Compiled by PHILO HALL for the Northfield News

125 Years Ago The Northfield News

December 22, 1886

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George H. Richmond, Editor

President Cleveland blows both hot and cold. When he contemplates the soldier’s pension his veto is conscience-less. When he contemplates the soldier vote in 1888 he writes thus: “Every patriotic heart responds to a tender consideration for those who, having served their country long and well, are reduced to destitution and dependence, not as an accident of their service, but with advancing age or through sickness or misfortune. I can not rid myself of the conviction that if these ex-soldiers are to be relieved, they and their cause are entitled to the benefit of an enactment under which relief may be claimed as a right.”

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The emigration of large numbers of negroes from Mississippi to the bottom lands in Arkansas, is denounced by the whites, who have decided to drive off the emigration agents.

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The building of an artificial toboggan slide at Northfield was all nonsense in the opinion of the inhabitants of Waitsfield, any one of whom would have been glad to furnish a natural one free of all expense but the transportation.

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The [Montpelier] saloons were raided Friday and a quantity of liquor was secured. It came very unexpected to the proprietors and before they had time to make way with the liquor it was in the hands of the officers...Montpelier apparently has awakened to the fact that the rum traffic must be suppressed.

100 Years Ago The Northfield News

December 19, 1911

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Fred N. Whitney, Editor

The rural mail carriers make their regular trips on Christmas day, but will not do so on New Year’s day.

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To many, winter is a season of trouble. The frost-bitten toes and fingers, chapped hands and lips, chilblains, cold-sores, red and rough skins prove this. But such troubles fly before Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. A trial convinces. Greatest healer of Burns, Boils, Piles, Cuts, Sores, Bruises, Eczema and Sprains. Only 25 cents at George C. Sanborn’s of Northfield.

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The nine-year-old daughter of Charles Scribner of South Cabot, died Saturday morning after a few days suffering of what seemed to be infantile paralysis.

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A rest room is to be opened in Bellows Falls under the auspices of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. The room will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

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The death rate of infants in Vermont for the year 1910 was lower than that of any other state, whose statistics are considered entirely reliable. This rate is figured for children under one year of age per 1,000…the rate of infant mortality…in Vermont [was] 108.

75 Years Ago News & Advertiser

December 22,1936

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John E. Mazuzan, Editor

The Paine Mt. Ski Bus made its maiden trip up Turkey Hill Sunday afternoon with Chief Pilot Walter Hicken at the controls. The half dozen skiers with their equipment were transported quickly, comfortably and economically to within a mile of the top. Those making the trip were loud in their praise of this service and predict wide use of it in the next few months.

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“The number of disaster victims assisted by the Red Cross during the fiscal year ended June 30 was more than four times the number aided in the previous twelve month period,” Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman, said…”Over 131,000 families were given food, clothing, shelter and medical care, and thousands of homes were rebuilt or repaired by the Red Cross to enable them to carry on…The Red Cross sent hundreds of trained workers into 39 states to meet the many exigencies of catastrophes which included earthquake, epidemic, explosion, fire , hurricane, ice lock, landslide, refugee relief, shipwreck, tornado and typhoon… Government agencies and relief groups were of invaluable assistance to Red Cross relief forces at all times…Never before have as many metropolitan centers borne the brunt of attack by wind and water within a single year.”

50 Years Ago News & Advertiser

December 21,1961

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John E. Mazuzan, Editor

John Cruickshank, a student at Boston College, is spending his Christmas vacation at the home of his mother, Mrs. John Cruickshank.

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The Little House and Pantry of Northfield is included in the new 1962 edition of the Duncan Hines travel book, “Adventures in Good Eating.” It is one of 4500 eating places in North America “Recommended by Duncan Hines.”

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Because the Christmas season is enriched by music and song, the Northfield High School Glee Club and Orchestra has prepared… a concert program to be presented at the Gym Thursday evening, Dec. 21, at 8.

25 Years Ago Northfield News

December 25, 1986

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Erik Nelson, Editor

COBRA, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Act of 1985, is new legislation that, in part, requires certain employers to continue health insurance benefits for certain employees, ex-employees and their dependants.

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The following people received gallon pins for multiple donations at the Blood Drawing on Friday, Dec. 19 in Northfield: 1 gallon: Carol Holt, Michael Weller, Gayle Sayers, Donald Neun, Marie Chilson, Gerald Carruba, James Jones, Richard Roessler, Daniel DiLena. 2 gallons: Florian Wawryzniak, Richmond Moot. 3 gallons: Nancy Bothfeld, Susan Donahue. 4 gallons: Ronald Jerry, Carmen Abascal. 5 gallons: Ruth Davis, Charlotte Lane. 17 gallons: Dexter Landers. 18 gallons: Bob Sabens.