The Republican journal., 1903-10-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

id has bought the water power at
RS rip on the Sebasticook river.
rles above Benton Falls, and will
re it at once. He expects to have
completed by Jan. l, getting a
Of % feet and some 1000 horse
He will establish electric gen
i, and running a line of wire to
,nnebec river expects to sell
to people in Waterville and Fair
IL is but five and one-halt miles
trrville and two and one-half to
i'd. The whole plant which Mr..
proposes to have will cost some
He says that he can see where
Ytv can be obtained from this
unwer to run cars on trolley
.rween Waterville and Augusta.
Pray-Small shoe shop in Au-
, ich has been idle for a year or
to be started up by the early
November. 1t is also probable
e. Ara Cushman shop on Rail
ret will soon be reopened, and
terms of the purchase Of the
Packard Il Linscot shop this
,t be opened at once. This will
rec large shops, which have
>ed all summer and some of
..g ger, running again.....Charles
I- II Augusta, aged sixty years,
.lying his work on the Kenne-
dam Oct. lst slipped and was
over. He swan to a nearby
IA fifty or sixty yards, but his
.uthing carried him down. The
.ls recovered. He had worked
YER all his life. A widow and
.3ren survive him.....Up to Oct.
ad been paid into the Cumber-
untv treasury in liquor fines
since Sheriff Pennell came into
"A increase of $4,000 for the cor
ing period last year. OF the
-~ $40 came from the municipal
With the finding Oct. End at
III Point of the body of William
d but two of the bodies of the
who lost their lives when the
ar fishing schooner George +.
Is was wrecked at Pemaquid
0u the night of Sept. 16 have
covered. - George I. Little, the
of Bowdoin college, announced
tnat more than 800 volumes
been placed on the shelves OF
4 hall. the books being the gift
-lmilv of the late Thomas L.
cortland, for many years super
nj Of schools in that city.....Of
.,, graduates from BoWdoln, y
# the class will study either
glicine. Eight others will take
courses in various lines OF
I the remaining -, 10 have
a learn some buSlnesS."..The
uuers of Sagadahoc county
uird to Frank l.. staples of
contract for iudeXing all real
.r, HAT have taken place in
~ since tie setting of of the
.lrtiuu ot Lincoln county III
staples was awarded the con-
-ir sum of $1,000, which was
.- $4,000 below the bid OF his
>t competitor...An apprals-
tnl was returned Oct. 9Th IN
the Gardiner Water District
Iue Water Co. The apprais-
tue plant of the company IN
r Affects Gardiner and is the
.nicA the district must pay
co. for the same. The board
,t Cmet Justice Andrew i.
Associate Justice Albert Il.
d Ffed'k II. Appleton Esq,
-ur.....At the recent annual
II tie Georges Valley Rail
n Rockland, the old board OF
were chosen, with the eXcep-
U. II. Crockett was placed III
t1late TO take the place of his
.r late \. f. Crockett. James
was reelected manager....,ln
of the secretary of state the
citing the originals of the bills
the last legislature ready for
rI is about completed. They
.e.this year. about five volumes,
.l-es each, which is an unusual
The average number passed
Ion makes three volumes.....A
Al, been made in the sessions at
igh school 10y which instead
-'e session each day there are
III the forenoon. and one III
moon. a similar change to
,ld with the high school has
lie for the ninth grade. The
.. civil term Of the Supreme
,rned in Bangor, Oct. 9th with a
,.rndance of attorneys from that
rr counties. Judge Spear pre-
place of Judge Powers who was
v assigned for the term. The
omises to be long one as there
sav cases on the docket that have
Jlied over for the last two terms
The meetings of the State
us. this year have been more
tended by town assessors than
fore. In Cumberland county
d Lincoln county, every town
tppeared.- IN Waldo, only one
was missing, and in every county
very town was represented by