Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-31

the New, or Sowing and Reaping.
The annual reunion and roll-call of the
Barton Landing and Bloomington Cong'I
church will be held here Saturday, Jan.
9TH, beginning at 10 a. M, with a social
hour, followed by reports of officers of the
various departments Of the two churches.
! Dinner will be served in the vestry. In the
afternoon the election of officers for the
| coming year will be held followed by the
| roll call of the church members. A full
attendance of all the members ofthe church
and congregation and all the children is
earnestly desired.
While the percentage of gain in the num-
Der of inhabitants for the last ten years
was greater in this village than in any
other in the county, if the census had
been taken this fall it would have shown
still larger gain; for many more men are
! employed here now than at the time it was
| taken. When the village improvements
were written up last year the E. L. Chand-
! Ter Co. employed only sixty-seven men.
while at the present time one hundred
and ten men work in the shops of this firm.
| The pay roll at that time was $500 per week,
! but now it is 1868, an average of S1.35 per
day for each boy and man. This company
manufactures sounding boards, backs,
bars, bridges and key boards, for pianos.
1t also makes butter tubs, and planes and
matches boards which it sells in large
| quantities. This company makes one
hundred and fifty sounding boards per day,
| from two hundred to three hundred backs
per week and from four hundred to six
hundred key bottoms per week. Besides
the orders which come from the United
States and Canada a large order was recent
ly received from England. In the early
spring the company purchased the bobbin
factory here, put in new machinery, built
a dry house fifty by one hundred feet, the
| building and repairs at an estimated cost
of from $4,000 to IS, 900. In this building
forty or more men find employment, and
others would be set to work but from lack
of room. The company is stocking two
saw mills, one which it owns in Irasburgh,
and another in Bloomington. 1t recently
purchased seven hundred acres of wood
land from which logs are being drawn for
the Irasbargh mill. The business of the
E. L. Chandler Co. has given to the place a
new impetus, and there is a fair prospect
that several new houses will be added to
the village during the coming year.
A fine addition to the place is j. q. Turn
BULBS new creamery, now nearly compIet-
ed. The dimensions of the main building
on the ground are so 4G feet, the ell %
40 feet. It is built in the most thorough
manner and the butter viii be made by tbs
latest and most improved machinery. The
floors are made of matched hard pine, the
engine is Of eighteen horse power, and the
capacity of the creamery Will be two
thousand pounds of butter per day. On
the lower floor IS the engine room, the
room for the separators, and the butter
making, a cold storage room, cool room
for stamping butter in not weather, also a
special room for testing purposes. On the
second floor is the office, neatly finished in
handsome grained hard pine, toilet room.
and 2 large storage room Over the ell a
tenement will be finished As this is to be
the base Of supplies for all of Mr.. Turn
BULLS creameries, the two upper floors in
the main building are to be used for stor-
ing supplies. One of the new features of
the creamery is the fact that all the cream /
and milk will be carried into the building /
on an overhead trolley instead Of being I
lifted in by crane as formerly. Ten years F.
ago when Mr.. Turnbull began business.
in his first year he made 81, 191 pounds of I
butter. Since that time he mas built I
creameries in Charleston, Newport and |
Albany. In the year 1899 he made Sl7,9 /
pounds of butter and in 1900 he made l ,O73
882 pounds. This shows what live man /
starting in a small way can do in ten years. |
Next summer Mr.. Turnbull will build a |
butter factory in South Troy. The old I
crea mery Will be moved to a pleasant lot |
and finished into two tenements.
One of the neatest, most tasteful and de-
sirable houses in the village was built by (
o. w. Locke during the past summer. Mr.. I
and Mrs. Locke were their own architects I
and made all the plans for their beautiful
home themselves. The house is located on
the corner of Water and East streets. a
very pleasant lot which was greatly i'm
proved by raising the land five feet, neces-
stating the moving upon it of 114O loads
of gravel. The dimensions of the respect
i've parts of the building are as follows:
main part 81 81 feet, ell % 80, barn q X
36 feet and barn shed s "a feet. 1t is
built IN colonial style with the addition of
an octagon tower ten feet in diameter on
the southwest corner. Porches eight feet
wide extend along the north and west
sides of the main building, six by sixteen
feet on the west side of the ell and five by
sixteen feet on the back. There is a neat
balustrade around the porch, and the
strong turned posts give the appearance of
thoroughness and durability. The porches
are finished with lattice work below.
Both stories are nine feet in the finish.
The COLLAR extends nn6or ho WIN
house, is inclosed with split granite and
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