The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-12-19
STATE NEWS.

The veneer factory at Greenyille has
enough lumber TO keep the mill In opera.
ton all winter, aud twelve men are EN-.
ployed there. Shipping Is kept up all the
time and the factory has large number
of orders ahead to be filed.
The Kennebec river cotton mills at
Hallowell have recently begun the mann.
facture of "twills," about rs looms bay-
Ing been started the first of the present
month. Heretofore the mills have made
yarns exclusively, running 354 looms.
The Waterville Sentinel hears that ex
President Pepper of Colby has been max.
Ing decided gain in health and strength
during his European tour
1t Is claimed by Rockland people that
the Oldest Grand Army man In the State,
thus far heard from, is Danforth b
Bloomington, of South Hope, member
OF Cooper Post, Union. Mr.. Blockington
was eighty-three years old list NAV. He
Is well and strong, doing his daily work.
Congressman Dingley has presented TO
congress memorial asking that money
be appropriated TO erect monument to
the memory of Commodore Samuel Tuck.
er of Bremen, Me-, who died in poverty
after rendering inestimable services TO
our government in the Revolution and
war of 1872
Colonel Ferdii and W. Guptil, of Old
orchard, has received from Collector
French an appointment as Stamp Deputy
for Maine.
Mrs. Moses Giddings of Bangor has
given Kicker Classical Institute Of Houl
ton 500 for the use of the library of that
institution.
Percy, the 10 year-old son of Hiram
Hamilton of Ellsworth Falls, broke
through the ice while skating on the river
Friday and was drowned.
A. W. Shaw & Co, the Freeport shoe
manufacturers, refuse to take back those
OF their employees who are out on a strike
unless they sign a contract which estab-
fishes the present rate of wages and rec
og.izes the right of the firm to hire whom
they Will and use such machinery as they
please.
George Dow of Winterport, was found
frozen to death in Newburgh Thursday.
Dow was an inmate of the Wipterport
poor house.
Biddeford papers report that Miss Eta
Durgin of Dover, N. H., was run over
and killed on the Eastern railroad Friday
night. Miss Durgin formerly lived in
Biddeford.
The coal hunters at Small Point have
drilled down 265 feet, and are in the same
ledge that they have been drilling for the
last l25 feet. The last storm, however,
washed ashore several pieces of coal, and
the prospectors feel like going some dis
lance further before giving up.
The Maine towns must be alive if they
want to get any of the Lynn shoe fac.
tories. An agent of the Ellsworth Board
of Trade who went to Lynn to get fac
tory for his city, found great many
people there on the same errand as him
self, and some from places as distant as
Alabama.
During the past week the railroad com
missioners approved the location of the
Rockland, Rockport + Camden railroad as
far as Maverick street in Rockland The
part, which was parallel with the Lime
Rock railroad and to the connection with
the Knox & Lincoln railroad, was not ap-
proved.
The Grand Army Fair at Bangor was
brought to a successful close Saturday
night. Between two and three thousand
dollars were realized toward the fund for
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