The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-15
NORTH RAVENS GROWTH
SOME INTERPRETING FACTS ON THE
 SUgJECT

By an Old Resident of the rown-A Big In- crease of Pro.perlty Anticipated When tho Electric Road Is Extended-hIonto- wese's Prosperity Also.
 North Haven. Feb. 14--After the ad- dress of s. B. Thorpe lately delivered in the Congregational church in regard to the first settlers of North Haven and a paper read by the town clerk, l., F. Futile, at the annual reunion of the Congregational Sunday school, giving the record of the marriages, births and deaths the past year, the writer pre- pared the following for his own use. But seeing the article headed North Hayen's Growth" i'll the Register of February 8, noticed. that while it told the truth as far as it went, 1t did not tell the whole truth.
 In school district No. 4 there were at the close of the war, 1865, fifty houses. Since that time five have been torn down, viz, w. $. Ives, Bella Jacobs, Elijah Hulrs, Billie Thorpe's and Titus Watermore's. The Bernard Hartley house was destroyed by fire, three were moved and are still occupied, and three new houses were erected in their places, viz. Mrs, Blacks, Jacob Thorpe's and Mrs. Joel Todd's.
 Three houses were torn down and new ones built on the same ground, viz, Charles H. Thorpe's, Frank Thorpe's and Michael Burke's.
 The following is a list of the new houses built: Those of Julius Blakesiee, James Higgins, s. Is. Linsley Charles Malinquist, John H. Todd, H. c. Ter rell, James Barnard, R. T. Linsley, Paul Avigne, Samuel Todd, l. w. Heaton, Il. H. Robinson, Joseph Gabree, $. 5. Thorpe, Dr. R. B. Goodyear, Rufus Thorpe. Clovis Duulond, c. w. Bradley, G. w. Stiles, Charles H. Thorpe, Frank Thorpe, H. H. HeAgwin, Mrs. Dumond, Eli Drinkurin, Joseph Barber, Congre- gational parsonage, F. H. Crockett, A. A. Hyde, Mrs. William Todd, Frank l.. Stiles. Michael Burke, Joseph Beauch- amb, Maltby Fowler, Augustus Page, Patrick Halligan, Andrew Avigne and twelve houses at the. brick yards.
 There was a stran ge omission in the Register's communic ation. The writer of it appears to have gone to sleep on
  crossing the cobbled gutter to get a glimpse of the Congregational parson- age and then passed again into "the land of Nod" until cro ssing the bridge he was fairly aroused and got his eyes opened at the house of Franklin Shep- ard and kept them open long enough to see F. w. Blakeslee's an Alfred Tom linsons, and then must have got into the fog or gone home some other way.
 For it seems that he did not notice Mrs Joel Todd's, H. l.. Thorpe's, Wal ford Neilson's, General E. D. Good years Ed Rice's, M. E. aBurke's, W. P. Leete's, Mrs. E. Leete'is. Albert Vib- bert's. w. S. Stiles, all of which have been built since Franklin Shepards.
 The total number of ne W houses that have been built in district No. in thir- tysyears is fifty-eight, eight more than there were in 1S65
 rThe new public buildings are Memo rial hall, school house With four rooms, Stiles hall, post office building, spoon factory and the North Haven Feed company's building, the card printing firms occupying the second story.
 The Congregational church has been remodelled at cost of $15,0OO; the St. Johns at a cost of s10000 to $12,00O.
 The dwelling houses of the following persons have been remodelled at cost varying from $500 to e3,0OO:
 Henry Blskeslee, H. D. Todd, E. l.. Linsley, Rev. William Lusk, Rev. Will liam T. Reynolds, L. P. Futile. Mrs. A.. E. Bishop, Dr. Lord, J. H. Stiles. V. c. Stiles, H. M. Blakeslee and J. w. Hea- ton.
 The total cost of the new buildings and the remodelling was some S2OO,0oO.
 The furnishing of the same would most assuredly make the whole amount to $250,000 or more.
 The population in 1865 was about 160; now it is about $50.
 Among other things showing progress in the center district is the free public library and reading room- P1erponl park has been changed from a sand blow and COW pasture to respectable looking park at cost of about $l,0oo Sidewalks have been made and improV- ed. street lamps placed in position, and to the thirty-six horsesheds of old fifty more have been added, which, although they do not add to beautifying the scen- ery. vet are no small factor in church
 
 attendance.
 Of the societies that meet at the cen ter there are:
 The grange which is large and in. f1uential order.
 A fiourishing lodge of the order A. O. U. w., numbering nearly one hundred members.
 A council of the o. U. A. NJ. of seven ty-five members.
 Village Improvement association.
 Veteran Soldiers association.
 Mayflower society.
 Kings Daughters and Daughters ol Hhe King; also the W. c. T. U., Boys brigade and two or three different sew. ing circles and benevolent societies.
 Al, nWELLS