The Portland daily press., 1891-11-18
LINCOLN COUNTY.

l.. FL. Tbayer of Kittery, and Ernest w.
Belcher of Gouldsboro.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Last Friday handsome flag was raised
over the schoolhouse at Friendship with
appropriate exercises.
The new Odd Fellows nall at Round
Pond was dedicated Wednesday evening
by the Grand Lodge officers. A fine ban
quet was served. Marriser Lodge occupies
It, and it is prettily fitted up.
A smart young lady of this county cele-
brated her 2lst birthday last week by driv-
ing the horses attached to plow for half
a day.
Extensive repairs and improvements are
being made at the custom house In Waldo
bOrO.
There has been an unusually large
amount Of cabbages raised near Waldo
boro. They are drug In the market at an
half cent a pound.
Conductor Rideout will take out the ear
Y morning train on the Knox & Lincoln.
Conductor Hooper having charge of the
9.05 passenger train. The 2.10 passenger
train viii be In charge Of Conductor Thorn
as Haley Of Lewiston and Conductor Al
bert Hodgkins will be In charge of the
freight train.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The schools at Oxford are closed on ac-
count Of scarlet fever having broken out
in several families.
Deacon F. M. Coffin and Mrs. Coffin Of
Bethel were given surprise party at DR..
b. +. Twills and presented an elegant
marble clock with cathedral chimes. The
deacon will remove to Medford. Mass.
At Roxbury the warm weather has taken
the frost out Of the ground and the farm
ers are ploughiug.
Thousands of barrels of apples have
been shipped from South Paris the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alva Shurtleff of South
Paris passed the 50th anniversary of their
welded life pleasantly at their home 0cto-
Der 24tb, which was also Mr.. Shurtleff's
74th birthday. Mr.. Shurtleff commenced
trade on Paris Hill In 1887, and moved to
this village in 1S49.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
Careful business men of Bangor think
the assets Of William ii. Smith will be suf-
tcient, and more than sufficient, to meet all
the liabilities.
A valuable gift was received at the Y.
M. Q. A. building, Bangor, Monday, in the
shape OF an elegant dinner set from the
Atkinson House Furnishing Co.
Bucksport seems to be the objective point
for men looking after place to locate for
the lumber business In its different branch
es, there have been four persons there dur.
ing the past three days but no definite ac-
tion has yet been taken TO establish plant
though all admit that few places have such
facilities for a permanent business the
whole year at Bucksport.
Quite number Of men left Bangor
Monday morning for the woods. The send
Ing of men to the woods Is pretty near over
with for this season and not as many as
usual have been sent in. The lumber cut
will therefore be smaller. Wages this
winter will also be less.
Tne fish commissioners have Just COM
pleted the work OF placing $4,000 salmon,
Is months old, in Grand Brock, a tributary
of the Penobscot river.
Mr.. j. w. feathers of Exeter was In
Bangor, Monday, and says that he does not
believe that man must go to Aroo stock
county to raise potatoes successfully. This
last year, Oh quarter-acre section of
ground, he produced 103 bushels of pota-
toes, or at the rate Of Az bushels to the
acre.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Men and teams are leaving East Ma
chias for the winters operation In the
woods. There will probably be about the
average amount Of lumber cut on this
river the coming winter.
Mr.. Ezra Ackley, who lives at the Bay,
not far from East Machias, Is the happy
possessor Of thirty-twO living grand-child-
rem.
A tramp who was offered beans at a
farmers house in Harrington asked for a
change In the menu, as he had seen moth
Ing but yellow eyed beans and pumpkin
pies since he crossed the Penobscot river.
The new church on tn ) east side Of the
river at Millbridge Is nearly completed and
Is very attractive ediice.
Inc Lubec Herald, after a suspension of
several weeks, has made its appearance.
Mr.. TrecarteD, the editor Of the paper, has
been sick but Is now convalescent.
The Machias Valley Christian Endeavor
Union held convention at the Baptist
Church in East Machlas last Friday after
noon and evening. The weather was all
that could be desired, and there were large
delegations from the different societies.
YORK COUNTY.
All the employees but dozen or so In the
yards and docks department at the navy
yard were discharged on Monday, the re-
naming force being deemed sufficient to
shovel all the snow off the yard during the
winter months and defend the empty ship
houses from the possible bombardment OF
Chilian cruisers,