Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-20

VINO last tall came from Newport Cen
ire to North Troy and set up a Jew
ellers shop in Wilson's building, is
now fitting up a set of photograph
rooms in the same.
G. M. Hibbard, of the firm of G.
NJ. & G. A. Hibbard, boot and shoe
manufacturers, has just returned from
Boston, where he has been for the
past two weeks, purchasing stock and
getting posted up" in the latest and
most improved styles of boots and
shoes, preparatory to charging their
business. The Messrs. Hibbards are
young men, full of energy and enter
prize, and hard work has no terrors
for them. They made and sold dur
ing the year ending Dec, 81, 1858,
$50 cases of boots and shoes, and
they think they shall about double that
amount this year. They manufacture
all kinds of mems, boys and youths
boots and shoes, and their work is |
dore "pon honor" they purchase the
best of stock and employ none but
frst-clasS workmen. Mr.. I. J. Par
ker, who cuts all the upper leather is
an experienced workman, and is care
full that the poor leather goes into the
scrap box, and not the boot box. They
have eighteen men now employed in
their shops, and still want more help.
They run one stitching machine in
the shop, besides giving employment
to many women in the village as
stitchers. Nearly all the money paid
these men is used here; some of these
men earn $18.75 per week.
This establishment is a great help
to this village, giving employment to
many Of the citizens, and an impetus
to all other kinds OF business.
The HibbardS are also agents for
a Boston firm, and have sold for them
the past year about $4,000 worth of
womels', misses and childrens' boots
and shoes.
James Conant has sold his farm
situated about l IL miles from this
village, known as the Nahum circuit
place, to a man from Franklin county.
Price paid $4,000. G. G. Brown has
sold his house and lot in this village
to E. E. Hutchins of Lowell, Mass,
for 100. Mr.. Brown has been. at
work in Lowell for several months
past, and will soon remove his family
to that place.
D. Fl. Buck, of the firm of Buck &
Stewart, has in his possession, a copy
of the Vermont Centinel, published at
Burlington, by Josiah King: Friday,
Feb. Is, 1905. 1t seems to be spicy
little sheet-about one-t third the size
of the Standard. 1t contains the Con
gressional proceedings, foreign news,
&C., and but few advertisements. 1t
contains several poverty notices, ad-
dresses to the creditors Of poor men
imprisoned for debt, some for sum
less than thirty dollars. The follow
ing is an extract from an article on
making maple sugar in those days ::
" Make an incision in a number of
maple trees at the same time, in the
months of February and March, ut
must have been warmer then, than
now, and receive the juice of them
in earthen or wooden vessels. Strain
the Juice after it is drawn from its Sed-
iment, and boil it. Place the kettle
directly over the fire in such a man
ner that the fame shall not play upon
its sides. When it is reduced to thick
syrup and cooled, strain it again, and
let it settle for two or three days, at
which time it will be prepared for
granulating. This operation is per-
formed by filling the kettle half full
of the syrup and boiling it second
time. To prevent it raising too sud
denly and boiling over, add to it a
piece of fresh butter or fat the size of
a walnut. You may easily determine
whether it is sufficiently boiled to gran
uIate by cooling a little Of 1t. 1t
must then be put into bags or baskets
through which the water will drain,
so as to have it in a solid form. This
sugar, if refined by the usual process,
may be made into as good single or
double refined loaves, as ever were
made of the sugar obtained from the
juice of the West India cane. We
hear that some have made as much as
800 lbs, which sold to neighbors and
travellers at II II cents per pound.
Quite a contrast to the present
mode of making sugar in patent evap
orators, in the largest size CT which
can be made 300 lbs. in one day.
wEsTFIELD.
REAL EsTATE.-Calvin Reed has
bought his old farm back again-buy
ing of Levi Riley. Hollis Atwell has
let his farm to Charles Allen of Jay
New CHURCH.-The NJ. E. Society
are going to build a church-having
nearly the necessary amount raised
to complete it.
OUT OF HAY.-The listers report
one half of the farmers out of hay. Il
is $22 per ton, and general locomo
ton impossible.
AN EGG.-John Buck has hens
egg that measures 8 5-8 inches the
largest way, and 6 IL the shortes
way; weight four ounces, and costs
US Is cents.
WALDEN.
SOLD.-W. J. Stanton of Danville ha
sold his Walden farm-previously know
as the Esq. Wooster place-to Geo. Ian,
of Walden, together with some farming
tools and sugar apparatus. Price 81 400.
The snow on the buildings has demol
ished quite number in this town. A barr
of Gary Knight & Son has broken in smash