The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-07
FORTUNE CAME IN AUTO.
How One Farm Wac Freed From .
Mortgage by a Wife.


MY method OF adding TO our income
Is by keeping an inn for automobile
travellers" farmers wife who recent.
~ paid visit Of several weeks to
New York city told the reporter. Out
farm is ten miles away from the near.
est railroad station, and 1t was next
to impossible TO get summer boarders.
1t was so difficult for me to market
my butter and eggs and chickens that
It didn't seem worth while.
II used to be always wishing ne
could get nearer the station. It seemed
to me that II we could only get where
city people would be willing to come
IN the summer our fortune would be
made, I have always been good
housekeeper, and my husband IS
known all through our part Of the
country as a good proviaer Some peo-
pie used to say that was the reason
we never could get rid Of the mortgage
on the farm.
'-rhe children and ! had oil but per
suaded him to sell out and move to the
village when OR eldest daughter sug.
gested opening an inn for the automo-
biIists. who were continually stopping
at our place for water and other little
things. My two daughters set at work
and Frightened 90 the house and
yards. Then they put out sign at the
crossroads and another on the front
gatepost stating that we we're pre-
pared to furnish meals and lodgings
for small parties.
Then small parties soon began TO
come in, and they have been increasing
In size and number ever since. At
tirst there were only two rooms in
which we could accommodate those
who wished to remain overnight, but
as my children have married on three
more have become available.
yes, both my daughters have mar
ried since we turned our farmhouse
into an Inn four years ago. and during
the last year both SONS married also.
That leaves me alone with niece TO
look after the Inn, while my husband
stIll deyotes himself TO the farm.
From the first cur object In keep.
ing the inn has been % brighten our
home and add to the value Of the
farm. The house Is old fashioned. and
besides the kitchen there are eight
rooms. They were very bare when
we began to take In automobilists, but
now, thanks to the money that they
have left with us, there are not many
In this part OF the country
where you would End more books and |
more comfortable furnishings
Zone Of the boys took course AZ
the agricultural college Of Cornell uni.
and the other could have
done that also Il be hadn't preferred
the Institute Of Technology In Bos.
ton. As soon as he finished there last
summer he took a job that was wait
Ing for him, and then he got married. i
His speciality Is electricity, and be
wired our house and put In electric
bells almost two years ago. That Il
one Of the conveniences we would new. /
or have had IL we hadn't opened the
inn.
we don't pretend to give our visit
,rs anything fancy 10 eat--just the
things raised on the farm well cooked
and served. Ny niece has studied do.
nestle science, DO she knows how to
sook By the new methods. while can
80 about as well as the next one with
ny old recipes
'sYou mustn't think we have had
things all our own way Several farm
rs who live near the road have put
3ut the inn sign, and some Of them
have q good business, but as we be-
gan FIRST and have kept cur place up
o the standard the visitors have con.
.inued to stop with us instead Of go
ng to nelghbcring inns Besides, we
haven't tried TO change our house very
much. only to freshen it up and make
t more comfortable.
Il have found that what folks want
when they come to the country II good
,ouatry eating. That Is WHIST we give
hem ct our inn--a plenty o. II and
With fresh, clean linen and china that
. washed and polished until Il shines.
We no longer have a mortgage on The
arm, and we have money in bank"