Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-09-05

recently received an order VOr 20 cases
Of corn salve boxes. The number OF
boxes in this order will amount to
160. 500. ss
The Madison Wooden mills are all
running on full time and the pulp mill
has all the business It can attend to
and everybody who wants work ~
employed.
The Wiilimantic Linen Company.
W.llimantic. are making preparations
for large cut of birch the coming
fall: the crews VIII go in about Sep
tember Is.
are getting ready to build dam AMI
will place water wheel in position ID
furnish power for their mill the COM
ing winter.
The Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle
Granite Company have about 60 men
and six horses at work. and are operat-
ing three steam drills at their quarry
at Waldoboro.
Cyrus Flagg Of Brunswick. has be-
gun the manufacture of 100000 well
brick. He is the only person who un-
dertakes the manufacture of well brick
in that section.
A large brick chimney so feet in
height is being erected for the three
new llilns now being built at the Port
land Stoneware Company's works at
Deering Point.
NJ Nj. Richards & Co. have started
up their clothing manufactory in Waldo
Iar f,,lI f.,H nY1n
They employ 20 hands in the shop and
25 or more outside.
At Pejepscot the paper company is
building large paper mill and also
erecting six double tenement houses.
1t is expected that the new mill will
be running about the first OF December.
S. II. Mann and Jordan of Casco.
have purchased lot S5x125 opposite
the Portland & Rumford Falls station
at Poland and will begin work at once
upon a large store and steam grist
mill.
Fred Fuller, George Grant and Will:
Getchell of Unity. are doing quite a
business canning peas and beans.
They have already put up 400 cans Of
peas and 1900 cans of beans and are
still at 1t.
The Rumford Falls Times hears that
the Blanchard Twitchell Company will
do no numbering at Bemis this season
and that their railroad track is to be
winter it is expected.
Day Bros. of Wesley, are building a
large mill near the railroad depot in
Princeton for the manufacture of diff
ferent articles of wooden ware. 1t is
expected that Is or 20 men will be en-
ployed in and about the mill.
The union shoe factory, Ellsworth.
which has been shut down for two or
three weeks while account of stock
was being taken, opened up again.
Monday. running almost full, and with
prospects for good fall and winters
work.
The York Mill, Bfddeford, has a gov
ernment order which requires 100, 900
pouifds of cotton. 1t is for the heavy
idark1i brown goods from which 'lhe
regular army uniforms are made and
in addition to other. orders it means
lots of work.
The Newport Woolen Company,
Newport, have just completed a long
tressle at their mill yard where they
Will have their coal unloaded and
stored in the future The work has
'been done by the crew of the Maine
Central Railroad. ita e
The Eastport sardine factories are
now running day and night Fish are
very plentiful, bringing only one dollar
per hogshead, which is a small price
in comparison with $50 which has at
times been paid per hogshead for the
little finny fellows.
Several crews of Cherryfield lumber
men will be sent up river next month
to prepare for the logging season.
which is fast approaching. 1t is un-
derstood that the Campbells and the
Nas'hes will operate quite extensively
the coming fall and winter.
The Washington county b1ueberry
crop has been something of a failure,
as it usually is about every other year.
A. T. Stewart & Son and Wyman
Brothers of Cherryfield, have been
packing all the berries they were able
to buy. but the pack will be very light.
An addition is being built on the
west end of the Atlantic Sardine Com
pany's factory, Lubec. to be used as a
can shop. Another building 5Ox25 has
been erected on the wharf next to the
street, one end to be used as an office.
the rest of the building as a storage
room.
Roderick Sutherland of Brewer, has
returned home from Treats Point,
Frankfort, where he has been lumber
ing this summer. He has cut 200, 900
of as fine pine as can be found in any
part of the State. About 1O0,0O OF the
timber has been sent to Bucksport to
be sawed.
Superintendent Emery started the
North Anson corn canning operations.
Monday. and put up II 900 cans in the
afternoon. Corn looks we'll and
promises to yield we'll in most cases.
The dry weather affected some pieces
on the up land. Norridgewock began
canning, Monday.
The S. D. Warren Company, West
brook, lis putting in new machinery for
cutting paper of any thickness into
various widths. The first machine
which is the latest improved pattern is
being placed in room No. 10, and takes
the Mace Of a non china which hoe l,oov,