The Newtown bee., 1907-11-15
BUILDING NOTES.

BUILDING NOTES.
 W. B. Kinney is having q building erected. l2x2i feet. just east of hi barn for an ice house and wagon shed Theodore Howes & Sons arc doing tn work.
 Mrs Thomas Me Eslin is spending few days in Cheshire. Mass. witl friends.
 MT and Mrs c. N. Hatch spent sev eral days. last week in New York. at tending the auto show there. They re turned home. last Saturday evening.
 Miss Marie Moore and Miss Nellie Moore spent last Saturday in New Mil. ford. the guests of Mir and Mrs Dixon at the Town farm.
 Robert II. Thomas of Roxbury has rented the Livingston place and will move there some time this month. When he gets located there he will take charge of the stage route he now has and the one w. w. Welton now drives for him.
 Miss Lottie Garfield is spending a month in Bridgeport with friends. [ Mrs c. Albert.Carlson, who under went an operation at the Danbury hos pital, has returned to her home here and is gaining slowly.
 Miss Nellie Moore of Bridgeport has been spending several days here with her sister, Miss Marie Moore.
 John Kavanak, who has been i'll for several months, is now able to be about little.
 Mrs Augusta Higgins. who has been spending several months with MT and Mrs Sherman Bronson, is visiting friends in New Haven and Bridgeport for a few weeks.
 Miss Bertha Hatch of Sherman has spent a few days here with her pa rents, MT and Mrs Mark T. Hatch.
 Miss Mabelle Sanford has been enter taining Mis-, Florence Snedeker of Pawling, N. Y.
 MT and Mrs F. s. Curtis with his teachers and 21 pupils from his school at Brookfield Center, were very pleas antly entertained by Mir and Mrs Ben nett Peck at their home here, one day, last week, and all had a very enjoy able time.
 On of the most disastrous fires which has visited this place for several years, occurred on Sunday night, November 3, when the large stock barn of James B. Pitcher with all it's contents was burned to the ground. Between Il and 12 o'clock, MT Pitcher was awakened to find his barn was in flames. He quick ly arose and hurried out but when he reached the barn the interior of the barn was one mass of flames and he could save nothing in the barn. The alarm was given at once and the tele- phones brought into play and in short time large number had gathered and all took hold and did good work in saving his large tobacco barn and store house, which stood just south of his stock barn. The bui lding caught fire several times but the flames were soon extinguished so that little damage was done to the building. The stock barn which was burnt was a well built one and was 60 AZ feet. Besides the barn MT Pitcher lost about 30 tons of hay, 10 tons or more of oats hay, one bug gy, one top carriage, two sets of heavy double harnesses, four sets of light harness, besides lots of small tools and other things, also 12 cows, three hor- ses, one pig, and several chickens were burned up in the barn. The burning of the dumb animals seems the worst part of the fire but nothing could be done to save them, the fire had gained such headway when it was discovered. There was an insurance of $1, 300 on the barn, hay and feed, but not any insurance at all on the stock and other things. MT Pitchers net loss will probably be over S2,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery but it is thought some one must have gotten into the barn to sleep or to steal something as the door to the barn was open when the fire was dis covered and it was closed tight when they retired for the night.