The Republican journal., 1903-11-12
ALL OVER MAINE.


SAYINGS AND DOINGS IN THE PINE
TREE STATE.
The October list of rural mail carriers
for Maine numbers PIP and the average
salary for the carriers is nearly 5000.
The Biddeford night school is helping
22O young men who work in the mills
of the twin Saco cities to an education.
The new Grand Trunk station at Port
land has begun doing business, and the
city has two elegant railway stations.
| The Bangor postotfice broke all re-
cords for October and expects that the
years business will reach total of
| 100000.
The Maine Ornithological Society will
| hold its eighth annual meeting at Ban
gor on the Friday and Saturday follow
| ing Thanksgiving.
A lobster measuring AZ inches in
| length, which is claimed to be the lar
gest one ever caught, is on exhibition in
an Eastport store.
John NJ Ramsay, Esq. of Blaine has
lllttl iOu 40 SOoHiSos oeeyo INV L ASSdoO
| Isle Independent, and intimateS that it
| is lucky omen to tie the one hundreth
couple.
A Winthrop man, Everett Webb, has
| received returns from Il carload of
apples shipped to England, which sold
at 1915 a barrel, netting somewhere
about 1918.
Maine is glad to have Holman F. Day
back at home again. He has severed
his connection with the Boston Jour
nal and with his bride returned to Au-
burn to live.
'The groom was supported by his
BROTHER is the way Washington
county correspondent put it i'll his story
of d recent wedding Some are support
ed by their fathers, and occasionally
it's up to the bride to pay the bills.
Cyrus c. Chandler, city liquor agent,
Rockland. died Nov. 3rd, aged 50. He
was native of Waldoboro. He has
served as city liquor agent the past six
years. He was considered one of the
| most expert accountants in Rockland.
Twenty cans of square tail trout ar
! rived at Camden last week from the
Auburn hatchery to stock Megunticook
| Lake. While repairs are being made
on the Molyneaux dam, the gate will be
screened to prevent the fish i'll the lake
from going down the river.
| Mayor Davis of Waterville recon-
mended Nov. 18th, and the board of
aldermen adopted the suggestion, that
the city liquor agency be closed, at least
| for time. The move is TO discover
where all the liquor which appears to
| have found its way into the city has
been and is to be purchased.
The Bangor rum shops are going
again as usual, the dealers evidently
having got over their scare. The SUI
preme court will not get after them
again until February, so that they will
have chance to make dollar or two
before they have to go to Boston on
business when the grand jury sits.
The body of David j. Ames, a Wool
witch farmer, aged 36 years, who dlsap-
peared Oct. 3Oth, was found in the Ken
nebec river on the Woolwich shore,
Nov. Sd. Ames had gone out in boat,
tied about his body a rope, to which
was attached a 5O-pound rock, and
jumped overheard. A widow and two
! children survive him.
The trustees of the Augusta water
district, unable to come to terms will,
the Augusta water company on the
prices to be fixed for the plant there
| filed petition addressed to Judge
Spear of the supreme court, asking
that three disinterested persons be ap-
| pointed to fix the valuation. A hear
ing on the petition has been ordered for
Nov. rs.
The new Zeta Psi chapter house at
BOwdoin College is fast nearing COM
pletion, and soon the work of the build
ing committee, of which Hon. William
T. Cobb, II, of Rockland and Hon.
Herbert M. Heath, ~, of Augusta are
the most prominent members, will be
at an end, and tire beautiful fraternity
home will be turned over to the under
graduate chapter.
From Winterport comes the claim for
The championship in pressing hay by the
crew on the press operated by Will
+, Young in that town. In one day re-
Gently the men pressed IA tons and $50
pounds of hay. In five straight days
they pressed 60 tons of the commodity
and moved twice. In 26 days they
pressed 25s tons. This is claimed to be
record for that work.
Prior to the adjournment of the su-
preme court in Wiscasset, Nov. Sd, JUS
| tice Spear imposed jail sentence and
fine in four cases of alleged liquor nuis-
ance. In addition to fines of 500 and
costs the sentences were: A. B. Smith,
Round Pond, two months; W. H. Prem
tice, Round Pond, 80 days; James A.
Trowbridge and Willie A. Davis, both
of Waldoboro, 80 days each.
Capt. John NJ. Cookson, who was lost
by the laundering of the barge Oracle
off the Virginian coast, Oct. 9Th, was
buried at his former home in Thomas
ton, Nov. Sd, under the auspices of the
Knights of Pythias. The body was
found last week on the North Carolina
coast, 80 miles from where it was lost.
At the funeral his young son Austin
tainted and was unconscious half an
hour.
The annual meeting of the Maine
lumbermen's and landowners ass0cia-
ton was held in Bangor, Nov. 4th.
These officers were elected: F. H. Apple
lton, pres; Congressman Llewellyn