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

are five sleeping rooms and a bath room
all of which are lighted with large win
dows and neatly papered. Provision has
been made for hot and cold water where.
ever needed in the house. 1t NAV be well
said to be a model house with not one un-
pleasant room In it. The carpenter work
was done by c. E. Gay and the plumbing
by Whipple, French & Co.
G. E. Gay has built a pretty cottage on
the corner of School and Liberty streets.
1t is two stories high. The size on the
ground is 81 Is feet with an ell Is Y 10
feet. There are verandas on both sides of
the house. The house has cabinet kitch-
en-, dining room, bedroom, bathroom and
closet below and four sleeping rooms on
the second floor. The hall and dining
room are finished in hard wood, the win
dows are weighted and pleasant bay win
dow is built on the front. The cellar
extends under the whole house and is wall
ed with split granite and brick. The
house is supplied with village water, is
neat in appearance, an addition to the
street and will make very pleasant home.
S. G. KimbalI sometime during the year
bought a building of Patrick Mcclure,
which had been used for a store house and
finished it into a convenient tenement.
1t is located on the Irasburgh road. Silas
Sargent has made an addition to his tene-
ment house on Maple street. John b.
Winget has built square tower eight by
nine feet on the southeast corner of his
house charging his hall and greatly add
ing TO the beauty of his residence. He has
oIc
painted and much improved the appear
ance of his home. w. j. Joslyn has repair
ed and painted his residence and also his
tenement house during the year. Samuel
Hall on Water street has painted and added
front porch to his house. Marshall
Clement has painted his house on School
street and built kitchen in the ell. I'm
provements to the value of about 500 have
been made on the Congregational church.
The audience room and vestibuIe have
been sheathed in steel besides painting and
other repairs. At the sawmiIa new boiler
and engine have been added to enable the
owners to do business when there is a lack
of water. C.N.Leonard has pat in bat broom,
painted etc.-W. III. Blasdell has expended
about $3.50 in repairs, built carriage house,
added bathroom, painted etc.-Ernest
Carpenter on Maple street has built barn
24 30 feet.--Henry Dudley has done more
or less repairing to his buildings on Water
street. .. Buchanan has built a cabinet
kitchen, and put in bathroom during the
summer.-Mrs. Adeline Hartman has
her house and made a concrete
about her premises.-Mrs. f. S.
Miller has also shingled her buildings
Mrs. K. y. Chandler has sheathed some
rooms with steel and painted her buildings,
Among those who have painted their
buildings may be mentioned B. 4. Scott,
Z. Lyon, Z. II. Perley, DR.. G. b. Roweu,
Charles Jones, Mrs. A. Hartman, (. An
dersOn, Marshall Clement, Byron Clement,
Arthur Ordway, Mrs. Q. IL. Austin. w. T..
Twombly, Whipple and French, J. &. An
derson, and the +. l.. Chandler Co.-Nil-
lage water mas been pas into the new
houses and into several other buildings
among whose We mention ID. Buchanan.
F. ID. Clement, :. {. Kimball, c. y. Leon
ard, J. q. TurnbulI, and the +. l.. Chandler
Co. new mill.-TWo hundred rods of new
cOrcrete walks nave been laid during
he year, quite quantity of which has
dustry may be mentioned, viz, that of
Mrs. Dodge ana Mrs. Webster's millinery
esta blishment in W. Twombly's store. J.
{. CIough has also built a barn 24x30 feet.
D. Buchanan has very much enlarged
his telephone business. Mr.. Buchanan
was the first to start the independent
telephone business in Orleans county. A
charter was granted his company in 1895
He built about forty miles the first year
,nd since that time he has added seventy
i've miles more, making a total of one
hundred and fifteen miles at the present
lime. He has stretched about three hum
ired miles of wire on his poles. He has
low three hundred and twenty-five tele-
phones installed, which reach every town
n Orleans county with the exception of !
Holland. His line connects with the /
Peoples line in Canada at Newport, with |
McGuire's line in Albany, and with the
Citizens telephone and telegraph eX-
change at Barton village. This gives SER /
ice from Hardwick and Lowell on the /
vest to Island Pond on the east. He also /
caches st. Johnsbury on the south and 1
p. O., on the north This con-
lects him with 22OO telephones.
We would not forget to mention the
hip timber business III connection with
his place. Quite quantity OF this timber
will be shipped from here in the spring.
The timber used is birch, brown ash and
I'm. 1t is cut all lengths and hewed
quare as large as it will make. One stick
called 1900 feet. Some Of it is from thirty
i've to sixty feet long. Napoleon Nc
ready of Quebec is buying it and it will
,e shipped to Quebec and thence to Eng
and.
w. E. Edwards is buying white ash for
cythe snaths which will be shipped to
bradford later