The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-12-07
MAINE NEWS ITEMS.

| The history of the 4th Maine battery.
compiled by the late Z. II. Jones, and at
the time of his death nearly ready for pub
, LEGATION, has been completed by Judson
Ames OF Foxcroft and James A. Jones of
Augusta
A Maine branch of the Red Cross was
organized in Portland Nov. 22d, with the
following officers: President, Mrs Eugene
Hale, Ellsworth; vice president Mrs. Fred
erick f. Boothby, Portland; secretary,
Mrs. Frank H. Briggs, Auburn; treasurer,
Col Frederick f. Boothby, Portland.
, There is being built in Stonington the
| largest granite cutting shed in Maine, if not
feet by rs feet and is located upon the
granite properties recently acquired by the
new firm from Hartford, Conn, which re-
Gently located at Stonington.
,, Mrs. G. W. Martin of Augusta, who re-
Gently returned from an extended European
| trip, has a collection of 1000 post cards. All
of the points Of interests pictured were
visited personally by Mrs. Martin. The
cards are bound in handsome green books
and each bears the date when Mrs. Martin
| visited the locality.
E. p. BOutelle, inspector of rural free
delivery routes, was in Vinalhaven recent
ly to look over the ground for rural free
delivery route there. This route has been
petitoned for by a large number of the
citizens and will undoubtedly be establish
ed. There is now a rural free delivery
route in North Haven.
One firm in AroostOok has contracts to
deliver 600 carloads of seed potatoes to
Texas parties in January and February.
Because OF the transportation facilities
afforded by the Seaport road and its salt
water connections more seed potatoes will
be sent to the southern States this year
than ever before.
At n recent meeting of the Portland civic
club Hon. George NJ Seiders said that the
fund for memorial to Hon. Thomas B.
Reed now exceeds 100000, and the Reed
memorial committee has made but a COM
parativey slight effort. He said that the me-
mortal would be the greatest thing of its
kind in New England and worthy of the
fame of the Statesman.
The November number of the Maine
Sportsman has fine cut of the architects
design for the new union station now build
ing. at Bangor 1t is handsome building
and will be thoroughly up-to-date. In an
other year this will be the only passenger
station in the city, and all travellers will
leave and take the cars there, instead of
the traffic being splipt up between two sta
lions as at the present time.
William Murray of Lewiston has found
four valuable pearls in a brook in Andro-
scoggin county this year They are beau
ties and will bring the owners in the neigh
borhood of $500. Many people in their
leisure hours hunt for pearls, but none have
been so successful as Mr.. Murray and
Adolph Reed. Mr.. Reed has sold satin
pearl, he found in a Lewiston brook for
$40 to Massachusetts jewelry firm.
Eighteen lobster fsbermen's unions have
been organized along the Maine coast, and
new unions will soon be added to the list
in Spruce Head, Round Pond and New
Harbor. The work is being carried on bv
General Organizer Roberts of Vinalhaven,
who proved such a valuable assistant to
Stuart Reid when the experiment was un-
dertaken. The fishermen were receiving
20 and 81 cents for their Holsters few days
ago.
Governor Cobb has appointed nine dele
gates to the National conference of immigra-
ton to be held at New York Dec. 6, Z and
under the auspices of the National Civic
Federation, as follows: George K Walker,
Milbridge; Charles L. Fox, Portland;
David n. Beach, Bangor; Jasper Wyman,
Milbridge; Hayward Peirce, Frankfort,
Robert Macarthur, Biddeford Edwin Riley:
Livermore Falls; Henry E. Dunnack.
Augusta; and Edwin S. Clark, Bar Harbor.
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