The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-08-01
OR WE'LL

| Most of the farmers arc through
having; the hay crop has been bette
than was expected. Potatoes are vcr,
good, wheat is good, oats good for th,
most part, corn 10 rather backward, tn,
pastures arc short and rain is mucl
needed.
We understand that arrangement
are being made for a course of ten lee
lures before the Orwell high school thi,
fall. Jas. T.. King, ID. d., p. ii. D., OF
Fort Edward, N. Y, will deliver a po'
EN- entitled, "The Minor Morals, OF
"Manncrs and Men," Oct. 10, before
the school. I
The Orwell cheese factory is now
receiving about 1880 lbs. of milk per
day, from some SO or 40 diaries which
contains some 600 COWS. Twenty
cheeses per day are manufactured from
this milk, weighing from So to 60 lbs.
each. This factory is doing a larger
business this season than ever before /;
which fact speaks we'll for the manu-
factufer, Mr.. Frank Ochampaugh, as
well as for the directors. The largest
amount of milk received in one day
was $500 lbs. against IL 800 last year.
There are now about 700 cheeses in the
factory, all of which ard very fine look
ing and are of superior quality in
taste. During the present season the
factory has worked up quite an extern
sive home trade; much of the cheese
going to st. Johnsbury, Swanton and
to other neighboring towns. Mr.. Oc-
hampaugh's cheese, as of old, command
the highest market price. Next week
hope to give you an account of the
East Orwell factory.
\OBITUARY--Al large circle of rela-
Ties and sympathizing friends were
thfown into affection, July 16, 1879, by
the death of MIR. Wyman Bascom, for
merly OF Orwell, Vt, but more recent
ly of Burlington, Iowa. Mr.. Bascom
was born In Orwell, March 9th, 1913.
He spent his boyhood and youth upon
his fathers farm, but on arriving at
manhood decided to join an older
brother already located in Kansas. Ac-
cordingly in the spring of '69 he babe
adieu to loving friends who would glad
ly have retained the strength, ambition
and christian conservation of his young
at the East, and turned his
face hopefully toward the fertile plains
of Kansas. The two brothers united
their forces in the pursuit of agricul-
ture, and shaped their plans with ref
erence to a permanent home on the far
western prairies. They removed their
church relations 10 unite with little
of pioneers in forming a new
church, and thus establishing another
beacon light along the frontier. They
lifted up the standard of the Cross and
rallied around it with faith and hope.
In 1871 Mr.. Bascom was married to
Miss Ella Wyman of Cleveland, Ohio,
and added the grace and sweetness of
female character to the new enterprise
in the West. But the work was arduous
and the climate hardly congenial to
health, and in 1872 he removed to Bur-
lington, Iowa, and went into the en-
ployment of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy r. r. Co. He soon became
entering at length into the
of the Burlington and
Northwestern r. R., in whose service
he remained until his death. This Ia
Dor was very severe, disturbing, and
often preventing sleep, and physical
prostration was the consequence. He
came east in the spring to take much
needed rest and visit friends, his posi-
lion being kept open for him until his
return. For time his friends conf
1ently expected that rest and change of
climate would bring back vigor, but
disease had entered his frame with slow
which the best medical
skill failed to remove. He died at the
'esidence of his father, Mr.. s. ii. Bas-
,om, on the 10th inst. Loving minis
rations were about him to the end,
md the tender hands of four remaining
brothers lowered his body to its last
csting place. In conversation since
his return to Orwell he spoke regret
'ully OF the temptations incidental to
his employment, but it was the testi-
nony of those who knew him best that
n the difficult position in which he was
placed, he maintained character of
purity and uprightness.
The bereaved widow and afflicted
friends have the sympathy Of the entire