The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-29
THE STATE.
ARoosrooK COUNTY.

AttOOSIOOh tObNiNs
A party from Aroostook will leave in
week or two for Florida. Those proposing /
60 from Caribou are Rev. A. Wren. G. II
church and Lewis X. Duff.
A reservoir has been constructed a
Presque Isle which Is said 10 be Of capacit,
sufficient for holding years supply OF wa
ter for the whole town. Three-fourths Of
mile of pipe must be laid to carry the wate
into the village.
About $4,000 has and will be expended
during this year in PreSque Isle village, il
erecting new buildings and repairing anC
enlarging new ones. Building lots sell fol
large prices. All kinds of buildings are II
demand and rents are high
There will be soTe heavy numbering oper
ations in Aroostook this winter johnson
Phalr OF Presque Isle. are TO go into bust.
ness on large scale, and it is said that
James II. Oak has a contract for putting in
on the Little Machias 1900. 600 feet of spruce
A meeting of the trustees of Houlton
Academy will be held at the Secretary's Of
nee on Tuesday, Nov. 2, to see what action
may be necessary in transferring the present
property OF the Academy to the care Of Col
by University.
IN Blaine last week. having ground during
the season 1000 bushels Of potatoes, making
Dds tons of starch.
Bottoms starch factory at Frenchyille has
been burned.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
A Pullman car has just been sent TO Bar
Harbor TO bring away the few cottagers who
have tarried there.
The Methodist society at Bar Harbor have
Just hung In their steeple new bell Of 624
pounds.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Hallowell Granite Works are putting
foundations n a IA ttuo Oh hail.
Ing, 60x37, to be used as studio and work
shop Tor their sculptOrs, whose present quar-
ters have become crowded owing to the
growth OF the company's business.
Sylvia Stevens, an old lady Of Smth6eld,
had small TIN trunk stolen from her the
night OF the 23rd. containing her pension pa
pers, the pictures of her dead husband and
children and $3.50 in money.
Kennebec lumbermen are making great
preparations for this winters work. j.
Longley has sent six horses and thirty men
into the Indian Pond region. There will be
a less than average cut on Moose AID Dead
rivers, owing to the amount Of old logs left
over, while on the main river an increase Is
expected. Bradstreet Of Gardiner will cut
some $4,000, 900 feet on Roach river. Omar
clark viii put in total of 15,OOOOOO of
which so 900 will be cut on Squaw noun
tam "a for Indian stream; 100000 on Little
W., head Of the lake; l, 500, 900 on the main
river, below the Forks. Bradstreet & Clark
propose to cut 100000 on Spencer stream /:
4. Mllliken u Sons, 100000 on Misery and
100000 ON Dead river; Burrill & Clark,
100000 on M0xie. Hon. j. Manchester
Haynes VIII operate extensively. On Taun-
ton q Raymond he will cut 100000 feet !:
100000 on johnson mountain to be landed
in Cold stream; 100000 on Stony brook, to
be fioated in Spencer stream.
KNOX COUNTY.
There Is no work going on at the granite
works OF Bodwell, Webster Il Co.. at Vinal-
haven, where at times thousands of men are
employed. AT present the granite business
IS at standstill. ALI the contracts have
been finished and no new ones made. Ow-
Ing 10 the labor troubles no one Is disposed
10 make large contracts, but in the spring
business is expected to start up.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The people of Bangor seem to be waking
up ON the subject of temperance. Interest,"
ing me etings are held in Norombega Hall.
A company with capital stock of $4,000
proposes TO improve the Penobscot river
from Greenleaf to Medway.
There will be several changes and improve
ments in the Penobscot Exchange Hotel
1st.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The numerous weddings that are on hand.
ana the many engagements that are an
nounced In Bath have caused a boom in the
Drlck-a- brack and art ware market.
Rev. Mr., Stackpole, the Methodist minis
ter, Is having it hot and heavy with the city
government of Bath over the liquor agency.
He asserts that the way the concern is run
IS a disgrace, and does not hesitate to specify
the denominations. The city go, ernment have
replied by requesting him to prove his asser-
tons. The citizens of Bath are much stirred
up over, the controversy. One lady has
made this. discriminating remark, which
seems to give the gist of the matter in a nut-
she'll: .Stackpole is fanatic He Is a reg
ular old hard shell Methodist, but think he
spoke the truth about many things. should
vote to abolish the city agency"
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Corn mixed with Paris Green has been
strewn about the doer yard Of Mr.. James
Palmer OF Athens, an old gentleman SO wears
old, who with his wife, lives at Evans cor
ner. The poison was intended by some ma
licious person as food for the hens. which
are allowed to feed about the premises.
Sheriff Vaughan, accompanied by Justice
o. X. Bachelor and County Attorney Brad
bury, made trip up the Canada road as far
as Moose river, last week to enforce the
liquor law, which was said to be wholly dis
regarded in that region. Along the route no
seizures were made, but at the Newton
House, Moose river, twenty gallon keg of
cherry rum was discovered secreted in an
old well, and the contents We're confiscated.
Upon trial Mr.. Sullivan Newton, the owner.
appealed from the decision rendered by the
presiding Justice, with the privilege Of set
tling the matter before the December term
Of the Supreme Judicial Court should he
wish to.
IN GENERAL.
Caribou and Presque Isle have each sent
a carload oil potatoes to the Eastport suffer
erS.
The general superintendent OF the Maine
and New Brunswick Division of the Ameri-
can Express Company, has subscribed for
the company 500 for the people of Eastport
aud Pennington people.