Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-03-10

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C q. Mason has been town clerk of Nor
way for four yesss. dnriog which time he
has issued l42 certificates of marriage. In
e. instances after the parties we're pub
iished they changed their mind and did not
take their certificate and concluded not to
get married. One aPplicsns for licenee
sas refused and the party
went to New Hampshire and was
married. 0ne person vas published TO be
married 10 . certain man and in less than
four weeks - Hhsr man came in and asked
TO be published TO be married to the same
woman. The clerk asked the applicant
how about it, showing the book Of records,
and the man said the other fellow had
changed his mind and WAS not going to
marry her and that be concluded he would.
They we're published and Afterwards mar
RED and are now living in town.
Since the Organisation Of the Soldiers
Memorial Society in November 1889, in
Calais, the sam Of d 800 has beea raised
towards . fund for erecting . soldiers
monument in ,hat city. This has been cen
rributed by several public spirited citizens,
and raised by the ladies' At parties, enter
tsinme nts. and by the children In the public
schools. Mrs. C. b. Rounds is Treasurer
of the Society.
There" said Road Commissi0Der Dol
liver of Bar Harbor, a. he finished reading
his report " the recent town meeting,
there are the particulars as to the money
I've spent on the roads. If anybody wants
to ask any questions I'll try to answer EN-,
and think can explain any items in my ac-
count to the satisfaction of this meeting.
But II these people sit around 10 the stores
and listen to the talk they hear there, they'll
think that old Capt Ephriam Alley must
have three inches Of fat over his ribs, and
George Dolliver ought TO be richer than
Vanderbilt" And Mr.. Dolliver, who. by
the way, has given the town some very ex.
eellent roads during the past year, put OF
his overcoat and resumed his place on the
amid great laughter and long continued ap-
plause.
There are singular extremes in Maine
Affairs this spring. While ic. is being hsr-
vested on every river. lake and pond,
summer residents have already commenced
to arrive at that char ming and healthful re-
sort Bar Harbor. Prof. Austin Phelps
nhu WAAC Va AbuVVSAs NA0os.S hSVO oilhVOb'
They have been for years past the first to
arrive and the last to depart, Prof. Phelps
saving he "only really lives when he is en-
joying Bar Hafbor's ozone"
That it has been grand season for logging
operations in the Maine woods all the lum-
bermen agree, The "yards' are unusually
full Of 6ne ti.nbef all ready for tumble
;ue1 81. h. ill
come from for . successful driving pitch on
the rivers that will have to carry this lum-
Der to market, 10 q serious question. The
melting SHOWS cannot furnish it unless an
unusual amount 10 stored in the woods from
this time forth. But on the other hand it is
favorable that there is so light body of
snow on the ground as there will be lie, s
danger of high spring freshets, and these
would cause great injury to the numerous
stacks of ice that are built on low land along
our rivers where the warm, muddy water
would cause waste and injury to the stored
ice.
The Rockland Opinion claims that the
granite shaft recently quarried by the Bod
we'll Granite Company in Vinalhaven is the
largest piece of stone ever quarried on
earth, and if erected will be the highest
largest and heaviest single piece Of stone
now standing or that ever stood 50 far as
there 10 any record. 1t considerably ex-
ceeds in length any of the Egyptian ODE
lisks. The tallest of these, which was
brought from Heliopolis to Alexandra by
Emperor Constantine, and subsequently
taken to Rome where it now stands, is 1916
feet inches high. The vinalhaven shaft
l.. lcpu IN foot snuspa af "a ha 40 nd
weishs $50 tons. The Opinion understands
that the company quArried this immense
monolith Of their own account, having no
order for anything OF the kind and su9-
CESS that it would be q fitting contribution
from Maine for the monument to General
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