Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-08-12

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l ~Se~S 49, 49,
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There is scarcity of crimpers and treers
! in some of the Auburn shoe shops. The
shoe business does not make So good show
ing as last year. This weeks total shipments
are 1872 cases, loss of 400 cases from the
first week in August, 1880.
Hiram Kicker, senior member of the firm
of Hiram Kicker Sons, proprietors of the
Poland mineral spring. and the FIRST to make
known The wonderful properties of ihs. water.
informs a Journal reporter that their sales
amounted last year to 5000 barrels, and this
year will exceed 1000 barrels They received
last year about 600 from sales OF water
The spring flows at tine rate of s gallons
minute. and never fails.
CUMBERLAND.
Gen. o. o. Howard writes that he will be
present at the Soldiers and Sailors reunion
A. X. Tingicy. special agent Treasury De-
partment, accompanied by Mr. Donglsss of
the del a-tment. IF Chicago. are in Pnrtlsnd.
The 7th, srh. llth. and 18th R.g;m 4ntal
Associations will hold their annual reunion
AT the Grand Reunion in Portland, Aug. Esd
9th and 18th.
Mr.. Irish of Go:ham. the well known mail
carrier on the Portland & Rochester. and
family. four in number. are very sick from
nsing the water of well contamnar,,l bv
the cess pool of the house having broken into
it.
FRANKLIN.
The Phonograph says: While on the road
to Rangeley. recently. and Just above Madrid
village. on Pease's flats, Fred Farmer en-
countered large bear. She crossed the two
roads, near the junction, and passed directly
in front of Fred's team.
KENNEBEc.
The Gardiner Journal says: Miss Anna II.
Sanderson of Monmouth has been elected
principal Of the High st. Grammar School
for the rest of the year. in place of Miss
Morse, whose sickness will not at present
warrant her taking her old position. Miss
Sanderson is a teacher of experience, and is
graduate of Mass. State Normal School,
Bridgewater. Mass.
Col. w. II. ID. Cochrane, agent of the
Hoosac Tunnel railroad line, has contracted
with the Hurricane Granite Co., of Rockland,
Maine, to transport 5000 tons of granite
paving blocks to Chicago. The first ship
ment was made on Thursday solid train of
thirty cars, of fourteen tons eaeh-which
will be run through special via the HoOsac
Tunnel line. 1t will require six hundred
cars to complete the shipment
OXFORD.
Corn and potatoes in Bethel and vicinity
have made a wonderful growth within a week
or so, and the prospect is flattering for good
crops.
VIM. II. Warren of Cornish, has leased
Bells hotel, Norway, for three years.
Zebulon Bryant of Hebron, 80 years old,
still prides himself on beating the boys at
hoeing.
Hutchins has been arrested and taken to
Portland for liquor selling.
PENOBsCOr.
W. t. Peason Co., of Bangor are said
to be cutting 100000 feet of lumber per day
at the Prentiss and Veazie Mills.
The Wing says: The Freshman class at
the State College numbers twenty young men.
The Wing says: The net earnings of the
B. & P. X. r. for the first six months Of 1879
were $40, 5OO.6l. For the first six months
For the first six months of 1881, the net
earnings have been SIS, G69.37.
SAGADAHoC.
The Times says: The yacht Ray of Port
land. was laying off Boothbay Sunday night
when she was struck by lightning. She had
a party Of ladies and gentlemen aboard who
were not injured, only stunned by the shock,
but the vessel was considerably damaged.
SOMERSET.
The Reporter saws Three vOung ladies of
Bingham, Juliet Goodrich, Edith and Nellie
Baker, was out in back pasture the other
day raspberrying, when as they were APP
preaching a clump of bushes. they accident
ally broke limb, and almost from beneath
their feet. creature sprang up and with n
fierce snarl. bounded across the opening and
disappeared. They describe il as an animal
somewhat taller and Simmer than large
dog 1t had regular stripes of light and dark
running around IFS body. He sported a long
slim tail, while his head resembled large
cats.
Mr.. C. G. Hale's fine block at Norridge-
wock is rapidly approaching completion.
making pleasant appearance on the business
part of the street.
WALDO.
The Nickerson cottage at Northport camp
ground has been purchased by II. F. Sargent,
of Bangor. for $500.
The house and ell owned and occupied by
W. S. Killman, of Prospect. was destroyed
by fire Monday morning. Furniture partial
" saved; loss. 525, 200. Insured.
The body of Herbert Nelson, who was
drowned last May. was recovered Monday at
Northport, near the spot where it is supposed
he was drowned.
YORK.
As an example Of what the guests at Old
Orchard do of a rainy Sunday, a week ago
last Monday, .S57 letters, the largest amount
of mail matter ever before made up in this
office in one day. were sent out. Sunday, the
-th IL rained hard all day and as a ConsP-
quence. on Monday, 2,012 three cent stamps
were cancelled and sent out.
Biddeford has net debt of 1852, 400. The
city receipts the last fiscal year were S232,-
1905, and the expenditures, 1920. 1928.
The schools last year cost about $4,000.
Sarah Written, the child murderess, is
confined in Alfred Jail, occupying debtors
cell.