The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-12-10
FROM MAINE TOWNS.
Items OF interest Gathered by Ger
respondents of the Press.
Drivers on the Ice at Richmond Find
1t shaky.
Six Bushels of Smells a Days Catch
For One Fisherman.


The village schools closed Friday for va
cation until after the holidays.
There is considerable sickness in town.
One case said to be the grip, was reported re-
Gently.
A new order, The Junior Order of United
American Mechanics, said to be the first
lodge of the order In the state. was started
here recently. Its officers AREA. X. Mil
let, Junior Post Counsellor; S. j. Weber,
Counsellor; B. E. Banks, Secretary; Charles
Morang, Treasurer.
There is more than four inches of ice on
the river, and good sleighing all about.
which will enable the people of Dresden and
vicinity, to come easily to the village for
their Christmas trading, circumstance
which has not happened for several years,
and which Will be much appreciated by the
Richmond merchants. Our traders count
much on the Dresden trade, and for a num-
Der of years at this time there has been in
different sleighing or none at all, and the
river has usually been impossible except in
boats through drifting ice.
Several cases are reported within the past
few days of persons or teams having broken
through the ice in getting on or off the river,
but such cases happen near the flats where
is usually the greatest trouble uutil the ice
gets thick and heavy.
Some of the ice companies have began pre-
pairing their fields for the harvest, and pro-
pably this next week the work will be in full
swing.
The saw mill shut down for the season
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Merrill celebra-
their house in No 6 December list. Mrs Mer-
rilPs two brothers Mr.. j. B. Trott, and Mr..
William G. TrOtt, who live within a few
miles of her sister, have within three years,
each celebrated his fftieth wedding ami
versary.
Boothbay.
Bernard. son of Rev. E. Owen, pastor of
the +. w. b. church. came home from college
to engage 10 teaching this winter,
Samuel Giles VINO has been overseeing the
Bristol Ice Co.'S. repairing and building. has
nearly completed his services with them.
The company are in hopes to secure his
season.
The following persons were drawn as
Jurors from this town, to serve at the United
States District Court at Portland: Bradford
James l.. Race, Thomas w. Stuart, Petit.
Representative John E. Kelley and his son,
who is candidate for Page at the coming
session OF the Legislature aresmaking pre- a.
rations for the capitol the first of January.
n The new four m last schooner Ebenezer
castle was towed down the river last Satur-
day to Haggetts Ice Works where she will
take In Ice ballast for New York, Capt.
Alvin Pool, of Bristol, will command her.
A number of Boothbay boys are at work
in Bristol for the Bristol Ice Co.. which COM
pany are shipping their surplus ice.
Capt Irving ribbetts, schooner Lawrence
Haines, arrived nome from New York Satur-
day. He expects to make another tip with
lumber for the same port.
Rumfcrd.
December LIST ushered in winter with great
severity Monday was cold and windy, and
during the night the river closed with ice
unusually early In the season. Tuesday was
extremely cold; mercury 10o to 140 below
zero In the morning, and did not rise above
zero during the day. Wednesday showed
the same temperature, cloudy and during the
afternoon and night, eight inches of snow
fell, and had It not been for the crust the
high wind of Thursday would have piled it
into huge drifts. Sleighing is fair and quite
good crossing the river on the ice.
MIR. G. K. Cary, wife and son returned
from Lexington, Mass, last week. Mrs.
M. n. Lufkin will represent Rumford
Grange in the coming session of the State
Grange as the master, j. 81. Martin, will be
unable to attend,
w.. +. Clark and Ed. Abbott visited the
deer hunting ground in Mexico and Roxbury
last Thursday and captured monster buck
of some $50 lbs. live weight.
HarpsweIi.
EAST HARPSwELL.
Last weeks snow made fine sleighing.
Tuesday, the I'd inst, the thermometer reg
istered five degrees below zero.
Cundy's Harbor fishermen have been quite
successful SEEMING smelts. Mr.. II. Skol6eld
got six bushels one day.
Mrs. George Roberts is visiting her father
Mr.. William Doughty.
Candy partles:are quite popular just now.
The last one was at Mr.. Levi Eastman's on
Saturday evening
Mr.. Powers, piano and organ agent, left
his horse attached to hitching weight in
the Cliff House yard. The horse became
frightened and ran, entangling himself in
the hitching chain, so as to throw him down.
Excepting bad cuts and bruises he was ap-
parently uninjured.
Searsport.
An entertainment and supper was given at
Union Hall Thursday evening, for the hene-
fit of the library, which netted about $40.
The new schooner, Georgia Gilkey, re-
Gently launched from Nickerson's yard,
sailed for New York Saturday.
1t is proposed to remove the soldiers mon
ument from its present site to the lot on
Main street opposite DR.. Gould's residence.