Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-02-26

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The members Of the Belfast Reading
Club rode 10 6essspost kondsy evening and
took supper II the S<sfspors House. The
occssion Vas one Of great er joymens-
| Sailing from Booshbay to Monheesa IN
virter il something quite unlike the trips
/ that >, mary summer visitors - these
shores remember with pleasure The Bsoth-
| bay Register tells 81 hard voyage from
thss Lone isle thas CsYt. Humphrey and bis
crew recently experienced They could
rot STAY On deck over fifteen minutes n ,
time without freezing hands or face which
they lid slightly, every one Of them, 10
their t1Yns .; the shell.
| The cars OF the Ssco And Baddsfosd
Stree. Railroad siH be rHn BY electricity
| this summer, the contract for the came
hxvIss been signed Monday with the UnitEd
STATS Electric Railway Company for
| equicFing the road
| How the public libraries in Maine are
Multiplying. /. is one Of the best sgas OF
| The times.
| II the millions Of dollars Of Maine
| money snat have been sent West scd South
I AbIsLS Tx phsb <-iANc sNoAs Ao1 N-~~ sNAs
| In Maine, what industrial development we
| nj ght have enjoyed and hos much better
of would have been our capitalists.
| 4 party of Boston gentlemen who are
| smonx the stockholders o. the new pulp
| miil in progress Of construction at How
| land, risited the town Wednesday TO see
| what progres. is being made. Work 10
| going on well there and il 10 intended 10
| have it ready for active operations the com-
ing spring.
| Portland Press: The pigeon shooters
are very angry q. the defeat Of the bill to
| repeal the Law against trap shooting, and
ore of them tells the Lewiston journal
| that they have jus. begun the fight and are
| ia TO stay. Judging from the vote, which
was lis against them to Is 10 their favor,
| the prospect is that they will have to stay
| in the fight until they are grsy-headed to
| win.
They are having wood saving bees"
down in Washington county.
| The first piece Of paper was msnufact
| ured at the new Lisbon Falls paper and
| pulp plant, Monday night. and the whole
mil will be in operation this week. The
| present company started thsre in the spring
Of 1889, and the great plsnt is now prac,ic
ally completed.
One Of Hopltons most interesting inno-
vations for 1891 10 the business mems
daily prayer meeting. 1. was started for
only few days, but it has been held every
week day for four weeks and will continue
during the year. The interest has steadily
increased; nearly every meeting has been
larger in attendance than the one preceding
| The Magazine Of Art contains q very
| pleasing notice Of 3 small collection of ma
rines by Winslow Homer now exhibited in
New York. The Magazine says: These
| paintings are by long odds the finest he has
exhibited; they come from his shore studio
| near Portland, Me-, and have all the salt
and freshness Of the surf-beaten coast it.
self Two large surf pictures show the
! Portland coast in winter and in summer.
| The coloring 10 superb, and the csnvsses
| have that original daring look missed in
| many paintings.
Bangor is talking of celebrating the one
hundredth anniversary of its incorporation
| which occurs IN April next. The affair is
in the hands Of the Bangor Historical
Society.