Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-24
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ship banner for marriages. 1t had five
weddings, one morning, this week, and
! that was not an unusual number.
South Thomaston reports the most
exciting runaway of them all. 1t
seems that Frank Stanton, who lives
J near that village, left his. horse stand
ing with a tighten lantern in the
wagon. The horse took fright and ran.
| the lantern upset, and the. blaze that
/ resulted didn't soothe the horses feel
| ings. The way the blazing team dashed
down the street was enough to startle
| the most apathetic, but George Gar
diner, who drives the Clark Island
| mail, finally stopped the horse, after
the laprobe and dasher We're burned.
That grand steel pier at Old Orchard
cannot have proved very bad invest
ment Its total receipts for the sea-
son Were about $4,000. Now they are
wondering if the winter storms will
avail against it,
Noticing the rumor that the man.
ayers of the University of Maine,
| whose needs for ten years were sup
posed to have been literally provided
| for two years ago, We're planning to
ask for another big appropriation from
| the Stata I.ppiSia tIIra thiS ututar ths
Portland Press remarks: I'VE hope
every college in the State, Bowdoin,
Colby and Bates, will go to the Legis-
lature, this winter, and ask an APP
preparation. Each and all of them can
present just as valid claims as the
State College. Each and all of them
are just as useful to the State, and
each and all of them are just about as
much farmers colleges as the institu-
| ton at Orono."
Matter are moving very favorably 1t
the South Paris Savings Bank 1t is
now four weeks since the bank re-
opened for business and new deposits
are coming in quite abundantly while
| the withdrawals are less than usual at
this season of the year. few notices
were given at first but in some cases
they were withdrawn so that those re-
manning amount to comparatively a
small sum. The dividend will be paid. |
December L. but the next dividend will
come at the customary time next May.
| So far as the bank is concerned it
never was so strong as at the present
time and public confidence is being
rapidly restored.
| There is one rather depressing thing
to be noted, the Portland fishing fleet
will soon be a thing Of the past, and
remembered only as a matter of local
history. Within the last few weeks
three of the few remaining fishing
schooners have been sold, and will go
to Newfoundland, and the fisheries
there. To be sure they We're old
schooners, but they were good and
sound, and there is no indication tina.
any others will be built to take their
place. Nobody can explain exactly
how the Portland fishing fleet failed 30
make money. Gloucester fitted out a
fleet and it paid. Boston's fishing fleet
has been a success, but for some rea
son Portland has become back num-
Der in that respect, and yet the Port
land market is a good one, and much
sought by the fishermen from other
points. There is no danger whatever
of lack of fish by reason
of this falling off in the num-
Der of vessels, for at least two
of the three recently sold had been tied
up for some time. Only few years
ago Portland was leading in this re-
spect. Go back to the time of the
fishery disputes with Canada. and it
will be recalled that Portland was then
very much in evidence with der fleet.
Captain Warren A. Doughty, still liv
ing and back on board his schooner
again, was a leading figure in that
| dispute. There is hardly a name ia
miliar then in connection with the fish
cries, that is even mentioned now by
anyone. 1t is a great and striking, and
in many respects strange change. And
as has been said, nobody can tell why
it is So The fishermen of Casco bay,
are as numerous and as reliable as
ever, but the schooners are idle. and
the business is dropping off as far rs
the Portland fleet goes. Massachu-
sets fishermen will soon have the
work of supplying the Maine market
pretty much to themselves, although,
of course, the small boat fishermen
will continue to do their part
|
James E. Marrett, consul at Portland
for Uruguay. gives some interesting
facts containing the Uruguay trade.
six or eight cargoes having left Port
land for that country this season. The
goods sent were lumber, agricultural
, implements, barbed wire for fences,
nails and other building materials. AS
that country is developing rapidly it
would seem that here is field worth
cultivation.
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