Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-10-08
State News.
ANDROSCOGGIN.

The Trustees of the Maine State Fair held
a busy session Tuesday. at Lewiston, audit
ing bills against the society. They have not
commenced to pay premiums, as the books
have not been made up.
CUMBERLAND.
Hon. James w. Bradbury, President of
the Maine Historical Society, has acknowl-
edged the receipt of the application of MEM
hers for special meeting to consider the
offer of rooms, rent free, by the city govern
ment of Portland. The meeting will be
held in November.
Mr.. VIM. H. Fessenden of Portland. who
has for five years carried on the Portland
Machine Works on Co&Narcial street, goes
this week with his family vi Arizona Territory
Rev. Fred De Boz, Of The Congre gational
church, Scarboro' is going to France as a
missionary.
The lighthouse of Messrs. Golf & Plummer
in North Gorham, was burned Tuesday night,
October 5. Loss 81 1000; no insurance.
The highway over New Meadows River, on
the Brunswick road, is being raised so that
the carriage way may be above the highest
tide. Formerly during high tides the water
flowed entirely over the bridge several inches
in depth. The work is done by the towns of
Bath, Brunswick and West Bath.
FRANKLIN.
Robert Plummer of Phillips, met with a
severe injury last week by slipping and strik-
ing on his shoulder and splitting the shoulder
blade.
There is serious talk of starting new mill
enterprise in Waterville. The project is to
form joint stock company with a capital
stock of 100000 and remodel the Butterfield
shops at Crommett's Mills into a wooden
mill. A number of Waterville capitalists
are ready to take stock.
KNOX.
Considerable has been done BY the farmers
of Thomaston this season in raising sugar
beets for the sugar mandatory at Portland.
Crops averaging hundred dollars to the
acre are the result of the experiment.
The Bodwell Granite Co., vinalhaven, are
employing about twenty men cutting some
large platforms at their East Boston quar-
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The Vinalhaven Ice Co., are making ex-
tensive preparations for q heavy ice crop
next winter. Large sheds are to be nut IN
at once, and an engine will be placed in pos
ition for lifting purposes.
PENoBscor.
Messrs. J. r. Bodwell of Hallowell, Moses
Webster of Vinalhaven, and VIM. II. NAL
ing of Brewer, have organized a company
with large capital, called the Milford Lum-
Der and Manufacturing Co., and they have
purchased the mills and privileges and I6.-
600 acres of timber land in Milford of the
Trustees of the David Pingree Estate The
conveyance WAS made Monday.
WALDO.
Nathaniel Grant, engineer on the Belfast
Railroad, fell from his engine Monday after
noon. receiving a scalp wound three inches in
length, besides an injury to the hip.
A shoal of large, fat mackerel struck into
Belfast bay last week. They came up the
western channel, remained in Belfast bay one
day, passed on to Searsport, from thence to
Islesboro' into the eastern bay.
Mr.. J. W. Waterman of Belfast will travel
IN the West as guide to the Rev. B. B. Bow
en-, blind preacher Of Boston. The rever-
end gentleman is a lecturer and author.
Mr.. John G. Aborn of Belfast. met with A
severe and nearly fatal accident while at
work in Boston on Friday week. A chisel
fell upon his neck, infiicting a severe wound
near the jugular vein.
Mr.. T. H. Wellman of Belmont has lately
discovered on his farm . vein of quartz in
which there is copper, lead and sulphuret of
silver. The vein is inches wide on the