The Portland daily press., 1891-08-28
EaToW MS.
Items Of Interest Gathered by Cor
respondents OF the Press.
Boothbay.

Isaac M. Lord has his house filled to the
utmost with Boston boarders, quite num-
Der of applicants being refused for lack of
room. Uncle Isaac keeps first-class house,
and the boarders know that the produce is
fresh and good, likewise the Holsters and
clans.
The Mason family. from Boston, are on a
vacation at their old homestead.
j. l.. Dodge &Son are driving their thresh-
ing machine for all it is worth. One hundred
bushels Is considered a fair days work.
This mill Is run by water, and Is great con-
venieHce for the farmers.
The porgie factories at Ocean Point are
doing fair business. Steamers are laying
for the fish to come out of the rivers and
bays, they having been driven there by the
bluefish.
Mackerel are not very plenty, but few
catches have been made.
George e. Giles, while drawing his carri-
age into the stable, caught his foot IN some
mending slowly.
Mrs. Benjamin Blake of Boothbay Harbor
and Miss Eva Merrill have been visiting
Mrs. James Giles for few days. This is
fine weather for rusticators.
The Knicker booker Ice Company are rush.
ing business, running six or seven hundred
tons of ice per day. Other companies in
town are not shipping any at present..
Benjamin Blake was In town few days
ago, stopping at the Howard House.
Byron Giles lost quite valuable horse
this week from broken leg.
EleaZer Giles, who is stopping with his
brother William, is quite feeble. He has not
done any work for some time.
The potato crop In this section will un-
doubleday be the largest for years. All
kinds OF grain Is reported in first class shape.
WATERFORD.
SOUTH WATERFORD.
Mr.. Henry Carpenter of WATERFORD, met
with serious accident on Wednesday,. He
was at work with others sinking a well for
Mr. John Sayward of WATERFORD, when he
slipped from the staging at the opening of
the well and fell head foremost, a distance
Of IA feet, striking on his shoulder and neck
and badly straining his wrist and arm. Sew
eral ribs were also badly fractured and he
sustained other severe internal injuries. 1t
was narrow escape from instant death as
ne struck the ground very near barrel filled
with gravel. Mr.. Carpenter is nearly 40
years old, with family-a wife and three
children-and this severe accident will lay
him aside from labor for a long time. For
tunately he carries an accident policy for
quite an amount.
Mrs. Lucy F. Walton of South Portland,
with her children, Is visiting her father
Rev. A. +. Hutchinson in Lyman.
1t rained here little Thursday morning
to the great delight of all.
WateTvile.
The much disputed question as to whether
Main street should be paved or not, has two
months after 1t was brought up been settled
Both branches of thecity government passed
an order to pave Main street between Tenn
pie and Silver streets. This action has given
much satisfaction to the Maine street mer-
chants. who feel confident that the mudhole
OF past years will soon be transformed into
street, such as matches the amount of bust
ness done upon il, This is only another case
where the recommendations made In Mayor
Jones' inaugural address have been folio we'd
out.
About month ago Mrs. Hannah A. Gil
man died in Paris. She was supposed to
have been worth hundred thousand dollars
or mere, and as no will has been found Mrs
Gllman's brothers brothers will share her
estate equally. Her money is now on deposit
with the Rothschilds, who alone know the
value of her fortune. These, brothers or their
heirs all reside in this city, and in their inter-
ssts lawyer Charles I. Haviland of 20 Broad
way, New York, will start very soon for
France.
Deering.
Among business in the Kennebec probate
court this week is the appointment of Annie
q. Lamson of Woodfords Administrative on
the estate of Nancy j. Libby of Litchfeld.