Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-12-20


s92s IS. due from the towns of Poland an,
Leeds. have all paid over their county tzxs 3
Making due allBwasce for moneys paid gu
from nov till January ls, the county oil
I have balance o. 4bo1; s22 go With xhies
10 begin the year lss9--LeNtston JoRraat.
Cha.. B. Z. Clark. sho stole horse from
a stable on India street. Portland, some t~C
seeks since, wAs arrested in Boston Tues
4 day BY CITY Marshal Hawkes. of Portland
and returned To that city.
| The Allan steamer Partisan arrived Al
| Portland Tuesday evening from Liverpool
via Halifax She had a good passage Of
thirteen days from Liverpool
Capt Harmon P. Curtis, prominent ship
master of Harrington, died on A0niSy night
with Bright's disease. He commenced the
| occupation Of sailor at the early age OF
eleven years. During the last twenty years
he has been in command of vesseis, Prihci-
pally employed in the foreign trade. He
was highly respected for bis many good
traits Of character. He vas A. years old,
AID q member of George Washington lodge
| +. and A. VI of New York.
Tuesday was the forty-ninth anniversary
of the great gale of 1929, when fourteen ves-
sells out Of fifteen that had sailed from the
kennebec, were wrecked 90 Cape Cod and
many lvss Lost. For dozen years or more
| it has been the custom of the shipwrecked
survivors of the great gale, Who were from
Bath To hold an annual reunion on the six
teenth of December. At the last reunion
| there were three present, those as far as
known being the only shipwrecked surviv-
| ors They are Captain John Woiston. Frank
Roach and L. q. parshley. They were in
brft al IL.
ing in Massachusetts, and MIR. Roach is at
sea, so no reunion was heid.-Bath Tunes.
A lady in Ludlow, 70 years old, has, since
the lst of October, spun 20 pounds Of wool,
knit 5 pairs heavy drawers. knit 22 pair.
double mi,ts and gloves, knit pairs double
socks. Her eye-sight is remarkably good
for one of her age. We wish this smart old
lady wasn't SO bashful as to withhold her
name from the public.-Houiton Pioneer.
Gen. John ID. Rust, General Manager and
Treasurer of the Roekport Ice ,mpany, has
sold his interest in the corporation and with
drawn from the firm. Gen. Rust's retire
ment from business in which
he has acquired competen-
cy, will enable him to visit the Pacific coast
this winter and look after business interests
there.
The December term of the Supreme Judi
cial Court OF Sagadshoe county opened at
Bath. Tuesday morning, Judge Ws.ton pre-
siding. The docket shows that the present
term will probably be a short one, no iInpor-
tant cases being filed.
The o. dfellows and X. of p s of Wood
ford's have for some time I,lt the n aed of
a reading room where the young men of the
village could avail themselves Of the bene
fits of the leading periodicals. As the lodge
funds cannot be diverted for such an obi -ct
course of entertainments 10 proposed, upon
the success Of which depend. whether this
worthy object can be accomplished.
Hon. Edward Harding and s. c. Bolton
make great many coats, furnishing en-
pl0yment for large number of people in
Gefham and surrounding towns. Mr.. Hard
ing has II men and women at work in his
shop in Gorham, and he sends work to Free
port, aud has work done in Westbrouk, scar
boro, Bux ON, Saco, Hollis, WATERFORD, LIN
inEton and Limerick. Farmers wives aud
daughters take coats to make, and IN all Mr.
tiardiug furnishes employ lnent tor some 800
hands outside his shop.
MIR. Bolton has 10 men and women at
work IN his shop, and multitude of others
outside He has a two-norse team on the
road all the time distributing material and
collecting coats at the houses IN Gorham aud
many other towns. He employs some 250
outside hands.
The Bath Iron Works now has about $50
men on Its roll aad the New England Ship
Building Co., about 225 men.
Messrs. J. & j. Phiiorook, the well-known
builders of Lisbon Fails, have now on hand
big job on The line of the Mountain Divis-
ion { T.. & y. of the Maine Central, in tear
ing down and rebuilding the stations along
the road, and in every way repairing and I'M
proving them. They build an entirely nsw
station at North Conway, and at one or two
other points, AS well. They now have about
htty men in their employ, but, during the
summer have had as many as 800 at a time.
They have taken, in conj junction with L.
Emery, the contract to bulld the big dam at
Caribou, NJ J., for the town water works and
estimate that 1t will be a So, 900 job.
The new steamer hennebet, building in
the New England yard at Bath, for the Ken
nebec and Boston route is eli framed cut.
The builders are much pleased as the steam
er is already two weeks ahead of time. The
Morgan Iron Works of New York, which
are to furnish the engines have promised to
have the engines in Bath completed, two
weeks before the contract calls for them, or
June lst.