Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-21
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UrrER SALTWATER

UrrER SALTWATER
You. correspondent recently called at
the home of Mr.. Artemus Righy. of the
firm of purisigh & Rigby, manufacturers
Of the patent potato digger They have
recently enlarged their facilities for max
lag these SUPPLEMENTS ard ave receiving a
large numbsr Of orders for them. Mr.
Rigey il constantly st work on new devices
for the Improvement of the machine, AMI
is confident shat they have the only prsc-
teal digser yet intr oduced in the market.
Was also shcwn through his excellent
farm buildings and out houses. Mr..
Rigby la. splendid lot of poult
" and VITA proper care and well
srrargrd q1srters he succeeds in
making them pay handsomely. He ha. .
m thod of feeding and arranging the roosts
quite his own, which to me seemed to be
about the correct thing. Mr.. Rgby is q
gentleman Of the old school and to be
entertained by him for an hour 10 pleasure
long to be remembered.
sagadahoc.
BowDoISHAM.
Several cases Of serious illness are
reported the last on the list one of our
energetic, enterprisiug farmers, Mr.. John
P. Cobb, Frustrated with pneumonia Mr..
Frank W. Elliott is with US for a few days,
| lately returned from Madison where he has
been overseeing the crews on the new pulp
mills in the course of erection there The
late ice storm caused general turn out to
break cut roads.
Somerset.
| NoBRIpGEwoCK.
Thursday evening Jan. 18th, about one
hundred of the friends of Mr.. and Mrs
| George Greengood met ut their home, il
| being the .hirtieth anniversary of their
marriage. The party found good supper
awaiting them and over Hinaty sat at the
tables Mr.. Greenwood is member
Of the Odd Fellows as well as the
Skowhega1 Grange which organ
| izstions we're well represented. Many
valuable presents we're left with good
wishes fer the happy pair, and the evening
will long be remembered by host, hostes
and each member of the party as one OF
the happy evenings of life.-Me. f. C
Whiting and wife arrived home Sat
urday night from Kentucky where
Mr.. Whiting has been on bust
ress since last all-The severe storm
of STOW ard hail which set in Saturday nigh
and continued sll day Sunday left the roads
| in very bad condtion.--Mr. Charles Saw
yer returned home Saturday from Portland
where he he's been attending school "A. 0
| Frederic & Co. loaded car of potatoes for
Boston the past week, something that ha'
not been done at this place before for sew
eral years. Eighty cents per bushel was the
price paid.
| JACKMAS.
| About nine inches Of STOW fell Satnrda,
night which makes over l-2 feet in tn
woods. Unless a rain comes soon the lum
Der cut will he considerably diminished, q
| every rnsd has to nc shoveled making
very expensive for operators Small opef
a o,s are abont discourseed.-M Bow
land the Canadian Pacific Railroad agep'
hare reports heavy freights, and late Ell
| press trains A number of surveyors reg
| istrrsd at the Newton House Satufda,
nieht.-Dr. Murphy was recently called t.
| Ps.lin Pond TO attend Mrs N. W. Murph,
who is quite sick.-All the teams 10 III
place are busy hauling supplies to th'
many camps in the different parts of tie
vic;rity. There is not much sickness i,
the csmps this winter.