The Republican journal., 1903-04-16
NEWS OF Inf Mttk.

MAINE MATTERS. The valuation of
hennebec county on which tne ne county
tax Is assessed is about $25,O larger
than TWO years ago. The county com
mlssloners have announced tne @ apPoI-
Ilohment of county taxes for !9oo as ioi-
lows: Albion, 1851, Augusta, SI4zz' BEL
grade, S423, Benton, $436, Chelsea, $226,
Cnnna, S5l4, Clinton, s574, FaImlngdale,
$565, Fayette, s195, Gardiner, s35O6, Hal
lowell, $145l, Litchheld, 1858, Manches-
ter, $3.50, Monmouth. $685., Mt Vernon,
S3O9, Oakland, 1887, Plttston, s465,
Randolph, $314, Readfield, s467, Rome,
SO, Sidney, s426, Vassalboro, s932,
Vienna, S119, Waterville, $5,711,
Wayne, $2l1, West Gardiner, $2ss,
Windsor, 1929, Winslow, $4,000, Win
throp, $1,151, Unity Plantation, S16......
Ihe paving business, after having been
entirely suspended in Machias and vlcln-
lty for more than five years, has again
been started. A contract for 25,O0O
New York blocks per month has recent
ly 6een made by the Machlas Granlte
Company-the contract to be IN force
during the spring and summer months.
Ihe first blocks of the contract were
cut last week on the quarry at Marsh
field.....Orono is the latest to have a
curfew law, and it is promised that 1t
snail be strictly enforced after April
15th.....Eight thousand barrels OF apples
were raised within radius OF two
miles OF Monmouth Centre the past
season.....Andrew Carnegie has offered
the town of Wiscasset $4,000 to erect
free public library building. There IS
more sentiment connected with this
offer than in many similar gifts. The
ship which brought Andrew Carnegie
and his father from Scotland to Amer
lea Ia 1s49 was named Wlscasset and
was built in Wiscasset for the whale
fishing company organized there in
1S34....The annual meeting OF the Bible
April 2nd. Appropriate reference was
made to the death of Rev. Dr. A. T.
Dunn of Waterville. The following
were elected officers: Hon. Percival
Bonney, pres; DR.. J. F. Haley, vice
pres; Hon. L. NJ. Webb, treas; Newell
w. Edison, The directors of the
Maine Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals at a meeting in
Portland, April End, elected the follow
ing officers: President, Stanley 1. Pull
len; vice presidents. Mrs. L. D. NJ.
Sweat, Portland; John Ware, Water
vile; Charles B. Hazeltine, Belfast;
Frank L. Dingley, Lewiston; F. Q.
Beal, Bangor; recording secretary, Dr.
II. c. Vaughan, Foxcroft; correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. S. T. Pullen, Port
land; treasurer, Augustus +. Moulton,
Portland; attorneys, Edward Woodman
and Wilford G. Chapman, Portland;
agent, Eben n. Perry, Portland. Pen
sion agent Milliken has received news
of the death of an Aroostook war veter-
an, Capt. Henry Rolfe of Presque Isle,
who died March 27 at the age OF 81.
Capt. Rolfe also served in the civil war,
having been in command of a company
of the 7th Me. regt.....After banquet
recently, ex-Gov. Frank 5. Black OF
New York, who is a native OF Maine,
was asked what he considered the most
difficult feat in Oratory. He replied 1T
was to make good ten minutes speech.
1.-The new Methodist church at Brewer
will cost when completed about $4,000
and the exterior will be almost entirely
of stone. There will be lecture room
which will seat about 1875 and the audi
torium will have seating capacity OF
approximately 300 The interior of the
church will be finished in natural wood
with exposed rafters. 1t will be dedicat-
ed free of debt. Kate Vannah of Car
diner is engaged in preparing a volume
to her personal "reminiscences of many
interesting men and women famous in
the literary and musical world. Miss
Vannah is we'll equipped for just this
line of work, for she has for many years
enjoyed the privilege of knowing, and
in way the world rarely knows, a great
number of clever people about whom
the outside world is always very curious.
She is also expecting to publish this year
her third volume of verse.....The Maine
legislature has reduced the number
of pounds III bushel Of beans from 62
to 60 pounds, thus putting Maine on the
same footing with other States..... Elisha
W. Shaw, a prominent business man of
Newport for the past fifty years, died
suddenly April 4th of apoplexy. He
was 81 years old..... Charles Melville
of Mars Hill, who is charged with
shooting his wife Thursday, April End,
was captured April 9th in New Bruins
wick Mrs Melville died April 4th...An
Indictment was returned by the federal
grand jury at Boston April 3rd against
Byron E. Lnrchin of Pembroke, charged
with smuggling tobacco. Lurchln at
his hearing made some sensational
charges about smuggling, rejecting
upon the mayor of Calais, Maine, as
we'll as the customs officials there, which
he has since denied. Lurchin was ar
roiupo6 oY1 ,,loo6o6 nnt U,lj1tV