Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-20
state News.
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ANDRoscoGGIN.
A Lewiston Spectator has been up TO
Locke's Mills after potatoes. He saws that
it's just like an auction there. and bidders are
numerous He offered s5 cents for potatoes
delivered on the track th~re. but he WAS out
bid BY Boston men. who maid % cents.
CUMBERLAND.
The Portland Kerosene Oil Company have
been making extensive repairs on their works.
and have added one new still for the refining
of machine oil. They are running on full
time, with a crew of about sixty men.
The Portland Packing Company have
Gently purchased the Luenhurg y $ lob
ster factory. They are the proprie,ors of
nine lobster factories in Nova Scotia. two in
Cape Breton, one in Newfoundland, three OF
four in the State of Maine, and five large
sweet corn canning establishments.
The Press SAYS a woman named Lewis has
been getting 50 % for lessons in macrame
work. from young girls in Portland. agreeing
TO buy all the bags they made al forty cents
apiece. and furnish the Irvine. Now the girls
would like TO see the money for the bags
they made. after taking lessons from her. or
the woman, or both.
HAxcoCK.
The Mount Desert Herald. Bar Hsrbor,
saws One of our sewing societies is trying
10 raise money 10 purchase a hearse-thouyh
why the town, N its corporate capacity
should not provide such public necessities is
one of those things no fellow can find out.
A local muse has appeared v no writes in the
following strain
It's thing that's long been needed
Though its occupants be source;
Townsmen. be my warning needed.
Buy your town a decent hearse.
Out OF all your boarded thousands,
Shall it mockingly be said.
That you grudg e some paltry dollars
To protect your honored dead?
KESSEBEC.
The Gardiner Reporter says: The tug
"A F. Kappella," under charge of Capt.
Andrew Wyhan, is undergoing quite ex-
tensive repairs a, Dingley's wharf. She will
have new cabin, new ceiling, and many
other improvements added. and her engine
and boilers repaired in such manner that
she will not be liable TO get left when she
starts out for business next season.
Important Improvements are being made
on the Maine Central passenger station and
grounds in Monmouth. The building has
been remodeled throughout. The arrange
ments are convenient, the designs and finish
are modern and tasty. There is. also, the
promise of enlarged and improved facilities
for handling freight, another season. which
are very much needed. The amount of
business at this station. in freight received
and forwarded for the month of November,
was more than double that of the correspond
ing month, last year.-Argus.
PENoBsCoT.
Fish Commissioner Stillwell has made ar
engagements at Enfield for the Matching out of
300. 900 to 400, 900 salmon eggs this winter.
The fish are to be placed in the Penobscot
in the spring.
A correspondent of the Commercial writes
There is no snow yet on the Nahonakanta
waters. Quite a large amount of lumber is
expected to be cut on the lake and its tributa
ries during the coming winter. But the oper
atoms are fully three weeks behind last sea
son on account of the extreme difficulty in
getting in the teams, and still worse the
keeping them in supplies on a 40 mile tote
road of bare ground. On the Mattawamkeag
waters great complaint is made for the lack
of snow, as tn. woods in that region are as
bare as in July, and nearly all the heavy
operators have all the trees yarded they
wish to have before commencing to haul to
the streams. Snow is what we must have
soon or some OF the operators will have to
go to some other source besides the spruce
Toys tueN cut W pay tHtii piiis tHis ~iutSi'
SAGADAHoC.
The three-m schooner C.. Hanrshan
sailed from Bath for New York Dec. !. since
which time nothing has been heard of her.
The trip should have been made in week.
The Hanrahan hailed from Rockland. was
462 tons register and was owned by A. +.
Ames & Co.-Time
YORK.
Mr. John F. Haines authorizes the Biddeford
Times to say that he has started out boldly in
the cause of Temperance. and that he will
wage war against the liquor-sellers until the
end is reached and the traffic stopped. He
undertakes to thoroughly rout the rum sellers.
and do such good work that Biddeford shall
no longer be a reproach to the Prohibitory
law.
1t is fact, though perhaps not generally
known, that the records of all transfers of
real estate in Maine prior to 1850 and dating
back to the first settlement of the State are
kept at the courthouse in Alfred. York
county These records make some thirty
fonr volumes in manuscript. each volume
containing about 400 pages. No other copies
are in existence, and whenever a LAWYER, or
other person has occasion to trace the ow aership
of real estate back farther than l160 he must
either go to Alfred and examine the records.
or get the Register of Deeds there to send
him certified copy. 1t is proposed for Cum