Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-02-12
Orleans 0ounfg 2Honitor
Local News.
BARTON.


farm in Wheelock, of E. S. Nelson, pay
ing therefor $4,000.
Messrs. Campbell & Taylor of East
Charleston, have built a lumber shed 20
X Is, at the Landing, just south of the
cattle yards. They can now have their
lumber covered with shingles instead Of
snow.
Mr.. Garland, the gentleman who re-
Gently purchased the gristmill at the
Landing, is converting the horse-shed,
connected with his mill, into dwelling
house, by raising it up and finishing the
lower story He proposes building anoth-
er horse-shed in the spring.
Messrs. Parker, Austin & Joslyn, have
got, up to date, (Feb. 81 1000 cords of
cedar and fir, for shingles; their new
machinery is now being put in. They
have negotiated for another machine
which it is reported will cut out from
80 to 10 thousand feet per day, Of ten
hours.
AocIDENT-Mr. Joseph LaMorey was
severely injured last Friday afternoon
while chopping in the woods on the noun
tain, about two miles from this village.
He fell tree which bent down sapling
some four or five inches through, and as
he was limbing out the tree not noticing
the sapling, he cut off the top, which flew
back, striking him in the face, knocking
him from the log and giving him a severe
hurt in the side as he fell. He was tax
en- home where he lies in critical con-
dition, but it is thought he will recover.
L. L. auckland, the harness-maker at
the Landing, last week had an order
from Oregon, for twelve Fancy driv-
ing harnesses. "Lew." is getting out
piles of work, employing three journey
men and one apprentice, or as Printers
term them ''devil." He would like to
have the party who took his lap robe off
the logs just north of his shop, return
the same within thirty days, as he wish
es to use that particular one he has
some he is willing to sell, but wants that
one for his own use.
Messrs. Mosman and Baldwin are pre-
pairing to make business lively around
their mills next summer. The winter
thus far has been very favorable one
for getting in logs, and both have large
pile Mr.. Mosman has logs enough al
ready to make one million and two hun
bred thousand feet of lumber, and there
is time enough to get half as many more,
if the roads hold good. G. j. Robinson,
of South Barton, has got in more than
ever before He has got smart mill,
and if he saws out all the logs he has
got in, it will keep him smart the most
of the time next summer.
Mr.. A. NJ Warner of this town, who
drew a load of stone that weighed s, 100
pounds, and another that weighed $500,
has been beaten by Emory Kelley, of
Burke, who drives four morse team fol
Charles Webb. He drew, says the I'm
ion, six loads of green spruce lumber
measuring respectively, 5l35, 5177
.5194, 1866, 5769, 1892 feet His slec
weighed 800. Allowing $500 pounds
to 1000 feet, his smallest load weighed
,S72 pounds, or 9436 to pair of hors
.es the largest weighing 23,762 pounds
or II, 1871 to pair. The smallest loaC
beats Mr. Warner over 1000 pounds
and the largest over $500 Who come
next?
William Drumming of this village
lost valuable horse last Tuesday H
was drawing wood from the mountain
drew load in the forenoon as usual
and went back in the afternoon for anoth
er, but noticing something was the mat
ter with one Of his horses, came BAG
without the load put his team in tn
barn, and led this horse up to the Dru
Store, thinking he would get some 81
and turn down him. AS he let 90 tn
halter to go into the store, the horse lai
down, rolled over two or three times
then Strengthened out and was deat
Some say that it was bots, some, that
was wind others, that it was neithe
one; that it was something mysterious
BROWNINGTON.
Six years ago, the now enterprisin
little village of Evansville, containe
but one or two unfinished dwellings an
an old saw mill Now it has about Oh
hundred inhabitants aud twenty-five r
spectacle houses, besides one saw mi
owned by E. Foster, which saws OF
million feet of boards per year. Or
clapboard and single mill owned |
Evans & Denison, which packs ff
thousand shingles per week one stare
factory, one store and an excellent scho
house in which religious services are he
once in two weeks. A pleasant al
profitable singing school is being he
here this winter by II. f. Miller. T.
western fever that is carrying off
many of our boys elsewhere, does L
prevail here. And last, but not lea
there Is not a rum-shop in Evansville.
BURKE.
Soma for+,, ~. ,,o.. $780,. ~