Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-31
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

= Nelson trotted mile in 2.lj on the uid
-Orchard track, Friday.
! The postofiice at Freeman has been dis
Z continued. mail to go to Strong.
The WOODEN mill, pulp mill and powder
mills at Windham are all shut down for
=. the present
9 At the Kite track Old orchard, Monday
afternoon, besides finishing the 2.lJ race
4 begun Friday, the "a class will be trotted.
The Vassalboro Woolen Mills shut down
Friday night for one month at least. The
cause is the poor market for goods. Three
hundred hands are thrown of employment.
| Mathew q. Nealley of Exeter, who has
been visiting his brother in Nottingham,
has in company With his brother and
nephew, succeeded in catching AZ pickerel
i'll eight short fishing trips.
| Friday the three mastcd schooner Ala g..
| Shorthand, - miles southwest Of l.lbbey IS
land. ran down sloop Nellie q. Crocker at
anchor fishing. Alma Johnson and John
Garnett came near drowning
The Bath Iron Works expect to build a
| fine steel steam yacht for parties in Con
necticut and will begin work just as soon
as the contract is signed. She will be
| larger than the gunboat Machias.
| Rufus Ferrin WAS arrested at Camden
| last week on charge of burglary at And
over, Mass Ferrin was taken to Lawrence
where he will be trled. Ferrin has good
reputation there and people are reluctant to
| believe him guilty of the crime alleged
Those Perry coal miners are finding VA
ricty if nothing else. A correspondent of
the Machias 'nion reports that the drill has
gone down nearly 500 feet and has passed
through the new formation OF sandstone,
| iron ore, lime and fossil rock, three veins
of coal shale and has tapped one salt spring
| Bridgton Creamery Company are about
to build an ice house and dig a well on
their grounds, owing TO increase of busi-
ness. About one ton and a half of butter
| is now being manufactured per week. to
say nothing of more or less cream sold.
| This is an increase of 600 pounds week
from year ago.
The fortifcation on Portland Head will
soon be in condition to defy the enemy who
Fever he may be. The steam cru-her is in
operation and the stones are being prepared
| for macadamizIng the government road
from the battery to the town highway.
well l2O feet deep has been bored and n
suiliciency of water secured.
The business depression is being felt in
the paper manufacturing business, which
is now one of the most important industries
of Maine. The mills of the Androscoggln
Pulp Company at Brunswick, Umbsgog
Pulp Company at Livermore Falls, and
the Sebago Wood Board Company at South
Winiham, have been put onto short time,
,f,.f Ia,
Rain again spoiled the racing at o.l Or
chartl Saturday. The 2 80 pace and 30
trot being declared off, the unfinished
IL class has so much interest at stake
that it will be trotted Monday morning
The management have decided to give an
August meeting, which may run up against
Springfield grand circui, dates, AMI have
decided not to compete with Bangor.
An illustration of the decay of sbip-build-
ing is seen on the west side where the own
er of number of shipyards has been
pIoughing them up for the purpose of con
yerting them into grass fields. 1t would
be difficult to give list of the large num-
her of vessels built in those yards in years
gone by, before the memory of the present
generation. The last vessel launched there
was built by Levitt Storer. Lincoln Coun-
ty News. Waldoboro.
The putting in of the wire screen at the
outlet of Green lake by the United State.
fish commission is deemed good move
towards increasing the fishing facilities Of
that locality. Ii seems TO be only ques
tioa of few years before this lake will be
come one Of the finest fishing resorts in the
country. At the present time trout, salmon
| tnk
and more people are every year visiting
this lake to enjoy its fine fishing.
Fred oImstead, l. years old. now has
the record of having caught the Largest
salmon ever taken out of Aroostook rlvei
with hook and line. While this youne
man was fishing, Saturday, at Otter Brook
Carbon, with a cheap pole and using
anglew orms for bait, re hooked
large salmon lie had about Is yard
of linen line on - cent reel and. without
attempting 10 play" the fish, he caught th'
line in his hands and pulled the salmon tt
the edge of the shore and secured his prlz'
hv throwing himself bodily upon him. Th'
salmon weighed l6 IL lbs.
Mrs. Sarah T.. Bartlett, who died recent
" at WAYNE. y. Y, was native of Bruins
wick and the oltiest daughter of General
B. Thompson. formerly adjntant genera
and treasurer of the State of Maine, an
niece of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rum
ford of Massachusetts. Mrs. Bartlett wa
an accomplished scholar and linguist tax
ing the entire literary course of her onl,
brother in BowIon College, and keeping
up " ith him in all hi. stnsiies until gradua
ton. She married A. b. Bartlett, NATIVE
of Bethel. in 1876. and since his death il
1895, had made her home with her daugh
tpr