Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-11-19
State News.
ANpRoscoGGIS.

ANpRoscoGGIN,
Lewiston, says the Journal. now owns 4
post-office. The city has definitely leased
the rooms of the city building to the United
States Post-ofice Department and has pur.
chased all of the boxes and other apparatus
which the government is not of itself. re-
quired to own.
AROosTooK.
The presque Isle Herald is booming the
idea of an Aroostook short line railroad.
CUMBERLAND
Town Clerk N. B Knight of Cape Eliza.
beth is making a thorough canvass of the
town for statistics of births, deaths and mar.
rlages. 1t is the intention of the town officer.
10 keep absolutely exact records of these
matters in the future.
HANCOCK.
Business il starting up in Otis The mills
are running, and men are getting ready fol
the woods. VIM. B. Remick will employ a
crew of thirty men cutting stave wood, which
will be manufactured at J. j. & A. E. Hop.
klns' steam mills in that town.
Charles Partridge, of Orland has a well
that through the dry season has supplied wa.
ter for eighteen families
OXFORD.
Judge Wilson of the Probate Court a,
South Paris has entered decree sustaining
the vii! of the late Cybella Faunce and her
bequest to the Portland Society for the Pre-.
yention Of Cruelty TO Animals E S. Ridlon
of Portland appeared for the Society of Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, and j. P.
Swazey of Canton for the heirs.
The post-office at East Milton has been
discontinued and the mail for there will 90 to
Milton.
PENoBsCoT.
The annual meeting of the Penobscoi
county medical association was held in Ban.
gor Tuesday, and the following officers were
elected for the ensuing YEAR President, DR.
M. Mayo, Orono; Vice Presidents, DR.
Edmund Abbott, Winterport; DIR. H. F.
Hanson, Bangor; Secretary and Treasurer
Dr. ID. A. Robinson, Bangor
The contract for building new lif. saving
station on the point of Cape Elizabeth, wa.
awarded to firm last September, and the
firm has failed. The government has there
fore given the contract to A. t. Wing & Son
OF Oldtown.
SAGADAHoc.
BATH.-The Houghton Brothers have sole
their ship Australia now in SAT- Francisco
to the Simpson Brothers for SIT 800 net
The Congressional delegation of this State
will meet the Bath Board of Trade, Saturday
to confer upon matters pertaining to tn,
wants and needs of the shipping interests o.
this section. In the evening they will BIT
entertained by the Board of Trade, with
banquet at the Sagadahoc House, at which
300 plates viii be- laid.-M. G. Shaw L Sons
saw mill shut down Tuesday. for the season
after rnnning nearly six months. saving up
wards of six millions OF lumber
SOMERSET.
The rIiz"otic is reported as prevailin.
among hons in this section, says the Somer
set reporter. One physician was called t.
attend % different cases the past week, onl,
one of which proved fatal.
The Kennebec Framing Co at Fairfield
have got a contract to build large shoe
factory at No. Abrgton, Mass.
There is talk of moving the passenge
depot at Burnham to the east sid,
of the railroad to give more room
for side tracks. From five to seven train
at time are there in the morning.
Mr.. F. f. Crowley, the NJ. c. X. r. agen
will build an awning in front of the station
ready this winter. The interior of the station
is also to be altered and baggage room
built, SAYS the Belfast Journal.
The journal saws that the report that the
steamer Florence would be withdrawn from
the route between Belfast and Castine is in
correct The Florence will run as usual
| The building for Belfast's new public libra
ry will be one story and basement, with sharI
root, and Sc fit by 80 #. 10 inches on the ground
! The entrance will be through projecting
porch, with dome shaped roof carried up Il
the height of the main roof and surmountet
BY a cupola. The book room is % feet by 2!
feet and the reading room adjoining is II
| feet by 26 feet These rooms are twenty fee
from floor to ceiling and are lighted on tire,
sides. 1t is proposed to excavste for tn,
cellar this fall
| Mr.. Edward Davis of Burnham has Jus
received small lot of live German carp from
Washington, and intends fitting up pond o
about half an acre where he will breed thi
desirable fish.
| Belfast and Searsport are struggling will
the standard time question.
WASHINGTON.
| After sixty years of work, with, of course
| frequent Interruptions caused by failure o
Congress to make needed appropriations, tn
work of the United States Coast survey ha
reached Quoddy Head, and the survey of tn
coast proper is finished There remains t
be done COOKBOOK Bay and other inland wa
tiers empting into the boundary line bays
| The work in question has been done with ex
treme precision and care and will be publishes
within year, says the Machias Union.