Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-24
Ont of Town Notes.
WEST CLARENDON.

WEST CLARENDON.
The hay crop here, though light,
proves to be "better than our fears.
Apples and pears are among the
staple productions of this section of the
county.
The apples and the smaller fruit
probably will not be quite as abundant
this year as they usually are, but there
is a fair prospect of good supply OF
pears.
''THE SPRINGS.
Rev. Mr. Waterstein, of Boston,
preached here last Sabbath, in the Gar
endon House. Services commenced at
eleven o'clock.
There were, last Monday, seventy
boarders at the hotels, and eight or ten
in private families. NJ. D.
PRoCToRsvLLE.
The Probate Courts for Windsor Dis
trict are now all held at the Registers
office here, on the third Tuesday of each
month. Special courts for the accom-
mediation of parties living near the south
part of the district are sometimes held
at Judge Rounds Office in Chester.
FROM an 6AdulIudtlOu VI GLlC 1CCOiNtos IL
is believed that Charles +. Barrett, the
present Register is the 18th in number
of appointments since the organization
of the District, and that he is the Oldest
appointee ever made to that otfice-be-
ing in his Goth year. Formerly the
court perambulated the district, holding
court in every town in the district,
and in the central towns duplicating the
appointment for sessions.
PoULTNEY.
One of the most active concerns In the
growing town of Peultney is the estab-
lishment of Mosely & Stoddard, located
opposite the railroad depot. They are
dealers in most kinds of agricultural i'm
plements at present used in Vermont,
and manufacture extensively milk-cans,
cheese-vats and other furnishings for
cheese factories. They are especially
wide awake to the interests and wants
of farmers, and are making themselves
very useful TO this large class of our fell
low citizens in this town and vicinity.
They sell large numbers of the Wood
mowers manufactured at HoOsac Falls,
and have attached to their establishment,
during the haying season, a shop for the
repair of these machines, which Is prov
ing very convenient for those using them.
This repair shop is under the superin-
tendence of ThOs. McGrath, from Hoo
sac Falls. Mr.. McGrath is perhaps as
fine a specimen of physical development
as the country affords He has few
equals in strength and muscle, but is dis
posed to devote his physical powers and
energies to useful purposes only. A
farmer brings in a moving machine and
says it is out of repair. McGrath takes
it in pieces in five minutes, as the watch
maker does a watch, and in that time
knows what is wanted and supplies it at
once.
The recent cOpous rains have
changed the appearance Of vegetation,
and the hay crop promises now to be a
fair average, corn and potatoes were
never locking better. The corn is not
as forward as usual at this season of the
year but promises remarkably well ''if
the frost holds off" in the fall.
j B. Beaman, and his partner, c.
F. Eddy, have both been absent for
some ten days, taking their summer va
cation.
Several gentleman who have been
in the habit of spending a portion of
the summer months in POultney, are
again here. Among them are two cler-
gymen by the name of kendriCk, ma
tives and former residents of the town,
and DOct. Joel ). Oatman, of New
York city, a native of Middletown.
The slate business in Pouitnev re-
mains active. The manufacturers are
straining every nerve to produce all the
roofing slate they can as the demand
calls for all they can make. Several To-
calities on the farm of Don A. Barker,
in the south part of the town, have re-
Gently been leased to parties who intend
to open quarries at once. OBSERVER.
NORTH SPRINGFIELD.
Hon. Walbridge A. Field, of Boston,
of the law firm of CASTOR, Jewell &
Field, recently United States Assistant
Attorney General at Washington, has,
with his family, been here on a visit to
the place of his nativity, and last week
started for Europe. His mother, sister
and brother-Fred G. Field, Esq. still
reside here at the old homestead.
The family of Daniel c. Griswold.
of the firm of d. G. Griswold & Co., of
Boston, are spending the summer at the
homestead, formerly kept as hotel by
"Uncle Joel, so fayorably known to the
travelling public in Eye olden time.
CHESTER.
Otis P. Clay has sold his ''liyery" to
Fred Fl. Gibson.
AT the semi-annual election of Cen
ter Lodge, |. o. O. F., the following of
ticers were elected:
n. 5. Proctor, n. G.
o. Ellis, V. G..
HuUh Henry Secretary
D. Wesley Davis, Treasurer.
E. E. Barney, p. S. VIDEx.
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