Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-09

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The Portland Lincoln club talks of hav-
ing IA field day.
A Caribou minister oficiated at four
funerals. last week.
Machiasport had % births, u marriages
and 10 deaths during 1896.
The Bridgton voters this spring. cut
down appropriations about $1,000.
Brunswick citizens are quietly agitating
the subject of a grand firemens muster,
Fourth of July.
Three daughters in a Cardville family
have died within the last year and a half
nf consumption.
Elmer H. Dearth a former Dover boy,
has been appointed insurance commits
siOner of Minnesota.
North Haven has voted to exempt a
sardine factory from taxation If one shall
be established in that town.
Rev. c. c. Phelan of Westbrook. will
deliver the Memorial day address before
Cloudman Post G. A. r., of that city.
Almond NJ. Thompson of Union, has
been a Free Mason more than half CEN
fury. having received the degrees in ls4o.
Thirty-four ocean steamers have ar
rived at Portland thus far this season. a
larger number than during the entire sea-
son last year.
The numbering crews that have arrived
home from the woods report an excellent
season. They left an abundance of snow
for good hauling.
The young men of Waterford have Or
ganiZed an athletic association. The town
has voted the free use of the town hall
to the association.
Members of the class of 81. B. H. S.
are thinking of arranging a series of card
parties and dances to aid in defraying
graduation expenses.
II.,,rp fvin1
fashioned system of district highway
surveyors; this year she was glad TO re-
adopt the road commissioner plan.
The Foxcroft town reports are out and
show the total resources to be $550l.4
and the liabilities only $500. leaving Il
balance in favor of the town of A1
The most popular social diversion at
present in Ellsworth is a barge ride to
one of the up-river numbering camps and
Il dance and candy-pull or the destruction
OF the cook s larder.
Arno w. King, president of the Els
worth Board of Trade and one of the
leading attorneys of the town. will be the
orator at the Memorial Day exercises of
w. II. II. Rice Post G. a. r.. Ellsworth.
The religious revival is still in progress
at East Blaine. and it is hoped that the
grace of God will strike those indivd-
uals in that locality who have carried on
the business for some time of tearing
down fences. stealing grain and robbins.
hen rooStS.
Some idea of the number of vessels that
come into Portland harbor may be had
from a summary of the arrivals during
the month of February. During that
time 81 steamers. 217 schooners. a brig.
three banks, and one barge comprised.
the arrivals.
Fifty-five years ago March .. Hall l..
Davis of Portland. began his business ca
reer. as Il clerk In "A stationery firm on
location
which he has ever since been engaged.
There is not a single man in trade on
that busy thoroughfare today who was
there when Mr.. Davis began.
station at Hardings. on the bank of a
cove of New Meadows river is a square
stone of granite, moss covered and
antique. 1t appears to mark the grave of
same unknown tailor of ages past but the
theory of a stranger who recently Wis
tied the place is that it marks the spot
where gold is buried.
There are indications of warm fight
over the road recently built from Pop
ham Beach and Small Point, toward which
the town of Phppsburg agreed to pay
$3.50 on condition that the road built
should be satisfactory to the selectmen.
ly built. There will be a hearing before
the county commissioners April eth.
Col. Andrew N. Damrell. U. s. en-
gineer. who for the past two years has
been in charge of the Notifications at
Portland. will return to Mobile where he
was located so many years, and will be
succeeded by Major Richmond l.. HOxie.
Major Hoxie entered the volunteer ser
vice as bugler and private of Co. F.. 1st
Iowa Cavalry. June 49, 1861. In July. 1864.
he entered the military academy at West
Point and graduated in 1868. He was
made a first lieutenant in Sept. 1870 and
Il captain, after IA years service, in June.
1852. He is now a major
Thomas Gilbert of Guilford, who is at
work for a lumber firm on Pleasant river.
recently hauled single load, with one
pair of horses on Il four mile road 2S00
feet of spruce. 1t is said that 1000 feet of
logs will make two cords of wood so that
the above load was equal Az cords Our
informant also says that there was hauled
at the same place on a three turn road.
with IS horses in ten days. $4,000 feet.
Mr.. M. f. McCausland. from whom we
received the above and who has scaled in
the woods many years. says he has never
seen this record equalled.
The Brunswick Telegraph protests
against the statement made at the recent
meeting of the Sons of the Revolution in
Portland, that only one Maine man. Gen.
William Whipple, signed the Declaration
of Independence. Matthew Thornton, a
signer from New Hampshire was born
in Brunswick Maine, at the head of Ma
QUOT bay. where his father resided. The
house was located on the Samuel Dun
ming farm, near the shore where the old
cellar is still to be seen. The house was
burned by the Indians during the Indian
war and Thornton and his family left the
place and settled in New Hampshire.
The annual financial statement of
Aroostook county is interesting reading
for those who are interested in the coun-
tvs finances. The total receipts from all
sources for the year have been $105. sol. -
The expenditures amount to 500, 1902 90
leaving a balance of cash on hand Dec
81. 1896, of $6399.0i. The estimates for the
coming year are considerably more than
for 1896 The amount in round numbers
is 100000 against $45. 500 for last year. The
chief increase is in the item of interest
In the apportionment of county taxes
Houlton is first with &c. 12S.54. A long way
in the rear comes Presuue Isle with s3-
3a3.oS and Fort Fairfield third with 81 973.-
s6.
One of the most peculiar. as we'll as
interesting places in Lewiston, and
there are many, is the Hebrew grocery
store on Lincoln street. On entering
the door one would not be struck at
once with the extraordinary appear
ance of the place, for it is not material
ly different from other stores in its
general appearance But one of the
first things that strikes the eye is a