Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-01
STATE NEWS.
Aroustock.
MASARDIS.

Aroostook.
MASARDIS.
S. W. Reed commenced plowinp
April gath and is doing good business a,
Nv. d. Rowe Jr, has got settled in
TINS hotei.-Geo. n. Cole has bought w
ID. howe's farm, and will soon take pos
sesslon.-Mr. Ralph Simpson has LEASED
a building lot Of G. G. Quincy and is bay
ing frame sawed for a store. which h,
Will erect as soon as possible. Now tina,
the railroad is sure thing we exuec;
a few new Corners
SHERMAN MILLS.
The latest railroad sensation here i thai
the siolhgs at Sherman station. across thu
wagon roau' are ordered by the railroad
commissioners to be taken up, and thai
wnen inc Fatten branch is completed
the station will be moved from where il
is now located to the crossing, as the com
pany cannot maintain two stations SO
near, and SO we must Of necessity have q
branch to Sherman Mills--We have an
early spring here. The grass is quite
green.-Jesse c. Towle has engaged to
make cheese at Dixmont factory for six
months. beginning May 18th. Many
school teachers go from Sherman out o!
town to teach summer schools.
drives of logs on Molunkus stream are
coming to our mills; NJ. l.. Emerson s
logs, Sawyer & Robinson's and C. C.
joys logs.-Arthur Coburn has taken the
Cushman farm on shares.
WOODLAND.
Warm days and very cool nights is the
rule rather than the exception in this
part of the county.-Farmers are busy
blowing and getting ready to put in a
large crop, the present season.-Mr
Bishop. who lately purchased the Jacob
Mylander farm, has been moving his
goods, the last week. Mr.. and Mrs. Ran
kin Stithem were made happy by the adj
vent of little girl, one day last week.
The snow is all gone and the roads are
dusty.-There has been but very little
rain this spring, and the indications
point to cold dry spring.
NORTH PERHAM.
Although one of the youngest children,
in point of development, of townships
opened to settlement by legislative act,
yet Perham has made creditable pro-
gress. 1t has lumber mill, starch fac
| WI tthu WV pOou oiliNCo anu llCW Uullu-
ings are going up every year-Gustaf
Dahlgren has raised a new barn this
spring, Axis; also Carl Hellstrom one
40x45; also two brothers of John Ander-
| son have built one. barn, the other a
| house. The snow is practically gone,
and farmers have begun springs work
The run of sap has been short
MAPLETON.
II. G. Cook of Chapman raised 45x50
feet barn, Saturday. will be the
regular quarterly supper at the NJ E.
church dining room, Wednesday, May Sth.
| Rev. j. H. Lidstone will preach his
farewell sermon next Sunday forenoon.
Hancock.
SARGENTVILLE.
Fast day was observed by services at
Union hall, conducted by the pastor Rev.
A. w. Young Schools in town COM
menced April %. Miss Effie Sargent
teaches in District No. 3, and Miss Mel
lie Clapp of North Sedgwick, in District
No. S.-William Nevells recently had the
misfortune to lose his only COW. Friends
are contributing generously to purchase
another. j. f. Gray is making extensive
repairs on his buildings. Slower has
moved into the Barker house and Mrs
Alice Coombs occupies the house vacated
by him.
DEDHAM.
Schools have commenced with the fol
lowing teachers: Mrs. Flora Crockett,
Miss Alice Lufkin, Miss Agnes Peasley,
Miss Georgia Maddox and Miss Marion
Cowing. Mr. Thomas Kenney is having
a nice stable built on the place he recent
ly bought Of Warren Black. Mr. J. E.
Turner is master workman.-A. Burdett
Burrill and wife OF Ellsworth are visiting
Mr.. S. ID. Eldredge, who is in very feeble
health.-S. +. Peakes is reco vering from
a serious illness.-Mr. Sanfo rd Weber.
has gone to Bangor to work in Morse's
mill B. Black and Sanborn Pond
have gone to Great Works for the season.
H. p Burrill is improving his store by
coat of paint.-P. B. Aiken will open a
photograph studio here soon.-Mrs. Addie
Bennett of Bucksport is visiting friends
here.-A. Burdett Burrill and wife and
Mrs Nellie Turner, visited L. NJ. Blood
and wife of East Bucksport, Saturday.
SURRY.
Rev. H. T. Day who went to Wiscasset
after his wife, returned home, Wednes-
day. Mrs. Day is slowly improving
Mrs. Harriet Treworgy, has gone to SOM
erset, Mass, to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Ella Davis of that place. Miss Flora Mil
liken has resumed her position as organist
at the Baptist church.-Mr X. N. Os-
good, who has been confined to the house
with bad cold, is able to be out again,
but unable to attend to his business -
Mr.. G. W. Allen is very sick at his home
on Main street.-Reuben Cousins who is
at work in Bluehill l,a-ning the paint
ers trade spent Sunday at home-Capt
H. G.. Herrick of the schooner Kentucky,
sailed from this port, Friday Mrs. Da-
RUS Saunders died very suddenly of heart
disease at her home at West Surry, Sun
day.
Kennebec.
LITCHFIELD CORNER.
Gilmore C. Bosworth has moved from
the Bartlett farm to the Lambert farm,
which he recently bought. The Reading
Union met with Mrs. T. p. Thayer. last
Tuesday evening. The meeting was very
iptoractinp Tho neyt me etipr will no Mt