The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-11
ITEMS FROM AN
OLD ACCOUNT BOOK
Some Prices That Prevailed in Wards
boro City 100 Years Ago--cider
Sold for 81 a Barrel.

A few people may remember the
clothing works at Wardsboro City,
owned and operated by Daniel and
silas Dexter. The buildings a.e gone,
but they once stood on the brook OPP
Iposite w. w. Kidder's store and resi-
dence.
The predecessors of Daniel and Silas
Dexter were Otis and Lyman Howe
who were doing business there carding
wool and dressing cloth for neigh
boring farme4s as an old account book
shows in 1921.
Otis Howe was the father of the late
Marshall Otis Howe of Newfane and
Lyman Howe, his brother, was the
grandfather of eX-Iieut. Gov. Frank
e. Howe OF Bennington,
Earlier the Howe brothers carried on
la similar business in Marlboro. En-
tries are made on the account book
as early as 1916.
Jan. /, 1918, Nathan Jacobs is credi-
ted with making coat and cutting
coat $1.75."
April 2S, 1918, Rev. Bphraim II.
NeWton's name appears.
Elijah Lyman, Elder Benjamin Cole,
Capt. Joseph Odds, Boomer Jencks,
Mai. Timothy Mather, Orange Higley,
Capt. Thaddeus Odds. Harrison G.
Blake whose wife pe!ished on STRAIT
ton mountain in December, 1921. Capt.
S.mei Whitney, Zoath Smith and wild
ow Dollie Sawtell are some of the
names at Marlboro. J. JOY of MARI
boro Center is credited with two days
work ST. Capt. Plinney Higley is cred
I tied with three thousand shingles and
cash $412, Silas Metcalf, Wilmington,
with three thousand shingles and 20
cents cash, 1916; Timothy Mather,
Halifax Centre, two barrels of cider
at 81 per barrel.
Some of the Wardsboro names are
as follows Capt. Daniel Read.
George Wilder, Benjamin FELTON,, Oct.
1925, or. two barrels cider 81, four
Gods slab and one cord hard wood,
1857: Solomon Park, Gardner Smith,
Widow Hannah Plimpton, Abel Grout,
John Greenwood, John Dexter, Sylvan
us circuit, Lyman Walker, Horatio
Orcutt Thomas Pierce or. bu. rye
So; Leland Fairbanks, Joseph Switzer,
Widow Lucy Smith, Lemuel Pearce.
David Wa. rem, Gideon Brimhall, Mat
thew Barber, Davis Reed debtor, use
Of fulling mill two years 81 Nathan
Smith, Elisha Higgins, Winsor War
rem, Alpheus White, Cyrus Choat,
Ebenzer Taylor, Archibald Pratt,
Charles Dexter, Noah Warren, the OIL
ginator of the Warren apple still rails
ed in Wardsboro and elsewhere Sub
init Woodcock, who owned the farm
now owned by William Fitzpatrick,
long known as the Grover farm; Step
hen b. alley, who owned the brick house
farm now owned by John Scranton;
Stephen Warren, Tyler Wait, DR.. Paul
Wheeler, Levi Derby and many more.
John Wakefield ito my sleigh to
Grafton and other places, rs cents.
Joseph White. two blu. wheat, $3.50.
About 1881 the Howe brothers sold
out to- the Dexter brothes and Otis
Howe moved his family on to the
Fisher farm, which was on the old road
running parallel to the present road
from Wardsboro City to South Wards
boro and traces of which may be seen
at the PRESENT time. They remained
here one year and the children, Man
dana. Leonidas and Sally, walked from
there to school on the old Wardsboro
town hill, Sally being then five years
Old
OTIS Howe then bought what is now
the Shampine farm, long known as the
Alden Wakefield farm. where Marshall
Otis Howe was born Oct 4, 1888
Here the entries go on; Feb. 3, 1882
this day is yey windy and ground
bare, no sleighing this winter; Feb
8, cold and windy. not much comfort