The Newtown bee., 1888-11-02
TRUMBULL.
More Improvements at Tait's.

The straw board trade is good and there seems to be a growing demand for first class goods in this line. No manu- facturers are more alive to the needs of the times, nor are more eager to seize and retain each new device for cheapen- ing or improving the product. as soon as it's merit is proved, than Messrs Tait & Son. Their factory, not at first intended for paper mill, has been altered and enlarged until the original building is scarcely recognizable. The BEE has de seribed the process-of making straw board, from the first step until it is sent away to waiting customers. So fast have orders increased that it has become nec- essary to erect an addition 26 feet square on the southeast corner and to entirely change the drying apparatus, more than doubling it's capacity. There are now r. ,O00 feet of inch pipe in the drying room and this is heated by steam from the boiler. Much of it is exhaust steam, which has already driven the 60 horse power steam engine. After passing through the pipes, it is discharged; its mission has been fulfilled. The firm has been hampered by an insufficient supply of steam, but this is obviated by then new 54-inch, two-plate, double-riveted steel boiler, 16 feet in length, made by Bige- | low of New Haven. It has all the latest 1 improvements, arch front, etc. and is of l 60 horse power, making steam capacity of no horse power. It was to be in run
 ming order, this week. Eugene Higgins
 and his dynamite prepared the excavat-
 ion, 15x20, l-2 feet square, so carefully
 that nothing in the shop was injured in
 the least and the boiler rests on bed of I solid rock. H. NJ. Purdy of Bridgeport 1 laid the l6,000 common brick and 1000 fire brick in which the boiler is enyeloped
 and it now rests securely beside the for
 mer and slightly smaller boiler. A large skylight will afford ample light. More
 power is also needed and new p horse
 power steam engine will probably be ad. ded in the future. The capacity of the
 mill is already increased to four tons pel day and, even at this rate, orders art booked ahead of the mills power to fil
 them. The board is coming into exten
 sive use in place of burlap for stiffenine
 carriage upholstery and there is also ;
 large demand for lined sheets of all col
 OTIS.
 c. A. Warrington desires to hearth. thank the neighbors and friends wh' have so kindly and materially assisted
 him since his home was destroyed by fire A Pennsylvania man named Spang i
 selling sulkies to which blows may b
 attached.
 !, Millie, daughter of o. B. Burton, Ina f recovered from severe attack of nalal , ial fever.
 The selectmen and town clerk will b in session at the Town Hall, Monday, t
 s.make. voters whose qualifications Ina ture then.
 Every seat in the Town Hall was occi
 pied, last week Thursday evening, whel the Republicans held rally Curtis ], Thompson, Peter Corr, V. R. c. Gid | dings, Terrence Grace spoke and the Til pecanoe chorus furnished music. E J. B. Beckwit h, who bought the Alb
 Stiles Beach place, is quite landed pro ai prietor, owning 2500' acres of land Z West Virginia. It is heavily timbere and strata of coal underlies part of l
 He has had men at work all Summe ditching and draining his Daniels Ear el land, cutting brush, etc. Old trees wiic
 have outliyed their usefulness were r 2 moved and the front yard is to be tran | formed into bed of flowers. X dy Ihouse has been built and Mir Beckwit : will remove his dyeing ~establishme' | from East Bridgeport to Trumbull, nes l Spring, retaining, however, an office 2 k Main street. He has the business puf (which brings spccess.