The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-08
ITEMS FROM AN
OLD ACCOUNT BOOK
Some Prices That Prevailed in Wards
boro City 100 Years Ago-Cider
Sold for 81 Barrel.

A few people may remember the cloth
ing works at Wardsboro City, owned and
operated by Daniel and Silas Detxer. The
buildings are gone now, but they once
stood on the brook opposite w. w. Kid
der's store and residence.
The predecessors of Daniel and Silas
Dexter were Otis and Lyman Howe who
were doing business there carding wool
and dressing cloth for neighboring farmers
as an old account book shows in 1921.
Otis Howe was the father of the late
Marshall Otis Howe of Newfane and Ly-
man Howe, his brother, was the grand
father of ex-Lieut. Gov. Frank E. Howe
of Bennington.
Earlier the Howe brothers carried on a
similar business in Marlboro. Entries are
made on the account book as early as
1915.
JAN /, 1918, Nathan Jacobs is credited
with making coat and cutting coat
$175."
April %, 1918, Rev. Ephraim H. New.
tons name appears
Elijah Lyman, Elder Benjamin Cole,
Capt. Joseph Olds, Boomer Jencks, Maj
Timothy Mather, Orange Higley, Capt
Thaddeus Olds, Harrison G. Blake, whose
wife persisted on Stratton mountain in
December 1921, Capt Simei Whitney, 10
ath Smith and widow Dollie Sawtell are
some of the names at Marlboro. j. Joy
of Marlboro Center is credited with two
days work ST. Capt. Plnney Higley is
credited with three thousand shingles and
cash 81 p; 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, er
two barrels cider 81, four cords slabs and
one cord hard wood, 1857; Solomon Park
Gardner Smith, Widow Hannah Plimpton
Abel Grout, John Greenwood, John Dex
ter, Sylvanus circuit, Lyman Walker, Hor
alto circuit, Thomas Pierce, or. bu. rye
SO; Leland Fairbank, Joseph Switzer
Widow Lucy Smith, Lemuel Pearce, David
Warren, Gideon Brimhall, Matthew Bar
Der. Davis Reed debtor, use of fulline
mill two years 81: Nathan Smith Elisha
Higgins, Winsor Warren, Alpheus White
Cyrus Choat, Ebenezer Taylor, Archibald
Pratt, Charles Dexter, Noah Warren, the
| originator of the Warren apple still raised
in Wardsboro and elsewhere; Submit
| Woodcock, who owned the farm nov
owned by William Fitzpatrick, long known
as the Grover farm; Stephen Braley, who
| owned the brick house farm now owned
| by John Scranton; Stephen Warren, Ty
| Ter Wait, DIR. Paul Wheeler, Levi Derb,
and many more.
John Wakefield Ito my sleigh to Graf
ton and other places, IS cents. JOSEPH
| White, two bu wheat, $3.50.
About 1881 the Howe brothers sold GU
to the Dexter brothers and Otis How
moved his family on to the Fisher farm
| which was on the old road running par
allel to the present road from Wardsbor
City to South Wardsboro and traces o
which may be seen at the present time
| They remained here one year and the chill
dren, Mandana, Leonidas and Sally
walked from there to school on the Oh
| Wardsboro town hill, Sally being then fv
years old.
| Otis Howe then bought what is now tn
Shampiue farm, long known as the Aide
Wakefield farm, where Marshall Oti
Howe was born Oct A. 1892 Here tn
entries go on: Feb. 8, 1899, this day
very windy and ground bare, no sleighin
this winter; Feb. 5, cold and windy, no
much comfort at home and not much to b
done; Nov. 5, 1887, what an extraordinar
winter Fifty times a day we hear thi
!, remark made and the frequency wit
which it is called forth is most unanswei
able proof that it is indeed an extraord