The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-22
Waterbury,.

1red and seventy tubs of butter, including |
Warren's creamery, and about ten barrels |
of maple syrup.
THE spring examination of teachers will |
occur at the high school room at Waterbury
village, Saturday, April 25th at half past |
eight o'clock A. NJ.
f. III. ATHERToN, having disposed of the |
team he has driven for some time past, |
bought recently a fine horse, of mahogany
bay color, at Rouses Point. The animal suits |
him to a dot.
III. III. GRIswoLD has gone to West Ran
dolph to take charge of the construction of
the new hotel in that village. Mr.. Girls
wold's connection with job is a guarantee
that good work will be done.
THAT spring had fairly come seemed evil
dent on the streets Of the village on Monday.
People were out to market and business
good in every department. Large amounts
of butter and maple sugar were brought in,
and ev rybody was busy.
j. C. GRIGGs has, during the past week,
shipped maple sugar to Central City Colo
RADIO, Georgetown Colorado, Nashua Iowa,
Baraboo Wisconsin, Denver Colorado, Min
neapols Mimi, and various other points in
New England and the west.
j. +. JOHNSTON, genial agent of Messrs.
=. Lorillard * Co., has been painting the
town red with their advertisement. If any
one will eat tobacco there is none better
and Arms x Haines can supply it in any
quantity, wholesale or retail.
Two aged men have passed away sud-
denly during the week Patrick Martin
died Friday night of apoplexy. His age was
seventy-nine. A week before, in apparent
health, he was boiling sap, laboring till quite
late in the evening, in the sugar place of his
son-in-law, III. II. Coburn. Michael McNa-
mara who has lived for many years in the
little house near the track on Railroad
Sfr a of rpf
MIA. His age was seventy-fve. His sister,
Nellie with whom he had lived a long time,
died several years ago, since which time the
old man has lived quite alone. In his last
sickness he was cared for at the house of
his brother, John Mcnamara.
JOSEPH BLA1s and Ammi, his son, came
down from Montpelier, Friday afternoon,
drunk. Officer Keene encountered them on
the sidewalk in front of Knights building.
Blais senior is six-footer. Keene is not,
but he reached up for the giants collar and
with the persistence of a bull dog, he got it
and held on to it after sharp and rather
ludicrous scrimmage. Father and son were
taken before Justice Lease and each was
fined, including costs, 1881. A jug of liquor
which they brought from Montpelier was
given up to them the following morning.
Joseph Blais lives in Canada, and was here
on a visit to his son. The hospitalities of
the occasion were somewhat marred by the
| Intervention of the state.
A CORRESPONDENT thus gives his observa-
tions on "making maple sugar that will
SELL" | often see something in the agri-
cultural papers about sugar making, but
have never read any article that seemed to
me wholly practicable. 1t is all very nice
to tell how to make little good maple SUI
gar; that is, gather the sap every two hours,
boil it in clean pan, settle the syrup, boil
until half done, then strain again and re-
move the inter, land so on. What is needed
| is way to make a pound to the tree in
twenty-four hours, if necessary, and still
have it nice and clear for market. 1t was
the writer's good fortune one day last week
to visit three of the best arranged sugar
works in this part of Vermont, and perhaps
in the whole state. 1t may be of interest to
some of your readers to know just how they
are managed. 1t certainly ought to be, for
the best maple sugar ever brought to the
Waterbury market has been made in the
above mentioned sugar orchards. The first
essential thing noticed were the sap tubs
| These were all tin, or new, clean, wood tubs
| Tin is best, and in one of the orchards having
one thousand forty trees, every tub was OF
that material. In gathering the sap a large
strainer was arranged over tine mouth OF
the draw-tub. This prevented any leaves
sticks or dirt from getting into the sap and
staying there, even during the short time il
was on its way to the boiling house. WheT
the tub was full it was drawn to the land
| ing, a few rods above the boiling place, anG
at sufficient elevation above it so that
line of spouts carried the sap through the
roof into large holders having capacity o.
about one hundred fifty buckets each. Thes,
holders set on a raised platform so that the
sap runs directly from them into the evapo
rator. large strainer is placed over the
holder so the sap is again strained. There
was also another and finer strainer over the
pipe that leads to the evaporator, making
three times the sap was strained Th,
evaporators We're kept clean, and the syrup
not too thick was drawn off very often. Il
was allowed to stand in tubs about thre,
hours before strainng. Thus the inter i,
sufficiently removed and then the syrup is
sugared off as quickly as possible. Syrul
should never stand over six hours be
fore being made into sugar, and shoult
then be done off in small lots so as not t.
have it boil any great length of time Th'
best packages for maple sugar are five an(
ten pound pals and small cakes. GooC
maple sugar, put in attractive shape, vii
always command good price The grea
West wants all Vermont can make. II
bring good price it must be nice, and t.
make it nice it must be done up neatly anC
quickly"
CAN it be that the boys of this village ar
not also young gentlemen? The following
communication contains an imputation upoi
their manners and character that we shoul'
prefer to believe is not warranted by tn
facts. In note to us one of the ladies O
the village says; "Two ladies who wer
rudely accosted on one of the streets of tn
village, on Saturday evening, wish to cal
attention to the evident need of reformation
in the manners-not to say morals-of on
resident youth. The three who insulte'
these ladies evidently made the mistake
natural to their years, of thinking them
selves young gentlemen; whereas they ar
in stage of development, that require
suitable attention on the part of their par
ents and the village police. If it has com
to pass that one or more ladies cannot wal
quietly along the street without bein
spoken rudely to by youth or boys, VIII
should know better, we think our villag
authorities would do well to attend to tn
matter at once" This witness is unim
peachable and her complaint is supple
mented by others of "A similar character
Comment cannot add to the force of thes
complaints. What are parents and OFT
cias going to do about it? What will tn
insulted persons, their friends or protectors
do about it, if such offences are not correcte
by the proper authorities? There is foo
, for reflection in these matters. And noN
/ comes another of somewhat differen
character. IL is as follows " A lady of thi
village who is urgently advised by he
physician to take plenty of exercise in tn
open air, begs leave TO call attention to tn
condition of the streets and walks. She
really at much of loss where to go; if sh
goes up the street near the bridge, the odor
from the slaughter-house suggest some fel
disease; and if she goes down street, mudd
walks and rudeness interfere with healt
railway track. the smells are horrible, an
+. / ha 1Ann nothing