Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-13

and Mrs. Il. ii. i-eoy OF SSnseH,
ing 4, c. NJ. Leyejoy l.. crosby Snu
Miss Lara Wells have lately returned irvn
Chicago. They are enthusiastic over ui0
Expos;Son. Miss Wells, having spens :
non,h there, proposes 10 give tue naein.s1s
al Gold Star Lodge, l. .. o. 1. IN tniot-
nal talk rex. Saturday evening II TUG
I.odce room on some Of the many intersss
inv things which she saw.-Charies giles
While At work on repairs for the Iooi Coni-
many. hsi stick Of timber fall upon ms
foot crushing one toe very esiiy' INC
fool Co, are putting new wheei-pif INTO
the grind shop. Work on scytaes mas AZ
ready commenced.
Sorru VAssALBoRo.
NJ. and Mrs. II. G Diekey and son re-
turued TO their home in South Boston on
Notisy.-Mr. +. Il. whitehouse en'ersu
anon his duties rs teacher OF the school al
East yassai5oro On Monday.
S,sr-ett and Walter Stone rssarnea 10
Athol. Mass, on Tuesday. They are EN-
nloyed in L. s. Sssrretss tool manufactory'
Mis-, Blanche Cobb is teaching in the Al
len dissric,.-Farmers are hauling fhem
sweet corn to the factory. Dry weather IN
iured the crop ia this vicinity Misses
Ida and Florence Sampson of Wmteheiu,
who are attending the Erskine school, spent
SATURDAY and Sunday at their grandfather s.
NJ. ]. Lamson.
PIrrsToS.
w.P. McCobh started LAST "Wednesday
for southern Califo-nia.-Mr. Ludy 1.
Powers is serving on the traverse Iary al
Augusta. Mrs. Loring Powers OF Aiaa'
has been visiting relatives AT TINS place
She returned home Sundsy.-Mrs. Horato
Lawrence is very siek.-Miss Annie Powers
who has been visiting relatives at this place
the past few weeks, returned TO Massacha-
.etts THURSDAY Burglars broke into the
store of Mr.. +. NJ. Morton last TUESDAY
night. Pittston postoiiice is also Kept IN
this store. Several letters were stolen and
things were overhauled. Quite lot OF To-
bseeo was taken, and what small change
was in the money drawer was also taken
There was quite lot of postage stamps IN
the postoffice but they were not taken
The thief or thieves made their supper on
crackers and cheese from the store. Ihey
entered the store from a back window py
breaking a pane of glass and showing oaeh
catch. MIR. Morton's order book was
fo md in the road above the store which
would seem to indicate that the thieves
went in that direction.
EAST VAssALBoRo.
Mrs. John MacKay, Miss Mabel and Mr..
Fred Avery have returned to Providence,
r. I-Mr. Geo. Gates and Mr.. Chas. Gates
attended the Eastern Maine State Fair
Mr.. C. W. Mower and wife, Miss Annie
small. Mr.. Levi Barker, Mr.. Eversrd
Priest and Miss Sadie Priest, attended the
fair at Lewiston.-Mr. Oscar Abbott eS-
hibited some of his fine sheep at Lewiston,
where he was awarded the second premium.
Mr.. Percy and Miss Nancy Gates, Mas
ter Ernest and Miss Florence Priest and
Miss Jane Goddard are attending school at
Oak Grove Sen,inary.-Mrs. Benz. Barker
of Fall River, Mass, is visiting Mrs. Mar
garet Cates.-Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hanson
of Brooks. Me-, have been visiting friends
n town.-Mr. and Mrs. Seth Richardson
nave been to Massachusetts, for weeks
vac .tion.--Prof. Elijah Cook, has left to
pen the school in New York of which he
IS the principal.-Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Aver
and family of New Hampshire have been
It Mr.. John Jaquith's.-Mr. Chas Butter
field is at home again after a season AS en-
1ineeer on the City of Waterville.-Mr.
Elmo Goddard is in Augusta for week.
Hancock
SARGENTvILLE.
Sargentyille sea captains have been I'M
fortunate of late. 1t has been but short
time since Capt. Daniel Lowe and crew ar
rived home their vessel, the Governor ,hay-
ing been run down by another schooner,
sinking her almost Immediately. Capt. Is.
c. Sargent has Just reached home, having
lost his vessel, the Waldemar. She struck
on reef near Cape lIayti and went to
pieces. The crew was saved.-Samuel Gray
is having a new house built on the site of
the one burned last winter.-Fr0sts the
past week have done some damage TO squash
and cucumber yines.-Mr. Geo. W. Grin
ial is quite sick-Mr. NJ. L. Spooner goes
to Boston this week to consult physician.
Robert Gray has arrived home from
fishing trip to the Banks.--Mrs. Abbic Sar-
gent has gone to Boston to meet her husband,
Capt. X. b. Sarge 1t.
Pen0bscot.
COMMA.
Baxter & Cos corn factory is pushing
for all that it can. There is a fair yield of
corn. James Smith, yard manager is well
liked. and Mr. Webb, foreman in the fac
tory is hustler.-Butter is very scarce
article. Twenty cents per pound was
refused Monday in this village. -Daniel
Washburn and wife who have been stopping
with Mrs. J. S. Burrill started homeward
on Monday. They came here in June
They reside at Vineland, New jersey
Mr. Bassett of Lowell, Mass, thought he
wolld like to be farmer. He came to
Corinna purchased farm, moved his house
hold goods, staid about thirty days, packed
up and moved back to Lowell.-Waiter
Knowles and wife, nee Lu Hilton, of Am
sterdam, N Y, are visiting their parents on
Knowles avenue, near the center. Mr..
Knowles says that business is very dull with
his firm.
MArrAwAMKEAG.
Schools commenced in this village Sept.
tth grammar school under the instruction
of MI. Tbibedeau of Carroll the intermedi-
ate and primary under the efficient instruc-
ton of Miss Grace Young of VIM and
Miss Eunice Chessely of Mattaw amkeag.-
Rev. B. C. Wentworth of the Methodist
church held quarterly services at this place
and at Lincoln on Saturday and Sunday
A gloom was cast over the people of this
place on account of the dreadful accident
which befell Mr.. ID. C. Stratton of Chester
mo was hiileu oh t'N "
Railroad, Sept. 4th. Several trains
passed over the remains before they
we're discovered. Liquor was found on his
person, and as is usually the case we have
% record, Rum did it, and one more
-umseller will one day stand before the
Righteous Judge" to answer to the charge
% murder. Much sympathy is extended
70 his excellent wife and family On Fri
lay last Penobscot County white Ribbon
rs met in their annual convention at the
VI. Z. church in Mattawamkeag. Nearly
I'll local unions sent delegates. The con-
vention was ably presided over by Mrs.
Anna Hale Curtis of Dexter, through the
morning hours. Mrs. l.. M. N. Stevens
srrived on the noon Yankee and filed the
hair during TIE rest of the sessions in her
usual able manner. In the evening an
.loauent lecture on the Evils of Tntemper-
ance," was delivered by Mrs. Nichols of
Indiana, speaking one hou. and 20 minutes,
md holding the closest attention of
crowded house. 1t is seldom the good peo
ole of Mattaw amkeag have the pleasure of
listening to so eloquent woman as Mrs.
Nichols.
Somerset.
MADISON.
The Free Baptist quarterly meeting of
Somerset county was held with the Free Bsp-
list church at Athens the 9Th and 18th of this
month.-Bids have closed on the new mali