The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-11-09
MAINE TOWNS.
Prosperity In Freeport Village.
Bootrbay Welcomes mr.. Maddocks
With Artillery.
Cumberland Musical Convention at
New Gloucester.
Bethel.

dent. Mrs. W. f. Lovejoy; Mrs. G. B. Wiley.
treasurer; Miss Annie Frye, secretary.
The Ladies Social Club met with Mrs. H.
Il. Godwin's Thursday afternoon and eve
ming.
Mrs. Flint picked dandelions in full bloom
the first day of November In her garden.
Mr.. Walter swift, of Norway, wife and
daughter, are spending vacation at the AL
| pine House, Bethel.
The chair factory at Bethel sold chairs
| enough in the month of Oct. to amount to
| S6000 Business never was better. TIL ev
more orders then they can FILL Ma nv of
their chairs are shipped to New York and
California. Several orders have been filled
in Canada.
Our Oldest and most successful physician
in Bethel is DR.. Wiley. He was SO years old
last Thursday, having practiced IS years.
A carriage he rides in has been in constant
use 30 years. The doctor is smart and active,
constantly on the road, and says he can han
die the surgeons knife as keenly as 80 years
ago. Look at the doctor as he passes up the
street. His step is as quick and full of life,
MS face gives the appearance of man only
| 80 years old.
Mr.. Edwin French's youngest girl, while
helping her mother clear OF the table, acct
| IDENTIFY fell down with a silver knife in her
hand. sticking the end into her head just
above her eye, and inflicting severe wound
| which had to be sewed up by her doctor.
The little girl came very near losing her eye.
MISS Maggie Libby read temperance
piece before the temperance meeting last
| Sabbath evening, which was very attentionly
| listened to. Miss Libby is writing up the rec
ords of the 4th Maine Battery Light Artillery
during the three years service These records
are for the purpose OF writing history of this
battery for the historian A. Chandler, Jr.
Ihis battery will hold its next reunion at
Auburn. Maine, in June next. Sergeant
Judson Ames, of Montreal, Canada, is pres
ident.
Norway.
Mr.. +. K. Weodley, for the past thres
years superintendent of B. F. Spinney & Co.'S
Norway shoe factories, has resigned He
VIII close his connections with the firm Dec.
10Th.
A "Crazy Supper" followed by music and
literary exercises, will make up the entertain
ment next Tuesday evening to be given by
the Congregation Ladies' Circle. A big time
is expected. Admission to ali Is cents
Judge Chas F. Whitman is confined t.
the house He Is suffering from bad cold.
Rev. f. Nj. houghton and family, of
Hollowell. visited Mr.. Houghton'S mother
this week
The Smiley Bros. have novel into their
new store In Norway Block. The store has
been thoroughly renovated and the elegant
stock of dry and fancy goods is displayed to
gO0d advantage.
The editor of the Kennebec Journal c. b.
Burlegh and wife spent the first of the week
at the Beais House on their way from New
Hampshire where they have visited.
Mrs. Sarah K. True of this village and
brother William nanforth of North Stratford
N. ii. started for Council Bluffs, Iowa We'd
nesday Mrs. True has son in that city
and two brothers in the State. They will
probably pass the most Of the winter there.
Mr.. e. g. Gilman. of Newton Lower Falls.
Mass. visited relatives and friends in this
place. Mr.. Gilman is an engineer in the
employment of the Boston & Albany rail-
road.
Mrs. John L. Horne and Mrs Ephriam
I'll. Brown are visiting Mrs. Edwin Wallace,
in Rochester N III. this week.
Edwin +. Morse, while at work in gravel
pit this week had his leg broken by
large rock rolling on it.
Work at the Norway Tannery is starting
up in earnest. More help Is being employed
excellent. The shoe factory is receiving
many new order and the firm feels confident
that their business will meet with marked
improvement this season.
The November term of the Norway
Municipal Court was held Tuesday, Judge
Whitman presided The docket shows
elevenlnew entries.
State detective A. P. Bassett of this place
succeeded in running down the thief Charles
Williams who hired a team of John M.
Cummings last week to go to Mechanic Falls
and instead skipped for Canada. Mr.. Cum
mings placed the matter in Mr.. Bassetts
hands with directions to capture the man.
The first reliable clew Bassett got was at
Colebrook N. H. where he found that Will
liams had gone to Hereford p. @. having sold
the team in Canada to one john Haley. All
eddeavors failed to entice Williams across
the line but he acknowledged stealing the
team in the States and selling the same in
Canada. For the latter offence he was arrest
ed and is now in Jail. Bassettlseturned with
the team, and has won the admiration and
praise of all by the manner and ability in
which he executed his task.
Mr.. w: S. Robinson of Hartford, Me-, has
landed about 200 acres of granite ledge on
and in the vicinity of Horse Hill" in this
town. Mr.. Robinson thinks he has discov.
cred a granite of great value and intends to
form corporation for the development of
the same. Samples of the granite are now
being finished and If it meets Mr.. Robinsons
expectations an industry of considerable
magnitude will soon spring into life here.
Mrs. LeofyIkich of Lowell. an old lady of
50 yelrs of ageis visiting at c. b. Cummings.
Mrs. Rich came to this place alone, as she
has done for several years past. She is as
spry and active as person of forty.
Freeport.
BUSINESS THRIVING AND A NEW FACTORY
TALKED OF
The frame OF Mr.. Warren Litchield's new
house is up and being covered In. The fine
weather of the past week is being improved
by the carpenters for rapid work.
The exterior of the new Mallett block is
fast approaching completion. The interior
will be heated by steam. j. +. Merrill has
contracted to furnish the necessary amount
Of steam from his engine adjacent, on corner
of Middle and Mechanic streets.
Mr. j. G. Silky has moved into his new
residence on Middle street. He is now ready
to take orders for painting your sleighs in
an artistic manner and at reasonable rates.
MIR. Charles Day has opened barber shop
in Holbrook block. There are now four II
the kind within few rods of the postoffice.
The new gates at the railway crossing on
Bow street is In order, Now there seems to
be safety.
The Sportsmen are having good luck with
seaf0wl and with grouse, each Of which are
more plenty this year than formerly. 1t is
supposed that partrlges are more plenty on
account of the mild winter of last year, few
er of their numbers having persisted from
deep SHOWS than Is usual in severe winters.
The slaughtering of the swine begins.
Already some real nice pork is offered for
sale at the village market. Eight and ten
cents is asked for best round hogs.
Best country butter is worth here % cts.
per pound.
Capt. Henry Green has gone to Massa-
chusetts for the winter.
Strangers in town can find the Portland,
Lewiston and Boston daily papers ON sale at
the news depot of VIM. A. Mitchell in the
postoffice building on Main street. They
can also find the leading magaz 'nes1f the day
as well as writing materials for business
men and school furnishings generally. 1t is
handy place for everybody who does read
ing or writing. Mr.. Mitchell being town
clerk, it is good place to get published" if
you happen to be native.
Best quality of hay is selling at $12 per
ton F; best straw from oats is 81 per ton.
An entire new set of machinery has been
placed in the shoe factory of A. w. Shaw 81
Company, now making the running capacity
double what 1t has been. This looks like en-
ploying more workmen and if a pledge of
former statement made few weeks ago.
that by the first of January, 1890 the number
of working hands would be doubled. There
is said to be sufficient orders on hand to
warrant their new outlay.
Some of the knowing ones predict new
factory here another season, but nothing is
really known as to the certainty Of 1t. 1t is
believed that another season will witness
the building of larger number OF houses
than this year.
The new artesian we'll reaches the depth
Of $50 feet and still the work of sinking con-
tinues.
New Gloucester.
The Cumberland County Musical Conven-
ton, held at New Gloucester, Wednesday
and Thursday, was very successful. The
chorus numbered 80 voices, led by Prof. e.
q. blanchard of Yarmouth, and Miss Bur