Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-01
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ia Portland thu other day ticket was
sold 1vhAh was good from v aldobofo !"
shan2hit. China The purchaser was 4
lady ami is going to the land of the Ce-
| Iesiiais on a pleasure trip. She was 70
h. accompanied a. far as Seattle by a
lady fiend.
Dr.. J. \. Jodan of Charlestown.
Mass. Who for the past six years has
been in practice In Pulpit Harbor. re-
ccivd Christmas present of sll6 n
cast from his ffiends in that town and
in Finalhaven.
For the past month clotheslinc
| thtves have been doing lucrative
| btFiness on Aired street. Bidieford.
| Acomplaint has been made To the
p.lice, and thu guilty parties will be
made 10 sufferif they are caught.
The annual reunion ami banquet #
| me members If the York county bar
Win be held at Hotel Thacher Port
| and. Tuesdar evening. January i
The president Of the Bar Association.
1.-THE Hon. John N Goodwin. will preside
and after diner speeches will he de-
livered by Judge Savage, the guest of
the evening, and others,
Public Libraries are multiplying in the
towns around Lewiston. Turner has a
good library. At New Gloucester a hand
some little library building of the new
style of ornate architecture stands in the
village common. and is used by everyone.
The Ridge Library Association of Bridg-
ton has - Volumes. and the Poland
Spring library Is a bonanza To local read
ers who get into it. The grange halls are
becoming reservoirs of books. Within ten
miles of Lewiston and Auburn twenty or
thirty Euod-sizsn libraries are iiuuriShing,
not counting Tivate collections Of books.
We can ten when pork and lard are
cheap in the West without going 10
the market r.ports, said Lewiston
marketman the other day. as he cut
the round hog into sausage When
pork is high here isn't enough fat on
q pork rib 10 grease a wheelbarrow.
While now that pork is worth only $40
a barrel YOU lind more pork on the rih
than the Law ought To allow at the
price They cut TO the market OUT
there"
=. v. Weber. agent for the Ameri-
rah ENprrsS company at Augusta. will
h" transferred Ia the Lewiston agency
on jan. J. &. r. Clark. agent at Show
ht@an with sIrrccd Mir Webher at An
gu~ta. ana { g. Emerson messenger
come ASCENT 81 the latter place. II. Nj.
Hilton. messenger between Portland and
fWtlctt. y. T.. viii take Mr.. Emerson 5
run ana l.. conley. messenger between
Ealh and Lewiston. will succeed Mr.. Hill
ton. ". G. Marsh. who has been on the
Bangor ana rarihou run. will take Mr..
t"al"y's place Lewiston Sun.
lion. +. w Hovey has Won his chses
~ the law court and now owns q roanda
house four ares of land and 4 Y. This
is the piece # property which forms "a
part Of the property of the Sebasticook
aAd Moosehe;d Railroad. and has been
matter OF eTiless litigation. When the
property Wa. bought according to the
statement of Mr.. lIovey. he paid for il
an" took Il ded of the same. The Vari- y
Gus legal proceedings in which this has
nSured during the past year have been
given from tine to time in the columns
81 me News and are familiar to the read
TtS. Ey thetdecsion of the court the
property is held by Mr.. Hovey and now
IN" companNmust lease il of him. or buy
~ ms mdycut quite a prominent figure
III ,n bringing ;hout a settlement of about
s"HH. which Mr.. Hovey claims from the
.otH. In conversation with the News man
today. Mr.. Ihvey said. Yes, this prop
.rlN IS mine and il is in my power now
!" nuke lots of trouble for the Sebasti-
-""k and M0sehead Railroad by not al
living thelr rains To run over such part
- the tracks as cross my property but !
ldNS no Idle; Of doing anything of the
IIihd, nor an, disposition to do so. unless
heH make ne do SO. This concern has
'uSn' me III every way they could since
resigned as treasurer for them and they
MY Try to push me stll further" The
'ih or we own has been on this sub
IS, since tht decision has been given out
ma the sentiment is considerably diyi-
''u III resaid To the matter-Pittsfeld
al the Bangor News