The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-19

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STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.
Foster & Dolley have the contract for
the woodwork of the new wooden mill
at Rumford Falls, and S. W. Foster of
Gray, the brick contract. White q
Parlin are erecting building 20x60 feet
for j. II. Wardell on Congress sstreet, to
be used for bowling alley. F.E. Rem
dali will build store on the lot adjoin-
| ing.
William P. Appleyard, who has been
| connected with the Sebec wooden mill
the machinery and shipped to ! ope-
ka, Kansas This mill was one of the
two first erected in what is now Piscata-
gus county, dating from 1886, and il is a
matter of regret that it's operation is
suspended under circumstances that look
IKE lts being perm anent. ..
George W. Patten of Brewer, received a
large order last week from a party in
San francisco for white birch brus b
handles, to be made in Mr.. Patterns fac
tory and shipped to the Pacific Mr..
Patten will send the handles to New
York by rail, from whence they will be
taken BY sailing vessel around Cape
Horn.
The first of the Peno bscot tribe to
| leave for the seashore was Gabriel Paul
and family, who left last night for
MASSACHUSETTS,. From now until July
4, the families will leave slowly. but by
| firton h ana N \
A very funny thing happsned at the
Maine Central depot, Bangor, Friday
traln.sA lady from thefProvinces alight-
ed from car and stepped up to th G
crowd of hackmen and said she was 60
ing to visit her son-in-law whom she
had never seen, and who she some ex-
pected would meet her in Bangor.
Now, for the lands sake what shall /
DO" ? asked the nervous lady. One OF
Don't get fussy, mother, l am your
son-in-law! and he really was.
Ishmael Harmon of Saco, a veteran OF
the war, had rather disastrous encoun-
ter with cat the other night. AS he
was going home he encountered two
cats which were having regular prize
| light and one of these he recognized as
| be 'glng to neighbor Being accus-
me to fondle the cat, he took this one
up, and then found that he could not
drop him quickly enough. The cat few
at his facs and did some industrious
clawing, SO that his cheek now almost
resem bles piece of raw beef. Ishmael
says that he had rather charge rebel
battery all alone than pick up pugilist.
ic cat again,
Mr.. Story Duff of Presque Isle has in
in his possession quite an interesting
family relic. 1t is a Msonic badge of sol.
id silver, which originally belonged te
his grandfather, Nehemiah Hooper. Over
SO years ago, Mr.. Hooper lived on what
is now known. as the Parsons's fiat, on
the intervale bordering the AroostooL
river. The badge above mentioned was
at about that time stolen by some one
who stopped at Mr.. Fl ooper's, who kept
Il sort of primitive hotel Nothing was
seen of it for over 80 years when one day
an Indian took it into store at Grand
Falls and wanted to exchange it fol
tobacco. The man to whom he offered
it knew Mr.. Hooper, recognized the
badge as his. bought it of the Indian,
and sent it to Story Hooper, who at thai
time resided in Fredericton. The latter
kept it as long as he lived, when it
passed into the hands of Miss Jessie
Hooper. In her missionary trips to In.
ola she carried the relic with her twice.
Recently, during visit to Presque Isle,
she presented it to Mr.. Duff, the name.
sake OF his uncle. Story Hooper.
sseSunday afternoon the lightning struck
Mr.. Letour-neur's and Mr.. W. F. Bussell's
houses in Augusta, and did some dam.
age, but nothing serious.
The Kennebec Journal says "The
weather-seamed fishermen who come
to the legislature every winter and tell
the committees that there isn't the
| slightest danger of man destroying any
kind of fish that swims the Atlantic
Will have an uphill job in the future.
1t wasn't very long ago they were telling
the landlubber legislator that all the
lobster pots from Kittery point to Qoud-
dy Head wouldn't have any more effect
on the numbers of that delicious shell
fish than the Saco river would on the
Gulf Stream. Now they are commencing
to take back water" The lobster fish
ermen propose to bring before the next
lobster the year round SO big that leave
to Withdraw won't move it,
made to complete the Lewiston post
Office approaches and grounds.
| Petty thieves and burglars are getting
In their work in Auburn and Lewiston.
Saturday night they broke into Mr..
Blake's, on Island street, and stole a
crosscut saw and coat. In Mr.. Gravel's
they gathered in lot of eggs, over
which hen had wasted time. The