The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-25
brandon Items.

Rev. y. II. Watson has returned
from The West.
About thirty summer boarders
have engaged rooms at the Brandon
House.
Water from the new water works
has been introduced into the graded
school building.
j. S. Stafford is erecting new
cottage on Spring Grove camp-meet-
ing grounds at New Hagen.
The Young ladies of the Episcopal
church expect to hold another lawn
festival within few weeks.
One can hardly go through Bran
don without seeing the small boy with
rubber hose scattering water and APP
prehensiOn around him.
Rev. w. J. Tilley's father and
mother, and his brother from Washing
ton, ID. c., have been spending a few
days with him in town.
Rev. DIR. Clarke of Boston, who
is spending few weeks in town,
preached an excellent DISCOURSE at the
Baptist church last Sunday morning.
The ResolHtes of Brandon, have
been challenged by the Manufacturers
of Hortonville to play a match game
of base ball. The Resolutes have also
been challenged by Rutland club.
Mrs. Bracket, formerly Miss
Sarah Merriam, now of Rochester,
Iowa, is visiting her friends in town.
Her mother, Mrs. Merriam, is spend
ing the summer with her brother, ID.
G. Smith.
Regular monthly service at the
Baptist church, next Sunday evening
at 1880 O'Clock. Rev. A. ii. Ball of
New Haven, Conn, who is guest of
Rev. ID. II. Watson for few days,will
preach the sermon.
The new business which is TO take
the place of the scale works is the man.
ufacture of various articles from pc
culiar preparation of hickory wood.
The logs are sawed into short lengths,
nut into q steam chest and hot steam
let on them for about six hours, when
they will cut almost like cheese. They
are then nut into machine which pares
them into long veneer OF desired
thickness from sixteenth of an inch
upward. This is the material from
which the articles to be manufactured
by the company are made. The prlncl-
pal application at present contemplated
is the manufacture of heel counters for
boots and shoes. For this purpose the
veneers arc cut into proper shape by
means of dies IN press made for the
purpose. They are then put to soak in
chemical solution, which gives the
wood great toughness so that it can be
bent nearly together without breaking.
We believe this tOughening solution,
the patent for which is held by the COM
pany, is the foundation of the business.
After drying, the pieces are pasted with
waterproof paste between two pieces
of thin leather, cut of the same shape
but somewhat larger. The leather is
the cheapest stock that can be found,
being chiefly trunk-makers' parings.
The pieces are cut out by hand with
dies. The are finished by cemetry press
ing into shape in press made for the
purpose. Another application of the
yeneer is for stays for corsets. For this
purpose it is simply cut into strips of
proper length and width and immersed
in the toughening solution. 1t is claim
ed that the stays thus produced are suf-
ficiently tough and elastic, and in some
respects better than whalebonc, while
the cost is much less. Probably still
other applications of the material will
be made when the company get into
condition. On the whole the
outlook for the business is decidedly
The heel counters are said
to be very much better than those usu-
ally put into boots and shoes, and can
be afforded much cheaper. If the COM
pany can furnish share of the millions
demanded in the United States, its pros
nerity is assured. The processes re-
quire little expensive or special machin-
ery, the material costs little, and most
Of the work can be done by boys and
girls. Mr.. Sprague is largely interest
ed in the new company, which is a
that the bushes will be Wig
Orousy pushed. AS the manufacture
develops it will employ large number
of hands, and possibly the lively times
when the scale shops were running here
may come to Brandon again.