The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-14
MAIN & TOW 8.
Bethel.

Several of the leading farmers of North
Bethel and vicinity have offered Morrill,.
whose steam mill was burned last Sunday
night at Swans Corner, to furnish money
and put him up a mill and put in new ma
cchinery if he will run 1t. 1t was sad blow
Tor Mr. Morrill, as it was all the property he
owned. de is neld in high esteem in the
community being hard worker. 1t is hoped
the thlng will be pushed through.
= me entertainment given by the pupils of
Gould's Academy Thursday evening was
grand success. The room known as the sky
parlor was adorned with flags and bunting
anu tne crazy supper was just grand Much
credit was due the committee of arrange
ments. The boys and girls enjoyed ''all
fools" day by sugar party at one of the SUI
gar camps near the village.
Our selectmen are busy taking inventories
OF personal property.
Gilman P. Bean, ESQ, is to be our next
postmaster.
The new corn factory is up and boarded
and In about two weeks corn making will be
on the boom. Mr.. Wyman who is to run the
factory is now out West getting orders. He
proposes. to contract with the farmers for
TWO hundred acres OF sweet csrn this season
and will can a large amount of Lima beans
we had quite bit OF winter last Tuesday
nlgnt In the way of q smart snow storm.
one year ago today your correspondent
planted potatoes and Sowed peas in his gar
~, The following are the officers of the Bethel
Water Company:
President-Judge Enoch Foster.
Sec. and Treas.-A. E. Herrick.
DesEGiSi;Ceyl1n Rowe Maj G. A. Hastings
nj. Bearce.
The capital stock is $4,000 and the shares
are $50 each. The pipes have been ordered
OF Il. ID. Wood 81 Company of Philadelphia,
8 inches in diameter. 1t will be miles long
and the construction will commence as soon
as the ground gets dry.
A. nj. Carter has returned from Augusta.
Madison j. Bartlett who has been suffer-
ing all winter Is now improving in health.
DIR. Il. b. Goddard is still on the sick list,
but is improving slowly.
Orders are received most every day at the
chair factory for chairs, and it is running on
full time. They are turning out several
hundred chairs per week.
Norway.
Miss Alice Wormwell of Portland is at
work in the Oxford County Advertiser Office.
The two things now agitated in this place
are ire alarms and the pavement of Maine
street. The first is very much needed; the
last has been more or less discussed for sew
eral years. Both will doubtless be brought
and growing village, the centre and pride of
oxford county and determined to advance.
Mrs. Chas. r. Ridlon is visiting her for
mer home in Cornish.
A copartnership has. been formed by G.
n. TuDDs and Q. S. Akers to carry on the
grocery business.
George Downing, who for several years
has been in the employment of B. +. Spin
ney q Co. in this place, has accepted situa-
ton with j. Harris & Sons at Mechanic
Falls.
II. E. Mixer, after severe illness of sew
eral months, is once more able to ride out.
Gray.
WEST GRAY.
The ladies of w est Gray will give dance
at Aliens Hall on Thursday night, April
18th. The music will be furnished by Man
chester of North Windham and Hayden of
Raymond and of course will be first class.
w. G. Latimer, of Gray Corner, is having
the waters of Little Sebago Lake during the
summer. Nagle and Smell, boat-builders, of
Portland, are doing the job
Walter 81. Libby has gone to Boston,
where he is to take position in the clothing
store of his uncle, Henry S. Lawrence.
Joseph L. Turkey has moved from Port
land into the Gilbert Small house.
Elias Harmon has sold his farm to DR.. E.
A. McCallister for $1,000.
Mexico.
Staples has closed his winters logging,
and his teams have left the woods. He has
large amount of lumber to drive and is
now starting boats, supplies and men for the
Webbs's and the Androscoggin rivers. Rec
Ords has sent his boat up Swift river. The
ice is fast leaving the streams.
There is a ferry boat In use at Rumford
Center.
Our first trip for merchandise at Canton
Depot was made on wheels the 18th inst.
The stage used wheels for the first time the
same day.
John Reed, with drivers, has gone to Rox-
bury Pond and Ellis river for Marshall e.
Dudley's poplar.
Brunswick. |
The annual meeting of the Brunswick |
Village Improvement Society was held last |
week. The treasurer's report showed re- |
ceipts for the year, $221 93; expenditures, |
s153.75. The following officers were elected, |
Or. Curtis declining to be candidate for re- |
election as president:
Presldent-Barrett Potter.
Vice PresidentS-L. Z. Smith, Franklin Adams.
Recording Secretary-D ID. Gilman.
Corresponding Secretary L. A. Lee;
Treasurer-J. w. Fisher.
Executive Committee. P. Booker, H. L.
Chapman, A G. Tenney, Jordan Snow, F. G. Jor
dan, +. G.. Robinson, j. Kurdish, A. V. Metcalf /
l.. III. Slower, Mrs. j. ID. Lincoln, Mrs. Francis L
Owen, Mrs. I. H. Riley, Miss Sarah Ballard, Miss
Laura Hatch.