Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-12-04

| business till such time as he finds bet
ter quarters. The greatest improve
ment in the year, perhaps, was the
change Of location and the putting up
| Of new railroad passenger depot.
The preparations were partly made
| last year, but the decision to change
i1the track made the removal of the two
old buildings, the Heating house and
the Smith shop necessity; they were
removed, one to be used by Henry
Gay, and the other to be placed on a
good lot or Brown street, to be we'll
fitted up for a dwelling house. The
two railroad crossings were put into
one and matters SO arranged as to be,
when fully completed, much more safe
and convenient than formerly. The
R. R. Go. put up fine depot, conve-
nient Of access. The removal of the
barn and the moving of the village en-
CINE house puts q good building on
the barn lot and gives the Peerless
factory people nice site on which to
put up boarding house; on East or
May street Chas. Hamblet changed his
barn into pleasant tenement house,
building good barn farther in the
rear; @. f. Percival built quite large
shop building for the convenience of
the upholsters' business of the shops:
his neighbor, Aaron Drown, enlarged
his blacksmith sdop; Geo. w. Buzzen
enlarged and repaired his house, and
Glazier and Tyrren put French roof
Oh their house, much to it's benefit
Geo. Davis thoroughly repaired the
house he moved to, while @. G. Grow
INDUCED in large set of bay windows
and other repairs; G. A. Drew built a
good lumber shed and dry house, and
J. w. Murkland put up and nearly
completed his big foundry building;
@. w. Comstock enlarged his black
smith shop; E. E. Liddell put in about
his yearly amount of improvements
on his lot and buildings. There has
been the ordinary amount of small re-
pairing and painting without and with
in, and general improvement in slick
ing up all about the village. VIM. Col
iston, a neighbor north OF the village,
caught the village improvement con-
tagion and made extensive repairs.
We finish the record by naming the
erection of the new Harding tub man
now under way, and being
pushed forward to completion and for
occupancy for the winter and spring.
This is building 80 by 121 feet, with
engine and dry house annex, the main
building two stories high above the
basement. 1t will be equipped with
large engine and boiler and furnished I
with machinery sufficient to require
from thirty to fifty men to run it. The
village and town ought to feel graft
fed and satisfied with the progress of |
5he year. We expect the year 1894
will be prosperous season for the
village. The people must take ear
lestly hold and make it so.
Landing.
F. @. Rogers has moved his family !
20 Troy.
Collins French has bought the Lew
u.
The young people were obliged to
postpone their entertainment on ac-
cunt of the rain to Tuesday eve,
Dec. z, at the NJ E. Church
Tuesday morning at about O'Clock
he fire alarm was sounded by the
hurch bells. The Bartlett & Joslyn
lill was found to be all ablaze, and the
re SO much under way that nothing
1 the mill could be saved. The Glea ,
on house was also burning. All that ,
ould be done was to check the fire in {
ne lumber piles SO as to save Mr.. +
oslyn's buildings. The wind was +
lowing a little easterly from these
uildings, and a slow rain kept
he shingles wet. Mr.. Rowe's family
| the Gleason house didn't know
nything about the fire until somebody
roke in the door, the house was I
len all on fire. They saved part of d
leir furniture. Mrs. Felker owned d
lie west half of the house, and her
pods were all burned. One of her q
aughters paid for the house. There h
as no insurance on the house, barn C
mill property. The loss by the a
vners will be felt keenly. There a
as from 20, 600 to So 600 thousand of Z
,ards burned, a large lot of shingles
Id three or four carloads of bobbins. il
he mill was owned by A. Joslyn, o.
Austin's estate and Harvey Fos- .,
r. The fire Go. did good work and y
pail line did much to check the -
Irning lumber. Thanks to the la n
es who made hot coffee and sent to =