The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
EAST DORSET.

We now have about two inches of
snow with the prospect of freeze
After that sugaring, probably. En-
cept two mornings this winter, when
the mercury was 10 and IA degrees
below zero, it has been only de-
grees below. Ice has formed only
8 or 8 inches thick, about half the
usual thickness. Parties who have
been here cutting aud storing ice are
here still and have three stacks on
the side of the south village pond be-
sides some 5lS tons in the old fur
mace, reckoning 40 cubic Feet TO the
ton. One stack so by 100 feet and
7 feet high has been sold to dealer
in Troy and will be shipped to him as
fast as possible this week.
Two of our lads left last week
without the knowledge of their pa
rents, but were overhauled in Dandy
and escorted home. The exploits of
Peck's Bad Boy, and Wild Bill, and
nothing to DO but to run the road will
sometimes make pretty good boys
uneasy and impatient of restraint,
1t is probably on the principle that
san idle brain is the Devils work.
shop"
A song service was held in the
Union Church on Sunday evening,
under the direction Of Prof. Nichols.
His singing school is expected to
close next week with some appropri-
ate exercises not as yet fully decided
upon.
The dog fiend is again abroad
among us. George Coppin's dog was
shot only little while ago, and last
week one of DR.. Bartlett's was poi
soned and the other had foot nearly
shot off.
Mention was omitted last week OF
the sale of a fine FLY by Father Calf.
ney for $500. Also of an Allen
Wilks yearling by w. D. Ames fol
S125. Quite number of these Wilk'
colts are reported uncommonly prom
Using. Clifford Gilmore of Manches
ter has one, % months old, tina
stands Is ga hands high and weigh
$50 lbs. Several others of the sam
age stand 10 hands high or over, ant
weigh from 800 to 900 lbs. Geo. II
Reed, owner of Allen Wilks, has on
that is beauty-hard to beat; an
we have more from the same horse il
this vicinity that could be sold fo
u good prices if their owners chose t
Is part with them. One of the larges
of his get, and we think he will cor
n fer with the best, is owned by 6
l. Gilmore of Manchester. He stand
e 10 3-4 hands high and weighs $50 lbs
: at % months old. There are sever:
the same age that stand 10 hands an
over and weigh from 800 to 900 Id
The Wilks's take the lead as famil
of horses in this country beyond
doubt. The scribe is the owner {
the dam of one colt that has trotte
down in the twenties; one that b;
. trotted in forty and is used for Ari'
ing purposes in N. Y. city, where
Ee is conside. ed good one. These al
st two out Of three only-but two ey'
Or received any training. This year 81
or will be mated to this young scion
'd the Wilks family, when good resul
will be expected from the grand o
c. dam of Lady Morrison. We see
re the Rutland Herald quite lot
t. our best young horses were shippt
g. to New York last week. One THU
We is sure, a good horse well bred c;
S. find ready sale at a good price al
time.
The Dorset Marble Company
property is advertised for sale at pu
rs lie auction at the Bardwe.l Hous
m Rutland, March 9th, 1890 at 2 ,
clock p. IN. If the right party G
ne hold of this property, East Dorset
is sure to have boom. 1t has new
been operated to much profit.
~ many owners and managers seem
re have made little or nothing during t
III 20 years or so that d. l.. Kent
Co., just across the road from
TO made S120,000. ID. l.. Kent, a Dc
set man, without capital, but of u
common business ability, was b;
re owner and manager. Shortly aft
n his decease, a few years ago, his
terest was sold to his surviving pa
:, ner, but the firm name has remain
ks unchanged.
~ DORSET.