The Press., 1893-09-07
HOLLAND.
[Correspondence.)

Edgar M. Hawkins, of West Rox- bury, Mass, is in town.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Ives, of New York, are visiting friends in town.
 A large number from here will enter the Rockville high school thiis fall
 Mrs. L. B. Price is spending the week in Boston with her sister, Miss Essex.
 MT. and Mrs. Litchfield and Lucius Fuller, of Willimantic, are at Mrs. L. s. Fuller's.
 MT. and Mrs. Edmund Joslyn return ed from months stay in the west Satur- day night.
 Miss Elizabeth Hicks entertained 8 party of young friends at her home Thurs day evening.
 The fall term of school in district No. opened on Tuesday. Miss Ruth Brown, teacher.
 Mrs. Smith and Miss Mary Smith, of Des Moines, Ia., are the guests of Mrs. Wm. Agard this week.
 Miss Lucille Agard started on Monday for St. Paul, Minn., where she is to at tend St. Catherine's school.
 Friends here were shocked to learn of the death of Mrs. Gilson, daughter of Mrs. Clara Baker, nee Hawkins, formerly of this town. She was married about June 1st to Dr. Gilson, of West Roxbury, Mass.
 The most destructive fire within the of early Friday morning. It was first dis covered in the south part of the large old house of Wm. Johnson, occupied by Dwight Sattellee, the postmaster. Miss Sattellee was awakened between 1 and 3 a. m by the smell of smoke, and discov- cred the ell of the house to be on fire. She quickly called the rest of the family, also Mir. Johnson, who lived by himself in the main part of the house. The whole street was soon awake and at the scene of disaster. The entire building was soon on fire. A large part of MT. John sons furniture was saved, but MT. Sattel- lee lost practically everything in the house. Every effort within their power was made by those present to save the County House, which was only about fif- teen feet from the Johnson house, but the fire caught in the roof, and soon the | entire structure was ablaze. Almost all the furniture was saved, and no one was | injured. The prisoners were removed to Rockville and placed in the lookup. The | roof of the women's ward in the jail burn ed off, but little further damage was done to it. It was feared that J. P. Roots store, opposite, would be burned, and it was only saved by the quiet condition of the atmosphere and the watchfulness and precaution of the men. As it is, the paint has large blisters upon it, which show how nearly it came to being burned A brisk breeze in any direction would have swept out one side of the street. The post office with all it's contents were destroyed. The men were hampered by the scarcity and low condition of the aque- duct water. Aid was asked from the Rockville fire department, but an engine | could not have reached here in time to | have done any good. The hose was sent over, but there was not force enough to send the water to any great height. All the horses, harness, etc., were removed from the barn adjoining the jail, it being feared that the fire might spread in that | direction. The entire loss has been rath- CT exaggerated by some of the daily pa pers, some placing it as high as $2O,OO A conservative estimate is not over $10,000, with $3.000 insurance on the County House in the Holland County Mu- tual and Middlesex county companies. The County House will be rebuilt, but not to accommodate boarders and as a general hotel as heretofore, but simply for the jailer, so it is currently reported.