for the purchase of St. Helen's Mission in Roxbury, according to Vicar John Haskin of the diocese offices in Burlington. The Mission Church which has been closed, has been offered for sale under terms of the diocese which would restrict its future use to a usage determined to be compatible by the diocese with its former use as a religious facility...the decision on to whom the building will be sold was in the hands of St. John's church in Northfield and the diocese would give final approval to the sale of the church.