The Portland daily press., 1898-02-11

inc IA Mid Summer Outing in the Home
Land" or, i'll other words, a week s "trip
| to Maine from July / to July z, 1885.
| The trip as arranged provides for visit
to Portland, Nit. Desert, Bangor, Water
ville Lewiston and Poland Spring. Inc
excursion ia to be conducted by Kay mond
and Whitcomb.
| G. Fl. Nelson. the we'll known horse
man. ls making preparations to take the
stallion Nelson to Boston where he will
| show some of them his heels on the Mill
\ Dam. The old horse Is in fine condition
| this winter, and Is going OH the snow,
| faster than ever.
Mr.. John g. Moore of New York, the
wealthiest and most prominent cottager
| in the summer settlement at Grindstone
Neck, has recently purchased three is
! lands on the coast near Schoodic point
| They are Big Moose, Little Moose, and
| the Welches, and they embrace territory
of about 5000 acres. He intends making
| them into hunting and fishing grounds
for himself and his guests. The plans
have been made for q hunting lodge
which will be a most picturesque struct-
ure. It will be of stone, eighty three feet
in length, thirty feet wide, and two and
one-half stories high. The stone will be
quarried from the neighboring mountain.
There will be accommodations for thirty
guests. The grounds around it will be
beautifully laid out. Mr.. Moore will
probably lay out over $40, 1000 in improve
ments on Schoodio peninsula and these
islands.
A tragic fate seems to have pursued and
overtaken the Milliken family of ELS
worth. Every male member of the family
in this generation, has been drowned.
Harry and Lewis Milliken, who were lost
in the schooner ssCharles A. Briggs last
week, were the two last whom unmerciful
disaster has overtaken. In the year 1876,
Leander Milliken, the father of these
young men, was lost in the schooner
Alvarado during a storm off this coast
In October 1888, the schooner Captain
John of Ellsworth was run down in fog
on the Shoals by the hree-masted schoon-
er. Robert g. Dun, andsthe entire crew Of
the Ellsworth schooner were drowned, in
Guiding Leander Milliken, Jr., who was
master. and his brother Edward, acting
as mate. Of the whole family but one
daughter. survives. Mrs. Charles Witham
Of Surry.
The state assessors will issue an
additional blank with the usual ones this
year, to the assessors of the various
CiUl0S, tOnuS anu pltsA WltSu W Ala
refer to the poultry industry. The blanks
are to be issued for the purpose of statts-
tical information, as provided for by an
act of the last legislature, and not for the
purpose of taxing the poultry. The ques
tions asked will be the total number of
hens, turkeys ducks and. geese; the esti-
mated value of the poultry produced; the
class; and the total value of eggs and
poultry. Those who have given the matter
any thought, say that there is a great
surprise in store for the people of Maine,
who do not realize the large amount of
poultry raised
1t is understood that the work on the
Rockland breakwater, which was GUS
pended on January 10. will be resumed
about March, under the direction of
Superintendent r. f. erie. The scows
and lighter have been hauled up in Boston,
and the dispatch boat is Tuoored in a
sheltered cove at Bald island, where the
granite for the breakwater is quarried.
Mr.. Charles Fl. Souther of Boston, the
contractor, is having q compressor put In
at the works, to run all the machinery by
compressed air.
Secretary McKeen OF the state board of
agriculture, reports that all OF the fairs
in Maine which were entitled to the state
stipend will receive it with one exception.
This particular fair advertised that
Everything would go'' at its exhibition,
meaning that pool selling and such
things would be tolerated by the manage
ment, aud for this reason the state aid
has been withdrawn. The figures col
lected in connection with the fairs are Of
interest. The total amount of premiums
and gratuities paid was $l6, 67a. 81;
amount OF trotting purses, $29, 952. 10;
amount of entry fees for trotting purses,
So, 7o2. %; actual cost of trotting purses.
sl2, 229. 90. The number of societies which
now receive the state stipend is 40. an in
crease of four over 1896.