The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-05-09

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DORSET.
Geo. Kellogg has been quite III
with rheumatism.
Thomas Collins who has been i'll,
Is convalesccut.
Mrs. y. T. Gilbert and daughter
Ruth, are visiting in West Rupert.
} Mrs. Ernest West and Mrs. Ira
/ Glover spen, Tuesday in Rutland.
Miss Nellie Anthony is spending a
few days with Mrs. Chas. Kent,
/ Miss Anna Gilbert has returned
from a visit with relatives ia North
ampton.
Mrs. II. 7. Snyder attended the
Teachers Institute in SALISBURY ON
Thursday.
Many farmers disposed of their
maple syrup at the depot last Saturday
at 50 cents for standard test.
/ MIR. and Mrs. Allan Bourne arrived
from Yonkers on Wednesday and have
opened their summer home.
The Grange held their regular
meeting ON Wednesday evening at
which the customary round was pre-
ceded by a supper.
"A number from the Dorset Grange
attended the supper of the Battenkill
Valley Grange in Manchester Center
last Saturday evening.
The blacksmith shop being erected
by Geo. Lille on the road below the
quarry, is nearly completed and will
soon be ready for business.
Many children roamed over the
hilsides on Arbor day in search OF
May flowers which are coming to the
| light after the warm days and refresh
ing showers of the past week.
Miss Eliza S. Roberts, daughter of
Richard and the late Caroline Roberts
of Brooklyn, died suddenly at her
home April I'D. The news came as a
sad shock TO her many friends in this
community who were won by her
sweet personality. Miss Roberts has
spent several summers with her aged
father and her sister Mary, in Dorset,
and was loved by all who knew her.
The grief stricken family have much
sympathy extended them in their be
reavement Two sisters, Mrs. Marsh
and Mrs. Benz. Roberts also survive.
SOUTH DORSET
Moses Sheldon is in Wardsboro
this week.
The Foresters' hop Friday evening
was good.
Cold and windy, snow on the noun
tains yet and freezes nights.
Charles Phelps and A. l.. Bowen
were up Dorset Hollow Sunday.
"A social party at Frank Hazelton's
Saturday evening was a pleasant oc-
casion.
Bowen will have another big lot of
Paroid No Tar Roofing this week. His
ads in the JOURNAL sell the goods.
The marble business is looking up
again. Prospects are good for good
season both in blocks and finished
marble.
The auction at Dorset Inn was
success; il was the best advertised auc
ton ever held here. Bowen attended to
the whole affair, and, with the help of
the JOURNAL, got out crowd, and
goods went high.
Il had the pleasure of seeing A. b.
! Roberts fine crib of corn last week
He planted two and one-fourth acres
of corn last year, and husked from
this ground 269 bushels of ears of corn.
Ii is s-rowed ears about IA inches long
and nearly every one perfect. de has
30 bushels of seed corn. The Squire
says it is democratic corn. At any
rate it is a fine lot of Vermont corn.
The cheese factory at Dorset is
running again. The fact that milk
shipped by rail has TO be at Manches-
ter station at am, much of IT hauled
10 TO II miles by team, makes the far
mer get up at 2 TO 3 o'clock in the
morning, milk and haul his milk to the
station. and the unnecessary fault find
ing and repeated cutting down on
prices make il very vexatious TO sell
milk. But with butter at 80 cents
pound and cheese at Ii cents a pound,
the farmer won't starve unless he has
TO buy butter and cheese and pork;
and then he is fully as well of ms the
other chap who works for 81 week
aud eats up with his family from $40
to sl2 of the high priced provisions.