Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-17
sravE NEWS.
AroOstOok.
MAsAgDIs.

The past few days have been very cold
We have about two feet of snow here now !:
have had no winds to blow it into piles so
| have had good roads thus far.-We under
stand that William Fl. Rowe has contracted
t, deliver IS tons of hay and 1000 bushels
of oats to Mass. camp in Moro.-Mrs.
Hiram Bracket of MINI. spent few days
with Mrs. Alonzo Pollard this week.-Mrs..
+. H. Knowlen is spending few weeks in
Preeque Isle with her daughter, Mrs. W. D.
Frasier.-Mr. and Mrs. Addison Greenlaw
are visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Il. Rove.
ASHLAND.
| Mrs. C. d. Hews and Mrs. A. NJ. Bur
pee spent a few days of last week with
friends at Fort Fsitfield.-W. E. Hopper
and wife and w. A. Vinal snd wife
made a trip to O1bow this week.
Miss May Bearce has resumed her school
at Presgue Isle after short vacation Miss
Louise Hews has gone to Presque I.le to
attend school.-The school will begin in
the new schoolhouse next week.-Tbe SPELL
ing mania has revived in Ashland.-Mr
Geo. circuit and his sister Clara have gone
to Houlton for few days.-The Masons
will give ball and supper next Friday
night Mr.. Wesley circuit smiles happily
over the arrival Of nice boy in his family
Mr.. Leslie Smith has moved into the
Tkurston house.
WOODLAND.
The past week has been the coolest of
the winter. The thermometer on Wednes-
day registered A degrees below and on
Thursday morning still lower.-The pros
| pf fair nvfp fnr 10
rather elm. One dollar is the price paid
a. this tme.-Mr. Carlton Morse who has
| been very sick. is, we are pleased to learn,
recovering MIR. B. w. Withee who has
been absent for a few weeks, has returned
70 spend few days with his family
are still many so-called cases of grippe in
town. On Friday about six inches of snow
fell and with the strong wind prevailing at
the time, j. made the roads almost impassa-
BILE.
SHERMAN Mills.
Snow is quite deep here.-Potatoes are
selling at Sherman station at s. 80 for Beau
ty of Hebron. Many classes of goods, in
Gliding the most necessary articles of con-
sumption are very cheap; flour from $3.50 to
80. Wages are very low also.-Our village
school is success taught by G. +. Perkins
of Rockport and Jennie Caldwell, primary
dep irtment-General health prevails with
a few cases of sickness.-Alfred II. Spoon
er has moved into his new house. His
wife's niece, Ida Stearns, is with them.-J.
w. Kellogg has put furnace into his
house.-Road breaking is in order now
On account of the condition of the roads.
the attendance at church Sunday was the
smallest for years.
| Hancock.
AMHERST.
There are large number Of bark teams
in town hauling bark for Buzzeli's tannery
and still there is chance for as many more.
The Democrats are once more fighting
over the post Office in this town. They
have changed it once since last spring and
now wish to change it again.-Hay is SELL
irg here for $40, ton and but very little
for sale at that price.-SnOw is very deep
in the woods here nearly four feet on the
level which makes very hard travelling
Those getting up from the grip complain of
being very weak for a long time.
| SARG ENTvULE.
We have been treated of late to a genuine
blizz trd .--There is great deal of sickness
here at present. Many families are suffer
ing from the grip.-Mrs. Sarah Grindal is
sick with pneumonia. Mr.. r. II. Sargent
is also very .ick.-Mr. Daniel Eaton died
the 10 inst, at the advanced age of SO years
and five months. He was born and had al
WAYS lived in this town. In 1910 he mar
RED Betsey Byard who survives him. He
also leaves two daughters, Mrs. Niletta
Sargent and Mrs. Abbie Byard and one son,
Groves D. Mr.. Eaton united with the First
Baptist church of Sedgwick sc years ago.
Harry Dority is at Rockland attending
the commercial college. Daniel Lowe
leaves Monday to take command of a vessel.
High school is in session 10 District No. 3,
taught by Mr.. f. X. Herrick of Bluehill.
There is a large attendance.
| MARIAvILLE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Frost were the re-
cipients of nice big boy Tuesday night
Mr.. VIM. Delettrea has moved his family
to Amberst-Mr. Fred Jordan has moved
his family from Ellsworth into the Angus
| tus Jordan bouse.-Mc. A. Il. Cars little
boy Omha cut two of his toes off one day
| last week.-Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carriers
| little son Hollis who has been dangerously
| i'll, is improring.-Susie Davis of Ellsworth
Falls is spending few days in town with
her cousin, Miss Lizzie Jordan Winfield
| Frost who has been attending school IN
Bangor, has returned home. - Blanche
Frost has gone to Bluehiil to visit her sis
ter Very cold weather and heavier fall
of snow than has been known here for
many years.-No. much sickness IN town.
Kennetec.
VIENNA.
Itisvery sickly in this vicinity at prese mt ;
colds la grippe, and pneumonia prevail to
An alarming extent.-The remains of one of
our old townsmen, Jacob S. Graves were
| brought here from Machias last week. He
bad leen a travelling sgent first for the Bos-
| ton Olive Branch ami afterwards for the
Portland Transcript for over 40 years. lie
! leaves a widow, two sols and one daughter
-Ch.s Fairbanks Of Mt. Vernon is haul
! ing lumber from NJ. A. Griffins lot
and landing it on FLYING pond to
| he RATED to bis mill mile below Mt
Vernon village sitter the ice thaws It
sp.inr.-E. M. Dearborn hiss sell large
quantity of ash lumber to John Fairbanks
| of Mt. Vernon to be made into spade
hsndles.-Maurice II. Trask and Wallace
Sarrorn are attending the Business College
| a, Augusta.-Guy Z. Healey. graduate of
| Oak Grove Seminary. is teaching the vii