Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-11-05

lodge is in very prosperous condition aed
nov hss , Membership Of about sky.
RIvxzsaDE.
Moses PinhhAu. his wife and I've daush-
tefs Of West Gafdiref. were here last
Tuesday josiah Wensvofth Of Anguish
va here Tuesday vishing % pureAaee .
farm.-Arskur Handy Of Augusta 10 clark
inn in the Store and post once for g. L.
RsnsIall Miss Edith fossefs Of Auxusta ID
visisag il the family OF Oscar h. Brown.
We afe psAAsed to lsara that thss Mr..
Josiah Brown vho has been 70 sick il much
better and will so,n be out again.-Rsv.
Mr.. Adams Of South Garli ief preached
here las. Sunday in ex shsngc with Rev. j.
Z. AIKEN. Mr.. Adams il An infefesfirs
speaker. full Of good iiess. AID one never
tires Of bearing hin.-Lsst Saturday
evening the officers Of l. o. Of Good Tenn
plars were Installed by Lodge Deputy. Z
L Baker. c. TempIAr, Mrs. 6. S Forest
" Tempixr. Mrs. Hannah Russell; Chap
lain. Mfs. Matilda Randall; Secretary
Norman II. Fo4sett; F. Secretary
A. r saxteiie; Treasurer. Z. s. Forest
Marshal. Mrs Ednh Tsosr; /. G., Gu,
Gliestase; Sentinel, Miss Addie Russell
Mr.. Jonathan Snow vas buried last Sunday
1t the Corner. Mr.. Snow was an szee
person upwards Of 50 years old.-Mr. 4
l.. Baker has had bis sAwmill pat in good
repair ready for custom work the coming
winter.
PiITsrox.
The Great Falls Independent and Con
sUmers Ice Co. are ali shipping ice.-Mrs'
Loring Posess arrived home Saturday
from Massa @huss It's where she has beer
visiting her daughter the past few weeks.
NORTH vAss4LBoRo.
Your CORE spondent made call on the
oldest resident of North Vassalboro in the
person of Joseph Wyman, for the purpose
Of aseertaining the prices Of boots and shoes
sixty years sgo. and foznd him slit ng ou
the same bench upon which he commences
shoemsking sixty years ago. and In tbs
same locality if not the same shop, where
be has worked early and late all these
years. Mr.. Wymsn is nov about eighty
years old He IL highly respected citizen,
a msn of the stricsest integrity, and
ENJOYING the best Of health. He hiss
The reputation of makiag the best
heavy boot of any one in this vicinity
Mr.. wymsn has for several years pas,
nsde boots for T. S. Lang and ]. A
Varney and sent them by mail to Oregon,
and now has their standing order 70 yearly
send them each a pair. Mr.. Wymsn in
answer to the question '.how do prices agree
now with the prices sixty years ago." said
The best thick boots then were 80 90
and that is What get now
Wonen's calf shoes were worth Sl.50 and
e. roaE
at housewo,k Shoes now are 81 90 and
girls work now is from three to four dollars
a week if you csn find any, and in the mil.
from four to ei2hs dollars week. Mems
work then vas fifty cents per day and
boarded, now one dollar per day and board
Themselves. This is farm work, 40 that
mem. wages on the farm have not advanced
much for sixty years. Good men then got
thirteen dollars per month; good men now
gettwen,y sig dollars and board themselves.
After leaving Mr. Wyman l passed the
house of brother of his eighty-five years
old and saw him on the top of his house
shinglirg with his men, as smart as most of
men at sixty This was his brother Francis !;
he is a shoemaker, ard has the name of
msking the incest calf boot of any one in
town, and for years past the young en- far
and near came to bin for their boots. All
in sight is A. H. Wyman another brother
about seventy three years old; he also is a
shoemaker. And still another, Charlie $
Wyman, son of Joseph He is shoe
maker and makes nice shoes and keeps q
boo. and shoe store.-Mary Hickey from
Idaho is visiting at her old home in the
village. She has been absent several years.
MI. VERNON.
Mr.. Henry A. Mooers and wife returned
to Massachusetts on Tues lay. MIR. Mooers
runs on the railroad from Boston to Fitch
burg. Mrs. Mooers has spent the summer
with her parents and has been q grea
As sistauce in the Baptist choir tlEs summer.
We shall miss her very much.-The village
school closes this week. Mr.. SWEET OF
South Paris, is teacher. The scholars have
been very irregular in Attendance.