The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-01-19
MAINE NEWS ITEMS.

Gov. Cobb will deliver the Memorial day
address for Edwin Libby post, G. A. r., of
ROckland.
Rev. E. P. Wilson, for II years pastor of
the WOodfOrds Congregational church, has
resigned his pastOrate.
BuckspOrt did not make much of gain
in 1904, as the town clerk reports that there
were AZ deaths and 20 births in the town.
The trustees have decided upon Wednes-
day, February 22d, as the day when the
new public library at Waterville will be
dedicated.
For the week ending Jan. 14th more than
1000 barrels of apples were shipped from
Skowhegan. Most of these were consigned
to Liverpool. Several lots netted the ship
pers, $1.75 per barrel.
According to the Aroostook Republican
sixty marriages were recorded by the town
clerk of Caribou during the year 1904 and
sevepty-three deaths. The population of
town in 1900 was 4, 1853.
A busy and very interesting place to visit
at this season of the year is the Lily Pond,
Rockport, where the ROckport Ice Company
is engaged in harvesting the supply OF ice
for the current year. One hundred and
twenty-five men and 5OhOrses are employed.
The will of Macy S. Pope of BrOOkline,
Mass, gives $780, 900 each to the Massachu-
sets Institute Ut Technology and Washing
ton Academy of East Machias, Me-, and
$4,000 to be placed in one or more hospitals
in Maine for free beds for the use of
patients from Washington County, Maine.
The Bucksport National bank, through
its stockholders, voted to renew its charter
and continue the same officers during the
ensuing year: p. p. Gilmore, president ;
Edward B. Moore, cashier; p. P. Gilmore,
H. E. Snow and William Beazley, directors.
Good Will Farm was visited by another
disastrous fire Jan. 18th, which destroyed
the large wood shed belonging to the farm,
with about so cords of wood and all the
farming tools of the farm and about 200
bushels of grain. The total loss is eStl-
mated to be about $1,000, and there is no in
surance.
At the annual meeting of the Maine Daily
Newspaper Association, held at Hotel
North. Augusta, Jan. 10Th, the following
officers were elected: j. Norman IoWle,
Bangor, president; Charles F. Flynt, Au-
gusta, vice president; Oscar k. Wish, Port
land, treasurer: William IL Dow, Portland,
secretary.
MdluG is now cIeuIIeu VIII Oil oNCiooo
yield of 2l5 bushels of potatoes for the 1904
crop. Iowa's yield was 1856 bushels and
Wisconsn's 1926 The yield of the southern
States runs from 60 to so bushels, except
Florida, which is just above the 100 bushel
mark The revised returns Indicate that
the average yield throughout the country
will be 1104 bushels.
The Wateryile historical society recently
came into possession of several hundred
volumes of historic value and literary
worth through the expressed wish OF the
late Charles c. Couillard of that city. MIR.
Couillard was a newspaper man OF no
mean ability, well known throughout New
England, great reader, and his library was
a valuable one.
A gigantic summer hotel and steel pier, to
cost 81 ZOO, 900, is to be built on HardyS
Point, Mount Desert Island, during the
coming summer, it is said, by the Eastern
Steamship Company. 1t is believed this
guests, will result in one or two others of
the same style being erected, as it has long
been pointed out that hotels of this order
were needed in Bar Harbor.
Tuesday, Jan. "a, has been set as the date
for the trials for the Bradbury prize debate
at Bowdoin college. This debate will take
place at Memorial hall, Feb. q, and is open
to every man in college, provided he enters
before Saturday The trials will occupy
about two weeks. Six men will be selected
for the Bradbury debate and from those six
four will be selected to represent BowdOin
in the annual debate with Amherst, which
will be held at Amherst, March "A.