Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-04-23
HAS $4,000 BLAZE
North Troy Loses Frontier House by
Fire Wednesday Morning.


Fire was discovered at 2.I5 o'clock
morning in the hallway
of the Frontier House in North Troy.
The employees and guests had scarcely
time to leave the house, saving few
clothes and personal effects and little
of the furniture of the hotel was
saved.
The fire companies responded
promptly TO the alarm and played
six streams of water upon the blazing
building, confining the flames 10 the
hotel, thereby saving the Seayer
building only 80 feet east of the
Frontier house, the Regan building
only about 30 feet north of the hotel
and the hotel stables connected with
the hotel by an ice house. There was
absolutely no wind or the damage
might have been much greater and
spread to the above-named buildings.
The loss is estimated at about $751;
600 with $4,000 of insurance. The
Frontier House was owned and OPP
Grated by Mrs. B. b. Gilbert, Mr.. Gil
bert having died a few years ago as
result of accidental burning. Mrs
Gilbert herself discovered the fire.
On Tuesday evening final re-
hearsal for the North Troy high
school operetta, Pauline" had been
held in Frontier hall, located in the
hotel building and having a seating
capacity of about 800, where the en-
tertainment was to have been held
Wednesday evening and repeated on
Friday evening. When the artists left
the hall the smell of smoke was de-
tected but thorough search failed to
reveal any fire. 1t is thought now
that the fire originated in the switch
box in the hallway and had been
smouldering for some hours.
The Frontier House was a three
story building erected in 1869 by Guy
Chaplin, who ran the hotel but few
years when the property was sold to
| c. A. Ramsdell, who operated the
J place until few years ago, when B.
/ B. Gilbert bought it. The hotel had
about 25 sleeping rooms and had had
a good business in recent years. A
| hotel located upon this sight was
burned more than so years ago in
| serious fire.
The fire adds one more to the big
| fire losses sustained by North Troy,
| the last one being on December 20,
I 1916, when the Seaver block, the
Kelley block and the Griggs building
were destroyed, together with sever
al stocks of goods, the loss being
nearly $4,000.
600
Congregational Church Notes.
Sunday, April 9th
1O.45, Morning service.
1900, Sunday school
$50, Christian Endeavor meeting.
7.30, Evening service.
The regular .mid-week prayer meet
ing on Thursday evening at 7.30.
The pulpit supply for Sunday is
not yet known but it is quite certain
some speaker will be present.
Prof. J. D. McFadyen of Stan
stead college preached an Easter ser
mon Sunday, making a very fine ex-
planatlon of the atonement. Mr.. and
Mrs. McFadyen were entertained at
the c. F. Cutler home on Park street
The Easter cantata Sunday evening
drew a crowded house, seats being
brought into the rear of the church,
and the audience pronounced the mu-
sic especially fine. The chorus con-
sisted of 13 voices and there were
solo numbers, a ladies' double quar-
tet unaccompanied, and duets. The
T. y
Wright, and Mr.. Perley was especial
| ly pleasing and the duet by Mrs
| Webster and Mrs. Wright has receiv-
ed great praise. Some pronounce the
ladies' double quartet, unaecompan-
led, as the climax of the cantata, but
it is sufficient to say that the entire
production has received the highest
praise. Mr.. Perley is deserving Of
much credit in his direction of its
production. The four stringed in
struments added much TO the rendi-
tion of the eantata. Mr. McFadyen
offered prayer and read the scripture
and Rev. NJ. A. Turner dismissed the
audience with the benediction.
The decorations Sunday were done
by the Misses Doris and Ida Whiteher
and Miss Bernice Ray and deserve
special mention.