The Republican journal., 1889-08-22

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,,p>DIE Sr<-i.> Ir,p. nIn
ii'l' ~ 4 pohuehi ol ihe alrhtiu Jour
'i". >HH IN, N0 "ounl YOU nave heafI q the
0nS ne old red cradle that rocked us al.
~" ,ncit Il one otnGT -rauie lliat Is worm
| " va llie ou stage road from NINA
10 he'lasI' one ana one-haIf miles from China,
mn'l,rn az ol'l W. slorH MOUSE III ne"l
Lewis E.o' In that bnuse in "N.r, ',a, nIn
ii cradle about sixty wears old. If is moi ON
account of its age that we write But what j.
| there peculiar about that cradle, WHY, If
| rocks endwayS instead of sideways, a, v0u and
We're rocked. The squire made one when it
| first became necessary for him to have one iu-
| stead of borrowing somebody's Old red cradle
! as i usually { = the CUSTOM and he made it at-
/ cortling to his own idea of rocking babies.
which must have been different from the ino>t
Of people nder the same roof lives an aypd
I lady who i familiarly called Amt Nancy M
is the widow Of the late Nathaniel RoIin, Of
| Albion. She Is % wears of age. last jane. and
j. enioying good general health and retains all
! her faculties. especially that of memory She
is the last of family Of twelve children of
Elder Iabez Lewis, "A Baptist preacher Of .,ye
Oden Times" all blt one liyiuu to crow IIr
W hen about forty four wears of Az She married
MI Nathaniel Rollins, tillin. the place of
mother to his six children and living with
them to see them and her husband ,lepart this
life. Since the death of the last of her family. /.
llNtH with iitnTN
Lewis on the old Lewis homestead where .he
i always happy to entertain and converse with
callers. especially members of the Rapt;>t
church of which she is a member Although
she is not able to 20 out and has NOT been able
50 attend "A church conference for twenty yrar.
vet She remembers The day on which con far
cuce comes and should any of the volInt Nom.
bers forget they can vct nosted by a>kin,s bnf
r,p,,,>, ~ ,.,>,r
,r ~ " N''f
Ntt ROM "a tllt Nt4-
ltt"rA oi ine Ntate Board OF Agrlcuture Hon
~ ~ 'HPelt' lof INNN-'' IS III the nlnIery and
NiH >"oh ne SEM out TO the pubIlr. HE pub
nc WORK OF the board has been conducted in
,he uSuai manner. lWehty-seNen institutes
nave bteh held during the wear at 4 cost of
0i"@f''N' 'ii average OF S6O.0J each. Numer-
9u> experts from other states We're employed.
state" Mr. Gilbert reviews The memorable
season Of lNSs' 50 disastrous to farmers. and
Wheh so many crops failed. The crops of the
idrhl uut q Whth Farmers ordinarily realize a
con>ldtrahie income, on the one hand from
iallnre OF the crop, and on the other from pre-
Falllm@ low prices, brought to the producers
buf iittle money. The production of beef"
be observes. 'a> prominent feature of stock
farming, ana with 1t the raising Of steers. from
winch finally to benefit the beeyes, hae been
rhifily driven to the wall and bids fair to final
y ne eNterm1nated by the advent of Chicago
dressed beef. which is being laid down in our
markets at rates 50 low as to leave no po>>ibiI-
1lles Tor fhe home business. The price of
Wool Is stu below figure which will admit
that product to be the ruling incentive to sheep
industry" he says. Meat is becoming the
leading object and lamb is the principal attrac-
ton a> meat product" Increased attention
i being given to breeding heavy horses. the
Fertheron stock being the faVOrite. A. the
outlook for beef goes down, interest in dairy
ing increases, Creamery butter making il
proving wen adapted to our conditions. The
new creamerles at work are located a> follows:
Fort fdlrfeId, proprietary, l. .. WnsloW pro-
prietor; Bangor. cooperative; kOckand. co.
operative: SpringNale, co-operative Clinton,
cooperative; Rumford, co-operative Water
ford, cooperative; Garland, proprietarv Port
land, proprietary, butter and cream: Belfast
proprietary; East Pittston, co-operative; MAX
ING y now in operation in the state.
Nis' Ni"N - 80 MAINE - lERf.
The reunion of the 1th Maine Battery was
LnIjnuinr sre Tho ,on ''P iI'',9oi' ,i 49, ~.
those present at the business meeting at . p NJ.
Elias \. Lothrop. Auburn, Me: Reue NJ Ber-
ry Unity, Me; VIM. Hamilton Unity, Me;
Fred G. Fuller, Somerville, Mass H. g. Mason,
Mason. Me: W. +. stevens, Lisbon Falls, Me:
&. f. MeDaniel>, Augusta. Me Frank : Wade
NOrridgeWOCk. Me; Herbert +. Hale. Norri,ioe-
wock, Me; Warren O. Carney, Portland Me;
Thomas ;. SmmS, st. John, \. b; a. = Chap
man, Bethel, Me; Augustus Bradbury. Fair
llill, NItt H. IL I4ONtlUN. ofOnO, Me. {, o.
Randall, Orono, Me; Frank Lancaster Or0uu
Me; Charles q. Kinney, Portland, Me- Win
field :. >tarbird, SO. Paris, Me: A. Is. Merrill,
Bangor, Me. The following officers were elect
ed for the ensuing year Pres. Herbert Il.
Hale; Vice President, Augustus Bradbury
see A. b. Merrill; Treas W. o. Carney: Ey
Committee. W. O. Carney, A. b. Merrill.
Thomas :. NimmS, a. :. Chapman, Elias A.
I0thr0p. A. ;. Twitchell of GOrham, ~ H. is
historian Of the battery. He is compiling a
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paigns in which the battery participated. will
! contain portraits of many of the members and
the personal history of each far a. obtain
able. OF the whole number, 230 who were en-
listed in the battery, l5t known to he living
and their addresses are known to the secretary
The residence Of 10 are unknown, if living 81
the dead. Three never joined the battery and
one deserted. Resolutions We're adopted on
the death of orin X. Legrow president OF the
battery association.
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According TO the Aroostook Republican,. the
hon. George L. Mescott, who was one of the
party OF railroad men which recently visited
~ N"'tNoh pii q toui VI IiHpctlIou, stopped