Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-02

There was never before so much
| building in Bluehill as now.
poplar tree cut at East Gulford. re-
| Gently. was "a feet long 10 inches at the
top and only Is inches at the butt.
Quite a percentage of the lockwood trees
| planted last fall in Aroostook county
were winter-killed. They will be re-
placed.
| There is an old soldier in Lewiston who
| was one of the guards over the body OF
Abraham Lincoln after his death and be-
| Eore the funeral.
| In ten daS between June Sth and
| June is. q Mailing vessels laden with
| Maine ice amounting In all to tonnage
Of $1,000 arrived at Baltimore.
There is a good prospect of Portland
colony of cottages being established In
| the vicinity of Fort Preble South Port
land. as negotiations are underway for
the purchase of available land there
| abouts.
Six granite watering troughs have been
presented to the town of Winthrop by DR..
Thomas Fillebrown OF Portland. and Mr.
Charles Fillebrown and Mrs. n. &. Bux-
ton of Newtonville, Mass, as a memorial
of their father, the late DR.. james Bow
dom ffllebrown of Winthrop.
y large sawmill will be erected at once
| near the Ashland town line, in Sheridan
plantation, on the +. d A. railroad. The
capacity of the mill will be about 1870. o0o
per day. The lumber viii be shipped over
sor, and then by vessel to New York.
After this week the Bates Manufacture
ing Company Will further curtaii its pro-
iuction. The curtailment will be in the
staple Bingham ana quilt departments.
also on damask table cloths. 1t is in
tended to run full time in the flannel and
scersucker departments. The balance OF
The product WHY be resumed as soon as
business warrants IL.
S. w. Foster of Rumford Falls. has the
contract to build the extension to the
otis Falls mill: when completed it win be
capable of turning out 200 tons of paper
per day. The mill when completed viii
he one of the largest and finest in the
world. One part OF Mr.. Fosters contract
is to build chimney 200 feet high, which
will contain 100000 brick.
The small boys who go ''in swimming
at TEACHERS creek. Biddeford. are having
a good time diving for articles AT the
bottom of the river probably brought
there by the freshet. Shoe buttons are
man secured thirty-live strings upon
which there were 2000 buttons. other ar
ticles have been found including tan
shoes. 1t is also said that there is a
great quantity of debris at the big boom
ma a couple of good divers are only wait
ing for clear day TO go down and eX-
plore the bottom there.
Ellsworth American 1t is reported
that a female prototype of the late la
nented Dan O'Brien visited Ellsworth re-
Gently. She was not going to build a rail-
road, but was going to manage big no.
tel at Bar Harbor. She wanted girls
girls for the table and girls for the kit
chen. girls for upstairs and girls for
downstairs. She had no trouble in find
ing girls to fill the positions. She. told
them 10 be in readiness to go to work the
first of June. They are still in readiness.
One of them got tired of waiting and
went to Bar Harbor to investigate. She
ound the hotel but not the housekeeper.
The barn of Mrs. Susan Towle of North
Searsport. is 100 years old, having been
erected in the year 1926 by Mr.. Samuel
Matthews. 1t is in as good state of
preservation as most of the barns which
nave not been built half as long. The
boards We're sawed at Masons mill in
East Belfast. by Richard Stinson, who
built the first mill on Goose river. The
hinges used on the tie-up door until
within few years We're used on the
ioor of the powder magazine at Fort
George ut Castine by the English in the
Revolutionary war and We're secured by
Mr.. Matthews when they abandoned that
place The first school taught in Sears
port, was kept in this barn. 1t was also
Used as a place of religious worship by
The Rev. Mr.. Huston.