Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-11

Pleasant streets has been made to IOOl
better by the addition of high tower ant
wide veranda. ]. E. Foster has added
bay window to his residence on Third ST
Albert Rowland purchased lot of j. G
Dawson and has built nice, cosy little
house for his own use. S. @. Scott has
finished off an old store house on Bay St
into two good and convenient tenements
5. III. Holbrook, one of our most enter
prising farmers, has built a large barn
5Ox120 feet, two stories and basement with
double barn floors with driveway in each
gable; this is one of the best and most
convenient barns in town. Crystal brook
flows under it and Mr.. Holbrook expects
in the near future to put in a turbine
wheel as power to generate electric light
for his own buildings, and to grind his
own grain. True & Blanchard Co. found
it necessary to build to accommodate their
increasing business and in the early sum-
mer built an addition at the rear of their
large store, which is 22xS feet and four
stories high; their full floor space will
reach 10000 square feet. They employ
from 20 to 40 hands in their different de-
partments. E. r. Scott & Son are now
building house on lot which they pur
chased of Ed. Wright on West Main St.
DIR. J. w. Currier is building a double
tenement house on Third St., which will
be ready to occupy in the early spring.
Thad. Powers is building-a full set of
buildings on West Main St., near where
he already has three other houses from
which he gets good rental. Chas. Cade
traded for the Johnathan Lewis place on
Highland Avenue, built new barn and
fixed up nice set of buildings and then
sold them to Lorenzo Manuel of Jay, who
now lives there. w. III. Curtis & Son have
finished off the house bought of G. F. Ran
ney into two tenements near their own
residence, where they now have two good
tenements to let. The village has ex-
pended for improvements on the streets
and sidewalks a smaller amount than
usual, but have added to the beauty OF the
place by grading and curblng little park
near the depot. The Supt. of the water
works, z. B. True, has nearly 1000 feet of
new pipe of different sizes put down and
made connection with so houses; the re-
pairs and cost for labor alone amount to
$1,000. One quite difficult job he has done
with sewers was to repair leak in the
about Is feet of water; there was such a
current from this pipe that the lake had
not frozen over and a very short distance
from the current the ice was IA inches
thick 1t is safe to say that $4,000 has
been expended in improvements here.
The place suffered by fire on April Is,
when the Field opera house and G. j. Hib-
bards block were burned; otherwise the
village has been very fortunate.
Newport Center.
Harry and Grace Sears of Morrisville are
visiting at ]. w. Merritt's.
Mabel Merritt, who has been visiting in
MorrisvilIe, has returned home.
There was a pound party given last
Wednesday evening for the benefit of Rev. |
c. w. Morse.
Lucy Pyer has gone to Barton Landing |
to spend the remainder of the winter with |
her son, Grin Pyer.
Mr. and Mrs Clarence Douglass of AL |
bany are here visiting their parents, Mr.. |
and Mrs. James Connall.
Thursday evening, Dec. 81, nineteen
young people from West Derby gave Miss
Hattie Kilby surprise visit They had a
good time watching the old year out and
the new year in.
The F. B. Sunday school elected the
following officers to serve the ensuing
year: Supt., d. L. Hildreth; Asst. Supt.,
@. w. Rogers; Tres, III. l.. Smith; Libra
rion, John Kilby; Sec., Nettie Smith,
Organist, Grace Briggs; Supt of Home
department, Nettie Smith.
The M. E. Sunday school elected the fol-
lowing officers Sunday, Jan. 3, to serve
the ensuing year: w. L. Colburn, Supt.;
Chas. Humphrey, assistant superinten-
dent; Miss Bertha Larrabee, secretary and
treasurer; Miss L. Beadle, librarian; Miss
Edith Bailey, assistant librarian.
Troy.
Mrs Geo. Boyden is sick.
There will be donation at the M. E.
church Tuesday evening, Jan. 10.
Mrs. A. ]. Steward of Lowell spent last ]
week with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S.
Hitchcock. .
There was pleasant gathering at Simon
Jan. 1 in honor of his 62rd
birthday Relatives from Albany were {
present and good time was enjoyed. t
Mrs. James Martin of Manchester, n. H.,
5 the the guest of her sister, Mrs. George
w. R. Elliot of Waterbury
S visiting her brother, Hon. G. P. Stevens.
%. d. Rogers of st. Johnsbury visited
riends here recently.
WeStfield.
a new boy baby at III. o. Miller's. v
Newton Hitchcock, who has been sick
With pneumonia, is reported a little bet 7
er.
In response to telegram Mr.. and Wm Fl