Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-20
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES
Waldo Fair Storm at Bangor Moose
head Lake Steamers Condemned.

the gale that prevailed at Bangor, Thursday.
Geo. H. Shaw of Fort Fairfield aged
about fifty, hung himself "Wednesday morn
ing. Cause unknown.
The oldest iuhabi,an,'' nov rises to say
that the water in the st. John and Aroostook
rivers was never 50 low as at the present
time.
The Warren woolen mill has changed its
time table, working Saturday afternoon
The sh je shop begins this week on the same
time.
The fire which occurred in the Western
Union Office at Bangor Wednesday night.
did not cause serious damage as first re-
ported.
The annual meeting of the oxford Baptist
Association at Canton, attracted q large num-
ber After very interesting session so1d
byes were said.
The Frye Light Guards, one of the crack
con tpahies in Col. Victor Brett's regiment
contemplate making the excursion to Gettys-
burg with the commission.
The Penobscot Savings Bank directors
have Just declared dividend which amounts
to -four per cent per year which will be pay
able at the usual time in October.
Tuesday they closed up canning in Burn
ham Morrill's corn shop in Denmark.
The corn was frs, quality. never better.
They put up little over 100000 cans.
The Waldo Agricultural Society will hold
their fair at the trotting park Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week. The outlook for
fine exhibition is all that can be desired.
The first annual meeting of the Aroos.ook
Baptist Association will be held with the
Baptist church in Hodgdo1, commencing
Wednesday. Sept. 25th at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
and will continue two days.
The Ellsworth shoe factory now employs
about sixty hands It is no; expected that
full working force will be employed this
year. as the machinery necessary for such
number will not be in place before another
year
The Tarrantine House, Hancock Point,
has had the best year, the present season,
that ever it bad A part of the house will be
kept open, We hear, until the lst of Decem-
ber, for the benefit of those at work on the
new lighthouse.
| The Pendleton Bros of Islesboro, have
contracted with Millbridge parties TO build
| for them three masted schooner 10 carry
from 1900 to 400 tons of coal. A smaller
one built for the Pendleton Bros. will be
launched at Millhridge, Oct l0,h.
| A dispatch from Bath says: The north
east storm was the heaviest that has visited
| this section Of the State for years. The
wind, which was southwest Wednesday,
veered in the night to the east and then to
the northeast. For several hours it was a
| genuine hurricane.
| Rev. II. II, Clark, Chaplain on the U. s
S. Lancaster, lately returned from the Medi-
terranesr, was in Bar Harbor recently. and
went from there to Harrington where his
wife has been staying. Before returning TO
bis ship he will spend fes days with
| friends at Bar Harbor.
| The ordination of Mr.. William 7. Cole as
pastor of the Congre gational church of Houl-
/ ton, o.curfed on Thursday evening. Sept. 10.
/ Rev. Vincent Moses of Patten, Rev. G. B.
4 Hescock of Fort Fairfield, Rev. c. G. Ne
/ CaleY of Calais Rev J. 4. Adams of Ban
/ gor Rev. I. c. Bumpus of Sherman. ard
| Rev. W r. Cross of MiIltown, N. B took
/ part in the exercises.
| DR.. W II. Winslow Of Pittsburg, Pa, who
has spent several seasons yachting in Penob-
! scot Bay. is writing book 10 be entitled
Yachting on the Coast of Maine" The
I subject matter will include the waters of the
| coast from Rockland to Winter Harbor, par
| ticularly Penobscot Bay. The doctor is a
/ true yachtsman and an interesting writer,
and his hook cannot fail to he of interest.
| competent civil engineer has been en-
4 gagged and the Georges Valley Railroad
route Will he surveyed next week Henry
/ Hancox of Massachusetts will 10 the work
/ The first assessment Of FIVE per cent, is being
I collected and a charter will be applied for as
I soon a. practicable. The frien IL of the rail-
\ road are confident and general feeling pre-
walls that the directors are taxing steps in
| the right direction
The very lev water in the Penobscot river
| is hindering all kinds of business but is more
severely felt BY the Bangor Boom CompaLy's
cres One of them sid that no man in the
city ever saw the main river so very low as
it is at Or sent and those vino have been ia
miliar with the river for years can haze no
conce ption Of its present condition unless
they have examined il There are three
more steam .niil drives to be made this fall
before the river freezes,
/ The starch factories in Hoiton ard this
section rf the country are running to their
fullest capacities The factories at North
srn Aroostook are running but the weather
is too warm for hauling large quantities Of
potatoes T. II. Phair's seven factories are
all in operation and at his Maysville factory
over 80 900 bushels we're taken in during
the first ~eek. He is obliged to ''go SLOW
however, on account If hct weather.
/ H. Il Look and F. L Il riding we're ridins
down on Norridgwock street Saturday even
ing says the Madison Bulletin, and moi
knowing that the bridge was up, and in tbs
darkness not seeing the pole across the stree
drove at high speed towards the bridge. The
horse jumped the pole and the wagon vheel
knocked it down. They managed to stop tbs
horse on the brink Of the chasm and thu
narrowly escaped from a serious if not fa;a
accident.
: The Steamboat Inspectors. Capt. Wm
t Flowers and Charles Staples. left BaDgo
: Thursday morning for Moosehead Lake {,
inspect the Cora Lee and two yachts orne,
: By PhiIadeiphia people and running on th'
! lake. They have inspected 72 steamer
. thus far this year and have ten more whicl
T need their attention. There are nine inlans
! ste amers in Maine this year which are no
: to be inspected. One or two Of them bav
e been condemned and the otheYs have beel
E ont of commission this season on aecoun
Of poor business or the sickness Of thei
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