Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-16
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

1t was the coolest ever known at Lib
erty. Wednesday. The thermometer
registered 36 degrees below. Workmen
had to suspend business in the tannery
1t was so cold.
Charles +. Jefferson of Main street.
Lewiston. who suffered a shock. last Sat
urday morning. died at his home.
Wednesday night, aged So years. He was
one of the most generally known men of
Lewiston. and for years had been a
familiar figure upon the streets.
John Quimby Wood. a former Bucks
port resident now of Honolulu has been
appointed commissioner of public in
struction of that city for a term of
three years. The position pays $4,000 a
year
A meeting of the citizens of waldo
b0ro was held Tuesday evening to meet
Messrs. Joseph Garland & Go. of Port
land, with reference to moving their boot
and shoe manufacturing business to Wal
doboro. Waldoboro will doubtless raise
$1,000 to move the plant and it IS expected
that the factory there will soon be IN
operation.
The project for the incorporation of q
stock company to operate the vacant
last borne fruit in the Sanford Shoe Co.
whose officers are: +. T. Goodwin. presi-
dent F. a. Clark. clerk and treasurer;
L. j. AdNdnduSu. manager. lie ldttDfN y.
which employs POO operatives, will prob
ably be in operation within month
The finances of the town of Fort
Fairfield have not been in as good con-
dition in the past four or five years as
at present, the town being practically
out of debt. The average expense for
the support CT the poor during the past
few months has been but about $50 per
month.-Bangor News.
f. H. Libby, secretary of the Maina
State Grange, states that the net gain
in membership throughout the State
has been about 400. Mr.. Libby also
remarks the interesting fact that
| the degree team of Skowhegan
| Grange will work two or more degrees
during the State Grange meeting in
Bangor.
A crew of about so men are at work
blasting at Cushing's island. Portland
Harbor, where the Notifications are to
be built. They have blasting enough
to do to keep them busy all winter. A
small crew of men are at Great Dia-
mond, keeping the machinery and other
| things in order until the season will
admit of renewal of the work.
Judge Strout of the Maine supreme
court, has issued writ OF certiorari, di-
recting the Biddeford police commission
ers to be present at he January term In
Saco and show cause why Frank Irish
who was recently removed from the spe
cial police force, should not be reinstated
Mr. Irish holds that his removal was IN
violation of the rules of the commission
no notice of hearing having been him.
The case of the town of Wells VS.. Chas
7. Guptill, charged with digging clans III
Wells without the permit of the select
men, came up before Judge Cleaves IN
| Biddeford, Wednesday. and was dis
missed on technicality. The defence
sustained it's point that the warrant for
! the town meeting in which it was voted
that he selecmen's permission must be
secured to dig CLANS in Wells, was illegal.
as 1t had been directed TO Oscar J. Hub
bard. constable of the town of Wells and
in his return he signed, O. J. Hubbard
constable: Under the statute this was u
! fatal variance.