Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-28
Waterbury Items.

g. o. Graves OF this place has one Of the
most extensive tin and hardware Iron and car
rage stock adjustments In Vermont lie IL
now filling what we venture TO cav IL one OF the
largest contracts for sap buckets ever taken In
New England The number reaches up among
the thousands and will require the work OF a
large force and the full extent Of his facilities to
complete before the sugar season opens. W.
W. Deal Is a mechanic whose skill and ingenuity
have given him an enviable local fame. Some
time ago his wits began 10 work upon device
Tor starting street cars. Any one familiar with
this means OF travel has observed the strain upon
the horses In starting loaded car simple de-
vice IL arranged beneath the car, connecting
with one OF Its axlea. BY the moving OF n lever
on the drivers platform an instant before II Ia de-
sired the car shall stop, the mechanism II thrown
into gear and by means Of n coied spring power
sufficient TO propel the car several feet is accum-
nlated In the spring ard held until II il desired
the car shall start. By al reflex movement OF the
lever the power in the spring Is liberated and Is
.xerted upon the axle OF the car giving 1t strong
impulse forward. By the time this force Ia ex-
pended the horses will have Strengthened out
their traces and will be trotting along with their
load. email platform model two and one-half
ieet by fifteen inches In which the propelling
force IL three-sixteenths inch coed steel spring
IL sufficiently powerful TO drive the miniature car
vigorously forward yard or 80 laden with two
men, It would carry more II the car had larger
accommodations 10 Its present shape the crude
idea OF the invention Is shown. but there il no
apparent obstacle in the way Of its practical APP
pcatlon.. Mrs. X. X. Clark, mother Of Mrs 5.
II. Wheeler, Is visiting with her daughter.
Pony Bly," the old family horse and a lifelong
and faithful servitor In the family Of Mrs
wheeler's father, is again an inmate Of the par.
sonage stable. The children especially have
pleasant recollections OF a former domiciling Of
Pony BY at the parsonage. Mrs. f. b, Taylor
Is recovering from her recent sickness Her
many friends have received the cheering intelli-
gence OF the improvement in her condition with
sincere rejoicing. IF II. Atherton made ny-
ing trip to Hartford and Bridgeport, Connecticut,
last week At the latter place he visited his sis
ter Mrs. Coffin, also saw Dr. G. S Hoag, a former
resident OF this village. Mr.. Anterior represents
the doctor as doing thriving business and look
ing remarkably well He was introduced To Bar
mum and Jaw :" the greatest show" on earth in
winter quarters. -. The Methodist donation We'd
nesday evening amounted to about sixty dollars.
-. The Windsor Journal noticing the purchase
In that village Of Mrs. T., NJ. Whitaker's grocery
business by d. b. Cole, says: He has many
friends in this vicinity who will be pleased to
learn OF bis decision TO make the change" ....
inadvertently omission was made last week to
mention In connection with the close OF the
schools the presentation to Miss House Of two
handsome volumes OF poems by her pupils Of the
intermediate department. For the year ended
January l. there were eleven births and twenty
two deaths In school district No the village
district. The vi lage has been divided by the
trustees into four wards, as follows Ward COM
menciDg at the easterlv line OF the village and
extending to and including ID c. Caldwel's, the
railway station and the buildings on the easterly
side OF the park; ward 2, beginning with Park
Row and extending to and including the eastery
side OF Stowe street and bounded by the railroad
on the northerly side; ward 3, beginning with
the westerly side Of Stowe street and extending
TO the westerly limits OF the village, including
the houses beyond the brook in the cd reform
school locality; ward embraces that portion oil
the village on the northerly side Of the railway
track from the depot to the place where it crosses
the brook and including the Mill village neigh
boThood