The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-07-22

Dances are all the rage-four n
night is about the average in Man
chester and Dorset
Hen thieves are getting plenty
Some Of them get sore fingers. Rat
traps bite and bird shot will pepper
night providers who must take their
chances.
Prof. Brooks and the Fosters are
having pipes laid for water to their
homes from cold springs, Running
water is a great advantage and health
protector.
Crops are very good. Hay will be
an average crop, oats are good, corn
and potatoes are good An abundance
Of rain in the past three weeks has
more than doubled the hay crop and
helped all vegetation.
Helen Bowen has caused to be
spread on the road in front Of her
pleasant place calcine carbide Of salt
TO allay the dust nuisance and it is a
success. This is the only place so pro-
tected in South Dorset
The NJ. d. & G, r, r, runs only one
train up and back in the middle Of the
day from Manchester instead Of four
as formerly. That does not give any
passenger service from South Dorset
to Manchester and return the same
day. Probably the road will be aban-
doned soon, then chance for trolley
from Manchester to Granville will be
in order, hauling both passengers and
freight as the Mettowee Valley X. r.
Company, which was simply on paper,
has dissolved, it leaves the route open
to some new push viii it come or
will it be all automobile in summer
and snow banks in winter
Our Roads so Years Ago and To-day
As | drove down TO the Center to-
day over one of the best roads in Yer
mont my mind went back to so years
ago when the same road was a crooked
streak Of mud full Of old logs, stumps,
stones and deep mud holes where
teams got stuck and not one-half the
loads of to-day could be hauled. This
spring the State road work has been
done in the dugway in North Man
chester. The once crooked, hilly, mud
dy, narrow road there has been
Strengthened, widened, leveled until it
is a perfect boulevard, wide enough
for three teams abreast with a good
guard fence Some of the best gray
gravel in the State is found there and
it packs smooth, hard and lasts well
for road. Twenty-eight autos met
and passed me on this quarter Of
mile of road to-day, besides IL teams
as drove at good gait through it.
The road from Manchester via the
Center to Dorset, Rupert, Pawlet,
Granville, is through one of the finest
scenic sections in Vermont, and the
roads are smooth, wide and level. The
tax on autos has made this possible,
and year by year ii grows better as
the autos become more plenty, they
become more perfect and run stiller
and, as general rule, are handled
better. In Manchester oil is freely
used on the roads, in Dorset cacine
carbide Of salt both keeps down the
dust and save the wear on the roads,
which are of the best gravel in the
world for road making.
A. L. Bowen.
South Dorset, VT, July 10, 1915.
EAST RUPERT
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Towsley spent
several days last week in Greenwich,
N. Y.
Frank Root and family are enter
tanning cousin, Miss Adams, of La
Crosse, Wis.
Mrs. Clayton Towsley, who returned
rom Albany, N. ", hospital last week
where she underwent an operation, is
making satisfactory recovery. Miss
Anna HARDWOOD Of Dorset, is with her
Turing her convalesence.
NORTH RUPERT
Laura Leach has returned from 81
'isit in Bristol.
Mrs. Merritt Sheldon and George
zee spent Sunday in Dorset.
Charles Barber Of Rutland, spent
ew days recently at Merritt Shell
on's.
Mr.. and Mrs p. b. Roberts Of Ru-
ert, spent Sunday at Horace Win
hester's.
Charles Rinus of Glens Falls, N. Y,
'as recent visitor at Merritt Shell
on's.
Mrs Ann Foster of Manchester, IL
listing Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Palmer