The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-02
THE NEWS OF PHENIX.
Points on the Modern Farmer Who
Succeeds.
INTERESTING AUCTION SALE.
A Directory Is 20 be Compiled for All the
villages on the Pawtuxet valley Rail-
road From Auburn to Hope-It VIII
Take In Also the south Pawtuxet
PIages.

Theodore Lawton, who is most sue
cessful farmer, is living demonstration
of the truth, that the time when farmer
could get a living out Of plain oldfash-
toned farming is gone by never to return.
The first-class farmer of today runs
truck farm, village milk route, wood
business, Tor else he trades like horse
Jockey. The trader farmer is the man
who always has money in plenty. AT the
Lawton auction on Bald Hill, which oc-
Cured three weeks since, and which the
NEWS reported at the time, Theodore Law
ton bought 100 tons of hay, paying $3.50
per ton He has sold it now and Is getting
$40 per ton delivered in Providence. One
of the best farmers in the Olneyville
farming district began trading last week,
here is what he swapped: First there was
an old buggy as original stock in trade.
This he traded for COW: she
was so poor and so old she
needed upholstering on her hip bones. He
traded her for pair OF oxen, which were
slower than the wrath TO come. These he
exchanged for small and bald wood lot,
which was turned into job lot of shin
giles, that he changed for set of double
harnesses, aud with these he bought n
colt which he is trying TO barter for a
work horse. And the funny thing about
it all is, each man who has traded thinks
he got the best of the other fellow.
Directory Planned.
Reporters for newspapers who have
worked i'm the villages of the Pawtuxet
Valley, have been greatly inconvenienced
in writing items by the fact that few of
the streets are named, and none of the
houses are numbered. Now, an agent for
Sampson, Murdock a. Company, is ar
ranging for "A directory of the villages on
the Pawtuxet Valley Railroad, from Au-
burn TO Hope, and may also take in the
south Pawtuxet Valley places. When
asked IL it would not be very inconvenient
10 compile practical directory of these
nameless tracts of villages, the agent said
he had done work In many places of SINH
lar lay out successfully, which will ~ good
news TO our citizens. As the agent was
taking the names of the inmates of a
house on Lamphear street, he asked an
old man in the yard il he lived there, and
received an Affirmative reply.
Are you servant P'
Yes, sir. / be-"
care YOU the butler ?"
"No, sir we don't make no butter; we
get it TO the store" said the lSnest old
hostler.
The tenement houses at Fiskeville be-
longing TO the factory are being shingled.
On Tuesday Rhodes Andrews took out
TO trial work n fine young pointer puppy
worker and retriever.
An Auction at the Atwood Farm.
Another rwidely-advertised auction called
together q great crowd on Tuesday to the
w g. Atwood farm in South Scituate.
This farm has belonged, since the memory
of fman, not TO mention her riblets, woman,
to the Atwoods, the same family so favor
ably known as the former owners of the
Williamsville cotton factories. The farm,
Ia H.. II. III Al
brute world, is to be sold Eight miles
from the nearest railroad terminus. il
would not have seemed probable that such
n great number of people could have as
sembled. There had been great
deal of antique stuff advertised for
sale, consisting of canopy-top bedsteads,
old Franklin fire frames, brass hearth sets,
tenders, old furniture, etc. The bidding
was brisk, but prices low. The cows were
sold at poor figures hay sold at SIS per
ton; 80 hens sold at eight cents per
pound. A quantity of old farming tools
were got rid of. Some of these were ex-
ceedingly ancient; one, an old wooden
plough, made over one hundred years ago,
was bought by George Atwood of Lippitt
James Shay of this place bid in collec-
tion of ancient farming utensils, in which
cheese press, OK yokes, etc, figured, and
then resold them TO men present,
doubling his money. All day long the
auctioneer's hoarse voice persuaded and
the clerk counted his shekels. Six
lunchmen set up their cookery stands
and sold gallons of oysters, heaps of
pies, oceans of coffee and peanuts aud
candy ad libitum. When the sun got
weak kneed, il sat down behind the Scit-
uate hills, and made no promise of rising
before Wednesday morning So the sale
will be continued The house and farm
will be sold, the former Is "a very large,
well kept bui lding there is a barn, as
large as any in Western Rhode Island,
costing to build IL $500 Besides this
there are 1900 cords of standing wood on
the place. Large crowds will attend on
Wednesday.
The Providence Illuminated Card Com
pany will show the "Ncws'" election re-
turns tonight on the large screen opposite
Turks Head.