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1883. Fair Haven Era?

Hydeville. -- I have spent a half day looking over Hydeville, its business and future prospects. The slate mill of the Dorset Marble Co., under the supervision of James T. Freeman, maintains the high position it has ever held as one of the best conducted marble mills in Vermont. The demands made upon the mill are greater than the mill is able to supply. R. Hanger has just started his sawmill. It appears to be a fine mill constructed after the most approved plan for saw mills. He has a large stock of logs that will soon be converted into boards and lumber, and will be beneficial to the town. I then visited Hanger's Slate mill, which is well built, as is everything constructed by Hanger. He has in operation four planers, seven saws, rubbing ed and jointer. He is turning out some fine work. Billings mill was actively at work as of yore turning out the best of work. Did not visit Mr. Field's mill, as he is an entire stranger to me. B. F. Graves is busy manufacturing farming utensils, and is succeeding well. Downs & Delehanty in their marbelizing works, are doing a fine trade, being practical workmen. They have their eyes on a piece of work until it is finished. I then visited the store of D. W. Bump. They were very busy all the time I was there. New goods were in the back room, but no time to open them. He will be obliged to employ another clerk. Bulger brothers were active with a good trade. Hawkins is getting ready for summer, when he expects a house full of visitors. Bradshaw was feeling nicely, and says Hydeville is going ahead, even the birds sing sweeter this spring; flowers are brighter; children are happier than of yore. There are but few old fogies in town and they will be buried before July 1, then look out, the cemetery will be fenced in. Clifford and Litchfield have purchased the old grist mill which will at once be converted into a slate mill. Then the town of Castleton will have more slate mills than any town in Vermont. Clifford & Litchfield are now doing a good business in Cookville. Mr. Litchfield is interested in a large quarry upon the shore of Lake Superior, in Michigan. They send their slate north-west to Dakota and Minnesota. This town is, has been and must be, the centre of manufactured slate in Vermont.

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1884. Fair Haven Era?

HYDEVILLE. . . . -- Downs & Delehanty are still doing a prosperous business in marbelizing slate. . . . -- Billings is doing a good business in his mill. He must do so as he is particularly to have his work done well. -- Mr. Hazard is doing a good business at West Castleton. Taking all in all, Castleton is coming to the front in slate. -- Bulger Brothers have left the Billings mill, and are negotiating with R. Hanger to lease the mill he purchased the past season. . . . -- Business opens lively here this spring with fairer prospects for the future. Clifford and Litchfield are changing the grist mill into a slate mill. This will make one more slate mill in Castleton than in Fairhaven. -- R. Hanger is doing a fine business in his slate mill. He has his wood saw mill yard full of logs. He is also repairing the tenement which he purchased with the mill privileges. He ahs become so much of a Yankee that he says house plain, not ouse. His advent among us has already brought prosperity, he being one of the kind of men that must prosper honest. . . . -- Since writing the above the Billings' mill has been destroyed by fire, which was discovered about 1 o'clock Wednesday morning. It is supposed that it was of an incendiary origin, but as yet cannot be fully determined. This will throw a large number of men out of employment and is a severe blow to the place. There was an insurance on the property of $4,000.

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July 3, 1884. The Rutland Daily Herald and Globe.

Hydeville. -- Two tenement houses at Cookville, belonging to Mr. Edward Gleason, were recently burned, causing a loss to the insurance company of some hundred dollars. Mssrs. Downs and Delehanty in order to supply their shop with stock, have leased the Cedar mountain slate quarry, and built a boat for bringing stock which was launched last week and cost some five hundred dollars.

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August 1884. Poultney Journal.

Clifford & Litchfield who own the slate mill at Cookville, purchased of the Fair Haven Bank the grist mill at this place and have built a large addition to it on the west end which will be ready for business by the first of August as a slate mill. Bulger brothers having purchased the upper power with 11 feet fall are at once to erect a mill. They own some fine quarries that yields good stock. Downs & Delehanty marbelizers and finishers also own a slate quarry which is turning out good stock and now they are to erect a mill. I am told that a company from Philadelphia are to erect a mill here for the manufacturing of slate pencils.

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October 31, 1887. Poultney Journal.

Downs and Delehanty are building an addition 50 by 60 feet to their slate mill at Cedar Mountain on Lake Bomoseen, they are also going to build a finishing shop 40 by 100 feet and a barn 25 by 60 feet. The old abandoned quarry is paying well, and everything is as compact as one could wish for, the mill being close to the quarry. The most singular thing is that they have found a bed of sand among the rocks and within 15 feet of the door, which is said to be A No. 1 for rubbing purposes.

[Note: this article appeared on John Delehanty's first birthday]

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August 3, 1888. Rutland County Record? Poultney Journal? Fair Haven Era?

Downs and Delehanty have been offered by a New York syndicate $100,000 for their slate plant at Cedar Mountain. They are deliberating and, if they do not accept, the syndicate will erect a mill there that will employ 300 hands; Downs and Delehanty will furnish them with stock. They have discovered that while the mountain's full of solid stock, no such body of slate has been found in America. It is rich purple, no variegated.

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December 5, 1890. Rutland County Record? Poultney Journal? Fair Haven Era?

Downs and Delehanty's sand pit at Cedar Mountain, where their slate mill is located, has failed upon them, and the sand now used is taken from J. W. Comstock's sand pit and put aboard a boat and towed by the C. E. Cook steamer to the mill.

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October 26, 1894. Fair Haven Era?

Mary Burns of St. Albans is visiting her father, Mike Burns. The law suit between Carty and Lonigan has been postponed. Mrs. William Anderson who has been quite ill is reported much better. John Fitzpatrick and wife went on the excursion to New York last week. The K. of L. hall has just been nicely papered and received a general renovation. Ex-judge Ryan went to Hydeville to visit his old friend, John P. Minogue, who is quite sick. John Delehanty went on the excursion to New York and from there he made a trip to Bangor [PA]. The vacant house opposite Mrs. Martin Hayes in Cooksville, burned to the ground Wednesday night.

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July 12, 1895. Fair Haven Era?

West Castleton. Miss Mary Burns of St. Albans is home on vacation. Miss Anna Morgan of Fort Edward is visiting her mother this week. Miss Nellie McHenry of Granville is visiting at Mathias Delehanty's. Miss Gertie Bird is home from Castleton where she has been attending school. Quite a number of the young people attended the closing exercises of the Normal school at Castleton. John Minogue, one of the oldest residents of this place and lately of Wells, spent a few days among his old friends here. The dance held at Dunn's Cedar Bough pavilion on July 4th, was favored by a number of the young men. The dance held at Lake Side grove on July 3rd, was a complete success. The music was well rendered by Virginia and Stevens. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan entertained a few of their friends on Tuesday evening. All were delighted and report a very enjoyable time.

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March 1897. Rutland Herald.

The school directors met Friday night. E. H. Armstrong was chosen chairman, C. A. Beach, clerk, and P. R. Leavenworth superintendent. The teachers for the coming year are as follows: . . . district No. 5, Mary Wallace, Anna Delehanty, and Margaret Ryan . . .

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May 1, 1897. Rutland Herald?

West Castleton. The first annual reception and dance of the Glen Social club occurred at Hazard's Hall, Friday evening of last week. The following officers were elected: President, Thomas M. Hayes; vice-president, Michael Burns, Jr.; Secretary, James Larkin; treasurer, Thomas F. Lewis. Among those present were James Burns and James Lanigan of Cooksville, Barney Reagan, John Sloane, Thomas and James Hughes and Owen Leonard of Hubbardton, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Neil of Albany, New York. The grand march was led by Thomas Fitzpatrick and Mrs. Mary Bird. James Reagan was master of ceremonies. The following acted as floor managers: Michael Burns, Jr., John Larkin and Daniel Delehanty. Music was furnished by Virginia's orchestra. Our correspondent informs it was a very enjoyable affair.

[note: Daniel Delehanty, elder brother of John Delehanty, was on the cusp of his 17th birthday]

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August 4, 1898. Fair Haven Era.

Downs and Delehanty of Hydeville are filling a $5000 order for slate for Harvard college.

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May 11, 1899. Fair Haven Era.

Patrick Delehanty, who was well-known in the vicinity, died Sunday night in West Castleton after a lingering illness with consumption. The deceased is survived by his wife and two children. Funeral services were in West Castleton and burial in Poultney.

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July 14, 1899. Fair Haven Era.

Matthew [Mathias] Delehanty died Monday evening at his home in West Castleton of consumption. He was about 55 years old and is survived by a widow, three daughters, Mary and Anna of this place and Mrs. Joseph McCormick of Granville, N.Y., and two sons James and John. The funeral was held Wednesday morning.

[Note: several errors appear in this obituary, including "Mary and Anna" and "two sons James and John"]

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March 8, 1900. Fair Haven Era.

Hydeville. The Hydeville schools closed last Friday, and in the evening the scholars gave an exhibition in the school --- which was largely attended. The juvenile element acquitted themselves with credit to themselves and their teachers, Misses Annie Delehanty, Katie Eagan, and Penelope Malone, who have spared no efforts to perfect the pupils in their parts. The school register shows an enrollment of 135 scholars with an average daily attendance of 129.

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1912. Fair Haven Era.

A deal is on between John Delehanty, administrator of the estate of the late W. C. Mound and W. H. Wyatt of Troy, N.Y., for the transfer to the latter of the Glenwood House, Point of Pines, on Lake Bomoseen. The trade has not yet been consummated but it is expected it will be in the course of a week. Mr. Wyatt, who is a hotel man of wide experience will run the hotel himself. The Glenwood is one of the big hotels on Lake Bomoseen and was a paying and successful property under the management of the late W. C. Mound.

[note: this is the uncle of our John Delehanty]

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1912. Fair Haven Era.

Hydeville. After several months of wearing illness death came Tuesday evening and released Mrs. P. H. Downes from suffering, at her home in Hydeville.

She had been ill since Christmas with an ailment that baffled the skill of the best physicians and the last of January she was taken to the hospital at Rutland for treament only to learn that the trouble was beyond the help of earthly physicians and so two weeks ago she returned to her home in Hydeville to pass the short time remaining in the care of those nearest and dearest to her.

Mrs. Downs was the daughter of Michael and Johanna (Hickey) Penders and was born in Brandon in 1851. She was married 37 years ago to the late P. H. Downes and most of her life had been passed in Hydeville. Eight children were born to them. The first great sorrow to come into her life was in 1886, when in one short week, she had to give up to their Maker, three children, through the ravages of scarlet fever. The husband died in 1903 and in 1906, she had to part with her first born son, Charles, a young man, whose life was full of promise. Some of her closest friends claim that she was never quite the same after the death of this favored son. Mrs. Downes was of a quiet and retiring disposition, a home body always and yet one who took a deep interest in those about her and in a quiet and nonostentatious way relieved much of want and suffering in the community, where she so long made her home.

There are four survivors of the family, two sons, Harry P. Downes of New York city, and Thomas W. Downes and two daughters, Elizabeth M. and Alice B. Downes. Of Mrs. Downes' own brothers and sisters of whom she had 12, there remains today but one brother, Thomas Penders of Ansonia, Conn.

The funeral will be held tomorrow morning, in St. Mary's church where a solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated by Rev. Edward Houlihan, assisted by Revs. P. J. Barrett, J. O. Lizotte and P. J. Houlihan.

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Oct. 31, 1912. Fair Haven Era?

HYDEVILLE. . . . Thomas Carvey of West Castleton was married to Miss Mary Delehanty Tuesday morning of last week at St. Mary's church, in Fair Haven by Rev. P. J. Houlihan. . . .

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