It was here that Danville people did their shopping and their banking. The Gordon Hotel has long occupied a permanent niche in the history of Milton which was a metropolis long before Danville was even a town. There is, too, a sense of injury among the older Miltonians resentful that a town which peculiarly has its own placid way of life, it should have been made to suffer from the backlash of an industrial dispute in another state and many miles distant. They are hopeful that ti will not be impossible to 'crack' the case of arson which is generally suspected, especially since two previous efforts within ten days were made to destroy the ancient hostelry. C., May 7 - The people of this historic Caswell county township remain highly indignant over the burning a few nights ago of the old Gordon Hotel. Milton Mourns Memory-Filled Ancient Hotel (Scenes of Early Glamorous Life) Milton firemen had to give up the fight to save the building Friday night and concentrated on protecting nearby property. It was the third incident involving the old building in the past 10 days, Recently, a dynamite stick thrown into the apartment of a nonstriking textile worker rocked the building, and on Wednesday night a fire swept through a room on the rear of the ground floor. Fire swept through a 20-room hotel at Milton late Friday night and destroyed the structure, long a landmark in the town's business district.

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