The Republican journal., 1903-11-19
404 Porter Ave-, Buffalo, n
MAINE NEWS ITEMS.

Apple buyers in Somerset county are
paving S1.50 per barrel.
The returns received at the Office of the in
surance commissioner indicate that the fire
losses from lightning in the State the past
season will be less than usual.
1t is believed that the war game of this
wear will be repeated off this coast next
year, and that Portland will be the objec-
tive point of the navy.
Miss Bertha Files, teacher of Greek at the
Maine Central Institute, has resigned owing
to poor health, and returned to her home in
Lewiston. She is succeeded by Miss Ethel
NJ. Nickery.
The addresses at the dedication of Hub
bard Hall, the Library of Bowdoin College,
have'been published in an artistic pamph-
let The frontispiece is a half-tOne picture
of the building.
The law court sits at Augusta the second
Tuesday of December The Judges who
are to sit are Chief Justice Wiswell and
Justices Whitehouse, Strout, Powers, Pea
body and Spear.
The marriage of Associate Justice Fred
erck A. Powers of IiOulton and Miss Vir-
ginia Hews of Danforth occurred at the
home of the bride Nov. Sd. The wedding
was very quiet affair.
The agricultural department of the nj
verSity of Maine is sending out twenty
four page pamphlet containing two well
illustrated articles on the agricultural work
of the college and worn out farms.
A Masonic convention for instruction
was held in Portland Nov 9Th. There was
an attendance of 70 MasOns, representing
all sections of the State in THE morning, and
Oft 1ol f1,a
In five days recently on Palmyra farm
four "bOyS," whose average age was y, dug
435 bushels of potatoes. When they had fin
iShed their task harvest supper was served,
the table being presided over by "girl" of
II.
The power house of the Waterville &
Fairfield Electric Railway & Light Co.,
used for the incandescent system of light
ing, was burned Nov 18th. The loss to the
machinery was about $1,000; covered by in
surance. Loss on the building was slight.
The fire which des troyed Browns wharf
and the storehouses of j. Fl. Hammond &
Son, Portland, last week, caused loss esti-
mated at 100000. }: Fl. Hammond & Son
sustained a loss of about S150,OOO on their
stock of shocks, hogsheads, barrels and sim
liar stock which was awaiting shipment to
the West Indies.
Sixty Sandfordites from the Holy Ghost
and Us Society at Shiloh are travelling
about looking for work. Part of them left
of their own accord, and others were turned
away for reasons best known to the Shiloh
officials Rev. Frank W. Sanford, the
founder of the colony, has been in Boston
for the past six weeks.
Gov. Hill has received an invitation to
have Maine represented at the Centennial
Exposition in Oregon in 1905. The SnggeS
ton is made in the invitation that the same
idea carried out by the State at St. Louis
can be reproduced in Oregon, the log cabin
simply taken apart and put up again. Gov.
Hill has written that the matter will be ear
ly considered.
Methodists in ROwdoinham are planning
to observe the Tooth anniversary of the es-
tablishment of the BowdOinham circuit. It
was Just 10 years after Jesse Lee introduced
MethOdism into Maine, in 1898, that the
RowdOinham circuit was set off. This was
then large circuit, and while it retained
its name quite number o! appointments
have been set off since. From 1907 to 1880
it was connected with the Durham circuit.
The annual meeting of the Nurses Alum
nae Association of the Maine General hos
pital was held in Portland last week and
the election of officers resulted as follows
President, Mrs.. c. H. Chase; vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Lillian Bartlett of Saco; secre-
tary Miss Lillian Brown; trea surer, Miss
Maria Irish benefit fund committee, Miss
Lyons and Miss Beaton.
Two hotels in Somerset county have closed
their doors to the travelling public. They
are the Howard house in Arson and the
New Carratunk at Scion. No reason is
given for closing, but as both proprietor
paid heavy fines at the September term of
the supreme court for the illegal sale of liq-
uOr it is supposed that as they have been
driven out of the liquor business they have
decided to close rather than to run at a loss.
Capt. Augustus Condor, the commander
of the schooner Henry Chase, died sudden
ly at his home at South Brooksville early
Friday morning, Nov. 9Th. Capt. Condor
was stricken with paralysis late Thursday
night and grew rapidly worse until death
came. Capt. Condor was IS years of age
and was very popular in shipping circles
His vessel was at Brooksville partly loaded
for Portland at the time of his death.
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