Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-16
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81. Johnsbury, WI, October 10. ls74.


arrival of those terrible things, the Sover.
eigns.
Mrs. Willard will sell building lot and
some furniture at auction on Spring Street
Oct II, at one o'clock.
Those DESTROYS Of securing the best 10.
struction in singing should read the adver-
tisement of Messrs. May Il Beane.
II. p. Shorey & Co. took the FIRST premi-
um, So, on cottage organs at the Bradford
fair, aud Harrington the second, of SO.
Streetcr seems to be living up to his prop
ositlon to sell at grange prices. We notice
he offers best mems rubber boots for 1910
Take the cash to Strecters before going else.
where.
james NJ. Warner has shown us a real
curiosity in the shape of clover root with
400 stalks averaging eight inches long. II
that is sample Of Mr.. Warmers farming
he can beat even Daua's squash.
Horace Curtis, who has of late very ac-
eeptably filed the position of foreman in the
FARMER Office, starts next week for Phila-
delphia, where he hopes to find a climate
more beneficial to his health.
H. l.. Hovey has sold three building lots
at Summerville; one to Charles Hall for
$3.50; one to Mrs Ella G. Gale for $3.50
and one with house on it in process Of
construction to A. Il. Sanborn for $3.50.
NJ. G. Hooker has sold his village resi-
dencc on Pearl Street to j. w. Haskell, for
$4,000, and will soon sell off his furniture
and other effects. Mr.. Hooker has a first
class clerkship in the Office Of the secretary
Of the treasury. He is now in town for a
few days.
There have been two councils Of Sovereigns
organized in town, but the CaledOnian has
not found it out yet 1t will learn that the
Sovereign is abroad in the land in the course
Of few months, we presume, if the mer-
chants do advertise. Wake up, Bro. Stone,
and give folks the news.
In an item last week referring to the ex.
pusion of two students from the academy II
appears that we were misiuiormed. The
expulsion was only for infraction of the rules
of the school and certain mere impropreties.
Several others were suspended at the same
time. We gladly make the correction in
Justice to the parties. There is no better
and safer place, as we said last week, to
which parents can send their children for
instruction, than the St. Johnsbury acad-
envy.
Mr.. 1. ]. Robinson, manufacturer Of try.
squares and bevels, has invented and patent.
ed a process for hardening steel plates, that
is simple, rapid and sure. BY this invention
the edges or any part Of plate can be
hardened, even spots Of any size or shape in
the middle of it, while the rest will remain
soft and tough. Mr.. Robinson is applying
his method to the hardening Of the edges oil
blades for the tools he makes and finds il
works to a charm. 1t consists in pressing
the plate between cold pieces Of iron.
Mcleod still seems to be ahead in the
reform in business, so far as flour and meal
dealers are concerned. He sells only for
cash, and at a price 80 cents lower per barrel
on -four than it has been offered until to-
day. As he ships his grain direct from the
Western producers, and grinds it himself, he
can sell without passing through the hands
of middlemen, and we advise Patrons aud
Sovereigns to examine the quality and prices
of the product of this mill We believe Nc. is
one of the men who deserve and will receive
their trade.
A Railroad st. man who has not been seen
with a smooth face for long time was seen
last week with his face shaved. Inquiry as
to the cause Of his parting with his beard
showed that while at the Bradford fair he
was enjoying cigar Of which he had be.
come " sole proprietor" when he thought il
would be funny to fire the stock in trade Of
balloon man there. Accordingly he lac
cidentally, Of cou-se,) brought the lighted
end Of the cigar in contact with one Of the
balloons There was flash, an explosion
and smell Of burnt hair, and JerraulC
sought the barber.
Last week Thursday o. G. Hale was go
ing down Portland Street from Railroad
Street with his son Johns team when The
horse was frightened at passing train, ant
made square turn around, upsettiug the
wagon and throwing Mr.. Hale out. Oh,
thill and the whifietree were broken, 50 tina
the forward wheels were dragged by on,
tug and holdback, and the frightened hors
made up towards Railroad Street, but Mr.
Hale hung to the rigging and stopped hin
after being dragged eight or ten rods
have the nerve and presence of mind display
ed by Uncle Hale. Strange to say, he was
not seriously hurt.
The harvest festival of Wide Awake
Grange at the Center last Saturday was
most pleasant affair, participated in by abpq
$50 people, members of that grange and 0
Enterprise Grange, Ly ndon, and Gree
Mountain Grange, St. Johnsbury. Tn
grange met at 10 A. NJ, and initiated som
members in the Sd and 4th degrees, ate
which they repaired to the hall in the base
ment Of the Congregational church and di
justice to a feast Of good things. The com
pany then returned to the grange hall wher
toasts were responded to by l.. G. Stiles
Josiah Ward, Jonathan Lawrence, Josepl
Dow, f. V. Powers, John Bacon I'd, Il. J.
Hovey, and others, and the company sepa
rated, all well satisfied with the good tim
they had enjoyed.
St. Johnsbury artists are appreciate
abroad, as may be seen by the followin
from the Argus "One Of the finest spec
mems of photographing we have lately see
is likeness of Governor Peel
taken by ID. A. Clifford, of st. Johnsbury
1t is a large sized photograph, finished il
India ink, and would be mistaken for
skillful work of steel engraving, so delcatel
and tremendously do the outlines blenC
The features OF His Honor are remarkabl
natural and liieike, especially in the facil
expression, and on glancing at it, one ca
easily transport himself to the court ROOF
and imagine that he is listening to the will
ering invectives which were OCCASIONAL
poured upon the head ofsome luckless " lin
Of tho law" who had been derelict in brint
ing his case to proper hearing"
The Young Mems lecture course will
opened the last of next week or the wee
following by Hepworth Dixon, of Londo