Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-09-17
STATE NEWS.
Ct NBERIAND.


Mr.. c. Is. Fuller. Curator of the Natural
History Society of Portland, is busilv at work
arranging the collections in the new build
ing on Elm street. They have now all been
removed from the old rooms in City Building,
only the cases remaining. The task of ar
ranging them in the new cases is one Of great
care and labor, for which no one Is more
competent than Mr.. Fuller.
The Gum Point lee Co. are putting up s
ice houses at their pond in Iiarpswell.
Semi-annual session of the Grand Lodge of
Good Templars of Maine at Brunswick Oct.
~ and 20. Half fare to members of the Or
der over the principal railroads.
The home of Annie Louise Cary in Port
land is pleasant, threc-story brick house on
Free street, looking south. which is hand
somely, but not luxuriously furnished. The
doors stand wide open with a welcome for
all, when Annie Louise is at home.
H,NcoCK.
The erection Of the new Wooden Mill, on
Branch Pond stream. Ellsworth, will be com
menced soon the frame is sawed out.
The dam has been rebuilt and work on the
canal wall is progressing. 1t is estimated
that when completed the mill will afford en-
ployment for about thirty hands.
KENSEBEc.
The foundation for the Waterville framing
mill is almost completed and the mill will be
in place in week or so.
KNOX.
Mr. Edward II. Bartlett, of Middle street,
Rockland, fell distance of % feet, in q
quarry where he was at work Saturday night,
striking a pile Of rock. lie was stunned
by the shock, and received some bruises and
a spraincd shoulder.
The annual session of the Knox and Lin
coin Musical Association will be held at Far
well Hall, Rockand, Tuesday, October 9TH,
and closing on the night Of Friday, sth.
OXFORD.
In 1859 Bethel had 1913 scholars, and this
number increased in 1859 to 952 scholars.
Since then there has been gradual decrease
till now there are but Gj5.
PESoBscoT.
! Thomas H. Palmer, painter and native
of Bangor, fell down stairs in Bradford, Penn,
Wednesday, and was killed.
J. W. Palmer & Sons. Bangor now have
ninety-fve men in woods at the Gulf" and
forty more will start this morning. They
also have forty -four horses. This winter
they will employ two hundred and fifty men
| in all.
Tine store of Nathan Whitman in the
| Thoms' building on Harlow street, Bangor,
was broken open Tuesday night, and articles
to the value Of about twenty dollars taken.
SAGAD,HOc.
Wednesda evening, as Mr.. Henry SWEET
of Bath was descending the stairs at the dem
ocratic headquarters in Granite Hall, slipped
and fell to the lower floor, and was seriously
injured.
| SOMERSET.
| Nathan Thompson of Embden, while at
work on Indian Island, above Scion Ferry,
picked up s Spanish milled dollars, some
dating back to 1928.
| WALDO.
On one of the highest mountains in Waldo
county lives family whose children, ten in
number have shop, containing tools and
lumber sufficient to construct all desirable
articles. in which they spend their leisure
| time. During the days of the past summer,
one Of the boys, aged IL, framed barn for
his increasing flock Of ducks, having every
brace and beam fitted by rule by his own
hands, without others direction. He, with
the aid Of his sister, aged years, raised the
barn, about by 10 feet, on September lst
His ducks are supplied with water by artif-
cial means.
The farm buildings Of b. +. Bennett of
behring's Ridge, WATERFORD, were DESTROYED
by fire Wednesday night.
Old Orchard will be indebted in large
measure to Mr.. II. W. Staples, for the pier
when it is completed. Mr.. Lindsey is to
build new hotel on the beach, nearly op-
posite the camp-ground.
Hollis observed the 10th anniversary of
its settlement. with a procession, dinner and
an orat ion by John H. Hardy of Boston.
A turtle weighing thirty pounds was re-
Gently captured in brook in Wells by Le-
ander Perkins.