Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-21
OVER THE STATE.
Choice Bits OF News Selected for Our Maine
Readers.

Deering has laid 1174 square yards of
brick sidewalk this year.
Lewiston is consuming over four mil
lion gallons of water day.
The Paris manufacturing company is
finding it quite difficult to keep up With
orders.
The topic for the next meeting of the
Ellsworth board of trade will be "Our
Hardwood Growth
The latest railroad talk is of branch
TO connect the Rumford Falls and
Rangeley Lakes road and Andover.
One Vinalhaven firm shipped 900
quintals of homeless fish to South America
last week besides filling large orders from
New York
IA Short Course of Popular Dancing
Lessons is the somewhat startling
caption under which Rev. Vim. Forsyth
is giving series of Sunday night talks at
the Elm street chapel at Bucksport.
Aunt Betsey Gray of South Paris, who
is 50 years old, does her own housework,
and is as smart and spry as most women
of so. She Is making her nice black
dress without the help of any dressmaker.
The Bangor Commercial says: Over
$500 has been sent within the past few
days to Miss Grace Kimball, in Van,
Turkey, for the relief of the Armenians.
Another sum will be sent in few days.
Oliver Young of Gouldsboro, killed last
week an old bear and cub and a deer
pretty good for one-armed hunter, he
having lost the other a number of years
III tbnr,,ht fn In
unloaded
The field day which will be held in
Rockland, the first Wednesday in June by
the Patriarch Miltants of the State, will
be an affair of magnitude-in fact the
first Odd Fellow session of State import
ance ever held in Rockland. Both rcgi-
mcnts of the State will be present with
fine bands, and there will be about 1000
men in line.
Mr.. G. l.. Bates of Livermore Falls has
"a small lobster preserved in alcohol. Its
body is about the size of a robin S egg.
This lobster was found in the stomach of
pickerel caught in the Dead river region
10y Mr. Bates this fall. The lobster,
though very small one, is as perfectly
formed as any that was ever caught on
the Maine coast
Dispatches from Constantinople say
that Gurdian of Alleppo, natutalizd
American citizen. has been arrested and
sentenced to prison for life and is on his
way to Constantinople. The Turkish
officers refused to let the United States
consular agent see him. Seropc Armenag
Gurdiean, an Armenian, graduated at
Bowdoin College, class Of ~.
Rev. W. 7. Chapman, pastor of the NJ.
f.. church at South Paris, Is man who
from extensive travel has improved his
opportunity to acquire information
4 fter travelling in 2S states as financial
agent for Western university he says,
II find that the State of Maine has
suffered less from the financial panic than
any state that l visited" He has shown
his faith, too, by loca ting in Maine.
Waldoboro has among other good things
IL iiourishing shoe factory. a first class
clothing mandatory, a splendid corn
and pea pacing plant, one of the best
steam laundrics, a fine variety wood
working MILL several grain mills,
numerous lumber mills, a superior granite
quarry, u complete newspaper and job
printing Office a rushing confectionery
mandatory, well equipped lumber
yard, busy sail loft, and many of these
industries are running nights to fill
orders.
St. James Episcopal church at Old
Town Is to have two memorial windows:
One the gift of Chief Justice Fuller, who
was at one time n resident Of Old Town,
in memory of his mother; the other, the
gift of Mrs. Jameson, in memory of her
late husband Col Charles ID. Jameson,
who was also at one time resident of
this city. The society has recently
erected parsonage which is nearly com
ploted Two hundred dollars for this
parsonage was given by visitors at Bar
Harbor this summer.
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