The Portland daily press., 1895-01-08

Small. Our next social will be ten
cent social. A fine literary programme IS
being gotten up by Mrs. Marston and
Mrs. Chandler The music in charge OF
Mrs. Arthur Noyes.
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.
A new boom in the business interests
of South Norridgewock has lately been
started by the organization OF the Ken
nebec Clothing Co. This company,
intends to carry on business in manu-
featuring and dealing at wholesale and
retail in clothing.
The stockholders of the Lewiston Mill
corporation, which closed operation,
some four months since, are now and
have been for several weeks past, dis
cussing the question as to the best
measures to adopt to put the corpora
tion upon substantial financial basis,
and again putting their wheels In
motion. meeting will be held tomor-
row to decide the matter.
The question Of where the G. A r. en-
campment will be held in February will
be settled probably this week, as the
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six members of the G. A. r of the State,
will soon hold a meeting for that pur-
pose.
Hallowell rejoices that there is not a
store or tenement in the city to rent.
Mr.. Eli Cook of jackson is nearly 81
years old yet he daily works at the
blacksmith's forge, and turns, ont just
as good work as ever.
f. .Lefipgwell, an apple buyer from
Cleveland, Ohio, who has been in Gar
diner for the past three weeks, has
bought 25 carloads of this fruit. Each
car contains about 40 barrels. The
varieties shipped are mostly Baldwins,
Greenings, Ben Davis, King and North
ern Spys. BellfioWers are not handled
by him on account of their liability to
bruise in shipment.
Rockland is complaining over its pos
Gal accommodations. Since the recent
change in the railroad service letters
mailed at certain hours will not reach or
be delivered in Boston for early 4S hours.
The railroad claims that it does not pay
to run those trains during the winter,
while the people claim that the liberal
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to continuation of the service through
the winter.
The ice business is rushing on the Ken
nebec. All the companies above South
Gardiner have excellent fields. 1t has
been very difficult to scrape off the snow
on account of the very hard crust, many
of the companies finding it necessary to
use common breaking-up field plows to
get through it. A number of concerns
began planing,- Saturday, and it is re-
during the present week. although many
of the companies will not begin to house
for two weeks hence.
1t was not Miss Maggie Callaghan of
Houlton who lost her life in the sad
calamity at Melrose, Mass, where two
women were burned to death, but Miss
Addie Hannigan, daughter of Thomas
Hannigan of Nuw Limerick. Her re-
mains were brought home for interment,
and the funeral occurred from the Cath
olic church in Houlton.
There were eleven applicants in Ban
gor, but only seven appeared for the
examination for appointment as cadet
to West Point from the fourth district,
as follows: Walter NJ. Hunt, son of DR..
Hunt; Ralph Morrison, son OF Charles
H. Morrison; Richard Porter, son of
Colonel J. W. Porter: and Edward Moor,
son of T. S. Moor of Bangor; Arthur S.
Cowan OF Orono, Arthur B. Putnam of
Danforth, and Everett Sawyer of Old
town.
The new pulp mill at Pejepscot, which
has been i'll process of construction for
two years, started last week. The plant
cost nearly $500, 900. The output of the
mill will be 60 tons a day. and will be
used by the Lisbon Falls fibre and sui
phite mills and the Bowdoin Paper Man
ufacturing Company.
Under the terms of the agreement be-
tween the granite manufacturers OF New
England and their employees, by which
the trouble Of 1892 was settled, all dis
puted matters were to be left to ar bitra-
zion. question Involving the rate OF
wages Of a majority of the granite cut
tiers at the Mt. Waldo works in Frankfort
has lust been successfully settled in that
way. By it's terms workmen of the first
class will receive thirty cents an hour.
RAILROAD MATT ERS.