HARDWICK – A telephone has been installed in Wade Benjamin’s home on Cherry Street this week. Work of repairing the suspension footbridge across the river near the Roy and Fulford saw-mill, was begun this morning. Workmen have been busy the past week, repairing the broken cement wall at the rear[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
West Hill Schools Originated in 1820’s
CABOT — Enoch Hoyt was the first to settle on West Hill. His property, amounting to 320 acres, later became the Orson Kimball farm. According to John M. Fisher in his history of Cabot written for Abby Maria Hemenway’s Gazetteer, Hoyt came from Epsom, N.H., and arrived by way of[Read More…]
The Hardwick Gazette, April 2, 1925
Local Lumps State’s Attorney Shepard’s office last Monday morning took on the aspect of a regular juvenile court, when about 20 boys ranging in ages from seven or eight, to fifteen, were summoned to that place upon request of Mr. Shepard. The reason for this assembly was due to the[Read More…]
Local Lumps, Hardwick, March 26, 1925
Fishing in the vicinity of lower Wolcott Street has been in evidence the past week or ten days – not for members of the finny tribe, but for the lumber which was washed away from the sawmill in the recent flood. Men from the mill have salvaged a goodly amount[Read More…]
Mud Season, March 19, 1925
The Hardwick Gazette, Thursday, March 12, 1925
A Challenge. A team of basketball players composed of the employees of the Woodbury Granite Company, wish in this way to challenge the winners of the Merchants-Clerks game, which was won by the former, to a game to be played in the near future. The W. G.C. boys guarantee to[Read More…]
A Most Harmonious Town Meeting
Important Measures Passed Without Opposition, New Bridge to be Erected, Tax Less Than Last Year. HARDWICK, Thursday, March 5, 1925 — When Moderator, John E. Hancock, Sr., called the annual town meeting to order at ten o’clock Tuesday forenoon, there were just forty people in the building, most of them[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By: Drive Through Big Storm to Victory, Thursday, Feb. 5, 1925
Snow Does Not Prevent H.A. from Storming C.A. Stronghold and Winning CRAFTSBURY – The biggest and most severe snowstorm in six years did not prevent the H.A. [Hardwick Academy] basketeers, with “Bill” Gallagher acting as coach in the absence of E.J. Tiffany, and “Duffy” Lewis, whom Craftsbury selected to referee[Read More…]
From The Hardwick Gazette, January 29, 1925
Factory in Lower Cabot Village Goes Up in Flames CABOT – One of the old landmarks, the old Haines Woolen factory, burned between eight and nine o’clock Tuesday morning. The factory was used as a shop for making butter boxes and was owned by Harry Clark and gave employment to[Read More…]
How 1975 Sparked the Vermont of Today
VERMONT – Fifty years ago, Interstate 91 was still under construction, Bernie Sanders couldn’t win an election and Ben & Jerry had yet to split the $5 tuition for a correspondence course in ice cream making. Then everything changed. When 82-year-old George Aiken retired to his Putney home in 1975 after[Read More…]
100 Years Ago This Week, January 22, 1925
The terrible cold snap of Sunday night and Monday morning caused another hot water front accident, in which the lady of the house had a miraculous escape from almost certain death. When Mrs. Norman Michaud started the fire in her kitchen stove Monday morning there was an extra nice bed[Read More…]
The Ku Klux Klan In and Near Hardwick
HARDWICK – Vermont and Hardwick were not entirely outside the sphere of influence of the Ku Klux Klan, but the organization appears not to have gained any significant foothold by its efforts. More than a dozen references appear to the Ku Klux Klan in The Hardwick Gazette in 1924 alone.[Read More…]
