Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-03-08
STATE HOUSE.
Farmers Institutes Arranged
to Be Held, Next Week.
Several Mounted Specimens Received
at Fish and Game Department.
Orono Municipal Officers Ask Railroad
Commissioners TO Inspect Bridge.

municipal officers of Orono, in reference
to the Toll bridge in that town Over
which the Bangor, Orono & Old Town
railroad passes.
They state that the bridge is unsafe
for the electric cars to pass over, and
| ask that hearing be ordered to see il.
shall be constructed and maintained;
what repairs, renewals or strengthen
ing of parts, or if necessary, the man.
ner Of rebuilding such bridge, are re-
qured to make the same safe for the
uses to which it is put. Also to decid9
by whom the expenses of such repairs,
renewals. strengtheninss or rebuilding
of such bridge shall be borne.
A hearing on the matter has been or
dered to be held at the town hall in
| Orono, at 10 o'clock March i.
Farmers institutes have been ar
| ranged for Cumberland and Androscog-
gin counties. according to the followins;
| programmes:
w. L. HASKELL POST HALL. VAR
MOUTH, TUESDAY. MARCH Il.
| 1890 A. NJ Dairy Foods and Feed
ing by Secretary b. w. Mckeen.
100 +. NJ. Soil Fertility" by Prof.
| Chas. D. Woods of Orono
| 40 =. Nj. The Chemistry of Meats
| % (rhapljst,,- nf fThajt. 'nDllinSr -
by Prof Woods.
GRANGE HALL. DANNILLE JUNG
TION. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16
1890 A. NJ. Soil Fertility" by Prof.
| Chas u. Woods
1.3o Z. NJ. Dairy Foods and Feeding. "
by Secretary B. w. McKeen
30 P NJ Corn, Its History, Uses,
Varieties, Methods of Cultivation and
Comparative Values" by Secretary
| B. w. McKeen.
ANDROSCOGGIN GRANGE HALL,
GREENE, THURSDAY, MARCH Il.
| 1890 A. NJ Dairy Foods and Feed
ing" by Secretary r. W. McKeen.
130 F. NJ. Soil Fertility" by Prof
| Chas. y. Woods.
30 p. N. The Chemistry of Meats
and the Chemistry of Their Cooking" 8"
by Prof Woods.
NORLAND GRANGE HALL, EAST
| LtNERMORE. FRIDAY. MARCH Is.
Same programme as at Greene.
1t is expected that cream separations
| will be exhibited at all of these meet
ings. ana a the institute at Greene i
| Babcocll milk tester will be exhibited IN
| operation. All are invited to bring
samples of milk tor testing.
| State Superintendent of Schools w.
! w. Stetson has returned from his vaca-
| tion trip. and is feeling and looking
very much better for having INDUCED
| in a rest from his regular duties. TO
many the way that he has been pass
ing the vacation, in visiting normal
| schools of other states and attending
| teachers meetings, and in many ways
the better fitting himself for his duties
would not seem much like vacation.
but he enjoyed himself immensely, and
| is now ready to take up his work again
| in the same vigorous way that SO
|
| characterzcS him.
Mr.. Stctson upon his arrival, Mon
day, found that he was in receipt Of a
large photograph of the 1872 pound
trout captured at Rangeley lake, last
summer by Prof Morse, the New
Jersey state superintendent.
Hon Edward Wiggin received very
pretty and novel announcement of the
5Oth anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs VII
liam Saunders of Washington. d. c..
Monday.
Mr.. Saunders will be remembered a
the first master of the National Grange
and is a Scotchman by birth.
The card bears in gilt script letters
place of birth of Mr.. Saunders and then
that of Mrs Saunders. after which the
place of their marriage
Opposite Mr. Saunders name is d
Scotch thistle in colors, and opposite
the name of Mrs. Saunders. who was
born in England is the red rose ol
England.
Among the recent additions to the
collection of mounted birds and animals
at the fish and game department is 2
large hedgehog from Elmer Baker OF
Bingham.
Mr.. Carleton received rabbit. q
Wilson snipe and saW-Whet OWL
Monday, from Mr.. Reeves, the Port
land taXidermist, who mounted then
for Wallace Berry, superintendent o.
the Monmouth fish hatchery, who sho
them.
Mr.. Carleton purchased one of tht
largest coons ever seen in Augusta. one
dav recently, and has sent it to crosby
the Bangor taXidermist, to b.
mounted.
1t is suggested that it would pe al
excellent idea to have tablet or some