Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-30

Dor the handsome and well-finished tubs
are turned out at the rate of one thousand
per day, during the busy season. The
plant is operated by a 100 horse power boil
er and a 60 horse power engine. Fully
100000 tubs were manufactured last year,
which found a ready market in the West
They take the place of a hand made tub
and are very popular, the slaves being
shaved lengthwise and not sand papered,
do not absorb the moisture. The three
sizes %, 81, 81, are furnished on a special
contract exclusively, with an increasing
demand. From twenty-five to thirty-fve
men are employed, large share of whom
are residents of Barton. G. B. Harding,
the managing proprietor, came from Low
ell, VT, and has had an experience of more
than twenty-five years in making butter
tubs.
L. M. HUBBARD.
Mr. Hubbard is one of our middle-aged
business men, who was born and reared
among us, and whose worth and honesty
have been proven by years of business and
official service. He learned the jewelers.
trade of Mr.. Rawson, and carried on
death of James Boswell, town clerk and
treasurer, Mr.. Hubbard was appointed to
these offices, the duties of which took
much of his time. Meanwhile the office
absorbing his time, he decided to sell out
his iewelry business to Carl Aldrich. He
owned the house on Main St., long occu-
pied by his father, Moses Hubbard, which
was among the oldest in the village, and
which was so run down as not to be worth
thorough repairing. Mr.. Hubbard decid-
ed to build new; the old house was moved
back for tenement building and mod
ern structure built in its stead. The new
residence is among the best finished in the
place, and was constructed SO that it might
be used as a boarding house. Mr.. Hub
bard married Miss Lucy Weed and has
two children. His wife is a woman of
much business capacity and she opened
her house as a first-class boarding house,
where quite large number find rooms,
and table board. Mr.. Hubbard moved the
town clerks office to building adjoining
his premises, where the town is well ac-
commodated and kindly and efficiently
served. The town library is situated in
the same building. Mr.. Hubbard is
charter member Odd Fellow and has had
most of the offices of the order.
h. A. FOLSOM.
One of the necessities in well-equipped
society is the butcher. He supplies your
needs in an important line at times when
you cannot provide for yourselves other
wise. H. A. Folsom of this village is the
son of butcher, and has been in the bust
ness many years for man of his age. He
did business here for some time, after
wards moving to ST. Johnsbury, where he
did large business for several years. He
seemed to like his native town best and
came back here, bought out Mr.. Teller and
went back to his old quarters in the base
ment of the Opera block. He does large
business, his butchery being at Geo. F.
Reeds. In the summer season he widens
his territory to include some of the sur
rounding villages and the Willoughby
Lake summer resorts. He keeps a good
meat market where he has large supply
of things in his line including some gro
ceries. He drives one cart himself and
employs Mr.. McFarlane, very excellent
butcher, to do his butchering and drive
another cart; while still another cart is on
the ROAD during Gno pussy SeaSOu
w. e. NYE.
Mr.. Nye is a sturdy, young farmer of
Barton, whose face is a mirror of good ma
ture, honesty and courage. He was born
in Derby twenty-six years ago, and came
to Barton from Charleston in 1892, and
bought the N. @. Ufford farm. The
farm now contains about 400 acres, of
which nearly 125 acres is moving and TIL
lage, and can be carried on by machinery.
There is ample woodland with a consider
BILE supply of timber, and valuable cedar
swamp. There is a good sugar place of
about six hundred trees, with Murkland
arch, pans and a heater. The farm is
nearly level body of land with just enough
slope to secure drainage, and commands
fine view of Jay Peak and Lowell Noun
tain on the northwest. He keeps dairy
of from forty to fifty COWS, and is breeding
in Jersey lines, to renew his dairy, and the