Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-03-13

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The membership of the Lewiston Y. N. C.
A. has reached a06. The sum total of the
visitors at the rooms during the week days o,
March is 1894.
Tuesday thirteen lasters began work at Cav,
woodman Cos shoe factory, Lewiston.
The strike at Auburn assumes no new phases
The Protective Union issued Tuesday . state
ment in relation to their intentions They
say they have hired hall for FIVE years and
propose TO elect q vorkingmans city govern
ment next year regardless of old parties.
The Union intends soon to have a public
meeting at which men of note Throughout the
country will speak
ARoosTooK.
The editor of the Aroostook Pioneer, in
answering the question of subscriber, who
writes TO ask about the price of rent, and the
prospect in general about Houlton. says in
reply: The demand for tenemrnts exceeds
the supply. although forty or more dwellings
were bnit in this village last year. man
with family coming here TO locate should
be prepared to purchase house lot and build
according to his means. If at any time he
decides to 60 away, he can sell without sac
rifcing. Rents are high because OF the
sacarcity. Seventy five to one hundred dol
dollars year would be asked for a house
with six rooms located within half a
mile of the postoffice. The indications are
that carpenters, masons and painters will not
need to 90 out of town to find work after the
spring opens. Two dollars a dav is the
average tor good carpenters; common labor
ers sl.25 to sl.50. The report that shoe
factory would be built here this year vas
without foundation. The building Of a foundry
and machine shop is among the possibilities.
Avon Weeks of Oakfield will build starch
factory next summer near his saw-mill.
CUMBERLAND.
Mr.. Thomas Curran. an employee in the
Maine Central yard Portland, while coupling
cars Tuesday forenoon, had his arm severely
crushed between two deadwoods.
Burglars entered the grocery store ofJames
Parker at Woodford's, Monday night, by af-
fecting an entrance through the back door of
the store They took all the money there
was in the drawer. some $40 in silver. and
some groceries. There is no clue to the
burglars,
The funeral of the late Aurin L. Dresser,
took place from the residence of his son-in-
law Mr.. Shurtleff, on Congress street. Port
land Tuesday morning. Rev. DR.. Hill off
ciated, and the officers of Beacon Lodge, /.
o o. +. were present.
The selectmen of Deering have placed in
quarantine the meadow road from Turkey 8
bridge to the Shattuck road. and the Shas-
tuck road to the Quarantine
Ground, and no neat cattle, sheep or
swine can be driven over these roads until
further notice. An effort will be made by
the Governor and Council to have the streets
in Portland from the Grand Trunk wharves
to the end of Turkeys bridge also closed to
the passage of neat cattle, sheep or swine.
The New England Hotel Mems Benefit AS
sociation is a well known institution. The
executive committee visited Portland Tues
day and dined with one of their members,
Mr.. NJ. S. Gibson of the Preble House. In
the afternoon the committee visited the other
hotels in the city and returned to Boston by
the 2. NJ. train over the Eastern road.
SAGADAHoC.
An attempt was made Sunday night to
enter the ticket office of the Maine Central
passenger station at Bath. The noise of the
glass in breaking attracted the attention of
Mr.. G. S. Sprague, who is employed as night
cleaner at the locomotive shop near by. He
Immediately ran to the office, but the par
ties had departed. The police arrived and
made search, but could not find anybody.
The window was boarded up and a man put