Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-03-21
BITS OF MAINE NEWS.

Mechanic Falls is to put In an electric
light plant. A. C.. Rowell of Berlin. Is
he contractor, and corporation will be
iormed
The schooner Lula. of Millbridge, was
found on the beach at Robbinst0n,
Me, Friday morning, full Of water
with her rudder gone, and no signs IF
her crew Tugs hauled her off and
hauled the vessel to Red Beach
Biddeford city fathers met, Thursday
,vening, to clear up the year work.
Mayor Carlos Heard, Alderman Joseph
iouch and Councilman ;. j. Bassford
we're appointed building committee on
he new City hall The other routine busi
less was also transacted.
The Auburn Retail Dealers Assoca
rion has issued paper called the Auburn
Trade Journal, which 1t will continue to
SIS he semi occasionally for the benefit of
Auburn retail trade in the hope of keep
ng 1t from going across the river to Lewis
ton so much as in the past.
George ". True, ex-mayor of Portland.
lied, Friday forenoon. aged II years.
Mr. True was bnrn in Montville, went
Vest returning to Portland in 1866, where
le was in the grain and flour business un-
il his retirement in 1884. For - years
le was surveyor of the port. He is sur
lived by two daughters.
Schooner Richard Hill. 1S4 tons owned
5y J. A. Creighton & Co of Thomaston,
With cargo of lime shipped by that firm
or New York, is on fire at Gloucester and
c is feared will be total loss. She was
luilt at Brandywine, Del, in 1851, and is
yalued at $4,000. There is no insurance on
he vessel but the cargo is insured.
The Bates college students, Thursday.
.eceived word from President Thorne Of
he New England intercollegiate Debst
ng League, that Tufts bad decided to
orfeit to Bates In the debate scheduled
for April 16 Bates. who won from Colby,
Sill meet Boston university, winners of
The debate with Wesleyan at Boston,
April "a.
A town meeting will be held at Cam
bridge, Monday, March 80, to see what
action the town will take in regard to
raising sum of money to go toward
the building Of the Sebasticook & Moose
head railroad There is considerable talk
INDUCED in now in regard to the matter
and it is thought chat at least $4,000 Will
he raised.
The Poverty ball at Town hall, Win
throp, Thursday evening. was well at
tended. Several couples from Augusta
were in attendance. Music was furnished
by Dinsmore's orchestra of Waterville
A prize of So was divided between Emerald
Wood and Miss Iva Fairbanks for appear
ing in the costumes mostly appropriate to
a Povery ball
The new building committee elected,
Friday night, to superintend the construc-
ton of the new City hall at Biddeford,
took charge, Friday, and discharged Con
tractor Fred Emmons, who had en-
awarded the contract by the old commit
tee to complete the building. Mr. En-
mons has retained counsel and will sue
the city for breach of contract.
As Daniel Nutting of Parkman, was
saving wood with horse power for n. NJ
Cobb, Wednesday his clothing caught or
the shaft and he was carried around II
three times. Had his clothing not beer
torn into fragments, the man must hav,
been killed When stripped of clothint
ne was thrown on a pile of wood, insensi
BILE. The doctor speaks favorably of hi
condition.
The slot machines have been banishe,
from Bangor. During Mayor Snow
term of office, the machines prospered, bu