The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-13

there has not been on open saloon in the
village" He did not mean to say that
liquor Is never sold here, but the people
do not tolerate the sale.
West Randolph village Is the commercial
center of the town. The merchants are gem
orally prosperous, some having been in bust
ness for a long period. A. w. Tewksbury
" Son, old-time proprietors of the largest
general store in this part of the state, still
display this ancient legend, Cash and Bar
ter Store" Dry goods, hardware, gro
ceries, and every other branch of trade are
represented by enterprising merchants who
carry large and well-selected stocks of
goods. AT the "Red Lion mn" the
stranger within the gates" is hospitality
entertained. From the ashes of the fire
of 1884 arose new business blocks of brick,
and the business part of the village is a fit
ting complement of the residence portion.
Six churches minister to the spiritual
needs of the people, for their thoughts are
not entirely of Jersey and Morgan strains
of blood, or of merchandise, or of gold and
silver. The oldest societies are the Chris
tian and Congregational, and they are also
the largest and strongest. The Episcopal,
Baptist, Methodist and Roman Catholic are
also flourishing societies and are out of debt.
MANUFACTURES
The West Randolph Building Company
was formed soon after the burning of the
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in February, 1892. 1t has a capital of S8,O00,
subscribed by leading citizens of the viii
lage. The capital was expended in the
erection of a new and improved mill for
the screen company. Messrs. j. w. Atwood
and j. II. Burt, the owners OF the old mill,
have charge of affairs at the new plant,
paying the taxes, the Insurance., and five
per cent per annum upon the cost of the
power and buildings. They manufacture
door and window screens, in endless va
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they have recently secured a patent. The
building is equipped with tirst-class ma
chinery and the company has all the work
it can do.
The furniture mandatory OF Salisbury
Brothers has long been known as one of the
c~reasing business has necessitated building
an addition to the plant and putting in a
second engine of ten-horse-power. This
firm employs about fifty men and uses more
than a million feet Of ash, birch aud bass
wood annually. All kinds of chamber suits,
center tables, chairs and bank furniture are
manufaCtured-an average of from seven to
ten carloads monthly.
The Abbott mill, so called, is owned by
A. W. Tewksbury x Son. G. f. Abbott is
the manager. About seventy men are con-
stantly employed in the manufacture of
church and bank furniture, for which this
firm has gained a wide reputation. Speci.
mems of their work can be found in almost
every state in the Union. A new building,
80 X 20 feet, was added last year, in which
the doors manufactured are moulded and
finished. Attached to this building is a
tower five stories high, surmounted by a
tank of 1000 gallons capacity, filed with
water as a protection against fire.
At the saw and grist mill of A Tewks-
bury & Son, dimension lumber in large
quantities is cut, and it is the boast of this
firm that it can furnish all the material for
building a complete house. The grist mill
is equipped with two run of stone for grind
ing corn. Over 10000 bushels are ground
annually. About twenty-five men are con-
stantly employed here. Messrs. Tewksbury
& Son run two other mills in connection
with the one described.
George |. Princes butter tub factory has
been in successful operation more than
twenty wears, employs thirty men, and
manufactures 200, 900 butter tubs annually.
A. f. Lane makes, in the Prince factory,
the Perfection butter box, a new article
having many advantages over the old style.
Its production promises TO become a thriv-
ing business. But Randolph is essentially
AN AGRICULTURAL TOWN.
Agriculture is the cornerstone of her pros
perity, and in material affairs the Jersey
COW is her browning glory. The Moulton
Brothers and Colonel Kimball introduced
here the fine blooded Jersey stock. They
placed the standard high, and they encour-
aged the farmers to work up to the high
standard of their raising. The result Is seen
in Randolph to-day, and in the adjoining
towns, in the increased number and inn
proved quality OF dairy stock. Too long
for enumeration is the list of individual
farmers who have furnishing diaries of Jer-
sey stock whose product finds its way to the
creamery of the Brigham Company and its
branches at Randolph Center, Braintree
and Brookfield. From the headquarters at
West Randolph large quantities OF cream
are daily shipped to Boston. For this pur-
pose the cream is placed in the morning in
metallic cans of one hundred pounds ca
pacity. The cans are then packed in crushed
ice. There they remaint till about midnight,
when they are protected by a canvas over
coat heavily wadded with hair felt. Thus
the low temperature secured by the Ice
packing is maintained. The midnight ex-
press takes the packages to Boston, and in
twenty.four hours from the milking the
cream is in market, as sweet and delectable
as when the separator divorced it from its
grosser element. Fifty cans is an average
daily shipment. The largest single ship
ment was eighty cans-S,0O p~ounds-four
tons of the extract of tactical bliss for the
palates of the denizens Of the modern Ath-
ems. The cost of transportation is ninety
cents per one hundred pounds. The surplus
cream is made into butter. Four per cent of
| butter fat is the standard by which the price
of milk is regulated. In June the company
paid ~eighty-fve cents per one hundred
pounds OF standard mix III July elgnty
cents. During the latter month the lowest
test brought seventy-s six cents, the highest
81 .06, the latter from the dairy OF j. g..
Mann. Our thanks are due to j. j. Trerise,
the local manager of the creamery. for in
formation courteously given.
During the past ten years Col. Il. j. KIM
ball, on his mountain farm and at Mon
tague Place." his village estate, which en-
braces some forty acres, has devoted time
and money to the work Of raising a high
class of Jerseys of the Rioter strain, and he
has done much in the way of improving the
stock of cattle in this section OF the state.
The dairy kings - and their domain is
world wide-are the Moulton Brothers
Gilman S., Clarence f., and Justin H., sons
of the late Phineas Moulton and proprietors
of the Green Mountain Stock Farm. The
nucleus of their kingdom is the old
homestead. Mr.. j. II. Moulton, the eldest
of the brothers, stuck to the farm, but the
others, successful in business, retained the
pastoral instinct. The home farm first be-
gan to expand into a breeding ground for
fine horses. Some ten years ago the Jersey
COW attracted the attention of the Moultons
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