The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-02

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NOVA SCOTIA.
The sale of the Duck and Yarn Com
pany of Yarmouth is confirmed. Charles
IT. Grantham, a Yarmouth man, becomes
managing owner. The capital stock is
$1500GO paid up. The purchasers give
100000 for this and all the assets of the
company, including $4,000 stock. The
mills will be run night and day to in
crease the output which has been sold
| for a term of years to the J. Spencer
Turner Company of New York. The Var
mouth mills are the only ones of the kind
in eastern Canada. They We're estab-
lished and operated up to the present by
local capitalists
The Yarmouth gold mine at Kempt is
now rated at 81 per share.
AT the Brookfield Mining Company
mill, during July, August and September,
1857 tons of quartz crushed yielded fSl o.
Is dwt. gold.
On Dec. / insurance rates in Sydney
were increased by rs per cent, and fur
Their increase is threatened if fire appli-
ances and organizations are not i'm
proved.
Steamer Newfoundland, which arrived
at Halifax Monday from Sable Island,
brought IT'S barrels of cranberries, guam
tity of hides and a Sable Island pony for
the governor general. A report regarding
the trees and shrubs planted on the island
shows that about one-tenth have sue
cumbed,
The new stem trawler Messenger, from
Shelburne, in tow of the steamer John l..
Cam, at DeWolfs wharf, Halifax, is at
tracing much attention. She was built
by Joseph McGill of Shelburne for the
Harbinger Steam Trswling Company of
Yarmouth, and is the second vessel Mr..
McGill has built for the company since
its Inauguration last spring. She will
receive her machinery from Messrs. W. *
A. NOR The company held its first gem
eral meeting at Yarmouth, Nov. 13 and
the business was shown to be in most
satisfactory condition and the results
more tnan were anticipated. The pioneer
vessel the Harbinger, has proved more
than successful, and the company pro-
poses to start the third vessel in March,
1902 These steamers, for convenience and
seaworthiness, cannot be equalled by sail
ing vessels and the crews state that they
want nothing more to do with schooners.
In steamer they are able to devote their
time solely to fishing, and in one month
the captains share of profit was 500, and
that of each of the crew $45.
Lieut.. ROBBIE Burrill son of Charles
Burrill of Weymouth, who got his COM
mission as second lieutenant from the
Royal Military College at Kingston in the
Royal Field Artillery who has since been
promoted to first lieutenant, and who has
been stationed at Brighton, England, has
received orders to proceed to South Afri-
ca, sailing on Dec 5.
The three blast furnaces of the Do
minion Iron and Steel Company are now
about up to their full capacity They are
producing 800 tons of pig iron a day. No.
1 furnace is ready to be lighted.
Edward S. Williams of the firm of
Lincoln & Williams, Yarmouth, died I'M
/ eXpectedly Nov. %. He left two sons,
Robert w. and A Roy, and a widow. He
was a staunch member of the Tabernacle
| Church and a Conservative in politics.
Mr.. Williams was a great lover OF music,
and the pioneer of the party of Yarmouth
people who yearly attended the sessions of
the Worcester music festival.
Hon. William Law of Yarmouth is
dead. He was widely known a bust
ness man and managing owner of a large
fleet of ships. Although born in Ireland,
Mr.. Law regarded Oxford Mass, as his
home and took a kindly interest in its
welfare to the last. He began life as
tailors apprentice, learning cutting with
MeCOrney of Worcester. He moved to
Yarmouth after he had learned his trade
and set up in business. Finding no chance
of rising in the tailoring business in the
. small community where he had located,
he acquired an interest in shipping and
soon made fortune His will was pro-
missed by his fellow-townsmen. Mr..
Laws family received condolences from
friends in Canada, the states and Eng
land
J. H. Carson, apple dealer. of Kent
Vile, as received a cable from his firm,
Fred Putchard & Co, Liverpool, dated
Nov. 10, as follows: "1S, 900 bills; selling
demand good. Spies 1873 to POS, average
1-9. Baldwins, Is to 23s., average 1913.
Nova Scotia Kings, 22s'
Over 1900 bushels of oats have been
threshed by one steam thresher off the
Grand Pre- dyke.
A Company has been formed for the
purpose of building a bridge across the
Strait of Canso for railway. tramway,
vehicle and passenger suspension bridge
across the Strait of Canso from Port
Hastings to Cape POrcupine, to build lines
of railway TO connect the proposed sus-
pension bridge with through lines. The
company will ask power to levy tolls as
follows: Foot passengers. not exceeding
five cents; carriage, not exceeding 20
cents: tramway. per car not exceeding
81; railway, perc ar, not exceeding IS.
The proposed bridge is to be $50 feet above
high water and the span or distance be
tween abutments to be not less than 1000
feet.
The recent high tide did extensive
damage in Yarmouth County The fine
bridge at the aboiteau at Eel Brook. fin
ished last September al a cost of $1,000 is
a wreck, the iron girders and cement
walls going down with it Over 30 tons of
dyke hay al Glenwood were carried out
with the tide and IS more or less de-
stroyed or lost altogether The wharves
in town were overfiowed, and many goods
were damaged.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
The Cumberland Coal and Railway
Company have placed an order with the
Richmond. Va, Locomotive Works for
one of the largest locomotives ever built.
Among the justices of the peace in
Gloucester who have taken the oath of
allegiance to King Edward VII is Joseph
Sewell of Pokemouche, who was born
April s. 1860 and was sworn Nov. 16 1901,
to bear true allegiance for the rest of his
life TO the king. He wore no glasses in
signing the oath and wrote firm hand.
Hon. H. A. McKeown of the local gov
eminent and Miss Edith A. Perkins were
married Nov. p at the residence of Frank
Perkins of Wilmington. Mass, uncle of
the bride. Among the presents was an
elegant case of sterling silver, presented