June 5, 1894 Democrat

 

Maine News -  Lewiston Daily Sun: One half interest in the Lewiston Daily Sun has been sold to Mr. J.T. Cannon, for a number of years connected with the Boston Traveler, and that gentleman will be business manager of the paper, while Mr. Wing continues as editor.

 

Bethel: Meetings, observances, church and social events:  Gould Academy declamations and judging: Young ladies, Eva Twaddle, Honorable Mention, Joan Stearns.  Young men: Mark Allen, and honorable mention was Robert Foster.

 

Memorial Day observance at Evergreen Cemetery. G.A.R. Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans and the public. Later – speaking in Odeon Hall.

 

The Bethel and North Norway baseball teams met on the Common. Bethel was the winner.

 

June 12, 1894    Democrat

 

Bethel: Elmer and Martin Stowell are putting in a foundation for J.B. Chapman’s house between the chair finishing room and Coburn’s shoe shop. The old Grover building near the academy is to be moved to this place when the stone work is completed.

 

Organizations and their news:  Strawberry festival was put on by the Methodist Society in the ladies relief corps rooms.  The volunteer fire department and the hook and ladder company were out for practice. The large extension ladders were put up on Bean’s store and a stream of water was thrown from the roof to the top and sides of neighboring buildings.

 

East Bethel: Eugene Bean is raising his house one story and putting on a new roof.

 

Wilson’s Mills: H.P. Wells, president of the Parmachenee Club, came up Sunday, John Olson guide; a friend of Wells, a Mr. Dickerson, the middle of the week, D.C. Bennett, guide.  The rear of the Berlin Mills drive went past here Wednesday.

 

West Bethel: A.W. Grover’s daughter, Grace, was married to Herman A. Skillings of Harvard, Mass.

 

June 19, 1894 Democrat

 

Oxford County Convention at Paris Hill:  Augustus M. Carter of Bethel was a candidate for register of deeds as was J. Hastings Bean of Mason. After three ballots, Bean was chosen as nominee.

 

Bethel:  Photographer York of Bethel took the class pictures of the Gould Academy graduating class.

 

A new iron watering trough four feet in diameter has been placed in the main road between the depot and Ira Jordan’s store.

 

Principal Merriman conducted the college exams in the academy on the weekend. Nearly all of the ten graduates took the test.

 

Bethel and Gilead baseball teams played on the Common with a large number of spectators.

 

June 26, 1894 Democrat

 

Bethel:  The Women’s Christian Temperance Union has voted to take decided steps towards the giving and sale of cigarettes to young boys.  A good many copies of the law have been printed and distributed to parents and dealers. Cigarettes are not to be sold to any person under 18.  Only parents may give a cigarette to a person under 18.

 

Butter factory business ranges from 2,600 to 3,100 pounds of butter each week. It is all sold as fast as it is made. Twenty to thirty gallons of fresh cream are also disposed of in Berlin, NH, each week.

 

About 160 dogs are recorded in this section of town.  All but two are licensed.  “Slayer Clinton” will be unable to bring in many scalps this year.

 

The Bethel Hose Company practice this week was from the roofs of the I.O.O.F. building and from C. Bisbee’s store and Frank Needham’s house.

 

Northwest Bethel:  River drivers camped at the ferry on the 21^st.

 

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