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��we ha\e taken a hasty various industries carried on \illage, and herewith report :

There has been no faihii'e of a busi- ness firm m town since 1857. Tea. estate has been steadily appreciating in value. It ships and receives more freight than any station north of Laconia. The Apthorp Water Company's works supply the village with spricg water, from a reservoir of half a million gallons, two hundred and lifty-six feet above the steps of Thavers' Hotel. This reservoir is served through an eight-inch pipe. 'J"he second reservoir is one hundred and fifteen feet higher than number one, and the fountain-head or reservoir number three of six acres, is about four hundred feet higher than number two. These last are connected with number one by a four- inch pipe, thus affording a never-failing sourc .' of supply. The capital f)f the company was oi'iginally !i?30,(!00.

The valuation of the town i; over ••? 1,34:0,000. The selectmen for 1888-84, are James 11. Bailey, Dennis Wheeler, ami Trueworthy L. Parker. George E. Lovejoy is town-clerk ; Alonzo AVeeks is treasurer; Rev. F. H. Lyford is the Superintending School Committee. In the Union District, Rev. F. II. Lyford, Benjamin F. Robinson, and William II. Mitchell, Esq., are the committee. The supervisors are William A. Ilaskins, John W. English, and Charles !1. Daniels.

��Albert II. Bowman is chief ot police. There is a volunteer Hook and Ladder Company ; a Hose Company, and a Hand Engine.

The railroad was opened to Littleton ii- July, 1853. In aftf r years, when the road was extended to Lancastei", the citizens of the latter town sent to Little- ton a signal Hag, thus intimating that the town would become a flag station. Robert Xelson was the first station agent ; Horace E. Chamberlain succeded him ; the present agent, Alden Quiniby, has been at his jjost twenty-seven years.

Four XKW HOUSES are in process of construction by Ira Parker, Charles Parker, Col. Cyrus Eastman, and Cr.arles F. Eastman. The Oak IIii.l House is conducted I y Capt. George Farr and Dr. Jc^hn Jarvis, of I'oston. There are eighty r.oms which are well filled dur- ing the summer season. H. L. Thayer & Son (Frank Thayer), conduct Thavers' Hotel, a house unsurpassed in northern New Hampshire for home comforts. Uxiox House, managed by John M. Potter, is ceiitrally located and commands its fair share of patronage. It accommo- dates fifty guests.

The Y. AI. C. A. was organized in 1873, and has a public reading-room open every evening in the week, and carries on three or more gospel meetings weekty, beside daily prayer meetings. The Assoc ation is active and does effective w^;rk. Dr. S. C. Sawyer is president

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