The Portland daily press., 1886-10-18
THE STATE.
ANnRoscoeeIN COUNTY.

The Calumet Club, the social organization
of lewiston and Auburn gentlemen is now
four months old, and has eeleOrateu lts sur
vival, rendering an evening reception 70 tls
ladies' The officers of the club are Hon j.
B. Ham, president; Hon. A. X savage, vice
president: r. c. Pingree, Esq, treasurer and
W. III. Newell, Esq, secretary. The sclub
have elegant rooms.
At an auction in Greene last week lady
bought an old lounge for which she paid
dollar, and moved it to her house. In look
ing over her purchase she discovered a hole
in the lounge which she proceeded immedi-
ately to investigate. Thrusting her hand In
she pulled out a roll of bills to the amount
of $54, including quantity of scrip which
was in circulation during the war. She took
the treasure-trove to 1.-THE former owner Of
the lounge, who, strange to say knew moth
ing about the money or who placed 1t there.
In consideration, however, of the prompt
surrender of this find the lounge was gen.
erously donated to the lady,
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
Hon. Llewellyn Powers has purchased the
north half of Township No, 4, Range 3, in
Aroostook county. 1t contains 1850 acres
and was part of the Shaw property.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Gilbert Brothers new steam lumber mill
in Kingheld is completed and ready for its
machinery. They have recently purchased
a large tract of timberland on Mount Abra-
ham of Boston parties, and the railroad COM
pany will build for them two miles Of track
to facilitate getting it to their mill. They
will cut this winter from five to six millions
of spruce, cedar and white bireh-the latter
to be sawed into spool bars for shipment to
Scotland
Thompson, Hall & Co., put up this season
1856 GOO cans of sweet corn in their factory in
Jay. Several ofsthe farmers made nearly
500 per acre.
The Franklin Association of Universalists
is to meet Thursday and Friday, Oct 2S and
20, at Livermore Falls.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Kennebec and Somerset conference Of
CONGREGATIONAL churches win hold its semi
annual session at the Congregational church
in Skowhegan,. commencing on Tuesday
evening, the 26th inst
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The shell heapsIatD tDamariscotta are gradu-
ally disappearing. a Boston company is
grinding the shells into hen food, fertilizers,
etc, producing as high as 500 barrelsa day
of the product.
OXFORD COUNTY.
DIR. j. w. Dearborn of Parsonsfeld, assist
ed by DR.. Moses SWEET Of the same town,
and Drs. Morrow and Lougee of Freedom,
N. H., removed a tumor from Mrs q. A. $
Fowler, of Kezar Falls, which weighed
pounds.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
G. w. Morse, postmaster at Hermon, has
male calf moose, which ne purchased up
river few days ago. The little animal is 10
weeks old, weighs 70 pounds, and is very
curious looking fellow with a wonderful
straddling trot.
Bangor tradesmen think that Mr.. C. H.
Colt, the Connecticut manufacturer of fire
arms who has been in Bangor harbor about
three weeks with his yacht Dauntless, left
fully $4,000, which he spent for supplies, etc.
PIscATAQUIs COUNTY.
Mr.. E. A. Flanders of Dexter, is to erect
steam mill on PiScataquis river, between
Monson Junction and Blanchard. He will
saw spool wood.
A plantation has been organized at Elliots-
ville with l. c. Brown, clerk; X. G. Davis,
C. c. Hill, assessors; r. G. Davis. superyis-
or. Henry w. Lane, constable and collector;
j. M. Wiley, treasurer.
YORK COUNTY.
About fifty years ago there was an artillery
company organized under the laws Of this
State in the town of Limerick. That COM
pany existed as long as the militia of the
State was kept up. Thursday, October IA,
sixteen of the surviving members of the
company, out of the twenty-four now known
to be living, met to enjoy a reuion, after a
separation of more than forty years. They
were: Capt. Joseph G. Harmon, Lieut.. Ma
hum Morrill,, Lieut.. James Perkins, Luthur
Dole, Ira Clark, Joseph Boothby, Edmund
Libby, Isaac Emery, Mark i. Burnham.
Charles r. Morris, Edward S: Morris. James
Andrew r. Philpot, Benjamin l. Hayes. Tho
reunion was honored with the presence Of
Brigadier- General David Chellis, an aged
veteran of eighty years, from Newfield. At
ter the services were concluded in the hall,
the old comrades formed and marched
through the streets of the village.
The Biddeford Journal says that just a
mile from Kennebunkport is house which
sets in from the road, 1t is very conspicu-
GUS from the fact that it is painted in red,
white and blue, the chimney being decorated
with stars.
IN GENERAL.
The Governor and Council adjourned Fri
day to Nov. oath. An order was passed in
structing tbs Governor to issue Thanks
giving proaaanation fixing the day the same
as the Presfdent fixes for the National
Thanksgiving, which VIII probably be Nov.
25th. The Council begun opening the cleo
tion returns before adjournment and sub
committee will have them ready for hnai
action at an adjourned meeting, having a
session on Wednesday next TO tabulate them.
Names crop of apples is turning out
larger than was anticipated, and it looks as
if good winter fruit would fetch a better
price in January, 1887, than it did in Janu-
ary, 1885, Hon. u. A. Gilbert says that ii is
the largest and best crop ever grown in the
State. s.s
oxford County Musical Association.
The 11th annual meeting of this assoeia-