Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-03-14
State News,
ANpROsCoGGN.

ANDROsCoGGIy.
Auburn is making great preparation for the
observance of Memorial Day. She has beer
disappointed in the inability of Gen. o. o.
Howard to accept the invitation 10 deliver the
address. Invitations have been. or will be-
extended to the Grand Army Posts of Lewis
ton, Portland. Turner and other Maine cities
and towns to be present at the dedication. and
participate in the procession. ETC.
A number of Lewiston and Auburn ladies
and gentlemen have been victimized by man
who came here six months. or more, ago, and
formed classes in the study of the French
language. He closed his career here by call
ing upon his pupils. representing that he was
in special need of funds, and requesting them
to advance payment for their term of lessons
They complied with this request. and, after
collecting what money he could in this way.
the fellow made sudden exit from the city
without making any explanations.--Io"rnak.
CUMBERLAND.
A DR.. Harrop has skipped" frem Port
land, leaving behind him his wife, some of his
books and instruments mortgaged, and debts
amounting to $500. The wife is a stranger
to this country, and is left with only few
dollars in hand.
According to the Sunday Times, during the
fifty years since Portland became a city it has
happened ten times that no candidate for
Mayor has had a majority of votes. and FIVE
times that no choice has been made at the
second popular election.
HANCOCK.
Columbia Falls has voted to raise s., 200
for the Shore Line railroad.
cit was at the sociable, and they were
speaking of the wind blowing very hard,
whap vary email hnv said 81 dass ~ did
blow. 1t took marm's shirt off the line and
blowed it way down in the pasture and tore
it awful. but marin SAYS she don't care for she
can use it for butter rags The girls giggled
and some of the old ladies smiled. 1 roared
and SO did the other boys. "--Lamoine Corr.
Herald.
The Norway Advertiser SAYS; VIM. H.
Martin of Greenwood has at last secured his
pension papers and the snug little sum Of
81, 39l back pay.
A move is being made in Norway village
by the soldiers of the rebellion to organize a
Post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
PENoBsCor.
There is in this city. says the Bangor Com
mercial an aged female who turns lots of
honest nickels Dy catering to the Juvenile
molasses candy demand of her immediate
neighborhoOd. In the preparation of the
festive sweets this aged confectioner uses for
a slab an article heretofore unknown to the
trade. 1t is nothing more or less than a
grave stone. of quite an olden pattern. and
inscribed-so say those who went and saw :,
and fled the scene-with the epitaph of some
person who years ago climbed the golden
stair. 1t is said that the children, who have
partaken of the taffy rolled out upon this
stepping stone to eternity. have seen whole
cemeteries of gravestones in their dreams
Here is a rich find for searchers for the quaint
queer and curious
PIsCATAQUIs.
Maine had few bloomary FORCES in York
county during the Revolution and for some
years afterwards, but she has had but few
blast furnaces. A small furnace. capable of
yielding a ton and a half of iron daily. was
erected at Shapleigh in 1888. 1t was used to
produce castings, and cost but $4,000. The
furnace at Katahdin was built in 1915, and is
now active. This is the only furnace now in
the State
The Observer says that quite a business
has been done the past winter in MonsOn, in
cutting and hauling wood to be used at the
quarries. 1900 cords have been and are be-
ing cut. under the management of c. w.
Rodgers.
YORK.
A canning factory is well under way in
Wells. The building will be 1876 feet long
and GO feet wide The business, when fairly
under way, will give employment to about POO
men, women and children. Eight men are at
present engaged in making cans, of which
$4,000 have already been turned out. 1t is
expected that 100000 cans Of corn will be put
up at this factory next summer. The COM
panv agree to lay three cents for every &c
ounces of corn after it is cut from the cob.
Pratt Sanborn. well-known as travelling
tinker. lately died on the poor farm at Lin
ington. Pratt was an eccentric genius. and
witty and sharp at repartee. Pratt's last and
greatest eccentricity was of misery
character, for, after his death, this ''poor pau
per" was found to have concealed about his
person over $1,000 dollars, in money and
bonds Argus.