Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-12

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Dainty lunch boxes furnished the repast
the lady of the house. The Rotations
were instructive, as well as entertaining.
The directors of Orange County cream
cry held a meeting Saturday afternoon
and voted to engage their butter maker,
O. w. Baker, for another year. Mr..
Baker has seemed to give excellent salts
faction to all parties concerned. He is
making o. G. c. butter famous and the
demand for it is growing every month.
Auctions seem to have begun early
this year. Auctioneer G. E. Godfrey has
two on deck, one next Saturday at Fifield
Bohonon's and one week from Saturday
at j. H. Hadlock's on the West hill. Mr..
Hadlock is to move to the White noun
tains the first of April, where he has a
good position through the summer
season for the same party he has worked
for the past twelve years.
Frank j. Titus has advertised his
freight business for sale. He bought this
business nine years ago last January from
the estate of Alonzo Moves, for whom he
had driven team for ii years. Mr.. Titus
feels that he has earned respite after %
years of continuous teaming between
will be missed by the business men for
he has always been reliable and accommo-
dating in the transaction of their bust
ness.
T. G. Dearborn has sold the Chelsea
livery to David G. Adams of Athol,
Mass, who has taken possession. Tom
has been an accommodating and popular
Iiveryman and we are sorry to lose
him and his family from town. ID. G.
Adams, who has bought the stable, is son
of George s. Adams, who resides on the
Washington road. Mr.. Adams was for
merly owner of the stage line from Chel-
sea to Barre city and was popular stage
driver. He takes much pride in his teams
and proposes to run the best stable in
Orange county.
The following shows what good
dairy, with good care, can be made to do.
During the month of February, A. B.
and j. NJ. Bicknell MIXED IA cows, from
which they received 9,4s1 lbs milk,
which contained 523 33-100 lbs. butter
fat, or 61O $1,000 lbs. butter. Two of
these cows were not MIXED the full
month, one giving milk only 20 days and
one 1415 days. The latter COW in IA
days gave SIS lbs. milk testing .05 20-1OO
per cent. making 30 90-100 lbs. butter fat
or "a $500 lbs. butter. Each of the IA
COWS made on an average 43 61-100 lbs.
butter. At every milking they weigh
each cows milk, from which they take
samples and test once a month, so they
know just what each cow is doing.
Marrow Escape from Coufaeration.
Saturday evening about 9 o'clock. fire
was discovered in the shed OF the orange
County hotel barn. Prompt action with
fire extinguishers and water put it out
only a few feet from a pile of straw.
The office of the hotel barn is at the
north end of the open shed. The stove
pipe from this Office goes up through the
shed and through one of the rooms over
this shed, which is used only in summer,
and so on to the chimney. The pipe
through the shed is enclosed in thing
and it seems the pipe became unjointed
inside. letting the flames and heat from
the stove up the thing, which stopped at
the floor of the overhead chamber, and
here the fire caught, burning several
| inches around the pipe in the floor.
| The PARTITION of the back side of this
room comes next the hay loft OF the barn
and on that side of the partition straw
is piled. The overlays OF the floor IN
this room run directly under the pile OF
straw and the fire had started to follow
them along when discovered. In 20 or
| 20 minutes more it would have been
under such Roadway no power at hand
could have controlled it.
Everett Spear, who was passing in the
street. saw the blaze and gave the alarm.
Had the barn and hotel burned,
nothing in reason could have saved the
Chelsea livery stable barn, Bixby's store,
the houses of F. ]. Titus, w. P. Town
send, occupied by 7. g. Dearborn, Ira
Thompson and DR.. F. H. Godfrey, FOL
there is nothing wider than very mar
row driveway between any of them.
Again fortune has favored this town.
Let everyone look sharp after their stove
| ,,ipes and chimneyS.