The Portland daily press., 1889-04-02

ture of baskets to fill large orders from vari-
GUS localities.
Hay Is plenty at Sl5 per ton delivered. or
$13 at the barn. ~ r.,t
We find the rearing Of fancy steers fast GO
ing out Of practice with the decline in the
prices Of beef. Dairy stock is found to be
more profitable, and comparatively few
working oxen are now kept by farmers The
new inventions and improvements In agri-
cultural implements have completely changed
the system of farming.
Large quantities of apples are being pur-
chased In Harrison and adjoining towns at
20 cents per barrel, delivered at Norway
stations.
R. a. Bowker has returned from Canada
with four tne carriage horses. He reports
ly high.
shortly to leave this village for Waltham
Mass.
Some twenty Penobscot Indians are ex-
pected Sc on to move to this place. One fam
lily have spent the winter here. They play
doctor, hunt fish and make baskets.
Rev. w. B. Bartlett is very low, having
experienced shock after an attack Of gas
tric fever. His friends are quite anxious as
to his recovery.
L. d. Stone, confectIoner, is just alive.
Sherman Mills.
The annual town election was held last
Monday and the following officers chosen:
Moderator, John Burnham; clerk, Lewis E.
Jachman; selectmen, G. A. Robinson, j. B.
Lewis, w. A. Sawyer; treasurer, L. E. Jach-
man supervisor of schools, +. M. Caldwell;
town agent, Isaac Cushman; auditor, l.. G..
Caldwell; collector and constable, Alfred
Cushman, Jr. The money raised was as fol
lows: Schools, $500; support OF poor, $3.50;
incidental, $500; free high school, 500; re-
pairs on town hall, S120; Sherman Ochestra,
$50; expenses of Demorial Day, S25; total
cash. 81 ,945; roads and bridges, 10 cents per
hour OF labor $500.
The most of the numbering concerns have
left the woods and the snow is wearing away.
Manufacturing the wood piles Is the chief
business at present.
There is much sickness in town at present.
Nortn HarpsweII.
The people on the north part Of Harpswell
Neck now think that they can see their way
clear to get to the outer world by steamboat
instead Of having to 60 six or eight miles to
the railroad at Brunswick or to Potts Point
for the steamboat. At the last annual town
main road on Harpsweil Neck to the east
shore through the land of Isaiah Baker, and
now the people are making an effort to have
wharf built at the terminus of the road,
and it is understood that when the wharf
anu Iodu are Dulit duu Ecduy 1Oi tldfcl tuat
the Casco Bay Steamboat Company will run
their steamers to it, A meeting Of the citi-
zens was called few days ago to consider
how the money to build wharf should be
raised. A committee Of three were appointed
consisting of l. Merriman I'd, Samuel Down
ing and I. 4. Skolfeld who will report at an
adjourned meeting on Monday evening April
8th.
PoWnaI.
Mountain Echo Division Sons Of Temper
ance elected the following officers for the en-
suing quarter on Tuesday evening, March
26th: w. p, j. P. Fogg; W. A., Julia A.
Merrill; r S., Joseph 81. Merrill; A. R. s.,
Linda M. Noyes F. s., 5. E. York; T., Ar
mold Newton Chap, g. Il. Merrill; c., Frank
Knight; A. c., Mrs. True Warren; j. s.,
Mrs: l.. F. Wood; o. s., A. d. Sweetsir; P.
w. p, G. s. Snow.
Knight Brothers are about closing up
several weeks of very successful labor saw
ing lumber at their new mill, near Pownal
Centre. For many years this fine water
privilege has remained idle and the work
that IS now done there during the. winter
months Is very much appreciated by the
farmers in its vicinity