Daily Kennebec journal., 1882-02-25

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| AxDRoscoGGIx.
Rev. c. N. Emery of Greene has accepted
q call to the Baptist church At Fairfield. and
will commence his labors there about the
middle of March.
| The little daughter of John Sampson, on
Park ST., Lewiston, was knocked down and
run over BY horse sled, Thursday. She
was bruised and badly frightened. but no
bones we're broken
| jefferson and Madison Sprague, twin
brothers residing in Greene, celebrated their
| iftieth birthday, Feb. 18th. by entertaining
company Of relatives and friends number
ing about s5. The twins have lived MANY
wears on the old homestead of their father.
and still own the old farm undivided.
ARoosrooK.
The Houlton Times, Thursday, saws: A
heavy northeast snow storm to day"
The Republican saws that potatoes have
dropped TO 500 per bbl., in Caribou
The Odd Fellows Lodge in Fl. Fairfield
will celebrate the anniversary of its founda-
ton, Wednesday evening. March /. by a So
cial entertainment and supper.
One morning last week the thermometer
in Boulton marked As degrees above zero.
and the next, 10 degrees below, a change of
50 degrees in ~ hours.
CUMBERLAND.
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. saws the
Argus, over 80 farmers gathered in Portland.
to see what. if ANYTHING. could be done in re.
gard to getting better price for the sweet corn
they raise for canning purposes. Resolutions
were passed, inviting producers of corn in
the various towns of the State to send dele
gates to a convention to be held in Portland
in two weeks also that a similar notice be
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present on the occasion. in order that an
equitable arrangement NAV be made between
producer and manufacturer in regard to prices
and contracts.
FRANKLIN.
Pennington is flush with entertainments
just noRand seems to be making up for time
lost in the early part OF the winter.
The Chronicle says We learn that Con-
stable r. w. Keyes of Jay has seized quite
number of packages of liquor at the depots
in that town, OF late. An unusual amount of
alcoholic drink is being sent into this county.
and under the fusion rule there seems TO be
verv little effort made to enforce the law.
PESoBscor.
Dexter citizens think their high school ac-
commodatons ought to be improved. At
present the room is not sufficient for the tar
get practice of the young ideas.
A Dexter firm have lately turned out
lathe weighing 1900 lbs.-the largest casting
ever made there thus far.
Dexter has only l3 groceries ''running at
full blast
The Whig says that the boy bv the name
of McGinness, who was put into the police
station at Bangor on the 9th of this month, as
a vagrant, and whom it was intended to send
to the Reform School. has been run over by
a train near Lowell, Mass, and killed. He
took advantage of certain liberties, and
week ago last Friday he disappeared. ap-
parently having started back to Lawrence
from whence he came to Bangor.
The Wing SAYS: The funeral services of
the late Paul X. Seavey were held in Ham,
mond street church Thursday afternoon, the
very large attendance of our citizens evincing
the high esteem in which the deceased was
held in this community.
Wednesday morning the body of an Indian
was found beside the railroad track in La
grange, an empty gun beside him. Being
taken on board passing train, he was re-
suscitated enough to say that his name was
Sockalepis that he belonged in Greenbush,
and that he accidentally shot himself. He
then sank into stupor and when the train
reached Oldtown he was dead, probably from
the bleeding and exposure, as his clothes
were frozen stiff.
SOMERSET
Prospects are now favorable for the start
ing of wire factory in Skow hegan next sum-
mer.
The Fairfield Journal says: The Kennebec
Framing CO., have decided to put in an ad-
ditional steel boiler of the same capacity and
manufacture as the one formerly reported.
This will give ample power to run the mill at
all times, and the boilers will be made as
safe as they can be. The directors of the
company are doing all in their power to pre-
vent recurrence of the disaster of few
weeks ago.
The Biddeford reading room is well patro-
nized.
Good clear ice is cut and housed from Saco
river.
4 slight fire occurred in Biddeford shoe
store on Wednesday evening. The engines
were promptly on hand, and quickly ex-
tnguished what fire there was. 1t had caught
in the cellar. but how was not known.
Considerable building is being done at Old
Orchard, in the way Of hotels and private
summer residences.
Although very stormy day, yet a goodly
number of Patrons from different subordinate
Oranges in this county met in convention
with the Saco Grange Tuesday. They will
meet again with the Biddeford Grange the