Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-07-27
CANADIAN FRONTIER NEWS
Two Important Items from the North
Troy Palladium of Interest to Our
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Readers.
SEIZED LIQUOR AT MANSON
VILE, P. @.
John H. Roberts, secretary of the
Dominion Alliance, assisted by the
Rev. ]. A. Miller (Methodist) and A.
d. Carpenter made raid on the
Mansonville House July Is, and carried
off the demon rum. Armed with
warrants they entered the hotel and
asked for the prorieter, Mr.. Cabana.
That gentleman asked for five minutes
conversation with his wife before the
raiders got busy. But they turned a
to visit the bar. Here Mr.. Cabana
Nseized two bottles of rye and smashed
them over the sink. But there were
others, and the Alliance men got them.
The place was searched from cellar
to attic and the barn included. Mr..
Roberts and his two doughty lieuten-
ants left for Cowansville on the eve-
ming train, taking the spoils of war
with them, there to deposit them with
the Collector of Provincial Revenue
and to enter formal complaint.
Proceedings will be taken at once for
a second offence against Cabana, he
having only recently been convicted
for similar offence. He may be
fined, if adjudged guilty, not less than
500 and costs.
Speaking after the seizure, John H.
Roberts said that the incident was
only the first shot in new campaign
for law enforcement which the Domin-
ion Alliance is intending to carry
SOen throughout the Province, eSpe-
cially in the districts where "No
License obtains. The Alliance he
said, is finding that these constant
violations of law in no license terri
tory hinder the progress of the cause
in wet" places and make the people
there hesitate to inaugurate no license
campaigns. The Dominion Alliance is
ready to cooperate, said Secretary
Roberts, with councils, officers of the
law and temperance workers every
where in order to secure proper en-
forcement of law.
DISASTROUS FIRE AT MANSON
VILE, P. O..
Mansonville was visited by the mos
disastrous fire in it's history, Saturday
morning, July 16, when eleven build.
ings were swept away.
The properties destroyed are:
| Commercial House, value about,
$4,000. Insurance, $1,000.
Seguin's Meat Market, loss $4,000
| insurance, $3.50.
Eastern Townships bank, $500 in
surance on fixtures.
George Holmes store, same block
as bank, insurance $4,000. The loss
on the block is estimated at Sc, 900.
Major Perkins brick residence, and
outbuildings, loss $4,000, insurance
small.
Mrs. Burhart's residence, barns and
outbuildings, loss $4,000, insurance
So, 200.
The above figures loss of S24, 900
in the blaze and very conservative
estimate of the value of the proper
ties swept away.
1t was two a. m. when the fire was
discovered by inmates of the hotel.
1t is not clear whether it originated
IN the hotel or meat market which
adjoin.
The alarm was given and the whole
village aroused. It was at once ap-
parent that serious fire was under
way. 1t spread rapidly. A bucket
brigade was organized and did valiant
work. In spite of these efforts the
fire spread from building to building
until eleven properties were afame,
including the properties on one entire
corner of the village square. Only a
comparatively small portion of the
contents of the buildings could be
saved. A considerable portion of the
goods from the store were removed.
The greater portion of the contents of
the buildings, however, went up in
smoke.
The entire village was threatened
with destruction. A big fight was put
up to prevent the flames reaching the
post-office. The fre-fghters succeeded
IN saving this building, which was in
a way the key to the situation Had
the post-oftice caught, the fire would
almost surely have spread farther.
There was naturally good deal of
excitement during the progress of
the ire. People were aroused from
their slumbers. Those in the hotel
and the residences which were attack
ed, made hasty exit, but all escaped.
fortunately no lives were lost.
The village is not incorporated,
being still under the municipal rule.
NO ire lighting apparatus is possessed.
There has recently been an agitation
along this line and an effort to bring
about the incorporation of the village.
This did not succeed The bucket
brigade was the sole hope of the
place and the citizens worked with a
will.
The blow was severe one, but the
village will undoubtedly soon recover.
The properties destroyed will, it is
hoped, be rebuilt and the village
restored.
A serious feature of the fire is the
destruction of the town office, located
in the Manson block.
All the old records of the township
of Potion were burned, including the
cadastral plan. The vault was opened
Sunday, and it was found that the
town books and papers of recent date.
whic. it contained, were intact. The
older papers, however, were not in the
vault ard were destroyed. This is
serious loss. Potion is one of the
oldest t,iWnShinS the old naners dated |