Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-10
BIS OF MAINE NEWS.

| Fort faffflelu mas looo iiofStS dlii Only
five pairs of oxen.
The Lewiston and Auburn Law Club
was reorganized this week.
RockIand's first milk inspector. DR. f.
Il, Freeman, was chosen this week.
Oxford's county treasurer, Judge Will
SON has made fine map of South Paris.
Mr.. and Mrs Isaac 7. Knowles of South
Chesterviile recently celebrated their goi-
den wedding.
Rev. Clinton Hay Of Boston. has bought
lot at Bridgton and will erect a sum
mer house thereon.
The York county fair has secured
through Speaker Reed, Troop f, Sd cav
airy, for next week.
Mr. and Mrs Ephram Hartweu of
Strong. recently observed the 5oth ami
versary of their marriage.
Hiram Chase, Belfasts oldest mer-
chant, has retired from active business,
after 63 years as a jeweler.
The lead pipe thieves are getting in
their work in several vacant houses and
new buildings in Lewiston.
George Poor and Bert Drinkwater of
Belfast, started recently on tandem
trip to the White Mountains.
Sedgwick reports successful season,
both hotels and all the boarding houses
being filled with summer visitors.
IL W.
mitted to the Penobscot bar has formed
copartnership with f. j. Martin Esq.
of Bangor.
The annual reunion of the Haslam fam
lily. one of the largest in Hancock county.
will be held at the town hall in Waltham.
Saturday, Sept Is.
The family of Maurice Spillane of Lew
| iston, has been sorely afflicted the past
few months. His wife died in May. a
daughter in June, and Wednesday, Mr..
Spillane died
1t is claimed that James G.. MARYLAND,
who formerly lived in Biddeford and who
was reported dead two years ago, is alive
and in the L. S army, where he has en-
| listed for three years.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Flora Macdonald. the Boston artist
whose window took the prize at the
woman's pavilion at the Columbian fair.
| to Mr. Edward w. Larrabee of Bath. Me
| The oldest dn point of membership of
the members of the York county bar are
| Judge William G. Chadbourne of Alfred
| who was admitted at the April term 1871
| and Ira T. Drew at the October term of
| the same year.
Arthur Fairfield of Biddeford, has sue
| cessfully passed the physical and mental
examinations for Annapolis Naval Acad-
envy. Mr.. Fairfield is Il graduate of
Thornton Academy, Saco, and has at
ttiIutb bbWuoiii ColltSt TWO ytdlS.
William Bradford agreed to shave Ca
lief Wilder's pig if the Machias papers do
not contain some favorable railroad news
this week. Blley's friends are straining
every nerve to get some favorable word
that he may be relieved of the disagree
able job.
The Rockland and Vinalhaven tele-
phone and telegraph is a sure go. Par
| ties interested have been hustling and
| preliminary matters are now definitely
settled and arrangements to build the
| line will commence at once. The only
thing that remains to be settled is the tel
ephone contracts.
| My friend, the hypercritic is Disguised
with the means by which justice is adj
mnistered hereabouts, since he heard one
| of the jurors at the late criminal term of
| court i'll this city ask workman who
was cleaning an arc lamp how often the
| peSky things had to be filled with Oil
! My friend the hypercritic, says that any
| one who doesn't know an electric lamp
| when he sees one isn't fit to sit on the
| fate of Il fellowman.--Lin-o-type in Ban
| gor Commercial
Mr.. e b. Winslow of the Portland
| Stoneware Company. says that the re-
| turn of good times has been visible for
! the last two or three weeks. His COM
| pany has done a great deal of business in
| places to the westward of Portland. and
| from those regions come the signs of
| business activity. Mr.. Winsow has been
preparing for the increased demand and
during the summer has built two new and
very large kilnS at the factory. These
are now about completed and ready for
| the fall work.
The w. c. 7. U. had a lively meeting at
| Old Orchard, Sunday, in which the en-
| forcement or non-enforcement of the pro-
hibtory law was the question under dis
| cussion. Mrs. J. Thornton a Canadian
woman, claimed that lax enforcement in
| Maine is a great barrier to the success of
| the temperance cause elsewhere. when
| we ask for prohibitory law in Canada.
| they point us to Maine" she said. To
| this one of the other speakers replied that
| Canadians and others bring Il great deal
| of liquor to Old Orchard