Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-03-31

built new front hall, newell posts, stair
rail, added a colored window etc. He
has also erected stairs fro n his drug
room into chamber above where the
town library is located.
D. Buchanan raised his barn put in
a split granite wall, clapboarded,
painted and graded his yard. Ahira
Joslyn has added 2 piazza to his house.
A Hyland has clapboarded, shingled
and laid new chimneys and has done
quite extensive repairing to his build
ings. Carl French has done some re-
modelling, built kitchen and made
several Improvements about his house.
The district schoolhouse has been pro-
vided with selffushing water closets,
repainted and other repairs made
amounting to $43O. Repairs have
been made on the M. E. church at a
cost of $156. Skinner & Brown
have shingled their house near the
grist mill. Among those who have
painted their buildings we mention
Hugh Buchanan, Bert Scott, Lewis
Rash, Silas Sargent, DR.. Stevens,
Wallace Twombly, H. W. Haselton, A.
Hyland, G. A. Dean and w. @. Twom-
bly,.
Mr.. D. Buchanan, manager of the
Peoples telephone line has placed
new telephones in the village for the
year ending Dec. 81, 1901 as follows:
Beede & Cowles, M. NJ. Taplin, E. A.
Miller, Rev. S. G. Lewis, Fl. S. Web
ster and Leland & Denison. The fol-
lowing have been placed outside, that
ring direct to the Barton Landing
switch: H. @. Goss, A. E. Harlow, M.
E. Calkins , S. NJ. Wyman, j. E. Young.
H. E. Crandall, Orvin Marsh, E. E.
Dutton, F. D. Badger, W. II. Tibbetts
F. W. King, .. l. Grapes, J. j. LABEL
n. B. Durham, J. G. Gray, @. J. Brooks
Ed. Lanou, W. R. Shippie, John Bren'
nan, w. w. Foster, Geo. Livingston
H. @. Cleveland, G. Z. Clarke, Lo
renzo Grow, E. A. Grow, Frank La
pierre. The company has put during
the past year twenty-five mile
of poles strung sixty miles o
wire and installed 165 new telephones
The circuit now embraces about :, 500
telephones.
Twelve hundred and fifty feet o
sewers have been laid during the yea,
at an expense of S267. 80, and concrete
walks have been built costing thu
sum of $457. A new bridge was bull
by the town and corporation which
has greatly improved the highway
Wing walls were laid widening tn,
highway and adding much to the
looks and convenience of the village
Above the town expense on Thu
bridge and wings the village ex
pended $420. Considerable grading
has been done in front of the Skinne
& Brown, Whipple & French anF
the Twombly blocks, also along thu
highway near the bridge and at othel
places within the village limits. TIL,
E. L. Chandler Co., has been putting
on additions, putting in new boilers
increasing the capacity Of their plant
building new barns ETC., during nearly
the whole year. They have addet
greatly to their drying capacity ant
are preparing to employ more helI
than ever before. They have no dul
seasons and constantly have more or
ders than they can fill. 1t seems u
be only question of time when thei1
plant will have to enlarge. What ii
greatly needed hereis more tenemen
houses to make room for the familie!
of the numerous WOrkmen who WOulC
be glad to bring their families here
And the outlook is bright that during
the coming summer quite a number O.
houses will be erected to supply the
demand. All departments of bushes;
have been prosperous during the pas
year. Every man has found employ
ment who desired it: and that, too, al
good wages. 1t was noticed IN the
town report that there we're very few
town paupers in this end of the town
and very little had been expended tc
help the poor here. The fact is, the
inhabitants of this place are thrifty
and with very few exceptions self
supporting. Another fact is this, al
worthy poor are gratuitously helped
by generous hearted citizens, and by
citizens, and by the fraternities te
which they belong. 1t is probable
that we have overlooked no ore or les
of the improvements which have beer
made here during the year, but enough
has been written to show that Barton
Landing is a lively village, and i
manitests healthful growth.
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