The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30

last week. -= Frank Walker and his sis
ter, Miss Alice, drove across the country to
| st. JohnSbury and returned last week,
accompanied by their grandmother, Mrs
| Rice Davenport. - Mr. and Mrs. Rice
Davenport of st. Johnsbury are visiting
here on the way to their son, Rev. Walter
| Davenport, in South Royalton. - Do
you know there is such a thing as epidemics
among inanimate things?" said Mr. Perley
Chandler of Barre looking up to us from his
work one day last week. just now" said
he, there is one among mainsprings of
watches" Then he told us how, in damp,
warm days, with perhaps some peculiar
electrical conditions, there might be said to
be an epidemic y of the breaking of these
springs. He had read an article on the sub
ject in which it was stated that on a certain
day and about the same hour, as was after
wards ascertaned, hundreds as he remem-
bered it, OF mansprings of watches were
broken in the city of New York, supposed to
have been the result of causes above mem
toned. - Apropos of watches, il would
seem that " Yankee tricks " are not con-
fined to any one locality, for we were shown
by Mr.. Chandler watch made in Switzer-
land, or possibly France, but stamped inside
as made by " the New England Watch Com
pany, Boston," - We had the pleasure
last week of a call at the home of our we'll
known townsman, George Crane, the secre-
tary of the Vermont State Grange We can
inform grangers elsewhere that their secre-
tary has very pleasant farm-home to call
at. OF course we labored to put the gentle
a
"grist " for the WATCHMAN. Mr. Crane is a
believer in plenty of the best farm ma
chinery. In fact we judge he regards it as
almost indispensable in these days of low
prices for farm products and high wages for
farm labor here in Vermont. We were
specially interested in examining COM
/ bined manure-cart and spreader, known as
the Kemp and made in Worcester, Mass,
which Mr.. Crane and neighbor have to-
, gether purchased. 1t does a large amount
of work in an excellent manner, Mr.. Crane
, thinks, and at great saving of expense.
Regarding his dairy, Mr.. Crane once tried
faithfully the Cooley creamer, but concluded
on the whole he preferred pans, about
twenty-four by thirty-four inches and six
Y inches in depth placed upon tables. He
uses an oscillating churn and ships his
D butter in crates. Of course a maple sugar
: tub is always interesting. But we have sell
: dom, If ever, seen such white maple sugar
k as Mr.. Crane made last spring. 1t has the
g appearance of having been artifcially
n beached, but such we were assured was not
s the case. The secret, Mr.. Crane claims
v was (having first clean pals for the sap and
o thorough straining of it, and a suitable
: sugar-housee and utensils) boiling compare
q lively small quantities of sap at a time and
Is sugaring it off speedily. Then he aims to
l. keep the sap cool before boiling, and to this
: end uses ice in warm days. He thinks Mr..
Timothy Wheeler of Waterbury has some
good ideas of sugar-making, by which he
;, himself has been protted. By no means
= the least attractive things on this farm
- the patent farm-gates. To be appreciated
70 one wants to see them, and the man who
> wants to do that will not have to stand out
7 side of them long. - A call at the old
!. Judge Paine place could not but be interest
u ing to some of our citizens. We took look
II last week at the fine barn the present
~ occupants of the farm have built, in which
.. the silo is worthy feature. 1t is said the
y farm will keep very much larger amount
l. of stock than when the Clogstons took hold
81 of it. - Mrs Slas Bohonon has recently
~ lost horse as the result, we hear, of an in
"a jury to foot, fork-tine having pierced it,
~ - We were forcibly reminded the other
o. day of the change that time is quietly work
ing in this as of course in all other places
Going into pasture on George Cranes
n farm we were shown faint marks of a road
a of much importance in the early history of
err our town when the hub " of the place
lg was the Judge Paine neighborhood), but
n now giving hardly any sign of its former
r. existence. 1t was known as " turnpike"
It. and finally was given by Judge Paine to the
at town, with the condition that it should not
st be " shut up " when other roads might be
" built to better accommodate the public. MIR
Crane found among his fathers papers after
ay his DEATH a letter from Judge Paine to him,
en- as a selectman, complaining that this condi-
rk ton had been violated and threatening him
vol If not fulfilled. But the sponge of time was
as too much for the Judges gift, and it has
Is been pretty efectually wiped out. To any
"a one mindful of the great value of local his
gs tory to town, it must seem eminently de-
is sirable that the history of that section of ouI
CHI town (than which no other, seemingly, could
afford more INTEREST," be written while the
comparatively few are living who could fur.
nish it. What contribution to it could be
"a made by the facile pen of the judges daugh
IL, ter, Miss Caroline Paine, if she would con-
gs sent to it, - We doubt if many of ouI
ed towns-folk know what an excellent amateur
- printer we have in town in the person OF
ISL Leslie Crane, yet in his teens. At nine
ge years of age he began with a small press
| he int
re work. This small press has given way to 9
ey larger one, and if his " fruits - are the sure
an test he might almost take a diploma as q
re- self-made printer. He is Just the boy fol
es- some job-printer to pick up when his father
at, lets go his grip on him. - AS was
V. generally expected, Townsman c. U. La
as throp was nominated for second term as
irt county judge at the recent Orange county
OF republican convention, and this without OPP
OF position, we believe. - Messrs. Charles
he r. and Henry A. Ainsworth of Moline
his Illinois, are expected at the old home here
M next month. - Nash Simons, supern
tly tendent of manufacturing establishment
las in Wilton, n. H., is visiting his mother
he here. He is accompanied by his wife
nr- - Frank Martin and Lewis Flint ar,
: both on the sck-list. DIR. Bigeow of Barr
nd was called last week as counsel with DR. Nc
he Clearn in Mr.. Flint's case. - Mr.. Euocl
on Howe remains in a critical condition yet
Is hope and fear alternating concerning his re
= covery. - Mrs. DR.. James Bailey re
e last week. - Herbert Colby and Mis-
ay Flora Benedict were married at the resi-
on dence of the brides father Charles r. Bene
of Dict on Wednesday evening of last week
. Rev. Harvey Webster officiating. The,
MS are to live on the old Septa Simons place
X. recently bought by Mr.. Colby. - Tha
es. delightful writer, John Burroughs, nov
lie says: Where the COW is there is Arcadia.
rye What is " the breed" Mr. Burroughs? w
elk. are intimate with two or three breeds
ing with never a suspicion of anything paradise
airy ical about the acquaintance. - A so
ere was born on Monday last to Mr.. and Mrs
I'D George W. Lynde Weight, nine and one
ner fourth pounds. - James Gregory G
has Champlain, n. Y, is visiting his father
raj family here. - The Central Vernon
mn railroad surveyors reached this place Tues
S., day, and are surveying to the quarries
zen - We hear complaint of great mortalit
oh. among young turkeys this season - TIL
yn, prospects are good for large hay crop
the - We are told that Andrew Burnhar
NJ has hired the Chloe Bacon place in Mil
,ed village. - Nathan Hall has just sold
. fine horse for $3.50. - Miss May Sim
uf- mons of Stowe is in town. She is about +
go with Miss Sarah Field to the Protil
House, White Mountains, for the season.