Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-22


editor. The name was soon changed to
Maine Farmer" DR., Holmes was its editor
for 32 years.
In 1925, the Congregational Society by
appropriate services babe farewell to the old
meeting house on the hill, and dedicated their
present house of public worship in the vii
lage.
In 1927, the Anderson Society was formed.
for "mutual instruction in the Sciences, as
connected with the mechanic arts and agri-
culture"
In 1929, Temperance Society pledged 'sto
abstain from distilled spirits,D was formed.
1t had on its roll over 400 names.
In 1880 at the annual town meeting. resolu-
lions were passed stating the amount of liQ-
uor soid, the evils of the traffic, and cor.
demning the whole business
In 1858, Daniel Carr opened the first ten
perance tavern in the State, and n society
pledged to total abstinence from all that in.
toxicates, was formed about this time.
IN 1922 the good women formed "moral
reform society,"" which was soon followed h,
"Maternal Society for mutual imnrove,
ment." And Mr.. Thurston preached in M.
vember 1888 the first sermons in the Tpited
States, q have his word for it, showing tho
sinfulness of slaveholding, and the duty of
immediate emancipation, and in 1884 a socie.
ty was organized upon that principle with lO7
members.
The Aroostook war called for 80 men who
were furnished and the Major of the repi-
ment, now Gen. Samuel Wood, detailed fnr
that service. All returned in safety at its
bloodless conclusion.
In 1910 the town first took legal action in
behalf of temperance, which resulted in great
good. In lo4l, the Washingtonian Society
was formed. In 1876, the Sons of Temper.
ance organized Division, No. A. In Is47.
the Androscoggin 4 Kennebec r. r. Com
pany was incorporated, the citizens of Win
throp taking an active part and contributing
ABOUT S3o, ooo to the stock In 1850 Watch
mans CLUB was formed. This organization nj
commenced the year before and had for tia
particular object the enactment of a Pro-
hlbitory law, and resulted in the passage ofI
the celebrated Maine Law in 1861. BeforeI
that time and since there have been in active
operation DEBATING Societies, Lyceums and|
SOCIAL Libraries for mutual Improvement. 81
great variety of Female and Juvenile TEN
perance Societies, and now an efficient an.
ciety of Good Templars, and Young Mems
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, composed of fhen of al b
religious denominations of the hiphestI
| character, with an attractive room free tn all
and an inviting library, the value of whose
iabors for the salvation of souls will be known
| only in eternity.
In 1904, Iowie Academy was erected from|
the generous gilt of 81 900 by will of Jenns
lowie, IN connection with this Town Hall
standing in our view at a cost of $500.
The fruits of all the means of educatic n
| employed in this town have appeared in tie
great number of good teachers supplied not
only Tor our town and State but for mapy
| other States of the Union
There have been 90 physicians who have
| pracuced in Winthrop The first one Wild
settled here in 1898 and continued in practicd
| 90 years, DIR. Perleg Benson. Next to him
| Dr. Smell who came in 1906, remained 2.
| years and then removed to Augusta. There
| have been Is lawyers, Alexander Belcher al
| years in the profession. There have been
| Congregational ministers. In the Methods
society the Bishop has sent their best men
| Joseph Sorell, Geo. Weber, Chas. w
| Morse, Chas. Munger, Stephen Alien ars
examples. In the Baptists, John Butler
Daniel +. Burbank and others. In thu
Cniversalist, Giles Bailey, Geo. Bates and
| others, able preachers and beloved pas.
| tors
Among the facts stated by Mr.. Benson wd
find that the old Messenger horse was brouph
| to Winthrop in 1916 by Alvin Hayward, frou.
whose stock, and that of the Winthrop Nor
| rill the farmers of Maine have been so bene
hted; that DR.. Holmes in 1855 brought intd
Winthrop two thoroughbred JERSEYS from
which and two by w. S. Grant, have com(
most of the Jersey stock now in the county
that Liberty Stanley early in this century in
vented the first machine for shearing cloth
that Ezra Whitman was the inventor of tin
parlor clock reduced from the old Fashioned
kitchen clock, and that he was the pioneer il
conceiving the idea of the first wheel hors
rake, the turbine water wheel and the NOW
ing and reaping machines; thuogh before hi
carried them to working perfection other mel
luh md ~,
mary reward; that his son, Luther Whitma
invented the selffeeding drill and boring lath
now in general use, and that II. A. & J. A
Pitts, twin brothers, invented the horse powe
and separator
The product of manufactures for the yea
ending June /, 1870 as taken from census I'd
turns was as follows
Cotton and Wooden goods 1926 900; Floo
oil cloths $4,000; Agricultural Implements
$50, 900; Boots and Shoes 500, 900; Tannin
and Currying $4,000; Carriages $4,000
Building and Miscellaneous $4,000; Tota
$l,103, 600.
The product of 226 farms of five acres an
upwards SlSl, 800, average over $500 each
Number of houses in town 452, of which 90
or nearly one half are in the village distric
No of families 1913. Population 1929. I'd
tai value of personal and real estate abou
S2,000,0 900.
IueTe Is OHe Dailk with capital STOCK
$4,000, rwoolen mill, cotton mill, l gri.
mill, saw mills, tanneries, manufactor
of agricultural implements, 2 carriage maker.
oil cloth factory, another recently burne
and now rebuilding, stores, blacksmith shops
&c.
AS showing the character of the people fo
intelligence the number of newspapers an
periodicals taken from the post office is sol
nearly two to every family in town at cos
of about $1,000 year. The number
letters received the past year was 49, 625, an
more that that sent away.
The speaker closed with the following alu
sion to the part taken by Winthrop in the lat
civil war:
At the first call of the President, SO Ell
listed and 1876 afterwards. All went to tn
front and did good service in the cause
their country. One noble young man fe
dead on the bloody field of Gettysburg, g.
other died of starvation at Andersonville, al
other brave boy was fatally wounded in Il