Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-23
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Ihe journal say thAt . lodge OF GOOD
! Templars was instituted at Sherman. last
Friday week, of 81 charter members. and a
Juvenile Templars lodge. on Saturday week.
| of 90 members. BY Mrs Estes of Waterville.
Mrs. Estes is practical, interesting speaker.
and is doing q good work in Aroostook
county.
Reliable judges estimate the amount of
starch manufactured in Aroostook county
this season at 1000 tons. At the estimated
amount of eight pounds per bushel. the guam
tity of potatoes used is / ,0O0, 600 bushels.
CUMBERLAND.
The Times saws: Tuesday afternoon Ed
mund O'Toole, small lad who resided at
about the cars on Union Wharf when he was
caught between the bumpers of two cars.
breaking his arm in two places and hurting
his back very badly. II was decided not to
amputate the arm but TO give the boy
chance to save it. He is very seriously hurt
however and his injuries NAV terminate fatal
ly.
While Mr.. Tracy. of Hog Island. was
bringing up half a dozen cows to Portland
Tuesday in a scow. one of the animals be-
came frightened. jumped overheard, and was
drowned before assistance could reach her.
FRANKLIN.
Mr. Rufus Cutler. a prominent citizen of
Pennington, died at Albany, Ga, the Goth
inst. having gone there fer weeks since
on private business. His wife and son
reached him just before his death. Mr.. Cut
Ter was president of the Franklin County
Savings Bank.
There is a lively demand for the stock of
the Sandy river railroad Ii has recently
advanced from $40 per share TO 50. so.
OXFORD.
The locomotives on the X. F. & B. Rail
road are being fitted for burning coal. The
road is doing an increasing business in ship
ping freight, and is apparently prospecting
financially, as il deserves to do.
The Oxford Democrat Gays that little five
year old daughter of Mr.. Foster of Paris.
was badly injured last Tuesday. She caught
one of her hands in the gearing of cider
mill. completely stripping off the soft tissues
of land and wrist.
Andover lumbermen report scarcity of
help, and are offering good wages.
PENoBsCor.
The report from up river is that anchor ice
is rapidly forming in the PenobscOt and at
the same time the water is steadily falling.
The river is extremely low and water does
not at present flow over the extreme western
portion of the dam. The saw mills above
Bangor have generally shut down for the
season.
The Commercial says that last week Mr..
Nelson Henry of Bangor. lost his team and
supposed it stolen. Nothing was known of
the whereabouts of the team until Saturday,
when two men who were out cunning between
the Webster and Odlin roads found it in the
woods. The horse was wedged between two
trees, and dead, standing in natural position
and harnessed to the buggy just as when last
seen. The animal wandered off as was first
supposed and met his death in the singular
manner reported above. When found he
had been in his self-found prison a week and
had probably been dead from starvation
and exhaustion for some days.
SOMERSET.
Bears are seen in Cambridge often. Some
depreciation has been made in sheep pastures.
Foxes also have been seen in the daytime
and heard barking at night.
Township No. 6. Range Is, Somerset
county, containing "a 900 acres. has recently
been purchased by the following parties.
Whitcomb, Haynes & Co., Hartshorn, Ellis
& Co.. Ellsworth Falls Henry Hastings,
Charles H. Davis, Lewis Friend and C.
McFrenzie, of Ellsworth; Gideon JOY of
Hancock; and parties in Providence, X. l.
Inc price paid was 81 per acre.
WALDO.
A county educational meeting will be held
at the high school room, Belfast, Friday and
Saturday, Dec. LIST and I'd. State Superin-
tendent Luce will be present and full pro-
gram of topics for essays and discussion has
been prepared. 1t is proposed to make it
one of the best meetings Of the kind ever
held in the county.
AT LARGE.
A dispatch received in Portland BY fish,
ing firm, from Boston. Tuesday, stated the
new Fish Association there had been compell-
ed to give way to the pressure and accept the
prices made by the Gloucester dealers.
The Chicago. Minneapolis & St Paul Rail
road Company issued new schedule of pas
senger rates Monday. The rate to Chicago
remains at one dollar, but there is big cut
to the other competing points. The cut on
freight to ten cents per 100 pounds stands.
The Albert Lea route posts new rates to
Eastern points, that to Boston and Portland
being $50; to Bangor S29.
There are rumors, of another railroad line
through this State. The Boston & Maine
Railroad has already laid double track from
Boston to Exeter. and from Portland to Old
Orchard. The company will shortly fill up
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