The Portland daily press., 1889-05-24
Honorary Members
LEWISTON AND AUBURN.
SoIon Chase Says Rum Is too Plenty
Heaviest Woman on the Androscog.
gina New Pulp Mill.

LEWISTON, May 23.-The redoubtable
Solon Chase of Turner. was in the city today
looking as hale and hearty as a decade of
years ago, when he used to dispense green
back gospel through the medium of "them
steers" Solon is out of politics now, of
course, and confines himself strictly to man.
aging his farm. He has been putting in
some hard work and this is his first visit to
town this spring
A reporter asked Mr.. Chase what he
thought of the manner in which the prohibi-
tory law was enforced in Lewiston. Equal
rights and equal rum for me- was the reply
of the old stager as he brought down his fist
with tremendous thud. "The trouble Is
people don't want the law enforced In Lew
iston. The officers know if they enforce the
law in that city they will lose their heads.
In Auburn its the other way. if they don't
enforce 1t they lose their heads. The result
is you can buy all the rum in Lewiston you
wish and you can't in Auburn" You are a
pprohibittionist yourself are you not, Mr..
Chaser" "Yes, and Republican. / be-
lieve in the prohibitory law and think it can
be enforced. They do in Turner and they
do in Auburn. There is another trouble
in Lewiston, too. Two many Of the prohi-
bitionists there drink rum. There's got to
be mighty over turning of the city, before
prohibition prohibits"
Mrs. Patrick Lahey, aged about 63 years,
died last night at her home on West Bates
street, Lewiston. Mrs. Lahey was without
doubt the heaviest woman in the two cities.
Her exact weight was not known, but Is be-
lieved to be not far from $50 pounds She
was moreover very tall and strongly made.
Her husband, who is labOrer, Is medium
sized man, but her children inherit her
mothers disposition to weighty development
being all very large and heavy. Mrs Lahey
has been resident of Lewiston for thirty
years and more. The funeral takes place to-
morrow. Mr.. Thomas Vaughan, the under
taker, says that in preparing the body for
burial he had the hardest job that he ever
undertook. She had lived in the same house
all her life, and had nevar rode In the steam
cars or horse car.
Tomorrow a meeting of the stockholders
of the Home Manufacturing Company of
Lewiston, now manufacturing fiannels, and
Boston capitalists, will be held to consider
and probably adopt plan for changing their
business plant from w0ollen factory to a
great mill for the manufacture of superior
grade of pulp by the sulphide chemical pro-
cess. Lewiston has no pulp mill. The
Home Company has a power of 200 horse
owned in its right without water rent to pay.
The change will necessitate the erection of
big mill with a high tower, the removal of the
present machinery of the Home Manufac-
turing Company, the raising of the capital
stock to certain sum understood. it is pre-
sumed, by the investors. 1t is said that some
of the leading Maine and Boston capitalists
are interested in the proposed plan. 1t is
also said that since by the process, slabs and
other spruce material from the saw mills
could be used. it would be big thing for the
lumber industries of Lewiston. This change
will necessitate the introduction Of at least
$150.000 of new capital and it is understood
that this amount is already assured.