The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-11-21
STATE NEWS.

The work of sending out the blanks
from the State superintendent office to
the Free High schools has been completed
| Dnring the past year there have been 2o0
of these schools in the state. The system
is growing in popularity very rapidly, and
last wear there were several plantations
which awaited themselves of its adVan-
tages.
Harold N. Scwall, eX consul to Samoa,
returned to Bath Thursday evening from
a six weeks trip through the northwest.
He will remain in Bath for the present.
Rev. Elijah kellogg has been engaged to
preach for his old society at Harpswel.
Gen. II. NJ. Plaisted has been for many
years engaged in preparing genealogy
of the PlaiSted family of which he is a
prominent representative. The work is
about completed and after revision is TO
be published
The Rockland Opinion hears that Mr..
j. +. Upton, formerly proprietor of the
Bath Daily Times is about to commence
the publication of a new weekly paper at
Bath.
| 1t looks now as if the ice business
would be good this year The ice men
have excellent courage. They have sold
off last wears stock at good prices and
they will be ready to saw the kennebec
with an enormous force of men, the mo-
mpnt old Jack Frost doe. his part of the
contract
The Orpno Pulp and Paper company
bos boen oroaniIrd with a capital Of
$3.50, 900 Its officers are president, Il. Is.
Thatcher; secretary aud treasurer, X. w
SAWYER. directors, B. b. hatcher, L. j.
Morse Edward Stetson, J. Fred Webster
and W. II. Rollins, all of Bangor; general
superintendent, c. II. Sawyer. The com
pany have purchased twelve acres Of land
on Ayers Island at Basin Mills, and pro-
pose to erect a pulp mill of daily capaei-
tv of ten tons.
The entire lime industry OF Name /.
confined 10 Knox county, with the eXeep'
ton of one patent and eight old-stNle
kilns in Linconville, Waldo county. In
Knox county are 100 patent kilns, which
consumed last year $1,000 cords of wood,
-, % cords of which were brought from
the Provinces, invoiced ut Sl9',6i6 %.
The output last year was l'ouo,uo' CASKS,
employing 5,ooo iaooreiS an,. go . W
IN ireishtlns the lllne 10 various atlaug'e
ports aboaV Slo'p'u'" Is ie'l"'ieu w
run the hnoN county piau19'
Lewis a. barker ESD anu I VIZ iei 1
Bangor Tuesday lor AC!an'!c IVY, "ua
from there VIII 20 10 wa ioint oo'',ioi y
where lhey VIII reiiiaih iol SUM- e.'iV
Mr. Barker takes inc "Trip Oh aoooun' Vi
ms health. e ,r ,,a. H.
Report comes from LOCUS IiaJ 'hv
ifolhe Is lnii ana that V"oir - "oaoiu'e, y,
no room lor any more neio "o w"
l'oO veterans tlerc'
The treasury department mas "ee,1lcu
TO reduce Tue iorcc " Vhe a.. Vi ''"au
custom ounce an" lo'uuy h'I, ,,a "'a
gwen 10 Deputy Iol'ect'i anu iuai,s,ap.
lho'raS "A, poo'npy' WE" m,,t' '" Surra ",
R;op wilson. clerk c. II. Foye. Inspect
ar Ahern of Portland and Inspector
Uooncr of Rddrfcrd that their services
viii he no longer required. The object
of this r.duction is economy and the
id.o that the work can be done by a
smaller force Assistant Appraiser Il. g.
Woodman has also been removed and his
place will probably not be filled
The famous resort. Lake Mariana
cook IL hacked for II great boom
novt s.asnn Rirch Island has been re-
emily nnrchased nv Roston parties who
wiIl hnild a ooohlv number of cottages
,hnre several more will he erected on
Craig,s Point A large hotel accommo at
inp 90 pnests will he built on the Maine
Central grounds. Several regattas, and
other athletic contests are talked of by
the sporting fraternity, who pronounce 1t
one of the best localities N the country.
Altogether Maranacook promises to be
one of the liyeliest spots in Maine next
summer, says the Lewiston journal
Another pirl ooes TO the head of the
class Mis- Annie Lee Bean, a graduate
Of pnunnll Institute. GRAY. recently won
the prize for defamation at Bates College
over fifty competitors.
ua.s,,a 80 Damon l.. rohuild;ng
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