The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-28
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

! A few of the factories at PASSPORT and
| Lubec are contemplating the opening
| of their can shops for the purpose OF
| getting few thousands of cases made
| up for use when canning operations
shall commence later in the season,
| though the present prospects for the
| | after are not at all brilliant.
Great quantities of wild geese are fire.
| quenting the bays and coves at est
Pembroke, and the gunners are having
great sport.
The recent easterly gales have damaged
the weirs in White Head passage, Grand
Menan, very much. Some of them VIII
have to be nearly rebuilt.
The Democrats of Calais have put in
the field Aaron H.Woodcock for collec-
tor. This will make two candidates.
A petition signed by the leading tax
payers was presented to the city councll
of Calais Monday requesting them 20
Milton Railroad company for connecting
the Shore Line, c. 2. X. and 81. Cfolx
& Penobscot. 81
Pemaquid gentleman. pulled in a
13-inch pickerel while at ne wharE
at Pemaquid Beach. He is puzzllng over
the problem how our fresh water nsh
came in the ocean.
The spinners at Mayo & Sons wool en-
mill, Dover. have been notified that a
cut down of about 10 per cent. VIII pc
made in their. wages after the hrst Gay
OF May.
Elliottsville has had sensation. a
Young man from Boston fell in love with
a Young married woman and planned an
elopement. He was to meet the lady at
a neigh boring town, where he was going
as soon as he received certain sum OF
money. On account of the non-arrival
of the coin his scheme busted" and the
woman's husband, hearing OF 1t, had the
dude arrested and taken to Monson Tor
trial. The case did not come, to trial
however being settled by the plaintiff
paying % cents. The lawyer took the
biggest part of the boodle-19 cents the
other nine being divided among the
witnesses
Lewis Smith, game warden of Jackman,
was drowned on Monday at Attean Rips
by the upsetting of a boat lie with
others was getting some boats down to
the pond andssinstead of carrying past the
Rips as the others decided to do, ven
tured to make the run. His body has not
yet yet been recovered
A feet of vessels is to be sent from
PASSPORT and Lubec this spring to the
Magdalene Islands Tor cargoes OF smok-
ing herring
The contract for the building Of the
Calais street railway has been closed
with the Worcester Construction Com
pany. Work will begin the first of May,
and the line (seven miles) will be com
pleted by July l. 1t will extend from
Calais to ST. Stephen and Midtown, Me-,
and Midtown, N. B.
MI. Samuel Grant of Hermon, saw a
ground sparrow's nest full of little BIRDS
almost or quite ready to land certainly
old enough to be out of their nest, as
thew were when discovered. The eggs
must have been laid in March. These
birds are Matched very early.
The committee on locating the soldiers
home. who were in Bucksport few
DAYS ago, have notified the local COM
mittee that they have decided that the
"Spofford lot so called, is the one most
preferable to- them of the several avaiIa-
Bile sites in Bucksport. This lot, sum
of money and an amount of labor will
form Bucksport's offer, which will be
finally made up and submitted this
week.
About halt OF the fshway over the
Aroostook river dam at Caribou, was
wrenched off Tuesday by reason of the
high water, and foated down stream a
short distance, where part of it was Sc
cured.
The lightning melted the fuses at the
electric light station at Caribou, Friday
evening, narrowly missed Superintendent
Fisher, and deprived Fort Fairfield of
lights that evening.
The Maine Hotel Proprietors' Associa-
ton will meet In Dexter about June 1st.
Quite an amusing thing happened the
other night in the lodge room of the Odd
Fellows at Dexter Tickets admitting
bearers to the entertainment to be given
at the town hall were passed among the
mem bers of the lodge who, in turn, dis
tributed them to their friends. o. W.