Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-02-27
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CALEDONIA COUNTY.


West Burke.
Mrs. Fred Roundy is quite sick.
Communion service at the M. E. church
next Sunday. '.
o. L. Leonard has received the appoint
ment of deputy sheriff.
Several from this village attended the
lecture at Barton last Wednesday evening.
Will Cheney went to Burlington last
week to take the examination preparatory
to entering the U. S. Regular Army.
Several from this place attended the flu
neral of Mrs. c. (Watson) Cobleigh, who
died at her home in Lyndon, Feb. 10Th.
Arlene Bolton has been dangerously sick
but is now better.-Fred Lindsay has been
sick with typhoid fever, but at present is
improving.
The remains of Mrs. Mary j. (Dunsire)
Darling of Fitchburg, Mass, formerly of
Burke, were brought to this place last Fri
day for burial.
Frank Burns has returned from Boston,
but will return later to resume his music.
Elias Dennis and son of Brighton were
in town recentIy.-Miss Hattie Bacon is
V1S1IlnS lrlSnuS LII JOnuSOH. MI .1Id1I
ton and daughter are visiting at A. W.
Brockway's. Miss Harrington will spend
| few weeks with her sister.-G. c. Otis of
ST. Johnsbury spent last Sunday with his
father.-Mrs. Ada Silsby and daughter
visited at Lyndonville last week.
Hardwick.
Madge Morse is visiting friends in Barre.
Apples are selling here for forty cents
peck. They are very scarce.
| Geo Olmstead of Morris Vile as become
an employee of w. w. Marshall.
Many people who have been ill here are
! on the gain. At one time there were scarce
Iy we'll ones enough to properly care for
the sick.
| Samuel Perkins, teamster in the employ
| of T. F. Daniel, had the misfortune Thurs
day of severely I'M uring his right foot
while unloading granite at ST. ans pol
| ishing mill.
Our town report hasibeen prepared and
| is now ii the hands of the printer. The
towns expenses for the year past have
been quite small in consideration of the
extra work which has been done.
East EFardwick.
Nathan Field and son, Walter visited at
/ Barre last week.
| Geo. Wilson and wife haved moved out
of the Bailey house.
| W. S. Bailey is saving block wood.-Mr.
Chandler is saving wood for f. Eastman.
st. j OhnSbury
Everybody is perhaps aware that the
large scales upon which emit freight cars
with their loads of many ton re weighed
are considered immense, but with all their
immensely it seems that they are meager
in the eyes OF Uncle Sam, who has gone all
the railroad magnates in the country one
point better by installing at the Navy
Yard in Washington one of the largest
pairs of Fairbanks scales in the country.
This machine can outweigh the largest
railroad weighing machines by 30 tons,
and when it is considered that it's results
must be accurate to the weight of a pound,
while railrord scales are considered good
if they approach anywhere near so pounds
of being correct, it is to be marveled at the
advances that have been made in scale
| manufacture in recent years. The new
scales are 4S feet long and II wide and rest
upon a cement base built upon long piles.
Much of it's fine and sensitive balancing
apparatus twas manufactured for special
use in the new machine, and the complet-
ed structure is considered model and
marvel of modern mechanism and Ameri-
can ingenuity. The machine is SO sensi-
tive that it can weigh anything from 8
pound of sugar to trio of 13-inch naval
guns, and weigh them accurately, though
it will probably exc out a long existence
at the famous gunshop without having 6
chance to weigh an ounce of the former
The capacity of the new scale is $50 tons
or double the capacity of the old scales. A