Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-01-20

Houlton has a merchants exchange.
Hampton is talking of having lodge
of Odd Follows.
Foxes are said to be increasing fas. III
Androscoggin county.
1t takes "a letter two days to go from
Blaine postoifice to Mars Hill distance
OF half mile.
A citizen OF Stockton Springs is al
Johannesburg, where he is superinten dent
of a gold mine
One Lewiston firm has $1,000 worth OF
cord wood ready to haul into the city
when snow comes
st. Louis, Philadelphia Baltimore and
| Boston, are represented in the boom in
cottage building at Dark Harbor, Isles
| boro
| Searsport has an evangelist speak or
| who is making about as wa.m a time as
| the famous religious war in Searsport
| about fifty years ago.
They tell us that a former Lewiston
man has cleared up $50, 600 in the broker
age business in Boston. It's needless to
add he didn't do it in a Maine bucket
shop.
During the year 1895 there were built
in the Bath district six sohooners, five
barges, four sloops and three steamers or
/ s vessels in all with a gross tonnage Of
ll,Sl7.9s and u net tonnage of 9SS7.sl
Oliver Van Meter, distinguished as the
only colored man in the town of Deer
Isle. with its population of 5000, was
married recently. Mr. Van Meter is
seventy seven years old but that is lust
the prime of life on Deer Isle.
The Brunswick. Union Veterans
Union Association claim thcv have more
soldiers in their society who lost legs and
arms or received wounds in battle during
the late Civil war than any other society
of equal numbers in New England
Hon. Charles G. Belamy of Kittery.
now eighty wears of age, is the old
est member of the Legislature now living |
in York county. He was Il member Of the
House of Representatives in the wears
1912 and 1913, fiftyfour years ago, during
the administration Of Governor Fairfield,
and of the Senate in 1916 and 1877
Three months ago lady gave Bel
fast ieweler a diamond ring, valued at
s75, to clean. The iewelcr put the ring in
his pocket which was the last he saw Of
1t The ring was advertised, but without
avail. Monday the ring was recovered.
being found in the possession of a young
lady whose brother found il at the depot |
Bangor Commercial: AS a contribu.
tion to the problem Of State employment
of conviots, of which subject the Com
mercial recently made editorial mention, |
ii may be added that this ptrplexing qucs
tion has been at least temporarily solved
by the state of Mississippi which has
abolished its lease system and is now EN-
ploying the convicts on farms owned by
the State. The results after about three
years trial of this method are reported to
be satisfactory in every way The state
gets profit from convict labor, and the
conylcts are in better health and under
better conditions generally han they were
when employed for private profit.
Superintendent Of Schools +. W Lord, |
Of Ellsworth, was surprised a few days
ago to receive handsome book from a |
newspaper published in London. Eng. |
He was unable to account for such lihcr- |
alltN until he recalled that several months |
ago he had read in the paper of a prize
being offered for the best poem on some
incident occurring in church, and on
the impulse of the moment he had sent a
little poem which he had read in lodge
some time before. He had entirely forgot
Ten it until the receipt OF the book called
ii to mind searching through the paper
he fouud his little poem, why the Ser
mon Stopped" with the announcement
that f. W. Lord poet, Of Ellsworth, |
Maine, L. 5. A, had won the prize.