Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-10-03
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B. c. To-sey, G. W. c. T. of the Goo,
Templars of Maine. spoke ut washburn
Thursday ev ming. A good audience va
present Rev. Mr.. Harrington vas presen
and presided There is Go temperance socie
ty in Washbu-n, but it i. hoped one NAV b,
organized soon. A committee was raised q
consider the matter. lie aI>o spoke at Granz,
hall. Caribou. Friday evening. Rev. Mr.
Page. the Methodist clergyman, presided
Aurora lodge is located there. Caribou seem.
| TO be smart town, and is growing W.
here ind b. p Webb, former citizen OF
Winthrop pleasantly situsted on IS acrs
farm, some five miles from the village, anG
doing good business.
FRANKLIN.
SUNDAY morning. Sept. 30th, there va.
about four inches of wet, heavy snow 81
Phillips. Monday morning at Beach Hill,
there vas eight inches. In Phillips village,
at +. NJ. there was SNOW To be seen, bur il
left sad marks in the orchards. Many limbs
are broken down and some trees broken off,
shade or ornamental. and forest trees are
badly broken. The damage in this and ad.
joining towns will probably amount to $1,000.
One man said his loss was $50 A family.
Sunday, on their dinner table, had nice green
corn and cueumbers, not frosted at all, with
Franklin county
HANCOCK.
Rumsford Gratz who shot Edward Glib
bons at Reeds Pond has been arraigued be-
fore the municipal court at Ellsworth and
bound over TO the October term of the Su-
preme Judicial court of Hancock county in the
sum OF $780, He could not give bail and
vas committed 10 the Ellsworth Jail.
LINCOLN.
The Lincoln News saws for more than half
century the tremor of the headlands of
Monbegan Island have been felt and known
TO tradition, feature not peculiar to Mon
hogan alone. The like features are observed
'bout the headlsnds of Mt. Desert Island
The tremor of island headlands and bluffs,
and mainl lands as well. by the beatings OF
the sea. is no novelty on the coasts Of Maine,
and need excite no apprehension of dissster
to jewellers upon islands of the shores of
Maine.
PISCATAQUIs.
Mr.. Cotton Brown of Sangerville, died re-
Gently at an advanced age. and left a hand
some property which he had accumulated by
an industrious and judicious cultivation of the
soil. He left legacies TO his relatives and
several church and benevolent organizations,
but the larger part to Mr.. Josiah Keene, his
adopted son. Capt. A. 4. Wade was
executor of Mr.. Browns will, and the estate
had as was supposed, all been settled One
day Mr.. keene, while overhauling some
things about the house, was astonished at
finding box which contained about one
thousand dollars in gold, while between the
leaves of book were found bills amounting
to about four thousand more No one knew
no slv sf.. nf
and Mr.. keene could have appropriated it TO
his own use and no one have ever been the
wiser for it. He promptly turned over the
whole amount to Capt Wade, to be divided
among the heirs as the law would direct.
SOMERSET.
Sunday morning, Sept. 30th, there was
about two inches of snow in Scion, but it
was gone before noon. Reports say that five
inches fell at Moose Head Lake.
Post of the Grand Army of the Republic
was temporarily organized last Saturday at
North New Poriland.-There was an inch of
snow at New Portland. Sunday morning
The mountains north looked winterish,
correspondent wv writes The annual
cattle show and fair of Arson, Madison and
adjoining towns will be held at Madison
Bridge on Wednesday. Oct. 18th.
The horse that was stolen from Rev. n.
r. Turner of Harmoney recently, was found
in New Sharon in the possession of Charles
French who had bought it of young man
who called at his house. The sheriff at
Readfield learned that Mr.. F. had bought
horse answering to the description of Mr.
Turner's and at once telegraphed to Mr.. T.,
who came and identified the horse and took
it home. Thief is still at large. He is re-
presented as being about twenty years of age
and is lame in one leg, and walks on the ball
of that foot.