Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-04-07
CALEDONIA COUNTY
Hardwick.

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HardwIck.
The town agent has shut down on him
and he can't get any more there.
The good name of this village and the
health of the school children demand the
erection of good new school building.
Elias Boardman is dangerously sick
Judge Per1ey and SeIwin Powers are OH
the sick list.
Sugaring is little Off 1t is reported
that sap is unusually sweet this year.
Well, that will do, if there is enough of
1t.
We are panied to note the death of Mrs.
Emma Miles, and of Harold Bunker,
youngest son of Joseph Bunker, of pneu-
monia.
Patronize your own merchants. Tray
cling shows travelling doctors and
travelling merchants are usually humbugs.
Your neighbor may cheat you, but those
tramp fellows of all sorts are sure to
cheat you if they have opportunity.
syndicate has been formed here, and
there is a prospect that not only the land
damage money, but funds for the pur
chase of the Walter Smith meadow will
be secured. This will not only secure the
starting of the Branch railroad, but will
open up large meadow for granite sheds.
LyndonviIIe.
The box shop was burned on Saturday
evening, Mar. 20. Fire was discovered
on the second floor of the main bnilding
the time of the first alarm the fire COM
pany was on hand and water from the
railroad company hose was pouring on
the flames; but the fire had made such
rapid progress in the dry, tinder-like ma
terial within that the water at hand was
insufficient to stay its course and save
the building. 1t was soon evident that
the main building must go. The fire COM
pany then turned their efforts to save the
engine house, which contained valuable
joined the main building on the southeast.
The fire made rapid progress on line to-
ward the engine annex and it was by he
roic effort alone that the engine was saw
ed. For a full half hour fierce battle
ragged between wind and smoke and flame
on the one hand and the fearless and he
roic effort of the village fire company on
the other. The men finally conquered and
the fire-fiend was forced to surrender. So
the engine and boiler were saved with
very little if any damage. The shop was
built two years ago by the Caledonia box
shop company and was operated, as it
proved, ~at loss. The property was sold
at an assignee's sale last fall to G. S. Lee
Bourveau, Jr., for 50, 500-less than one
third the original cost. The old engine
was exchanged for new one and the
work of repairs was SO far completed
that it was contemplated to set the ma
chinery at work at once. AS usual under
like circumstances it is a mystery how
the fire caught, as it is claimed there had
been no fire within the building during
the day Estimated loss about $4,000, in
sured for $4,000. Whether the works will
be rebuilt remains to be seen.
w est Burke.
NJ. Clark has moved into the johnson
house.
Fred Porter has engaged Carl Dean to
clerk for him another year.
Riley Densmore has cankerrash, and
has been obliged to throw up school at
st. Johnsbury.
DR.. Fred Davis has returned from Chi
cago, and with his wife spent the Sabbath
in town at his mothers. Mrs. Walter.
Silas Leach has given up his job at Sill
by's shingle mill and E. Alexander has
taken his place. Mr.. Leach has gone to
work in the steam mill
Ashley Bishop of this place, somewhat
notorious character, who, it will be re-
membered, was tried at the last term of
the county court and convicted of selling
liquor and getting DRINK, was brought
before Justice Marshall on March 81
charged with burning a building belong
ing to Perry Porter, the deputy sheriff
who served the papers on him last fall.
He was held in $500 bail to appear at the