Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-06-17
State News.
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Teachers' association at Lisbon, Saturday i,
was largely attended and of remarkable inter-
est. says the Journal
| Lewiston officers arrested drunken
woman, Monday morning. who laid IN Pig
pen, back of Lincoln Block, all night Sunday
night. The woman was in sad plight when
the officer found her. She was covered with
mud from head to foot.
The Lewiston Journal says that the inhab-
ifants of Turner are aroused to q high pitch
Of indignation, on account of several afro
cious assaults " ich have recently been COM
mitted in that neghborhood by some pers n,
who is yet unknown.
Business in the building line is booming in
Lisbon Falls In addition TO the large num-
Der of houses in process OF erection, the LIS
bon Falls Cooperative Association have just
closed contract with Mr. Chas Appleby and
| Mr. James Philbrook to build them block
on corner of Maine and Union streets. 1t is
to be two stories and a basement for meat
market, two stores on the prst floor and hall
and offices in the second story.
| ARoosTooK.
| The North Star says: Amos White and
William Hewlett were arrested in Bridge
water, aud taken to Portland. The charge
against Hewlett is threatening to take the
| life of Custom House Officer Smith of Bridge
water White is arrested on a charge of
smuggling oats.
CUMBERLAND.
Mr.. Henry Deering has presented to the
city fine enlarged silhouette portrait of his
ancestor, Nathaniel Deering, frat selectman
of Portland. An effort is being made to Sc
cure the portraits of the two other selectmen
" bo served at the same time with Mr.. Deer
ing, Mr. John Fox and Peleg Wadsworth.
Two hundred commercial travellers in tall
W hite hats will march in the centennial pro-
cession.
While engaged with others in moving q
building, John Butterfield of Brownfeld
caught one foot in roller and was thrown
down and the whole weight of the building
and heavy hardwood shoes passed over his legs
pinning him to the ground. The men. by
almost superhuman effort taking hold under
the side of the building, raised it so that the
man could be pulled from under the roller.
The ankle of one leg Was badly crushed and
his leg broken above his knee. 1t was at
first thought that it would be impossible to
save his leg. but at last it was decided to set
the bones.
A Bethel correspondent of the Democrat
writes that the hot days and cold nights and
dry weather are very unfavorable to the grass
crop, and corn is coming up very uneven.
The wool clip is being sold for zoe. pound
Rumford boasts that it is the home of forty
school teachers.
Last Thursday Robert Skillings, of South
Paris, man in his 10Th year, came to Port
land to have cancer treated. On his way
down his pocket book containing nearly 500
was stolen by pickpocket. This loss with
an unfavorabIe report from the physicians
nearly Frustrated the old gentlemen.
PENoBscoT.
Col. Joseph W. Porter of Bangor carries a
cane which has been handed down from gen.
Grafton to generation in his family for at least
40 years.
Bangor fisherman caught big sturgeon
in his salmon nets the other night. 1t weighed
200 pounds and was eight and one-half feet
long.
| The Godfrey brothers, of Oldtown, have
shot another large bear They fred three
times and found much work in putting him to
death. The bear weighed 600 pounds.
Eels have been botherng Bangor people of
late by getting into water pipes. As illustra-
ting the proverb that its an i'll wind that
blows nobody any good, the Wing says in
this connection that a stranger who is now in
the city is taking advantage of the cells to eff
feet the sale of filters He goes to house
explains the good points of the article and
then asks permission to fasten it to the water
pipe and let the water pass through it for
few moments. This is granted and when the
filter is taken of he finds ~ a small eel in
the inside This of course at once ensures
sale and the man departs to work the mex
house in a similar manner.
PIsCATAoUIs.
Sangerville has voted to exempt the pro
posed wooden mill for ten years also appro
priated 8 600 for other purposes prOvidin.
the company build the road and pay lanC
damages, which thew will do. This will give
Sangerville one of the largest wooden mills in
the State. Work will commence on the dan
at once. 1t will make big boom for the
| town.
SAGADAHoC.
S. f. Dixie, D. D., of the New church
Bath, completed his 46th year as pastor OF
that church, Sunday. The church was beau.
tifully decorated in honor of the event.
SOMERSET.
CANAAN-Our correspondent writes, june
IA: Miss Hamilton, acting as the agent o
the Womans' Christian Union Association o
the United States, has spent the Sabbath anC
Monday lecturing and working in her Chris
tan Temperance mission and has accom-
plished much. The Juvinile Band of Hope
organized Sunday, chose for their Presiden
or Captain, Mrs. V. B. Haskell, while the
W. C. U. A. organized on Monday
made choice of Mrs. Benjamin Chase
as their President and Mrs. Keene, Treasur
er. The Juvenile Band of Hope is to form
with the Band of Mercy Company P, in tn,
Maine Regt. of the future Grand Army OF
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cessful in her missionary work and claims t.
be the mother of 5000 boys and girls.
WASHINGTON.
The Machias drives are all in. Mr.. C. e
Albee turned his drive from the Fifth LAX,
into the main river June 1lth. Horace T
Gardner finished his drive of old logs on matt
river Iune 10Th Mr. Albaa ar,nlorol -