Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-09-18
State News.
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ANDR0sCoGGIN.
Thirty-fve telephone us4rs in Auburn have
! signed paper for their removal.
The Lewiston shoe shipments for ,he week
ending WedDe sdsv number 1914 cases.
II is now thirty-nine years since the first
cotton mill was started in Lewiston.
The residence of Freeman Newell in Per
ryvlile, Auburn, was broken into ty burglars
Sunday night. screen over the window
vas torn away-the window lifted by break
ing the catch, and the house enterel About
$40 were stolen.
Revised figures give for the entries at Lew
iston So t-ottiug horses. 265 exhibition hor-
ses; l55 pairs of oxen: 400 other cattle; 400
sheep; 400 coops of poultry; 275 swine.
ARoosrooK.
VI. Trafton aud son Of Limestone have
shipped about eight tons of raspberries, this
.eason, being about one one-quar,er as many
as usual
CUMBERLAND.
Samuel Smith employed by the Denison
Manufacturing Company of Brunswick. Mon
day caught mis- arms in a calender, which has
a pressure of 1900 pounds and is gagged TO
three-fourIhs of an inch. The arm was terri
bly, torn u the elbow and will probably have
to be ampuiated. The Dennison Company
are rushed in every department at present
with good prospect OF the future.
Capt. Doughty. of the Salvation Army
quartered in Brunswick. invited a friend
from out of town 70 take dinner with him at
his house, and while the captain was taking
his after dinner nap the friend skipped with
s. in money and the lieutenants boots.
The late William IL. Jerris' will leaves
$500 TO the Maine General Hospital for
8. J. I 4 . M 4. 81.
and Aged Mems Homes. Female Orphan
Asylum and Widows Wood Society.
KENNEBEc.
Mr. Sherburne Lawrence of So. Gardiner
this season raised 500 bushels oil oats on six-
teen acres of land.
An operative in the wooden mill at Oxford
had her right hand terribly crushed. Tuesday,
by getting 1t caught in a loom she was en-
deavoring to clean while it was in motion.
PENoBsCoT.
Large quantities of Aroostook potatoes are
now passing through Bangor en- route for the
Boston market. The shipments average
three carloads per day and are constantly in
creasng.
1t is Charles W. Stevens, Cnot Shepard as
Gently been appointed postmaster at Patten.
SAGADAHOC.
The Bath Times reports that better feel
ing is beginning to prevail in shipping cir
Giles. There is great probability that many
coastng steamers will be built the coming
winter.
SOMERSET.
The SUN of $500 has been contributed
by ladies in Skowhegan, toward furnishing
the new Industrial School building at Hall
DWELL. 1t takes S25 to furnish each room.
The corn factory in Norrdgewock started
last week, but the corn is coming in very
slowly and the crew has not been kept busy
more than half of the time since commence
ing.
Mr.. o w. Chamberlain of Fairfield has
received back pension money amounting to
nearly $500
The Pioneer Wooden Mill at Pittstield has
shut down few days to allow for the setting
of a new and additional boiler of so horse
power.
Frost has done some damage in st. Adams,
but not all crops were hurt Some beans
and vines were killed and in the eastern part
of the town corn was damaged.
WALDO.
William Veaze Pratt, of Belfast, has
passed a successful examination and will en-
ter the Naval School at Annapolis, md.
About 800 bushels of cranberries will be
harvested in Monroe this fall.
WASHINGTON.
The water in the ST. Crox river is lower
than at anv time this season, and the mills
experience considerable difficulty in saving
logs, and almost stop at times.
Calais will build a 81 900 sewer provided
AUDITORS will contribute 5000 towards the ex-
pense.
YORK.
Frederick A. Casey of Saco has received
letters patent from the United States patent
office dated September To- 1885, for car
coupling.