Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-04

day at home.
Several parties of Oakland people went
10 Good Will Farm Friday to be present at
the dedic ,tion of Fogg ami Bailey cottages.
Miss Maud Field starts Monday for Exc
ter, n. H., where she will attend school at
the Robinson Female Institute. She will
make her home with Mrs. ii. c. Jackson,
formerly Miss Nellie Bates of this place.
Miss Susie Greeley, who has been spend
ing the summer at the home Of her father
j. W. Greeley, returned Saturday to Paw
tucket, X. / where she has for several
years past been teacher IN the public
schools.
S. T. Watson of Oakland Heights, re-
Gently met with a painful accident while
exercising his colt The animal being rath-
err frisky pulled the halter through Mr..
Watson's hands. A hook on the end of the
halter caught and severely lacerated two
fingers of his right hand.
Fred r. Hall left town Friday for Boston
weere he viii enter Bryant & Strattons
business college. ON the way he spent a
day in Portland. For the past two years
Mr.. Hall has been in the Shipping depart
ment of the Tidewater Oil CoIlpAn where
III has given great satisfaction.
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The American Express Company has a
new agent in Oakland. Route Agent Hor-
Ece Iaines was in town Saturday and eff
Eected the transfer. The office will still
tontinue in the store of Frank T.. Hersom,
khe new agent. Walter l.. W. man, who
bas had charge of the express during tn
past year, is soon to leave town for Boston,
i here he will enter Tufts college.
claim has arisen to piece of land on
Church street, which, while as yet i; causes
20 great anxiety TO the owner, may present,
serious difficulties. The la d in question Is
the triangular lot facng on Church street,
: nd bounded on the other two sides by b.
AZ Otis 10, and th" railroad. This land
ebelonc. TO 3. F. Frizzell and on it stand
The bail iiugs whose ground floors contain
T. L. Htrsom's store, the express and postal
;. elegraph offices, F. A. Kell Us store
,nl the post Office. The new
claimant is Levi Sanborn of Auburn,
s,sho holds quit claim deed from
eW Scott Libbey. Mr.. Libbey's father for
'merly owned nearly all the land about
1.-THE railway station, and it is barely possible
that his claim may be established.
The corn shop is in full blast, and to
those unacquainted with the process of
corn-csnning. visit to the Portland Pack
ing Company's canning factory some day
within the next three or four weeks cannot
fail TO be both interesting AMI instructive.
BY the courtesy of w. f Pride, the super
intendent, the Journal representative wit
messed the whole process. The corn crop
this year is something of failure, the corn
being neither as plenty nor of as
good luailty as USUAL. lhe tnree
new steam cutters, with a capacity
Iof 10000 cans per day each, are
doing the work which last year it took
twelve hand cutters to do. A new arrange
ment attached to the filler for cooking the
corn before it goes into the cans does away
with some cumbersome machinery, and
quires but one man to run it, where be-
fore fifteen men were employed. Labelling
i'll begin in about three weeks The COM
pany expect to put up about 100000 cans
this season. Huskers are not making much
money as the supply far exceeds the de-
mand. Farmers will do as well not to
send very short ears, as these clog the cut
tiers, and are generally thrown among the
cobs without being cut at all.