The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-11-07

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cucumber is displayed in Dexter, that
is two and half feet long and two feet
in circumference
Had the bear industry in Oxford county
been cultivated equally with the potato
industry in AroOStOOk it might have
proved more lucrative this season. One
bear caught by John Smith few days
ago yielded two gallons of oil which will
bring four dollars gallon and Smith
will receive five dollars bounty and
thinks the skin will bring twenty dollars.
Hon. J. o. Kyes of Wilton died yester-
day morning, at the age of about " years
He had been in failing health for some
four or five months. He is survived by
his wife and two children. He was born
in Wilton. He was one of the leading
men of the county and had long been
prominent in agricultural matters, being
particularly interested in Grange matters,
and having held nearly all the offices in
that order. He was deputy for Franklin
county of the Maine Grange, had been
county commissioner and also master of
the county Grange.
The new water works at Mechanic Falls
were tested Saturday afternoon and
proved satisfactory as far as power and
volume are concerned. The water is I'M
fit for drinking purposes at present, but
it is expected that as soon as the pipes
are cleaned out it will be clean and palat
able. The water is obtained from arte-
sian wells sunk to depth of 45 feet. 1t
Uses with considerable force sand is then
pumped to supply the system.
After discussion at considerable length
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union OF Bangor, has arrived at the de-
cision to invite Thomas Edward Murphy
to come to that city for ten days tenn
perance work, and invite all other friends
of the cause to unite in support Of the
movement.
On Tuesday morning, Clara Thomas,
young Veazie girl. died at her he ma in
that town of diphtheria. There is one
other case of diphtheria in Veazie, but
physicians there are not anticipating an
alarming spread of the disease.
A subject that is sagitating the citizens
of Calais is the scheme put forward by
ome of the contractors and directors of
the road in he Western part of the coun-
try, backed by q few men in that vicln-
ity. who are Interested in the branch road
recently built from ST. Stephen to Mill
town The plan is to have the road
branch off at Robinston and go to Calais
by the way of Magnenowock, connecting
with the branch road at Midtown. This
would shut Calais off from direct con-
nections with the road yet that city is
Obliged to furnish about one-ffth of
the money raised. The contract calls for
a road along the shore from Boyden's
lake, to enter Calais direct.
A St. Adams merchant is giving the
people of that town vivid illustration
of the folly of patronizing peddlers. An
itinerant vender struck that p ace the
other day and did it up brown with glass
pens at 25 cents each. The merchant let
everybody who wanted one buy it Of the
traveller Then he ordered some of the
identical articles of a New York house
and displayed them marked at two cents
EACH He doesn't expect to sell many
but he wants the trusting people to OBJ
serve how they were buncoed.
The Bangor & Aroostook road in Oc
tober this year shipped over half as much
game from the different stations as they
did in the hunting season of three months
in 1894. They shipped this October $50
deer, SO moose, S37 caribou, against 497
deer, "a moose, 10 caribou in October 1894
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