The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-10-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

MAINE MATTERS. Mrs. Joanna A.
Rowe of Bangor, who is visiting in Mel
rose, Mass, celebrated her 9th birthday
Oct. Sd. She is in excellent health and
greatly enjoyed the festivities arranged in
honor of her anniversary. Besides nu-
merous gifts and membranes, she re-
ceived large number of congratulatory
letters and kilograms. Mrs. Rowe was
born in Hampden Oct. 8, 1902, and is
sister of the late Benz. SWEET OF Portland,
who died at the age of 90. Her living
brothers and sisters are: Mrs. Emily d.
Mayo Of Chicago, Jas. A. SWEET, Mrs. Sarah
E. Snow, Mrs. Mehitable A. Burbank, VIM.
A. SWEET, all of Bangor, and Capt. David
w. SWEET of Gloucester. Since Novem-
Der, 1898, the school children OF Bangor
have deposited in their school savings
banks, the teachers being cashiers, 81,
621. 05, and of this but sos have been with
drawn. In the examination of the papers
of the State teachers examinations, some
idea of the work can be estimated when it
is learned that each teachers papers num-
bered about 30 pages and in that II rank
| ings have been made When the man ex-
aiming them goes through the papers of
| Is teachers in one day, or about 400 pages
| of examination written in hands that are
| good, bad and Indifferent, he considers
that he is doing days work.. Portland
is the largest lobster market in the coun-
try. There are about 30 smacks sailing
from that city on collecting tours. and
| the average catches of Holsters per month
aggregate about 800, 600. Not less than
60, 900 more are broughtin by small boats
around the bay. The payroll at the
works of Booth Bros. and Hurricane
| Granite Co., in Waldoboro, for the month
ending September 18th, amounted to
about $1,000. Mrs Helen Coffin Beedy,
president of the Dorothea Lynde Dix
memorial association and one of the prom
i inent members of the W. Q. t. u, has ar
rived in Bangor to pass the winter. The
Doruthea Dix association, has already ex-
pended 500 ON the memorial park in
Hampden and has 800 of the $40, 900
which the association is going to raise to
erect a monument in memory of this IA
nous woman... There is nothing new re
garding the Quebec 4 WiscaSset railroad,
| AS the matter now stands the Waterville
Trust Co. controls the road for the benefit
of the bondholders, but it has been ascer-
tanned that by an agreement the road is to
be sold Aug. 49, 1900 This means that
some syndicate made up of the larger
bondholders will purchase the road. . One
of the largest liquor seizures that ever
occurred in Auburn was made at the
Grand Trunk station Oct 9th, when two
car loads of beer, port wine and ale, were
seized by officers Austin and Rowe ....
There are about forty lumber concerns
operating in the waters about Moosehead
Lake this season, and tits said that all are
to increase the amount of timber cut this
winter More men and horses are going
into the woods than for any recent season.
800. Hon. John A. P, tiers, Ii. D., chief
justice of the State of Maine, attained on
Monday, Oct 9 his 18th birthdays he
celebrated this event quietly at his home
in Bangor receiving the calls, congratulate
tions and material remembrances of his
thousands of friends. ....... The Lake
house, the largest hotel in Greenylle, was
destroyed by fire just after noon, Oct. 9.
, The stable connected with the house and
the furniture of the hotel We're also con-
sumed. The property was owned and
managed by Charles II. Sawyer and son
of Greenville. The loss is estimated at
SO, 600, and the insurance amounts to
only IS, 900.