Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-11-15
stah News.
ANDROssCOGGIy.

! The Sabatis Mountain Creamery Associa
tion met At Wales Wednesday the 18th inst.
to apportion the earnings of October. Th'
amount to be distributed is about $780, TIL.
Sabatis Mounrain Creamery is an undoubtei
success. Out of the price per lb. obtained
for butter, during the last month. the maker'
deduct but C. for the cost of manufacture
The town of Topsham will build q creamery
before next season on the same plan as tha
at Wales.
ARoosrooK.
handsome Episcopal church is nearing
completion at Sherman Mills.
Saturday at Caribou United States Deputy
Marshal Marble arrested George Sirois on g
charge of smuggling liquors. Sirois was AZ
raigBed before Commissioner Rand Tuesday
He pleaded not guilty and was held in the
sum of $500 for his appearance before the
Commissioner Wednesday.
CUMBERLAND.
Monday afternoon Mr.. Greeley Robinson
of Cape Elizabeth, with the assistance of a
young man, was raising barn with the in
tention of moving it. Being up some dis
tance from the ground gust of wind struck
it, and it was tipped over, catching Mr.. Rob
inson and jamming his head between the sills
and a sand bank. DR.. BRAY was called and
found bad scalp wound running from the
forehead around the head and down into the
neck, being about II inches in length. One
eye lid was torn of, but the eye was fortu-
nately not injured. One shoulder was dislo-
Gated, and he sustained other injuries. He
will probably recover.
Monday two men living at Falmouth Fore
side started in two dories, with a scow in tow,
to go to an island to get a load of sea weed.
The wind rolled the waves so high that the
Il lrA1 eL4 obi
seek refuge on the scow. When last seen
they were drifting out to sea. 1t is feared
they are lost.
Mr.. Simeon Skillings. highly esteemed
citizen Of West Gray, has for several months
been gradually losing his eyesight, until now
I he is totally blind. He has been able to at
tend to his business affairs until within a few
weeks. He has been in Portland the past
week under medical treatment.
Mr. Silas A. Cummings of Portland, died
very suddenly from asthma, Monday after
noon. Not feeling we'll he went into store
and called for some peppermint. 1t was gwen
him and his feet were placed in hot mustard
water. His wife and doctor were sent for but
before either could arrive he was dead. He
was 60 years of age.
The starting of new firm in the Chicago
dressed beef business in Portland has result
ed in q beef war and made large reduction
| in prices. Several retailers have notified
their customers of drop in prices. Rump
steak is selling at % cents per pound lin some
cases at 20 cents. At wholesale the quota
tiOns were sides 6 to 9 cents per pound ;rumps
and loins 10 to 10 cents and other prices to
correspond. While this beef war is bad for
the dealers it is gain for the consumers, who
will like to see this state of things continue.
| The covered bridge in Falmouth, known
both as the Staples Point bridge and the Fall
mouth lower covered bridge, had q narrow
escape from destruction Sunday morning.
The light tender found that one Of the lamps
had exploded and two of the upper timbers
burnt through, each twenty feet long and Xxi
inches in size. He extnguished the flames
1t is reported that the first number of the
Straight Greenback organ to be called the
Headlight, will be printed December goth.
The Straight Greenback State committee will
meet in Portland, December 26th to make
plans for the campaign.
| KENNEBEC.
| Mr.. Gilbert Underwood of Fayette has sold
some of his full blood Hereford stock to go
| to the far west.
| The gale OF Monday unroofed the new
Dunn Block at Waterville. 1t was tin roof
The chimney on the house of +. w. Knight
was blown off, and windows and blinds were
|
| broken.
A Chelsea correspondent of the Lewiston
Journal writes that paper :Wm. w. Hankerson
| has returned home in good health after visiting
friends in Minnesota and other parts of the
| West.-Geo. X. HAYES has been attending
court at Augusta as juryman.-The school in
District No. l. taught by Mrs Tenney of this
town, closed this week after = very success
| full term of 10 or IL weeks.-Mr. Herbert
| n =. L.: L,,,
on Chelsea Heights. Mr.. Gulliver is a car
penter and is doing the greater part of the
work with his own hands.-Mr. Horace Lit
tleield. who lives near French's Corner, has
moved his hennery, shop and granary from
near the road to the rear of his barn and
house. MIR. Littlefield has the finest location
| in town. He has a brds-eye view of the city
of Hallowe ell across the Kennebec from his
house.-They are making fine progress on
the new buildings at the Soldiers Home
They have a flourishing grange at Searle's
Mills. They have very fine hall with a
store under it, and have large meetings and
entertainments in the hall or union, as it is
called once or twice a week and sometimes
oftener.-Mr. Ashford A. Sampson has the
finest herd Of Jerseys in town, some of which
are registered in the A. J. c. y II. r.
| KNOX.
| The Warren powder mill is making twenty
eight tons of powder a month. This mill
makes eight grades of powder. The superin-
tendent received another order Saturday,
which will take months at leaat to fill.
| PIsCATAQUIs.
| The gale of Monday night and Tuesday, at
Greenvile, was very powerful. In many in
stances the glass in windows was brokon.
The boat house in which the steamer Twilight
| winters was laid fat. A frame of new
house was blown down. Lumber was scat
tered around promiscously. The smoke
stack on the steam mill was blown down.
A large wind mill was torn to pieces and
blown down.
A proposition has been made to sell the
Methodist camp ground at Old Orchard to the
New England Conference, of which Rev. Mr..
Mcdonald is president. This is large or
gsnization and is now located at Douglass,
Mass.
| Ar LARGE.
The report of the commissioner of educa-
ton saws that the school statistics of Maine
show an increase in receipts and expenditures
and in value of school property, an improve
ment in school houses, an advance in teachers
wages. larger enrolment of pupils, con.