The Portland daily press., 1896-05-09

URDAY MORNING, MAY
,sTATEsToPIos OF. INTEREST.
=. +. Smith, lumberman at Sebago
LAKE, who lives at Lake Station was
shocked down Thursday by q pile of logs
snaG gob loose and foated down stream.
an ana it is feared was injured internally.
ne was pu5 on his steam launch and
TAKEN to his home.
IN Ghe current by the bridge at Dexter,
salmon was seen to jump out of the
Water Thursday that weighed Just fif-
Ceen pounds. This proves that there are
salmon IN the lake.
luis said th at few miles from Dexter,
are found large snowdrifts almost in the
road.
a man who lives near the pond at Dex-
gsr on low lot keeps hens, but just now
ne wishes they were ducks for he has to
leeu them on raft The henhouse is
enGlrely surrounded by water and the
"'Jho 5COu10S w ~ 10 NY udVlHdUtOA
ana several times day you will see the
raIG on trip to the hen abode where the
fowls are roosting, far above the water or
elsenoatlng around on boxes and tinpans.
A pine tree which was received recently
at the mill Of J. G. Wyman of Diokvale,
was l03 feet long, topped off eleven
inches, and SCALED 1400. feet
Aroostook towns are in for progress.
Island Falls with characteristic enterprise
mas resolved to Introduce a system of
wafer works into that huslting town.
flahk sidewalks are also gradually max
Ing thelr appearance, while in Ashland,
as soon as the season is favorable several
hundred lockwood shade trees will be set
out.
A new industry has opened up in Pts
oataquls county, that of shipping baan
poles. One farmer there has Just shipped
Two hundred dozen small cedar poles to
| asMassachusetts town where the gardeners
are willing to pay good prices for them.
Several houses were entered by burglars
| at Augusta Wednesday night, among
| them Hon. s. w. Lakes and small
amounts of money, and food taken.
Toby Candor"felt aggFieved because be
was overlooked.
BY decree Of Judge Foster of the Su.
preme court, George B Randlette, re-
ceiver Of the Peoples Loan and Building
Association at Richmond is paying the
fourth and final dividend of 14.7S rel
cent, making total of a.. 7S per cent
| Ancient Pemaquid didn't have any
board of trade, but it had Its industries
as the recent discovery of the remains Of
two clay tobacco pipe factories goes tt
show.
Great fishing is reported from SaDattus
pond, and numerous fishing parties are
| arranging to visit there. Black bassS are
being caught in large numbers and they
are evidently multiplying very fast il
these waters.
| A sufficient sum has been raised at Raw
mond village to engage Rev. Mr.. Cousins
OF Gray to occupy the desk in Unior
church, Raymond one-half the time the
coming summer.
For the first time in fifty or sixty years
1
Stearns Pond down Trull Brook, dis
tance of one mile into Highland lake
| This drive consisted of about $50, 900 feet
OF he1mook, spruce and pine about one
half of it hemloek--b belonging conformity
to George W. Newcomb and Bridgtor
Lumber company.
| Speaking of Bertha Webb's $4,000 violin
| and $500 violin-bow, 1t is said mar
in Bridgton has fiddle for which he has
| refused S125-an instrument old and will
romantic history. This. is valuable
one as the prices of such things run Ii
q country town.
Few people are aware of the magnitude
OF the bu rs in Harrington in the
line OF ing shovel handle blocks
| there goes the last car of blocks for this
year" said railroad official Saturday
| land it makes 23 cars we have sent out. .
Haoh car contained 500 dozen-makine
II, 500 dozen shipped from this station.
| Rangeley Lakes is responsible for the
| following: Last fall Bill Raymond lost q
So bill around the Simon Oakes place.
where he was boarding It was gone and
no amount OF search brought it to light.
This spring, when the dressing that had
pecn nauIeQ nom GnS barn was being
spread OH the field. the long lost bill
bobbed up-not very sayory, but still
legal tender.
In some of the county law libraries the
loss Of books from borrowing has been
so large that q strict watch is kept. 1t is
told of the chief Justice that whom hold
ing court in Maine city he went into
| the library for a book when to his sur
prise as he started off with it, young
man said: "Hold on judge 1 must
have receipt for that book before it is
taken away"
The coroner's jury at Waterville decid.
ed that Alfred Perry killed at Benton by
Maine Central train Wednesday, a deaf
mute, having been warned, came to his
death by his own carelessness
The new steamer Katahadin the largest.
best and fastest in the Moosehead Lake
fleet, was built by II. B. Harrington OF
Bath, is one hundred and eleven feet
over ALL and will be used principally for
passenger service between Kineo and