Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-25
State News.


| a Lewiston minister has applied for ,
patent on sno'her carriage jack. II com
prisps oil can and carriage jack and is III.
next best thing to hired man.
ARoosrooK.
Monday, Ocr. 18th the barn of Frank Farm
nam OF rresque Isle was burned. together
win ten head OF cattle, forty tons of hay
eight hundred bushels OF grain. all his farm.
ing tools. etc. Loss fully $500. with nc
insurance
water company has been formed in For,
Fairfield.
-Four million bricks have been made in the
town of Penobseot this year
kESNEBEc
A. S. Mckay. of Vassalbnro. met with 3
singular accident few DAYS ago. which NAV
prove something serious. says the Watervilie
Sentinel. Passing through door he struck
ms elbow, causing il TO swell until nearly
three times its natural size. Ii i. very pain
tui and has affected his whole system.
Isaac Martin of Winthrop, who was acci-
dentslly shot several DAYS ago, died Saturday
the 10Th, of lockjaw. The employees of the
Winthrop Mills raised $50 to assist in de-
fraying the funeral expenses.
The Winthrop Mill Co. is putting in new
machinery
Newland Bishop, who recently sold his
grocery business in Winthrop, went to Lock
port, n Y, last Friday, to enter the same
business. w Davenport went vi 18th him.
Joseph Lscom, of Winslow, has captured
nineteen barrels of cells this season. selling
them for So a barrel. He sends them to
Lewiston, Biddeford and the Canadas.
OXFORD
Paris farmers re finding ready sale for
their winter fruit but hundreds of bushels of
ungathered fruit will be left upon the trees
and the ground.
The planof organizing An agricultural So
ciety at Cant3n for the purpose of holding an
annual cattle show and fair for the farmers
of Eastern Oxford and adjoining towns in
Androscoggin and Franklin counties. seems
to meet with general approval. says the Tele-
phone. meeting was to be held Saturday
evening to take some preliminary steps tow
ards accomplishing the object named.
PIsCATAQUIs.
The Pittsfeld Advertiser says: Joanna
Higher pauper of Ripley. about 10 years
old hung herself last Thursday with a skein
of yarn attached to the bed post i'll her ROOM
Elder Albert Pratt, for many years Free
Baptist preacher in Piscatsquis county, died
a, his home 10 South Sebec, on Tuesday morn
ing, Oct 18Th. He had been in failing heath
for a long time, reports the Observer.
SAGADAHoC
Rev. Mr.. Stackpole of Bath, having made
certain charges against the Bath city agency,
has been requested to substantiate the same
before special meeting of the municipal
government.
SOMERSET.
Business is prospecting at Norridgewock
II is very difficult to find an extra man for a
days work.
WALDO
Hon. f. Gushing has bonded 40 acres of
meadow land in Searsmont,to be used for the
planting and cultivation IF cranherres.
YORK.
Hon. Charles w Smith at South Water
boro, is rebuilding his steam mills, which
were destroyed by fire few weeks ago. He
will erect larger buildings on the site of the
former with stone foundation, fire proof
engine and boiler rooms and improved
machinery
The North Berwick News says: The barn
owned and occupied by Asa Joy G. Son at
Berwick Branch, was burned on Saturday
afternoon, with the contents No insurance