Ellsworth American., 1905-08-09
KITTERY TO CARIBOU.

destroyed Good Templars hall at North
port Sunday.
Arthur #. Noyes, proprietor of the
Neyes greenhouses at Bangor, died Tues
day of last week.
Almon H. Lyon, prominent carpenter
and contractor, Of Augusta, died Sunday,
eyed fifty-three years.
Mrs. Chamberlain, wife of Gen. Joshua
l.. Chamberlain, fell ON hardwood floor
at her home in Brunswick Friday and
broke her hip.
Fire in the business section of Sears
mont early last week caused s25, 900
damage, and practically wiped out the
business portion of the town.
The lumber war which attracted so much
attention on the St. John river during the
spring, has broken out again, this time at
Chamberlain lake, and serious trouble is
feared.
new industry for Maine is being
developed at Hastings the manufacture
OF wood alcohol. The Hastings chemical
company, with $685. 900 paid-in capital, has
been Incorporated to carry on the business.
Patents have been granted to Maine in
veHtors as follows: Barzillai B. Foster,
Portland, physicians operating table; Ed
gar Hannigar, Portland, open stove and
iirenlacei Robert Morris, Winthrop,
shade-fxture.
The seventeenth annual reunion of the
I'D Maine Regiment association will be
held at Carmel Wednesday, Sept. 6. BUSH
ness meeting at 10 a. m. The M. c. R. r.
and the B. q A. r. r. will sell tickets at
reduced rates.
The saw mill at Sanford, owned by
Moulton Bros, was burned Friday.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, on which
there was an insurance of only $1,000.
The cause of the fire is unknown, but it is
believed that the flames originated near
the boiler.
Forest fires in the vicinity of New
Limerick are causing great damage to
woodlands, and buildings on the out
skirts of the town are threatened. A
large new residence belonging to Walter
Willett was burned Sunday. Loss $1,000;
no insurance.
Two eight-year-old boys playing with
matches were responsible Friday for fire
destroying three complete sets of farm
buildings at Island Falls, including those
owned by their parents. The total loss is
estimated at $500, on which there is an
insurance of only $3.50.
FRANK Dugie, aged IL, of Orono, was
caught in revolving shaft at Engles
mill, Orono, Monday of last week, and
whirled to death. His father, Silas Dugie.
who was employed in the mill, was HIM
sell badly injured in his attempt to re-
lease his son from the shaft.
At Gorham handsome monument has
just been erected to a faithful family
horse. A granite base, twelve feet in
length, is surmounted by stone bearing
on one side the chiselled figure of a horse,
and on the reverse side the inscription,
"a Loving and Faithful Friend, Prince
Prince was a family driving horse,
eighteen years old, which for twelve years
was the faithful servant of John II. Car
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lar lot opposite Mr.. Carrolls residence.
Important questions relating TO the old
Bangor-B Brewer bridge will come up be-
fore the next meeting of the Ba.gor city
council. A committee has been appointed
to confer with Manager John r. Graham,
of the Bangor Railway & Electric COM
pany as to the advisa sability of making an
arrangement whereby cars can be run
over the bridge and the Bangor and
Brewer lines connected. The proposition
to rebuild the bridge at cost of $50, 900
or $4,000 was killed last year, when it
was decided by the supreme court that
Bangor had already reached her constitu-
tional debt limit and that any further
loans to build bridges would constitute an
infringement of the law. The Bangor
Railway & Electric company has long de-
sired to run cars across the bridge. 1t
has offered at various times liberal rental
for the use of the bridge for its tracks.