Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-09-13
MAINE GOSSIP.

G. f. Moses, at hs Dexter corn factory,
is now thought to have one of the best es-
adjustments il Maine As far a. fittings are
concerned and will can an immense amount
this year He has put in much machinery.
Including IA new steam cylinder cooker, new
silkrrs, etc His entire pack of corn is al
ready sold.
The first annual reunion of the Maine
hi Chloride of told Club will be- held at
Pennington. The call issued for the reunion
fixes the time for Thursday and Friday,
sept. 22nd and 23rd. 1t is expected that "A
large number of graduates and their friends
will be in attendance The programme will
be very interesting and this should be one
of the grundest meetings ever held in Maine.
The great amount of substantial reform that
has been made at the Pennington Institute
il too well known i'll the New England
States and Canada to need comment. The
work speaks for itself. Dnc fare on the
Maine Central Railroad.
Lewiston Journal The state Fair
debt, about which So much j, sait isn't
worth talking about. Some of the Maine
newspapers can't refer to the state Fair
without mentioning it, but they might A.
well pirate about tn" Maine Central Rail
roads debt" or the /, :. Government
debt. The State Fair really has no debt.
Every big enterprise, if successful. borrows
money for expansion and impr0y emeut. The
Stue Fairs debt simply represents its
valuable property and Improvements \
part of it went into the grand stand winch
pays % per cent, on the investment not
much of u ,'-dcht financier wouli say
The State Fairs assets vastly exceed it.
liabilities and now we want to see a large
slice of the big profit mad, this year ex-
p ,nded in further Improvements and attrac-
tons Such debt rs the State Fair
has, is simply the penalty of growth and
enterprise We hope the State Fair
will never get rid of its debt"
Aroostook county expects to do well |
with its potatoes. this year. While in some
other parts of the State this crop is nearly a
failure. in Aroostook it is estimated that /
il is five per cent. larger than in le9l and of |
excellent quality. Last week one firm sold |
ear of IIebrons of their own raising at |
81 80 per barrel, the highest price ever |
pail in the county for full carload at this |
season of the year. and the present selling |
plltt VI pbttttts tIIFtt itbfN llt Utl'l l. |
81 - barrel.
What bonanza for Maine seashore
resort when a rich man gets stuck ON it,
80 To speak Our readers are familiar with |
veral instances Now more richness has
fallen to Grindstone Neck, Frenchman's |
bay. Two New York capitalists are buving
land right and left, and one of them is
going to build S25000 cottage"
Mr. II. b Bennett OF Portland has in
vented an electric train signal to be used
instead of the bell cord now in use in sig
Mailing between engine and ears.
\ party of Western gentlemen have been
in Portland and examined Mr. Gritiins new
mile track and are negotiating for it, pur-
chase. II is intimated. should they he able
10 secure it. that they would expend@ from
$50 900 To 800, 900 in stables, grand stand
and putting the grounds in order \ part
of the directors advocate selling The
track will he finished about Sept 2oth.
Arrangements have been completed by
the nited States Signal Service. for Civ
my the daily weather forecasts from the top
of Mt Washington in New Hampshire by
the electric search light. The service be-
gan Monday night of this week, and will
continue until October lst. If successful
ii will be resumed again next season. At
light O'Clock each evening the light will h.
directed toward Portland, and after ten or
fifteen short flashes the forecast will he Civ
IN for the following day according Ia the
ioie which i. almost exactly like that now
is.A for the whistle signals at several points
N Maine After the signal has been given
oward Portland It will be turned toward
Augusta and given then toward Lancaster,
\ H., and so on around the horizon. Aft
n Portland is reached again the same thing
viii he gone over again to avoid error
The catalogue of the State Normal and
Training School at Gorham for 80 , con
aims an interesting feature in qua3rennial
analogue or record of all the teachers AMI
,upils connected " it'll the school from Iau-
lsry 1879 To June 1872. The list embraces
many personal facts of interest and form :
IN important little bit of local Maine bog
Apply 1t occupies nearly forty pages and
: well worth preserving,
Two new and expensive summer residen
,es are to be erected at Bar Harbor this
all and finished during the winter, one for
Mr.. Pitcher of Short Hills, y. j.. AMI the
,ther for Mr.. George Trottcr of New York.
Mr.. Pitcher is a famous collector of orchids
md Mr.. Trotter is well known As the own
ar of the schooner yacht Fieur- ie-lis.
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