Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-10-22

The effort to prescribe uniform style of
dress Tor the girls in the Portland High
School Is not fayorably received by TIE young
ladies.
That letter from Stoneham, Mass, direct
ed to the wealthlest single man in Portland
was from Agnes Heath who wanted dia,
mond ring for Christmas present with the
givers initials.
Typhoid fever prevails at Dexter.
Only half crop OF potatoes in Oxford
county. Ditto the rest OF the State.
Potatoes are selling in Camden market for
from Zoe. to soc. per bushel and not album
dant ar that cargo two of good pota-
toes would sell quick at a fair price.
w. C. Pitman, Esq, of Bangor, has taken
the contract to lay the track on the Somer-
set railroad, which is already graded, from
| West Watervlle to Nurridgewock, and will
commence work this week with large force
of workmen. The rails will be furnished
| from the Portland Rolling Mills at the rate of
10 tons per week, and Mr.. Pitman intends
finishing the job ''betore snow flies though
it is pos: lille that the ballasting win not be
completed until next spring.
On Saturday morning ground was broken
for the new shoe factory in Portland, on New
bury street. 1t is to he substantial brick
structure, three stories i'll height.
We have received a pamphlet continuing
the record of the proceedings Of the First
Maine Cavay Association at its first annual
reunion at Augusta, Sept. 2G. 1t is very
neatly printed by Sprague, Owen & Nash, of
Augusta.-[ Portland Argus.
There is rumor that the Spragues of
Rhode Island, who have furnished ard are
still furnishing Augusta with mills and fac
tories, are gong to build in this city, and
have been negotiating with view to the pur-
chase of land here Bath Times.
The old lady who walk, FIVE miles to church
every Sunday, and Doubtless can read agate
type by moonlight without spectacles, pick
ten quarts of straw berries before breakfast
every morning in summer, and perform all
other feats of agility and skill such as all old
ladies delight in, is now living in Lewiston,
says an exchange. This old lady must be a
a very active old person, for she has lived in
about every place in the United States during
the last two years, and continues to walk
regularly five miles to church every Sunday.
II Lewisto journal.
At the Bridgton Corn Shop there were put
up this season from Aug. % to Oct. llth--
weeks and one day precisely 7G9 317 cans.
This makes the largest number ever canned
in one year at tins or any other establishment
in the United States. The largest number of
hands employed at one time was $50. The
number Of acres of sweet corn planted this
year was about 900.
Mr.. W. A Boothby has been. appointed
ticket agent at Waterville, for the Maine Cen
trail Railroad, and Mr.. James Lowe, station
agent at Carmel has been transferred to Gar
diner.
Joseph B. Swanton's house in ATillbridge,
was destroyed by fire on TUESDAY afternoon.
Mr.. Swanton was badly burned IN the face.
The editor of the Presque Isle Sunrise has
returned from his Western tour of four
weeks. lie has been much interested in
what he has seen ard heard. lie thus speaks
of Minnesota: Minnesota would not have
been what it is were il not for the enterprise,
skill, perseverance,. industry and brains of
men from Maine, and we but do honor 10 our
beloved Pine Tree State and her people when
we notice the unparalleled prosperity and
growth OF that nobie State of the North West
1t is Maine muscle, and Maine enterprise,
Maine skill, and Maine brains which have
done IT. All over Minnesota are men of mark
from the hills of Oxford the valleys of the
Androscoggn, the Kennebec and Penobscot,
and from the fields and forests of Aroos-
took. Long may they wave