Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-10-03
VERNON.
New England Thrift.

The following article, clipped from
paper printed at Friday Harbor,
Washington, will be read with local
interest:
Illustrating the frugallty, carefulness
and hardness of New England people
of the old school, Mrs. Culver In a re-
cent letter says: | am going to tell you
how they make things last in Vermont
Down at Vernon is Grandpa Lee ninety
one and half years old. He Is able
to help in haying and this year used the
same hay caps that have been in use
on the place for forty years They are
made of cotton cloth bought at 6k cents
yard about 1S6l-before the price of cot
ton was raised in war times Four
yards made one cap and sixty were made.
When cotton was high some of the cloth
was used for making shirts, reducing the
number of caps to about fifty, which
are now in use. Uncle William prof.
Shipman, of Tufts college) said this was
about equal to the story of the clock
which Grandpa Lee bought fifty years
ago. When he went to purchase he was
shown a clock for 81 that was said to
be good and would last very well, but
for $3.50 the man would give him a clock
that he would warrant for five years.
He bought the expensive 90 clock and
has kept 1t running these. fifty years,
cleaning 1t himself until late years when
he considered his eyesight not quite good
enough. There is also a pork barrel in
the family that has been in use for over
one hundred years. Six generations
have lived on that farm and seven in
the neighborhood. 1t was not much for
Mr.. Lee last May to take his grip, go
to the station some two or three miles
distant to take the 6 a. m. train and go
down through Boston and thence to
Bethel, Maine, to visit his daughter.
Charles Allen is visiting his sisters, Mrs
l.. c. Cook and Mrs. f. W. Johnson.
Vernon Grange will hold regular meet
ing next Saturday evening.
The ladies' circle will meet next We'd
| nesday afternoon at their rooms.
Miss Inez Meacham has been suffering
| from a rheumatic trouble for few days.
Rev. r. X. Marvin will preach in the
| church next Sunday at 2.30 p. m.
Ernest Whitney is at work for Mr.
Leach at the ferry and will assist on the
| farm in Hinsdale.
The sun shone brightly enough to cast
a shadow just II minutes this, Thursday,
morning, the first for a week.
| Miss Clarissa Reed has returned to the
| Berkeley street school in Boston for
another year to take the course in do
| nestle science.
| Another collection of books from the
Vermont free public library commission
| is at Miss leila Johnsons, and all are
invited to patronize the library which is
free to all who will comply with the
| regulations of the commission.
The premiums in the dairy test at the
| Valley Fair were all won by +. II.
| Akley and A. A. Dunklee of this town,
| who have been the successful COMPETE
| tors in this department since it was es-
| tablished.
| The exhibits of the three town schools
| in the education department at the Valley
| Fair were commendable. This new fea-
ture of the fair is a move in the right di-
rection and. We believe will result in
| stimulating the schools to healthy COM
petition which must be a benefit to each
| individual student.
f. ]. Tenny, who has carried on the
F. L. Brown farm for the last five
| years. moves to his place which he bought
| last spring of Lewis Randall, and the
farm has been rented to men by names of
| Works and Hayes. Mrs. F. p. Brown
| of Buffalo. the owner of the farm. is at
| j. A. Browns attending to the business
| pertaining to the change of management.
| The annual meeting of the Union
| church association was held last Satur-
| day evening The old board of officers
| was unanimously elected. but Charles z.
| Davis requested TO be excused from fur
| Their service as one of the executive COM
| mittee on account of i'll health, and
| proposed the name of F. W. Johnson,
| who was elected. The financial report
showed a reduction of the church debt
which gives encoura cement to the wish
| to extinguish the whole debt in the near
| future. 1t was voted to have a harvest
supper on the evening of Oct. II.