The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-30
THE STATE.
ANDRoscoGGN COUNTY.


Morrison & Corey, heel cutters, Auburn
have bought a lot on Main street, Auburn,
where they will locate factory for the car
rylng on OF their business on larger scale.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
James III. Kidder, Esq, the register of
deeds Tor AroOst0Ok county, has Just record
ed deed containing 25,000 words, covering
% pages and conveying 100000 acres OF
iands. Inc consideration was S1,O00,O00.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Mr.. George Pierce. Of Frankfort. has re-
Gently purchased the granite quarry OF Mr..
J. I. X. Freeman, located part way between
Bass and South West Harb0rs. IL Is good
quarry and will turn out large amount of
granite.
Mr. Freeman and others have purchased
half Of Sutton's Island, South West Harbor.
and will lay it out into cottage lots, for
which there will probably be a good de-
mand. The island Is beautiful spot and
the location Of the lots is very pleasant and
slightly one.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Hallowell Granite Company has COM
pleted that much talked-of monument for
Hon. John Wentworth, ex-mayor Of Chicago.
The base OF this monument Is eight feet by
two feet. The base Is now on the route to
Chicago. 1t was shipped from Hallowell to
New York by vessel, then to Troy, New
YORK, and Is now ON canal boat between
Troy and Buffalo. 1t was too big stone to
ship via railroad. The shaft is now lying in
the yards at Hall0well, and is an object of
considerable curiosity to the crowds passing
through the city on the trains. This shaft
is fifty feet high and four and a half feet
sxuare at the base. and weighs nearly sixty
tons. 1t will be shipped to Chicago on two
cars specially built for this purpose by the
Hallowell granite works. Other parts Of the
monument are in size proportionate to the
shaft. The entire contract Of cutting and
transporting this immense shaft is the big
gest job Of the kind ever undertaken in this
country. The management Of the Halloweil
granite works are now at work on a contract
for $50, 900 worth Of granite for the residence
Of Alexander Mcdonald, a Cincinnati mill
lionaire. Among other contracts Is $1,000
monument for j. d. Shut, a Kentucky bank
er.
OXFORD COUNTY.
l.. N. Edwards, of Oxford, has received an
invitation to contest for 81, 900 purse in a
match for fox hounds. Mr.. Edwards has re-
ceived a challenge from 0sceola, Fla, to.run
his fox hound Boxer" champion runner Of
America. for a stake of $500, or s., 900, to be
run next December.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
A movement Is on foot among the business
men of Dover and Foxcroft TO arrange a
stock company to purchase the Exchange
Hotel property at Dover and make modern
hotel Of it.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
S. G.. Skillings and G. F. Gatchell have
erected canning factory at Richmond Cor
ner.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Dury the heavy shower Of Saturday night
the barn belonging to William Mills, In
Starks, was struck by lightning and entirely
destroyed, together with large amount OF
hay and grain, five or six cattle and one
horse. Insured.
Mrs. Samuel Pray, of Palmyra, aged 27
Saturday, at o'clock in the morning, and
expired In great agony at o'clock in the
evening. says the Fairfield Journal. Portal
insanity Is supposed to be the cause.
There is talk in HARMONY of a mill for the
manufacture OF lumber to cost 5000 and be
loan OF S10,eC0 can be obtained from people
in the vicinity.
YORK COUNTY.
Walter I. Bowers of Saco, Monday rode
on his bicycle from Boardman's house on the
Pool road to Biddeford Pool, a distance Of
seven and one-half miles, in % minutes.
This beats the Pool road record.
IN GENERAL.
The returns from which the school statis-
ties are made up have been received at State
superintendent Luce's Office In Augusta, and
aAO hOW DcilS bdUuldItu. as CuuipdttN
the statistics of last year a general falling on
In the number of school children is n0tlcea-
BILE in the rural towns, and an increase, 1ue
largely to the influx Of French Canadian POI
ulation, In most Of the cities Androsc9SsRlh Ss,,l
shows the greatest gain, about 100, ana Tuun-
berland the greatest loss, about oOO uah-
cock, Aroostook and York also show .,S q 3 shgnt
gain. The remaining counties, Win Ihe ex
eantion of Penobscot, returns from which
have mot vet been tabulated, show, decided
losses, that of Piscataquis being the least.
In the whole State the returns show nearly
500 less children than last year. No.with-
standing the diminution in numbers there
has been an increase in the average attend
ance. owing probably TO the substitution In
many cases OF a term in the early fall for
one In the winter. No decrease In the adult
population Of Maine can be argued from that
in the number of school children but il seems
likely that the tendency for young men and
women to seek employment out Of the State
1t an early age Is becoming stronger every
year