Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-09-24

poses. The grain harvest l. about closed
and the. potato harvest we'll advanced The
starch factory has already received II .oS
| bushels and is now receiving go per day
The yield varies from IS to 80 bushels pei
acre.
FRANKLIN.
/ Pennington Normal school has - students,
! Bears are reported numerous and trouble
some in Carthage and kinsfeid. large one
vas captured in kingfeld few days ago
/ The taking of stock il the Franklin SOM
erset Railroad begins we'll. and il Is believe
( the company will have little difficulty in %
tanning means sufficient 10 build road
! Goodwin Bros, Cartilage, are making 500
corn boxes day.
! Hiram Holt 4 Go East Wilton, i.as knif,
manufacturers, have purchased the mill prop
erty of Fuller & Fernald Wilton
kESSEBEc.
I The Catholic Fair at Wa,errille has been
grand success. An excursion party from
SkO~ hogan attended Saturday night
The Mail says: We hear Of an ARRAY al
Great Pond. recently. in which one man wa.
severely injured By being struck over the head
with heavy whip stock, but the partie ulars
are rather meagre.
divorce has been dec-eed between Alice
Il Getchell and Lorenzo Getchell, the parties
IN the Benton shooting case. The divorce
was granted on application of the wife, who
has the control Of the child.
The log drivers have passed Ticonie Falls,
WatervIlle, where they had hard job, the
water being very low. The logs were run
through by night, when, the cotton mills
were shut down.
Somerset encsmpment l. O. . F. No. -
of Waterville, is live organization, and Is
constantly increasing in numbers.
Among the cattle exhibited AT the State
Fair was a pair of grade Hereford steers. two
years old last May, weighing 1850 pound, and
girting seven feet. Tney were raised By Mr.
Henry c. James OF Oakland. and recently
sold TO l.. ID. Davis of Waterville, BY whom
they are were entered at the fair.
Waterville is reported by the Portland
Press as one of the places to which the elec
tric light is contracted by the new consolidat-
ed Electric Light Co of Maine
The Waterville Mail says: Our new dam
is now well under way and Il large force is It
work on il. The water Is very low, making
II fav "rable for operations. aui the condition
of things will doubtless be improved AMI the
work driven. A crew have ma le beginning
on the eastern shore; others are preparing T.
lay stone for the abutment and bulkheai on
the western shore, while some are busy be
tween the two points.
Omar Aver of Augusta. has been engaged
in making series of Photographic views 81
points of interest near Arson, Somerset Co
Allen Colby of Brunswick, who was en-
gagged to make a careful examination of II
comic Bridge, Watervllle, reports that there j.
much Rotten timber, but he is of the opinion
however thar the bridge has sufficient strength
with hut slight expense, (say) from two To
three hundred dollars, to make il safe for
one wear longer.
The Waterville Sentinel SAYS: W.
were at Oakland Monday, AMI were
pleased to notice the many evidences of pros
peritv and thrift in that growing village.
Many new buildings have been erected since
we were inthe place few years ago. also
fine wollen mill. The clatter of the scvthe
and AK factories, and the hum of machinery
suggests an industrious population, and
where industry prevails there is content
ment and happiness. The water power j.
certainly one of the finest in Maine, and tia
amount of goods and wares of various kinds
which are every year manufactured, is very
large, and their value is very great. There
are six dams from the outlet of the lake down
TO the last one, furnishing ample power for
three great scythe and AK factories; two
founderies and machine shops; Cascade
Wooden Mill, ten sets of machinery in full
operation; steam saw-mill and box factory :;
chair and settee factory and two grist mills.
Twenty to thirty stores INDICATE a lively
trade in the mercantile line.
The Lewiston Journal says Of Miss Louise
l.. Taylor of Belgrade, daughter of the late
Joseph TAYLOR, in relation to her exhibits at
the State Fair. Miss Taylor took up the
Elijah's mantle and threw it on her shoulders
She loves fruit culture, follows out her ia
TIERS ways of doing things. and here she is
in the genealogical area with 80 varieties of
fine fruit on the table-a very toothsome dis
play, II raise 80 barrels of fruit this year
The Baldw in pays the hest" says Miss Tav
Tor. Il superintend the orchard, and try to
ask what my father would do if he were here
We have 500 trees and plant new ones every
spring. just as father did. Here is new sp-
pie, this large and splendid red fruit. We
call it the Detroit Red. 1t was my father
favorite. | just sold three barrels for S5.5O
per barrel. There is the Judy--a sweet,
which father thought good deal of. The
Somerset Red is also fine fruit.
PENoBsCor.
Michael Moran, injured at Brewer sew
er few days since shows no improvement
and all hopes of recovery are about given up.
Milan, hurt at the same time, is much better
and able to be about the house.
Mrs. Luce who met with frightful acct
dent in Brewer, on Thursday evening, was at
last reports still unconscious and no hopes of
her recovery are entertained.
, n. r. Huston, of VIM, from nine bushels
sowing of oats, raised 202 bushels. machine
measure. on less than three acres of land.
The soil was interval; the grass was plowed
under the first of July 80. and sowed to buck
wheat, and that plowed under before ripen-
ing. and sowed this spring without any dress
ing. The seed was the variety known in this
vicinity as Lewis Oats
+ The driver of Jsy Eye See is native OF
/ Charleston Penobscot county, where his
! father. Amos +. Bither and two brothers
now live. lie for several years worked in
/ Bangor for Foster Palmer, taking care of the
well known horse Gideon" The first race
! in which he ever drnra mas nyer the EyDfnr