The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-23
Waterbury.

b. +. PICKETT is general manager for the
eastern states Of Alfred Shrmpton & Sons
manufacturers and importers Of the Helix nee
dies, The factory is in England, the American
office in st. Louis. Ben. is as sharp as his nee-
dies, and reports good success in his new ven
ture.
A LIVELY interest is felt by the people, with
out regard to politics, in the canvass of W. p.
Dillingham; for representative in congress from
the second district. The caucus on Thursday
was very largely attended. G. W. Randall was
chairman and T. T. Farrell secretary. The
name1 Of the delegates and their aternates
appear in the general list, in another column.
G. w. MOODY will not " bet" but he has de-
posted in the bank fifty dollars, which sum he
agrees TO present" to ii. +. Bates II Grover
Cleveland is not elected president, and Mr..
Bates has deposited like sum, which he
squarey bets the governor Blaine will be
elected. To the worldly minded it looks very
much as II the governor" too, had been bet
ting-aM very indiscreetly.
THE bells of the Congregational and Metho-
dist societies are cracked-the former defect
of long standing, the latter of recent occurrence
There is nothing particularly meodons about
their twanging notes, and they are not partic.
ulary persuasive to reluctant church-goers.
Both ought to be recast into resonant, fine
toned instruments, and in one of the church
towers there should be placed a good town
clock. Such time-pece would be great
public convenience. Other villages of this size
have a town clock, and Waterbury should wake
up and have one also.
FISH stories begin to come in and some fish
John Knapp and Lyman Buzzell caught 1904,
weighing fourteen and onehaf pounds, at
the Forks" in Stowe, Thursday Frank L.
Knight and companions made good catch in
the same locality last week, and several hun
dred were taken by other parties. Carl Rich
ardson has also been fishing with his brothers.
1osNA N.a nNaI, G,Ix "a 4 4
the talking. Last year he talked fish, but
showed crockery. This year he talks Blaine
and Logan, and the fish stories suffer. The
latter, however, is his "best hold
G. G. WARREN is making thorough over
hauling Of the buildings on the Batcheder
farm property, bought by him in the spring
The house has been repaired and repainted and
the barns are undergoing extensive repairing,
changing and enlarging, for the accommoda-
tioD of a large herd OF stock. One barn, when
completed, will tie up hundred head of cattle
and will be supplied with labor-saving appara-
tus for feeding, and with facilities for saving
all the elements of fertilization. He is putting
in two sios, each eighteen feet long, twelve
feet wide and twenty-four feet deep. These
are in the barn and extend from some five feet
below the ground line to the high beams"
Mr.. Warren has sowed eighteen acres OF fod-
der, and for handling it will have an engine of
six horsepower and machine capable of cut
ting eight tons an hour. The cut fodder will
be carried by an elevator to the roof of the
barn and delivered to the silos. The fodder
will thus be transferred directly from the
teams which draw 1t from the field to the cut
ter, and thence to the silos, with the minimum
amount OF handling. For weighing the ensi-
lagea windlass conveniently arranged will hoist
barrels filled with sand. The silos will be con.
structed in the most thorough manner. The
farmers in this vicinity by another season, will
have before them practical demonstration fthe
utility OF this new method Of feeding Besides
the eighteen acres for fodder Mr. Warren has
nine acres of corn for grain. At the other ex-
treme OF the village our stirring townsman has
a force of men at work recoustructing the tan
merry burned last winter. The tannery, a one
story building, one hundred and twenty feet
by fifty-six feet, with ventilator roof, is
completed, and the master workman, Mr.. Will
lam Deal, is now putting in the watts, one hum
dred in number. These, as well as everything
else about the new establishment, are made in
| accordance with the plan which experience has
proved is the simplest and best In the engine
| room at the westerly end, sixteen feet by
| twenty-four feet, the new engine has been put
| in position and the boilers are being set. AID.
Joining the engine-rOOm is the leach house.
thirty feet by forty-ive feet and two stories
| high. When the tannery is completed the fin
ishing shop, about one hundred feet southerly
towards the brook, will be undertaken. Power
| will be transmitted to this shop from the tan
| merry by wire rope. Between his farming,
building and other operations, Mr.. Warren
seems to he reasonably busy man this summer
MRS CARRIE CHEsLEY and Master Willie
have come from Boston to spend the summer
with Mrs. Heaton at Mill village. ....A. S.
| Richardson, wife and children, are visitors at
| G. f. Richardson's S.. Mrs. Lucius Cooley and
| family OF Hoosic Falls are visitors at Mr.. Luther
Davis. Mr.. George Wade of Littleton is
| spending his vacation in town.. George
Smith, head book-keeper for Wells Richardson
| q Co., Burlington, had a cordial welcome from
| his friends here last week