Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-27

The foundation of the court house |
is laid and work is commenced on the |
structure.
H. H. Caswell has a big run of |
business and has hired Henry Ryther
to assist him.
Mrs. M. E. Dodge, daughter of
Fl. Chamberlin, is home on visit.
Smith, formerly Alice Prouty,
is home from the West on visit.
Westfeld.
Rev. Jacob Evans was in town
last week.
The family of Gary Edmunds re-
joice over the appearance of a boy
baby.
The postmaster has ordered new
post-office.- 1t will consist of hun
dred boxes, will be neatly and con-
veniently arranged, and will add
much to the beauty of Hoyt & Mill
er'S store.
Tuesday, July 21st, Frank Bean
again reno we'd bear from his trap.
This is good work removing these an
imals from the country and also
brings bounty of fifteen dollars a
bear. Mr.. Bean says there is still an
other bear in the woods which he
hopes to capture.
Charles Leland and wife have been
visiting Walter Burnham's people.
Mr.. Leland is well known in this Sec
ton, having lived more than quar-
ter of century in Lowell, and was
also once a citizen of johnson. The
prominent lawyer, Col. Benton of
Minneapolis, is remembered as hav-
ing married Mr.. Leland's daughter.
The first sale of the Green Noun
tain Creamery butter has been made
and returns obtained. The amount
of milk taken was 50,199 pounds,
from the 18th of June to the I'd of
July, a period of Is days. The
amount of butter made therefrom
was 1. 799 pounds or an average of
27 CT pounds of milk for one pound
of butter. The price for the same
was II 1-3 cents per pound net, or a
sum of $311.41. Some changes
have been made in the rooms, tanks,
etc., and it is believed that the very
best butter is being made. AS soon
as the business boom occurs we ex-
pect to get huge prices for the article.
Your correspondent made visit
recently to the mill of Wakefield & Be-
dell on the west side OF the mountain, and
if you will give space, will try and give
a description of their doings: Some three
years ago the above named gentlemen
conceived the idea Of building on the
west side; accordingly they bought a
tract of land consisting of some 5000
acres of the best timbered land in town
and built mill on the same 40x60; since
then they have made additions so it is
now 60 by 80. They then put in large
engine and commenced work. The ma
chinery was all bought of the Lane Man
ufacturing Co. of Montpelier at cost OF
$4,000, and was put in place by Mr.. Wake
field, he being a practical mechanic. He
used nothing but the best and put every
thing in such shape that their lumber is
all finished in fine style and sells readily
in market. They now have orders ahead
and are shipping some fifteen or twenty
carloads each month. Their lumber is
hauled to East Berkshire, distance Of
twelve miles, and is shipped via the
Central Vermont r. r. Their expenses
are $25 per day for the six months in the
summer, and in the other six months they
average $40 per day while cutting and
hauling. Their stock this year consists
of one and half million feet of spruce
and hard wood which will average then
in market, $13 per thousand. In addition
to all this work, they have cleared con
siderable land and have crops growing or
the same this year, and will venture tC
say that one Of the best gardens in the
county can be found at Mr.. Bedell's, thus
showing good quality of SOIL They
have also built six dwellings, one large
boarding house for their help, also two
large barns. They now employ about
twenty men besides their transfers, anc
Mr.. Bedell, he having had large expert
ence in managing mill in the South, has
everything in the best of order, and M
discord exists about the premises. There
are about eighteen or twenty families il
the settlement; they have organized {
school district, built a new schoolhouse
at a cost Of 1870, and maintain "a weeks
sc hool each year. In addition to thi.
there has been private Catholic schoo
this summer Of fourteen weeks, showing
that the people are awake to the interests
of their children's education. Now a.
this thriving young settlement is some
81 miles from Montgomery, and as it il
impossible for them to get their mai
promptly from Westfield, why not give
them post-office at the grocery of Moody
G. Bedell? And as Mr.. Bedell was thu
founder of the settlement, and is the
manager of the mill, we would Suggest
that it be called ''Moodyville," which
name is already attached to the settle
ment.
"eStnnOre.
While some botanists, stopping al
Richardson's hotel, were prospecting
on the west side of the lake last Wed.
nesday, they discovered a large cave
about ten rods from shore, which
was named ChurchilPs cave in honor
of the discoverer.
The saw-mill owned by Clifford &
circuit near the south end of the lake
was burned on Friday night, and the
machinery, except engine and boiler
ruined. 1t is not known how the fire
originated. We understand thai
there was an insurance of $1,000 or
| Tho ,,o;ll Tbo I'LL hoo 1905, a,..:l