Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-12-27
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS.
Looking Backward.

what the Year 1895 has Brought to
Bellows Falls In New Buildings, Im-
prOvements and Business Prosperity
---25 Years OF Steady Growth.
In Choking backward" over the building
operations during 1895, considerable sur
prise is manifested that so much has been
done in the way of improvements. The
list of new dwellings this side of the river
which have been erected or entirely re-
built reaching 81 in number, and a close
estimate of the cost of each showing an
aggregate of $75, 900 spent upon them.
Besides this, it is the almost universal
tendency among our people to more than
keep the older residences good, so there is
general improvement in values far in
excess of this.
The list of new dwellings includes those
of:
S. T. Coy, NJ H. Curtis,
Fred Saker, Il. II. Allbee,
+. M. Thompson, VIM. O'Brien (2),
J. II. Williams, Fred N. Young,
Frank Hall, F. MCGOWAN,
j. j. Pierce (2), f. A. Prouty,
Walker q Norwood(2), j. G. Bryan (2),
Ned Pierce, C. II. Gibson,
Whitman & Switzer, S. n. Alexander,
John Lean, Geo. E. Page,
A. ID. Beckwith, Joseph Parker,
II. W. Thompson, +. r. r. Office
In the village of North Walpole, just
across the river, four new houses have
been erected and others improved, to the
extent of about 81, 800 in all, thus making
an expenditure in Westinghouse property
of about $S3, 900, and furnishing tenements
for "a more families than last year. The
supply of tenements does not more than
oil
filed as soon as completed. This is prob
ably about the average of increase the past
ten years, though some years there have
been more built, but more years not as
many.
Improvements among places of business
during the year have not shown as large
an increase as some former years, the prin-
cipal additions having been to the works
of the Vermont Farm Machine company,
an important Encouragement of water pow
er facilities by the Fall Mountain Paper
company, whereby in buildings already
erected they develop larger power, and in
the mill of the Moore Il Thompson paper
company. The total outlay in these three
places will probably reach S65, 900. Among
the paper mills there is little change in the
number of men employed from what it was
last year. In the works of the Vermont
Farm Machine company there is an in
crease of about so per cent in the number
of men, or from 40 to so more than last
year.
AS whole the general improvement and
growth in Bellows Falls and its suburbs
may be considered as nearly up to the av-
erage of the past % years, although it is
generally not so considered until a careful
investigation is made. A year ago now
the mill of the Westminster Paper COM
pany was in ruins from the fire in Novem
Der. This was rebuilt in the early part of
1896, at an outlay of about S25, 900, but
perhaps it could not be called an addition
to the business, it being to replace what
was here before, although it is so arranged
that the production is increased about so
per cent above last year, and employing
three or four more men. Our growth as a
village for % years has been very steady
and healthy, without serious depressions
or booms, and to one familiar with the ex-
periences of nearly all other New England
villages, our experiences have been among
the best Our citizens may well congrat-
ulate themselves upon an almost unbroken
experience of prosperity and healthy
growth, to which the past year is no ex-
ception.