The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-11-29
MAINE TOWNS.
items OF Interest Gathered by Corr
respondents of the P.ess.
Bethel.

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A citizen who came down from the Umba-
cog Lake last Saturday reports the lake is
frozen three inches, and there is good sleigh
ing.
Sheriff G. NJ. Wormell, G. j. Yapgood,
Clint Lovejoy and Ira Clark arrived here
last week on a hunt for deer at Wild river.
Only one deer lost his life.
Rev. Mr.. Hardy and family are spending
Thanksgiving week in Waterville
The rating committee of the New England
Insurance Exchange will be at Bethel De
cember I'd, and establish a new schedule of
insurance rates for our village.
The Woman's Relief Corps met with their
president, Mrs. S. w. Sanb9rn last Tuesday
for work.
| Mr. Cation Abbott goes to Denver, Colora-
| do, next week. His farm has been let to
| Perry Chandler, and he has moved on to it,
| One day last week, Mr. Mason, while on
the Giead road, saw deer cross the high
| way with dog in close pursuit. Later the
| deer was seen swimming the Androscoggin
| river.
Bethel Grange is agitating the subject of
| building hall.
Mr.. Rich arrived home this week from col
lege He has been engaged to teach school
| this winter at Mattawamkeag. Mr. Rich
has one year more in College.
Isaac Flint has lost six out of flock Of 10
| sheep by bears.
E: Croker has been appointed postmaster
| at East Bethel, vice Dana b. Grant.
| Judge Foster went TO his old home in New
| ry last week, and removed the remains of
his father and mother from their resting
place and placed them beneath the Foster
monument.
Quite delegation will attend the Strauss
concert at Portland on Saturday.
Porter.
THANKSGIVING was cold. stormy day, and
passed very quietly in this place, for the
most part the people remaining at their
homes. We have had some very cold wealth.
er but very little snow as yet.
The winter term of school commences on
Monday next, with A. w. Mason, town su-
pervisor, as teacher. Mr.. Mason has taught 1
some 60 terms of school.
Two boys in Freedom, N. H. IA years of
age, we've out cunning recently, when one of
them accidentally discharged his gun killing
the other instantly, the charge striking the
boy in the back and passing out through his
lungs.
Mr.. William Fessenden of Denmark has
taken large lot of timber to draw to Ossi-
pee river the present winter for Towle and |
HENDERSON of Freedom, N. Ii.
Many in this vicinity took advantage of |
the cheap fare on the late citizens excursion |
over the northern division of the Boston g. |
Maine to visit Boston and see the places of |
interest in that city.
Mr.. A. j. Parker and wife have moved |
back to this place from KeZar Falls
Mr.. Samuel Stanley has his new house up, |
making quite an improvement in the looks Of |
the place. 1t Is on the place where the old |
Hartman house stood some years ago.
Mr.. Isaac Libby ana wife from Cambridge, |
Mass, have been visiting friends In this |
place. and vicinity. Mr.. Libby is in rather |
poor health.
Potatoes still keep rotting quite extensive
ly in this section. which will make them |
very scarce and high. Many farmers will |
lose large part Of their crop.
Kittery.
The town debt of Kittery in 1880 was $780, |
564, and the annual interest account $1,000 |
in 1890 the debt is $13.991, and the interest |
account 1925.
The new building at the navy yard will be
24S #. in. long and 65 #. wide; the lower |
story 10 fit. in high, the upper story 10 it, |
roof of corrugated iron. 1t will take $50 |
bbls. of lime 200 cubic yards of sand, 425 bbls
Rosindale cement, $50 bbs. Portland cement,
100 cubic yards of crushed stone, 120 yards |
rubble stone, and $4,000 bricks, to construct
the building. Fifty feet of its length will be
used for foundry, and the old one on
Seavey's island will be Abandoned.
Westbrook.
The members of Cloudman Post, G. A. r.,
of Saccarappa, are deeply interested in
soldiers monument. The town has not
even plain shaft erected to the memory of
its dead soldiers, and yet the people are as
patriotic as the average, and have always |
been very liberal in matters of this kind.