Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-02
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The FARMER Ol1ce nau very pleuSant
call on Tuesday from Hon. Il. A. Stewart Of
the Newport Express.
The milk men are up one cent quart on
milk aud are drawing their shack pay" from
the first of September. Are they Patrons
N. NJ. johnson, Esq, of this village left
Thursday morning for South Ackworth, N.
H., to attend a reunion Of the johnson fami.
ly.
A. +. Rankin aud wife left Tuesday
morning for Europe. They go by New
York to Glasgow, aud will "do" the cont.
ncut before they return. They expect to
get home in May.
A. II. Mcleod is still after the monopo-
lists, and selling -four at rates that ought to
suit the most cxacting granger. lie sells
the best OF -four, too. You eau see his prices
in our advertising columns
MS said that b. G. Corser's tailor shop
on Railroad Street IS closed up.-Caledoni-
an. Why don't you post up2 Corser's
shop was closed up Monday before the Gale
DOMAIN was printed Thursday. "Wel pest
ed !" Bah
w. d. Willard and man named Mussey
from Bradford we're hauled up for selling
liquor on the fair ground, and fined $40 and
costs, amounting to S20.S5 each, Not hav-
ing the needful they were remanded to jail
to wait till their friends should come down
with the stamps.
Miss Sarah Stevens, a daughter Of John
A. Stevens, who has been at home on a va
cation during the summer, returned to Mem
phis, Tenn, Monday evening, where she is
engaged in teaching. Miss Stevens was in
Memphis during the yellow fever epidemic
but fortunately escaped its ravages.
Streeter is offering boots and shoes at bot
tom prices. See ad Those who have fore
sight enough to soonest adopt the principle
OF low prices and cash sales will be the last
to fail when panics come, and will not have
cause TO fear combinations among their GUS
toners, such as Patrons, Soveregns, &c.
The Rev. Mr. Roys has accepted call to
the Free Baptist Church. Mr.. Roys is a
graduate of the Northwestern University, in
Illinois, and comes well recommended as an
earnest Christian worker. The church seems
now to be working in harmony, with every
prospect of success which is more than could
have been said Of it before for some time.
We are sorry to say we were mistaken in
announcing a few weeks ago that one of our
village meat firms had reduced the price of
their best steak to IS cents per pound.
They still ask 20 to "a cents for the best.
Mr.. Kinney brings it 10 miles aud sells as
good as their best for II cents or it eau be
had at Lyndon or St. Adams for II, or at
West Burke for l2i. Mr.. Kinney finds
plenty Of customers every time he comes.
Isn't there lesson in the LeonoxviIle
fire that St. Johnsbury can afford to heed
Had there been steam fire engine on the
spot, and good supply Of water convenient,
u hundred thousand dollars might have been
saved Probably after we have had such
fire we will get steamer why not before 4?
Our engine companies are in good order /;
better than could be expected after our long
immunity from fires, but the place needs aud
can afford better than hand engine. What
say the ring? Can't we have it?
Stevens Bros, tailors, have moved into
Burnhams block, where Aldrich's photo
graph rooms were, which has been fitted up
for them, and where they are able to secure
better accommodations at less than one.h half
the rent. They have been paying rent
that is perfectly outrageous, and We are glad
to see them make this move. This firm is
composed Of two Of our best aud most enter
prising, though careful, young men, and our
readers who want good garment at a fair
price will, we think, consult their own inter-
ests by calling on them.
A manufacturer in st. Johnsbury bought
lard oil Of the merchants here, a few gallons
at time, at 81 per gallon. That he thought
pretty steep so he finally got them down to
$3.50 which he supposed might be reason
able figure. But by accident he discovered
it wasn't, so he sent to market for it and got
it by the barrel at 81 cents gallon. The
same manufacturer uses considerable iron.
and on a single bill saved $50 on the best
he could buy it for at the iron stores here.
Are the merchants bound to drive out manu-.
featuring from our vIllage7
David. f. Hartman is fitting up brass
foundry in the basement of one OF Mr..
Warmers buildings near the steam mill, and
will be ready for work in about two weeks.
lie is to do the brass founding for both rail-
roads and such job work as may be sent in
Mr.. ii. is an old head at it having handled
the crucibIe many years at the scale works
and any work put in his charge will be well
attended to at fair prices. AS there is NJ
other brass foundry for job work within Q
hundred miles, this Que will be found an en-
terprse Of great convenience to the public.
When Mr.. James NJ. Warner came t
this place about fourteen years ago there
were only two hands employed on tn,
grounds now occupied by the steam mil
shops. Mr.. Warner has felt a just pride il
getting in different branches of manulactur.
ing until now there are on an average Gift,
hands employed. They are engaged in car
riage making, file cutting, door and sasl
making, making weather STRIPS polishing
granite, making try-squares and bevels, an
machine repairing, all productive industries
and we wish we had many more OF the like
Leonard Persons, of Mortified, ston
mason working on the p. d o., was stand
ing against the end Of a freight car Friday
talking with Mr.. Warner, the road master
aud a section man named Hart, when som
cars which had been sent down the tract
from an engine above engaged in shiitin
cars, struck the one against which Person
leaned and threw him down. The frs
wheel passed over his hand, crushing it bad
ly, but he spraug from undor the car befor
the other wheel reached him. WarnC
saved himself by Jumping, and Hart ha
just stepped off the track,
The 'rniddlemon" in Wards block occi
sionally play practical jokes on each othe
The other morning Dwight Gould undcrtoc
to build fire in the -four store but. Il
stove wouldn't draw. Dwight pulled at
blew tho FIRE till he was black in the fac
but it was no use; the thing wouldn't g
and he was just giving up in despair whe
one of his friends who had been enjoying Il
sight of the smoke pouring out Of the sto
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