The Portland daily press., 1896-04-16

tested in the rebuilding of the Putnam &
Rice block at Houlton. The owners in
sist that they have legal right to repair
or rebuild as they see fit. They have
promised to defer repairing the building
until the last of this week, and by that
time the attorneys for the town will
have decided whether they can hold an
injunction or not. The Inhabitants of
the town insist on having brick block
Nothing but brisk demand for ice
can prevent dull times on the Penobscot
during the first two months of the ship
ping season, for even If the lumber mar
ket should improve, as now seems likely,
the Bangor mill men will not be in a
position to profit by the higher prices
they won't have any lumber to sell. or
at least, not much. The stock of logs
carried over for spring saving on this
this season it is only 16, 600, 900, which is
not enough to carry the mills along until
the first drives get in.
Thousands of tons of old iron are pur-
chased by W. G. Alden, the Camden
anchor maker, for anchors are forged
largely from cast-off iron. The material
Is cut into small pieces by great shears,
that clip through the iron as easily as a
cheese knife slices cheese. The pieces
are bound into bundles by strong wires,
and are then fused into the FORCES. Then
they are pounded and welded into the
parts of the anchor. some workmen
fashioning rings, others shaping the
fiukes, others hammering out the palms,
and others forging the shanks. Then the
completers take the different parts and
fuse and weld them into the finished an
Choir.
Last Monday evening, says the Lewis
ton Sun, two women were looking
through the glass panels of the store of a
harness maker on Main street. gazing at
the magnificent dapple gray horse which
has scared so many timOrOus women, as
it looms up over the passer-by, at the
open doorway. "Isn't he perfectly love
ly9" said one admirer, as her eyes de-
voured its papier maohe comeliness
"I'd just like to walk right in there
and hug him II he isn't alive!'' But the
beautiful animal demonstrated in a
ho(a)rse voice, ''Neigh, neigh, Pauline p
The Kennebec bar proposes to have an
excursion and dinner on some day dur
ing the session of the May law court in
Augusta.
Otis Merrill, of Augusta, claims to
have found the first grasshoppar of the
season. He discovered it, Monday, in
the warm sunshine. and proposes to keep
it safe from the cold until warm weather
comes.
The officers of the State Agricultural
Society were in session at the Exchange
hotel, Lewiston, Tuesday. Secretary
Twitchell submitted the final copy of the
premium list and the same is now in the
hands of the printer to be issued the
first of May. There was added to the list
of stake races a 2.26 class, purse $500,
conditions same as with the others For
this there is promised large number of
entries, tho date of closing being May 1.
A Jonesport boy elm bed a tree men
were cutting down and then detied
Thorn to go on. They did, the tree fell
and with 1t the boy, who sustained in
Juriss SO severe as to require medical
attendance.
Searsport expects to have new water
works and nothing short of one o { the
finest sytems in eastern Maine with pres
sure enough to drive the water iuto the
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