Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-11-27
Milan.

The dulness ofthe times, though severe.
ly felt, is not without it's compensations.
, Our streets are as lively as ordinarily at
this time of year Men usually in the
woods are gettin Up firewood for them
sell eS or others, repairing buildings, nor
In: manure, butchering and getting hay
and produce to market-aS yet nobody is
idle. Then this lull in the usual business
activities of the winter will be a benefit
to us religiouSly, Intellectually and social
ly. Our church, usually deserted by this
time, is tOlerably well filled with worship
pers on the Sabbath. There is opportu-
nifty for attendance upon the weekly re-
ligious social assemblies. Our women
(for be it kno WI that they, as well as the
men, take to the woods and enjoy the ro-
nance of life in q camp when business is
good) are all at home. Our singing
school is well sustained, and number of
our ysung men, as well as older are going
to learn to sing this winter simply because
"hard times" wont let them run away
from civilization into the depths of the
forest. Some young men are attending
school, who would be ia the woods if they
could. We are going to have social and
educational gatherings, exhibitions, en-
tertainments, spelling matches, lectures
&C., &C. In short, we are going to enjoy
ourselves this winter and make the most
Of the hard times.
George E. Dale has put up very neat
and commodious stable connecting it with
his house by an ell. We are glad to see
this indication of prosperity.
We arc happy to learn from our friend
Larkin Pcttengill, that the starch mill at
the Corner for which he has acted as
agent, has done satisfactory business
this fall. Nearly COCO bushels Of potatoes
have been consumed, for all of which
cash has been paid, and the prospect is
now that fair price will be obtained for
the starch. The Woodward mill, two
miles below us has also done good bust
ness, having used up abou. the same
quantity of potatoes. We are panied to
learn that Mr.. Horn the agent of the mill
is down with the typhoid fever. Mr.. II
truly deserves the sympathy of the public.
He has had sickness in his family for
nearly year, every member of the family,
we think, has had the fever. We trust
that our good Dr. Messerve, who has car
ried the other members of the family so
safely through the fever, will have equal
success in the case of Mr.. Horn.
Ora Cole is cutting, and saving with
horse power sixty cords of wood per
week, OH land of U. & w. II. Evans.
Some of our farmers have been foolish
enough to sell hay for eight dollars per
ton. Others prefer to draw it to Berlin
and get fifteen or sixteen.
Two hundred cords of hemlock bark
have been hauled through this town re-
Gently to the railroad at Berlin, enroute
to Portland.
We miss "those evening bells" as well
as the morning and noon. We regret to
learn that our sexton, who has rung the
bell three times day for year past, and
not failed once, has such business en-.
gagements that he cannot longer perform
the duties of the Office except on the
Sabbath. The services of some one else
must be secured. Let us have that bell
by all means, especially at nine O'Clock.
We made mistake ourself last night and
didn't get 10 bed till after twelve.