Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-20
VILLAGE OF NORTH ANON is
DEVASTATED BY FIRE, TUESDAY
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| Elm street It burned four blocks on
this street besides the one occupied by
Porter & Marston as Il grocery store.
IT took the block on the corner ON the
east side of Elm street owned by the
! Cara bassett &C., and occupied by w.
| =. French as Il shoe store and express
office.
Scott & Witham. hardware dealers,
| in n Carrabassctt Co. building, suffer
cd a loss of at least $500 To their stock.
The loss to the building owners the one
occupied by French and this one. is es-
| tfnated at $300a. The Bunker store oe-
cupied hy Weinburg as a candy store,
was valued at $1,000. and MI Weinburg
| suffered Il loss 2f $500.
| The fire did not halt until il had
reached Grange hail. 1t had then taken
veIythng in its course. It then was
burning on the opposite side of Elm
| street and took four blocks here. The
| owners. H. II. Marston, Who suffered
| loss of about $4,000 to the grocery store.
| w. Il. Waite hardware. $1,000. Wallace
| Emery. two-story building, 5000. This
Flock was occupied by James Thorne as
a law office who saved all of his prop
erty, and Frank Quint, who lived in
the tenement. The next vas the Collins
block occupied by the Morse Clothing
Co. and tie Lester Berry family and
p A. Wood dentistry office The loss
te this building was estimated al $4,000
TIE clothing company suffers a loss of
$500 and Philip Wood suffers a total
loss.
tho block orri1nacl
b. the post office Everything in this
vas saved This was owned by Wal
lace Emery and the loss is estimated
at 5000. Below the post office was the
residence of Charles Crimble' a brick
house. He saved part of his furniture
but his loss is estimated at about $1,000,
This took all of the buildings on that
side OF the bridge but by this time on
TIE other side of the main street near
the bridge the two-story wooden build
ing occupied as carriage shop and
owned by f. S. Parsons and O. Il. SAY
age. blacksmith. was burning, and the
loss to the building here is $500. The
Collins residence owned by the heirs of
Edwin Collins. WAS burning. The
damage is estimated at s250o.
The blocks through to the Methodist
church that were totally destroyed
were the Bunker block, the T. N.
Steward block, Frank Crimble's store,
T. p. Clark heirs block, the odd Eel
lows block. Hclley's drug store, Mason
ic hall, Hilton block and several dwell
ing houses in the rear of these, includ-
irg the residences of T.. E. Sawyer and
Bert Witham.
The sufferers in these blocks were II.
G. Bickford. grocery; c. w. Dunton,
moving pictures; +. l.. Doyen, tenant;
Dr. Kennison, office; Frank Crimble.
confectionery: c. W. Rogers, dry
goods; NJ. L. French, dry goods, Frank
Holley, druggist; Nancy Salley, resi-
dcnce.
Among others to suffer in the fire
were Mrs. Verna Austin. tenant; ora
Poulin. Fred Ellis. tenant; Flanders q
Savage, blaeksmiths: r. G. Hilton. har-
ness shop; and Elmer sawyer, Barber
If one has visited North Arson viii
iaee and knows what the business sec
ton contained it is sufficient to say
that everything burned. There is not
q store left and but for the fact that
Madison is within four miles, the peo-
RE might suffer from want of neces-
satisfy their hunger until the baker
cart from Madison, at O'Clock, drove
| into the village.
The business section suffered great
| deal Int the strain on the whole village
| people was intense. There was hardiy
a family in the town that did not move
| the furniture from their houses or make
| preparations to move at the warning.
| At noon, Tuesday the residential Sec
| ticn in nearly every dooryard was piled
| with furniture. What the insurance IS
| on the property will not be known for
| se.erai DAYS. A great many OF the SUI
| forors were partly insured, but the
| most Of them had no insurance at all.
| What the future of North Arson viii
| lage will be now is problematical, al
| though many of the business men will
| resume business. F. Fl. Holley, early
| Tuesday morning, was making ar
| engagements to resume the drug bus
mess in building near the Methodist
ehurcli. Marsten & Porter for the time
being. VIII open up business in Grange
hall The post office has been moved te
tie Methodist church.
Many of the business men of NORTH
Aason have been in business for many
years. NJ. l.. French began in 1903; w
G. Simmons started the dry goods bus
mess IN 1876; w. r. French In 1906; Il
u. Hollcy, druggist. in 1901; Augustine
Simmons one of the best known law
yers N Maine, had been in practict
here for over % years.
The Somerset House one of the frs
buildings to 90 in the fire. Tuesday
was established over 100 years ago TIL
proprietor was n. w. Murphy. 1t ha'
% sleeping rooms. Mr.. Murphy has bcel
in thC hotel business at Parlin pom
10 years.
A better estimate of the losses an
assurances and what plans will be mad
in regard to re- building the village wi
he known, a little later.
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