Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-18
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One Weeks Winnowings of News
Novelty and Nonsense.

One Weeks Winnowings of News,
Novelty and Nonsense.
The freshet at Machias broke the lower
boom, ana 100000 logs ran into tidewater,
The fume in Getchell's grist mill has
gone out, stopping the electric lights for
a few weeks.
Perhaps the youngest family in the
whole State lives in the town of Clinton,
here the average age of father, mother
and daughter is but little over ten
years The fat her is seventeen and the
mot her fourteen.
Fire at Oakland last Friday destroyed
nine buildings, including the machine
shops of the Waterman tool company and
the Oakland machine company. The loss
is estimated at $4,000, with but small
part covered by insurance.
The Aroostook towns are growing
There is a prospect of nine dwelling
houses to be erected upon single street
in Fort Fairfield the coming season, and
Presque Isle and Caribou carpenters are
counting on the busiest season they have
had for years.
or longevity u MORSE utlOllS IilS " "
F. Melvin, OF Rockland, that died last
Thursday rather carried away first
honors He was thirty-eight years old,
but never saw sick day or refused his
food in all that time. He had been driven
on soap cart for the past ten years with
out intermissio
1t would seem that the agitation for
wide tires was bearing fruit. Rockport,
at the last annual meeting, voted to
exempt from taxation, all vehicles with
+ tires exceeding five inches in width. The
result expected is that the heavily
/ laden lime wagons will not continue to
ruin he roads under this arrangement.
In Fairfield there are three sisters and
one brother living within sight OF each
other, whose combined ages aggregate
. 31S years. This fact in no way impairs
their good health and enjoyment Of life,
They are Mrs. Conner, eighty-five;
Mrs. Drew, eighty-one; Mrs. Totman,
seventy-six and Mr.. c. F. Bryan, seventy
six.
Aroostook farmers are going into the
potato business more extensively than
ever this spring, and tons upon tons OF
fertilizers are being purchased by them.
Aroostook's annual fertilizer bill has
averaged s75O, 900, and it is believed that
this. year: it: will materially exceed the
figures, perhaps reaching we'll up to
million.
The insurance companies every year
pay handsome sum into the State treas
ury. In 1894 their taxes amounted TO
So, 1884 divided as follows: Fire Sl4,-
pa Oh; life, 81, 3s0.63; accident, s1,063.67
In 1893 the fire companies paid s16, IS;
life, S11, 726.07; accident, SS79.42, footing
up so, 109.37. Thus there was an increase
in 1894 of s3,57.s7.
A long distance race between two Maine
ships ended Thursday morning in very
close finish, ii not absolutely tie. The
ships were the Tam O'Shanter," of
Portland, and THE Wandering jew" Of
Camden. Both vessels left Hong Kong on
the same day, the Tam OShanter" an
hour or so in the lead, and both arrived
at Sandy Hook lghtship, Wednesday,
the Tam O'Shanter" still holding her
lead.
There will not be very much railroad
building in Maine this season, but the
average will be maintained. About
twenty-four miles remain to be built on
the Wiscasset & Quebec railroad before it
reached, Burnham. The building OF the
sixty mile Ashland branch Of the Bangor
d Aroostook depends upon the decision
Of the people Of Aroostook at the polls,
but the branch is likely to be constructed
over one of the various routes suggested.
A letter is being sent out from the State
school department in relation to the
summer school for teachers. These
schools will be held at Fryburg, North
port and Foxcroft campmeeting grounds.
Posi- IDLY schools will held at Orono and
Turner. The schools are intended to give
instruction in music, physical culture,
drawing, civics, the common English
branches, nat ure studies and child study,
and to exemplify the methods used in
the best schools. There will be no charge
for tuition.
William Weeks, of Bunker Hill, eighty
four years old, has been making two trips
a day with two yokes of oxen from his
wood lot to Damariscotta pond, and an
eighty five-year old Rockport man is seen
out horseback riding occasionally, but
the Sheepscot Echo is excusabIe for
thin king that one of its neighbors, Mrs.
Sarah Matthews, yet takes the lead. That
lady was Gig hty-six years old last Janu-
airy, but the Echo reports seeing her out
coasting recently, and thoroughly enjoy
ing it, too.