Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-08

in district No. 4, closes her school the sth
inst. for a short vacation.
Evansville.
Guild & Foster are repairing the FL. Fos-
ter mill.
Walter Buck has bought the J. Brooks
farm of E. Foster.
Mrs. Geo. King is stopping with her
mother. She is improving in health.
VIM. Brown has gone to Woodsville to
work for the B. &. M. R. r. GOWN.
Cross is working for J.. G. Gray.
! School will commence this week. it being
closed for the last two weeks on account
of the teacher, Miss Comstock, being
sick.
East Charleston.
| Will Hand is home from New York for
the winter.
Henry Beebe OF Jefferson, N. H., has been
visiting relatives in town.
The village school, taught by Miss Iva
Sweeney, closed last Friday.
Mrs. j. S. Underhill has gone to North
Monroe, N. H., to spend the winter with
friends.
G. w. Stevens, who has been visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. P. Stevens, has
returned to Boston.
A. w. Willard and wife have moved into
the tenement which they have had finished
off over one of their shops.
G. E. Blood has enlarged his blacksmith
shop. Clarence is one of the busiest men
in town and can usually be found at the
shop ready for business.
At the auction sale at A. j. AIIyn's last
Wednesday, horses sold low; cows sold at
prices ranging from $19 to $33. The hay
was not sold as they could not get bid on
While we were in Lowell, Mass, a few
weeks ago we spent a few hours at the
stock farm of G. I. Hood, and perhaps
description of some of the things we saw
there will be of interest to the readers of
this paper. Our time was limited and we
could not go into all the buildings. The
first place visited was about one-half mile
from the farm buildings. This place was
where the swine were kept. There were
from three to four hundred hogs and pigs
every one of them as black as coal. They
have about seven acres of land on which
and buildings; the food is all cooked by
steam; the pigs are sold when about two
months old, the prices ranging from $40 to
S25 for single pig. We next went to the
barn where the carriage and coach
horses are kept; there were twelve OF
these and they were beauties, as were the
harnesses and carriages. The barn where
the work horses belong we did not visit,
but the cattle barn was the best we ever
saw. The cows were all out the day we
visited there except the prize cattle which
are kept in large, well lighted stalls or pens,
and blanketed and groomed as we'll as the
horses We saw one calf that Mr.. Hood
said $1,000 would not buy; it was consider
ed to be the best bred calf ever raised on
the farm; they had about275 head of cattle
and MIXED 100, making from three to four
hundred pounds of butter a week, the
butter being sold in New York for fifty
cents pound. At the rear of the barn
was a long lane, on both sides of which
were small buildings with separate yards
for young cattle, calves, etc. Near by these
we saw large and well filled corn cribs;
the corn was picked in the field and thrown
into rows and after the stalks were cut
and out of the way, the corn was gathered
up; several two-horse teams were drawing
the corn from the field the day we were
there. Every one about the place was
courteous and seemed willing to answer
questions and give any information desired
in regard to the business. We would adj
wise any one visiting the city of Lowell to
take the three mile drive and visit this
farm.
Coventry.
Louis Lee has been building new hem
house.
There are no new cases of diptheria. The
sick ones are all better.
Rush Patrick has moved into Lewis |
Douglass tenement house.
The Dorcas Society will meet in the M.
E. vestry next Friday evening.
Harley Cleveland is moving on to the
farm he recently purchased of Mr.. Berry.
Frank Virgins has moved his family to
their new home at North Troy.
Clyde Herman is home from Nashua,
N. H.-Eliza Parker of Barnet has been in
town the past week.
CnafleS Herry mas raised tne root CT MS !
house and added another story. When /
completed he will have a very fine farm
house.
CraftSbury.
J. J. Lindsey is in town from New
Hampshire.
Miss BIanch Shillito has returned to
Westfield accompanied by her uncle Will
liam.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Templeton have re-
turned fIom Waterbury, where they have
been visiting their daughter.