Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-09-06

the amount OF labor they perform
The immense tents were vested by large
audiences both day and evening, and
the entertainments were apparently sat
isfactory to all. The afternoon perform
ance was visited by an audience estima-
ted from 1000 to 5000. Good order
prevailed and the absence of drunken
ness and riotous conduct was a pleasant
feature of the ISta,aStead
Journal.
TROY.
On the road from South to North Troy,
about mile and half from the South
village, is beautiful fall in the Missis-
quot river of SO feet in less than that
number of rods. On these falls are sit
uated the saw, grist, clapboard. veneer
mills and blacksmith shop of G. P. Stew
ems & Co., which furnish employment
for about % men. Happening that way
the other day, we improved the opportu-
nifty of looking around little, and
came away convinced that the "Falls,
was the busiest place of its size, and this
firm one of the most enterprising in this
county. In the clapboard mill two saws
are kept in motion, night and day. Six
thousand logs yearly go in and come out
in dressed clapboards, ready for market.
In their lumber yard are now probably
three-fourths of million feet ready for
shipment. As we enter the saw mill,
monster circular saw stands with teeth
way above the common log. and walks
through and through with extraordinary
rapidity. This saw and other machinery
connected with this mill, is propelled by
a giant wheel, capable of working all
the machinery that could be attached to
1t, and at low water requires the whole
power of the Missisquoi to turn. Near
the saw is a planer through which all
the lumber here cut out, even to the
most common, is run before sending off.
More than ten thousand logs have this
year been cut up in this mill. The We
neer business is something new for this
part of the country, there being, we be-
lieve, only one other mill of the kind in
Vermont. Birch lumber is used almost
exclusively. The log is first cross-cut
up into blocks, two, four, six or the re-.
quired length, and steamed; then it is
put into the veneer machine, and par
ing an eighth of an inch thick comes
out-like the pairing of an apple from a
paring-machine-until the log, or block
is used up, down as far as the white of
the wood goes. Veneering is used for
chair, sofa and car seats and backs for
covering coarse soft inferior wood, in the
manufacture of furniture, so as to give
it the appearance of solid hard wood !;
and for various other purposes. This
has become to be quite business and
is growing. The lumber manufactured
by this company is shipped from North
Troy station. mostly to Massachusetts.
LYNDONVILLE.
Harley E. Folsom has been appointed
Superintendent of the Passumpsic Rail
road, in place of Geo. A. Merrill, re-
signed. This Is high compliment to
the ability and character of Mr.. Fol
som. Harley" as he is Familiarity
called, has been in the employ of the
company for several years, and for about
two years has been Master of Transpor-
tatiOn. He is obliging, gentlemanly,
honest and esteemed by all. If he sue
ceeds as well as superintendent, as in
the other positions he has held, he will
make an excellent superintendent
SUTTON.
The Free VIII Baptist Yearly Meet
ing begins next Thursday and continue.
over Sunday.
| Much sickness prevails in town. Dys
EMERY and fevers are the diseases from
which most of the sick are suffering.
The other day G. w. Humphrey
sawed for the o. & c. Steam Mill Co.
six thousand cedar shingle in six anC
three-fourths hours, filing the saw twic,
in the time.
Rev. l.. B. Tasker, pastor of the churcl
here, died in Sandwich, N. H., where h
had gone visiting and for the improve
ment of health. on the Goth ult. Nh
Tasker is we'll known in Caledonia coun
ty as an earnest, faithful minister of tn
gospel, and his loss will be mourned b
large circle of acquaintance AM