The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1898-04-15
EAST DORSET.

the quality not up to the average.
But the motions ore over and the
business adjourned to 1899.
Not so very dull. Dorset Mount
ain Marble company is doing a little
puttering business, shipping off waste
marble to be ground into Nova
Scotia plaster, etc etc. j. X.
Freddy and sons with new shop
40x60, with a rubbing bed and other
works are largely increasing their out
put using in saving some six tons of
sand daily. Many years ago before
their mill was built or thought Of and
before there was any marble business
here of much account Mr.. Andrews
Bowen, in selling farm, reserved
one acre containing sand bed. He
subsequently sold his home farm and
this acre to his sons, b. p. and AL
bert r. The latter sold his interest
to his brother, B. p. Bowen, who
has since then furnished most of the
sand used IN saving marble both at
Freedlyville and in our village. The
price delivered is understood to have
ranged from 80 cents to one dollar a
ton giving cheerful weekly lump
sum of fifty dollars and upwards.
And so little sandy knoll not con-
sidered at one time much more vaua-
BILE than hole in the ground proved
more paying than a klondike gold
mine. And of course w. G. Bebee
is chipping the marble into forms to
suit the patrons of his growing bust
ness.
Large shipments of lumber have
lately been made, and our station has
never for a long time had so little.
A buyer from the Bay state bought a
variety of hard wood in early winter
and is here now after rock maple in
the log. He has bought about thirty
thousand feet Of Timothy Dacy, Jr,,
| no log to be less than IS inches in di-
ameter inside the bark at the smaller
end.
Michael Pickett is doing quite a
meat business. Somehow Porter
house steak chews better from cart
that is bright and shining than from
one that isn't.
Hon. W. Il. Bebee is reported on
the sick list and suffering immensely.
Mrs. Ezra Benson Edna Brophy)
has been for some weeks near deaths
door but is better and gaining slowly.
Deer are apparently quite numer-
Gus near here. Three were seen at
one time and might easily have been
shot. Another hadn't jumped quite
high enough in leaping over barbed
wire fence and his behind shanks
were torn and bleeding. If farmers
would use board INSTEAD of the up
per wire it would prevent such de-
plorable accidents and save many a
sweet little songster from getting his
toes cut by alighiing on barbs.
Our South village has been sick
with the measles but is couvalescent.
Mr.. George futile knows all about
it, Mrs. futile and their seven chill
dren being down with them at the
same time.
Our schools opened April 4th with
the usual number present and likely
to attend except in the quarry dis.
trictw where two families moved away
taking eight children of school age.
About dozen are left. Not so very
many years ago this school was the
largest in Dorset having 11S children
of school age. But raising recruits
for the school has for some years
past been apparently mostly a "lost
art"
Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Bebee,
Mr. and Mrs. F. r. Eggleston and
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Brock have
each had of late an addition to their
family of bouncing baby boy.
Don't it beat all what wide range
young ladies' affections will take,
what great variety of objects they
will love, canary birds, cats, holly
hooks, aligators and snakes ? Well,
Miss Anna Dunn is just home from
Florida and she brought with her
precious little pair of alligators, some
s or 10 inches long. They don't OBJ
ject to fish worms and bits of meat.
Our Uncle Samuel vii be strap
his knapsack on his back Without
doubt. He is of long suffering and
tender mercy, but the murderess that
put scab on his nos4will sup sor-
row. When one or more of her pets
with all their bifurcated animals 90
down a la Maine we expect to hear
HIM remark, "The Lold gave and
the Lord taketh away and blessed be
the name of the Lord"