Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-04-08
State News.
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The people of Limestone have decided to
build Union church the coming summer.
| II is proposed to erect starch factory this
summer about i've miles up river from Ash
land. to accommodate the towns of Masardis
and Ok Bow.
The western fever has had several victims
in Aroostook county. April Sd numerous
tickets for points south and west were sold at
Fort Fairfield station and recently ii persons
left Sherman Mills, nine for Colorado, and
two for Oregon
The Houlton Times reports some of the
heaviest snow storms of the season" on SUM-
day, April I'd.
FRANKLIN.
The Pennington Center lodge of Good
Templars was reinforced April Sd by 10 new
members.
Snow is disappearing from West Farming
ton.--Heavy thunder and sharp lightning
were noticed in Avon, Eustis, Phillips and
Strong on SUNDAY.
Fred S. Farmer. who was so severely in
jured on the Sunday River r. R., on the 9th
ult., is very comfortable, and his prospect of
speedy recovery is good
There is quite call for hay in Phillips,
at Sl2 to SIS per ton Owing TO the back
wardness of farmers, Strong will not have
canning factory this season--Last week l6
fine horses were sent to Boston from the
Wilton station.
Business is very good at Livermore Falls,
and as spring advances much building is talk
ed of.
LINCOLN.
Bristol is going to utilize her menhaden
factories, by turning them into canning fac
tories Messrs. Wolf & Pressing have en-
larged and fitted up the factory at Mexico
Cove, near Round Pond. and will employ
nearly 200 hands when in full operation A
fishing steamer is being fitted out for them
in Portland for the mackerel fishing. John
Bourne talks of changing his factory at Penn
aquid for the same business. The fishermen
are preparing for their summers work, and
on entering most any house near the coast,
you will find the men busily engaged ''gaug-
ing hooks" and mending nets, and their talk
has changed from politics to fishing.
PENoBscor.
just fifty years ago Thursday night the
original First Parish church in Bangor
was burned.-Whig.
Ma:tawamkeag correspondent writes the
Wing: The sleghing north of US is as good
as it has been for the winter but is getting to
be hard about our village. The first wheels
of the season came up from VIM. Wednes-
day. The ice is beginning to break up in the
Mattawamkeag.
The Commercial says: Hay is now very
plentiful in the Bangor market, and the price
for loose is from IS (for meadow to S12 and
SIS ton. The recent reduction of 90 per
cent in the import duty on hay has not yet
affected this market. It's effect will not be
felt by the dealer, as his margin is about Ms
much on low market. with a steady supply,
as on high market. The farmer will lose
by the reduction in duty, but what is the
farmers loss will be the consumers gain
Bangor is a great hay centre, and the bust
ness is increasing every year. The greater
part of the hay is sent to Boston by rail.
SOMERSET.
Mr.. Elnathan p. Packard of Cambridge
at work at Squaw Brook Moosehead Lake, re-
ceived recently a severe fracture of the leg.
and was carried to his home. The crew in
which he worked exhibited their generosity
by contributing upwards of so dollars for his
benefit. An equal amount has been donated
by the citizens of Cambridge.
WALDO.
Belfast is considering the introduction of
the telephone. If 80 subscribers can be
obtained, it will be done.
A large crew is at work at Mt. Waldo in
Frankfort, getting paving for the recently
formed New York and Maine Granite Paving
Block Co As ''starter' they have on hand
a contract for 10000, 900 paving blocks for
New York city.
A correspondent of the Belfast Journal
writes that paper The superintendent of our
Sunday schools received a circular from a
publishing house in Chicago last week, direct
ed as follows: ''To the care of the Pastor
Winterport and Coles Corner, Bangor Post
Office, Maine" The said publishers should
study geography and post routes.