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1890
At the Republican caucus to indicate their preference for postmas- ter, the patrons of the village post office voted as follows :
L. I. Bartlett 77, F. H. Noyes 36, A. J. Nevers. 36, W. W. Whit- marsh 1. Mr. Bartlett received the appointment and began his duties March 10th .- The "grip" raged extensively during the winter .- A mineral spring discovered on the David Frost farm in the southwest- ern part of the town .- Feb. 28th, George P. Young, aged 41 years, was accidentally shot, in the stable office at the farm of his wife on Crockett Ridge. He was an employee as foreman in the cutting room of the shoe factory of B. F. Spinney & Co. He lived but a few hours afterwards .- L. D. Randall sold his farm on Crooked River to Col. C. S. Edwards. This made a tract of principally pine land of from 900 to 1000 acres that Colonel Edwards owned in that section .- D. W. Beal was appointed as the census enumerator for the village, and J. A. Roberts for the other part of the town .- Capt. Wm. W. Whitmarsh was renominated for County Commissioner in the Republican county convention by one majority. He was elected in September .- Herbert R. Denison and Miss Cora M. Dawes were united in marriage at her father's residence in Harrison, June 25 .- The Crockett Bridge re- constructed and put in shape to allow Edmund Ames' big steamer to go under it, in July. He took the first load of passengers to Gibson's Grove .- Teachers' vacation school held in Norway in August .- Miss Cora B. Shedd began teaching in the village schools .- James L. Par- ker of East Stoneham elected High Sheriff. He removed to Norway with headquarters at the Elm House .- Burglars on the night of Oct. 18, broke into the ready-made clothing store and S. Norman Buck's grocery store. On an alarm being given, Albert P. Bassett, state de- tective, promptly went to apprehend the malefactors. He fired at some of them, trying to escape by way of Deering St. and hit one. One of the thieves on watch at the door of the store fired at the offi- cer and hit him in the arm. Owing to the darkness the burglars escaped. They got but little booty. The town offered $500 as a re- ward for their detection and punishment .- Verne M. Whitman and Freeland Howe, Jr., entered Colby in the autumn. Both took good rank in their studies. The former became a famous baseball pitcher while in college .- Deaths: Zachariah Weston, Jan. 21, 84 years 9 mos .; Jan. 31, Widow Mary A. Buck, 66; Feb. 10, Mr. Edwin W. Howe, 65; he had been the longest in trade of any one in the village; Feb. 6, Mrs. Lois D. Small, 56 years 7 mos .; Lydia Swift in March, one of the oldest persons in town. In her younger days she had been a school teacher for 25 years. March 23, Dea. Nathan Millett, 89 years 6 mos .; May 26, David F. Flint, 56; June 18, in Boston, Aurelius C. Noble, formerly of Norway, 59; June 28, Mrs. Fanny Millner, about 90; July 10, Charles Walker, about 50; Warren Noyes, a native of Norway, died July 12 at Gorham, N. H., at 70; he had been in the em- ploy of the Grand Trunk R. R. Co. many years; Stephen Seavey, an old time stage driver, died July 30, about 67; July 27, Henry H. Hobbs, a school teacher of former days, about 70; Mrs. Sarah Angell, mother of Rev. Caroline E. Angell, Aug. 3, 82; her remains were taken to Smithville, R. I., for interment; Aug. 8, Mrs. Hannah (Fos- ter) Frost, 77 years, 6 mos. (widow of Charles Frost) ; Sept. 5, Mrs.
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Sarah Bennett, 75; Sept. 30, Jacob F. Holt, 72; November 6 at Kent's Hill, W. D. Earle, formerly of Norway, 64 years, 9 mos .; Dec. 5, Ed- win A. Morse, one of the substantial citizens of the town, 71 years; Dec. 16, Mrs. Lucretia Buck, 54; Dec. 20, Mrs. Angelia M. Clark, 51 years 5 mos .; Dec. 26, at New Haven, Conn., Mrs. Elliott Smith, 85; her remains were brought to Norway for burial.
1891
Maurice H. Small, principal of the high school, began the agitation here of three propositions to be laid before the Legislature. 1. The town system. 2. A State Board of Education. 3. Union of two or more towns for securing a superintendent of schools .- An Ecclesiasti- cal Council composed of several Baptist clergymen, among whom were Rev. B. L. Whitman of Portland, afterwards President of Colby Col- lege at Waterville, and Rev. H. S. Burrage, D.D., later State His- torian, convened at the Baptist Church in January to advise on cer- tain troubles which for some time had disturbed the society here. The Council sustained the action of the society, and the report was ac- cepted, and the disturbance quieted .- Of the 60 criminal cases in the Municipal Court up to October 20, only 17 were against Norway par- ties. There were about half as many liquor seizures, only one-third of which were made here .- The taxable value of the stock of the Nor- way Water Company as fixed by the County Commissioners, on appeal for an abatement of taxes, was $12,000-$10 a share instead of $15 a share as assessed by the selectmen .- Deaths: Jan. 2, Mrs. Uriah H. Upton, 67; Henry D. Twombly, Jan. 1, 77 years 9 mos .; Jan. 15, Mrs. Mary K. Frost; Jan. 30, Merrill J. Rowe, 71 years 4 mos .; March 7, Mrs. L. B. Weeks, 59; March 9, Newall A. Trafton, 47; Hon. Charles P. Kimball, at New York, 66; March 27, Mr. Simon Stevens, 92 years 7 mos .; March 28, Lizzie N. Stevens, 65 years 7 mos .; April 7, Mrs. Bethany Hayes at Cambridgeport, Mass., 79; at Portland, Oregon, March 30, N. P. Hall, 46; April 22, Jacob Parsons, 84; April 26, Mrs. Harriet Richards, 73 years 8 mos .;- April 28 at Manches- ter, N. H., Isaac W. Merrill, nearly 48; April 15, Nathan A. Foster, 57 years 6 mos .; May 7, Mrs. Chloe Lord, 68 years 3 mos .; June 1, Mrs. William Hall, 75 years; Aug. 11, Mrs. Edward H. Morse, about 69 years; Aug. 23, Wilson Hill, 80 years 5 mos .; Aug. 22, Mrs. James H. Merrill, 82 years 7 mos .; Sept. 7, Mrs. Samuel Hale (Mary B.), 79 years 6 mos .; Sept. 25, Benj. M. Royal, 62; Oct. 19, Mrs. Jerusha Rich, 84; Nov. 21, James H. Merrill, 83 years 7 mos .; Nov. 29, Simeon O. Tracy, 72 years 8 mos .; Dec. 3, Charles C. Sanborn, 59; Dec. 17, Mrs. Roxana B. Pingree, 56; Dec. 26, James C. Bennett, 71 years.
1892
March 2, while chopping wood with his brother, Herbert Rich, for C. B. Cummings & Sons, near the railroad on Alpine street,. was fatally hurt by having a tree fall upon him. He lived but a few hours after the accident. He was about 35 years old and left a wife and two young children .- George Sylvester, while sawing shingles for C. B. Cummings & Co., April 13, got caught in the shafting and was killed. He, too, was about 35 years old and left a wife, two chil- dren and a step-daughter .- From Jan. 1 to April 20, there were 27
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deaths in town: 15 males and 12 females; the oldest was 86, and the youngest 4; ten were upwards of 70; four died from old age and twelve from the effects of the grip .- The lake carnival in August was a notable event of the year .- Eugene F. Smith elected County Attor- ney this year, and was appointed to fill the vacancy till Jan. 1, caused by the removal to Bridgton of Edward C. Walker, of Lovell, then county attorney .- F. Q. Elliott sold his interest in the ready-made clothing business to Henry Foster and permanently retired .- It was finally decided in the courts that the Richardson Hollow road loca- tion should stand, and the road built .- Deaths: Jan. 11, Mrs. Amer- ica Bisbee, 70; Jan. 19, Mrs. Thomas Austin, 87; same day, Charles Green, 68; Jan. 16, Mrs. Charles Green, aged about 60; Jan. 20, Lit- tleton Holden, 70; Jan. 18, Moses Parsons, about 80; Jan. 19, L. B. Holden, aged 64; Mrs. Mary E. Kneeland, Feb. 2, 68 years 5 mos .; Feb. 4, Simon S. Billings, 55 years 5 mos .; Jan. 30, Lizzie C. Smith, wife of James Smith, 53 years 5 mos .; Feb. 7, Zebulon Rowe, 78; Feb. 25, William Hall, 78 years 7 mos .; Feb. 25, David P. Brooks, about 55; March 17, Mr. Samuel Favor, 76; March 22, widow of John F. Fitz; May 15, Mrs. Sophronia Merrill, 87; June 10 at Gorham, N. H., Enoch L. Knight, formerly of Norway, 77 years 8 mos .; July 21, Capt. Wm. M. Green, 73; Sept. 5, Henry Upton, about 80; Sept. 26, Mrs. Harriet (Rust) Millett, widow of Maj. Henry W. Millett, about 93; Oct. 1, David Frost, about 83 years; Oct. 6, John Hill, 79; Oct. 26, Mrs. Esther H. Reed, about 75; Oct. 27, Mrs. W. S. Pingree, 61; Oct. 24, Perley French, 77; Nov. 26, Mrs. Clarissa Knapp, about 80; Mrs. Mary Favor, Dec. 25, 73.
1893
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sanborn in January observed the 59th anniversary of their marriage at their residence at Steep Falls. Mr. Sanborn was 85 years old and his wife 78 .- A movement was begun this year by Norway and South Paris parties to remove the county seat from Paris Hill to South Paris. The matter of removal and to issue bonds not to exceed $30,000 was submitted as two parts of one proposition to the voters of the county at the annual March town meeting. The people decided by a majority of 150 to build new build- ings at South Paris and issue bonds of $30,000. The matter was taken to the courts on questions of law .- James Smith opened a shoe store in the W. S. Abbott building in May and moved to the village .- The water in the lake May 17, was the highest known for 10 years .- Twelve hundred dollars were appropriated to build the Richardson Hollow road .- George E. Blake, aged 14, who was visiting his grand- father, Capt. Jonathan Blake, while hunting with Willie Harriman was accidentally shot in the leg by his companion. He lived about two hours .- Deaths: Jan. 15, Hannah F. Brown of Portland, 81; Feb. 18, Mrs. Jemima Kimball, about 74; March 3, Asa D. True from apoplexy, about 36; Mar. 17, Mrs. Abby R. Bonney, 75; at Waterville College, Frances H., daughter of Henry W. Bearce, 18 years; Mar. 25, Mrs. Sarah Crockett, 75; April 11, Mrs. Eliza Ann Foss, aged about 63; April 13, Mrs. Julia A. Gammon, aged about 67; April 29, Mr. Charles
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Pike, about 66; May 9, Mr. Charles Henry Haskell, 66; May 16, Rob- ert Bangs, 69; June 4, John R. Sanborn, 57 years 6 months, suicide; June 5, Emma C. Thurlow, 63; in Brockton, Mass., June 6, Thomas Poole, 83 years 3 months; July 1, Mrs. Thomas Poole, 77 years 10 months. They were born in Norway but had lived in Massachusetts for 40 years. Mr. Poole built the brick house below Steep Falls, after- wards the Jason F. Rowe place, in which he resided for a time .- July 16, Geo. W. Russell, 62; July, Mrs. Frank Gibson at Tulare, Cal .; Aug. 1, Mrs. Emily Flint, 80; Dr. E. H. Cook, Aug. 26, consumption, 33; Sept. 15, at Colorado Springs, Otis N. Jones, consumption, 20 yrs. 7 mos., a promising young man and a great favorite in Norway; Sept. 18, Richard Hannaford, about 90; Oct. 24, Mrs. Almira Marr, about 73; Oct. 30, Maj. Ansel Towne, 85 yrs. 5 mos .; Nov. 5, Job B. Crooker, about 74; Nov. 11, Mrs. Serena Shackley, about 80; Nov. 17, Sarah Parsons, about 84; Nov. 20, Mrs. Desire York, about 89; Nov. 23, Stephen H. Needham, about 76; Dec. 5, in Portland, Mrs. Eliza Mer- rill Whitcomb, about 85. Remains were brought to Norway for burial. Dec. 21, Mr. Charles Parsons, about 83; Dec. 24, Harriet W. Sylvester, about 76; same day, John Hobbs, 56
1894
The oldest person in town in February was Mrs. Sally Pratt, aged 95-a pensioner on account of her husband being a soldier in the War of 1812-15. The next oldest was Miss Lavinia Smith, born in 1803 .- C. F. Whitman delivered the Memorial Day address at Lovell and East Stoneham. He was elected Clerk of the Courts, and resigned as Judge of the Norway Municipal Court, which he had held for 10 years. Herrick C. Davis of Paris Hill, was appointed by the Governor to fill the vacancy. Mr. W. had tried about 400 criminal cases during his ten years in office, and many hundred civil cases .- The great fire of May 9, in the village, destroyed the C. B. Cummings & Sons box factory and paste shop plant, the tannery, the Opera House, Congregational church, about 80 dwelling houses and other structures, and about 120 shade trees. During the year, five large brick blocks, several stores, the Congregational church, and some fifty dwellings were built. The quick recovery from so great a conflagration in a place of its size was almost without precedent .- Deaths: Jan. 8th, Mr. Enoch N. Clement, 62; Jan. 17, Mrs. Arvilla P. French, wife of John A. French, about 80; Jan. 13, Capt. Albert Sanborn, 85 years 7 months; same day, Mrs. Olive Mills, 98 years; Jan. 20, Mary G. Hill, 79; Feb. 5, Helen M. Kilgore, about 60; Feb. 12, Mrs. Harriet P. Brown, widow of Titus O. Brown, about 79; Mar. 16, Benjamin Marston, 72; Mar. 31, James H. Andrews, 67; April 4, Jacob Merrill, 72 years 5 months; April 27, Mrs. Lucia A. Buck, aged 72; May 4, Henry M. Bearce, 56; May 15, Mrs. Hannah Burnell, 77 yeare 5 months; June 6, Lydia G. Hall, 57; June 7, Francis H. Whitman, 70 years 5 months; June 5, Mrs. Olivia G. Hall, about 56; June 25, L. Ellen Frost, 47; July 3, W. H. Meserve, about 59; July 11, Mrs. Jane B. Lovejoy, 63; July 17, Mrs. Sarah E. True, 63 years 3 months; Aug. 21, Hiram Johnson, 65; Sept. 5, Thomas Shedd, 88 years 4
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months; Sept. 13, Mary A. Penley, about 61; Sept. 22, Mrs. Susan J. Brooks, 87 years 4 months; Oct. 15, Mr. Eben J. Pottle, 82.
1895
Jan. 1, C. F. Whitman began his duties as Clerk of the Courts at Paris .- The law court having decided that the vote to remove the county seat from Paris Hill to South Paris and for the county to issue its bonds to the amount of $30,000 to erect new buildings was legal, a lot a few rods west of the railroad station was secured and the contract let to Joseph Philbrook of Lisbon Falls and the court house was built in time for the county officials to move into the last of December. The jailer's house and jail, was completed during the following year .- Gen. George L. Beal, who had served as State Treasurer the legal limit, retired Jan. 1, to private life .- C. F. Whit- man was appointed to fill a vacancy on the school committee, and chosen school supervisor .- The electric railroad was built this year from Market Square in South Paris village near the Andrews House to the head of Main St. in Norway village .- The county road from the Millett Corner to the Paris line, was relocated .- Miss Gertrude Gard- ner began teaching this year in town. She had been teaching in Buck- field, her native town, for about four years. She taught the summer school at Norway Lake, and in the fall was transferred to the village school where she has continued teaching to the present time (1922) .- The new shoe factory, 190 by 60 feet and three stories high, costing about $18,000, which was subscribed by citizens of the town, was built this year .- Oct. 23, Newhall Jackson died at 20. He was a student at college and a very promising and smart young man .- Large amount of building in village: Opera House, Odd Fellows block, C. N. Tubbs store and barber shop, Tucker block, B. F. Bradbury, a large stable, Noyes Drug Store block, Norway Savings Bank block, Doctor Barker and Doctor French, dwelling houses; lower school-house, etc. Opera House completed Jan. 18 .- Act to amend Charter of Norway Muni- cipal Court was passed in the legislature .- Deaths: Jan. 8, Mrs. Syrena E. Stearns, 56; Jan. 10, Timothy S. Stearns, 53; Jan. 11, Lorenzo D. Hobbs, 79; Jan. 23, Uriah H. Upton, about 82; Feb. 7, Mr. Simeon Drake, about 76; Feb. 8, Mrs. Lydia Noyes, about 81; Feb. 21, Mr. A. P. Burnell, about 77; Mar. 9, Benj. G. Barrows, about 77; Mar. 13, Col. Geo. W. Millett, a native of Norway and a former editor of the Oxford Democrat and Norway Advertiser, at Cambridgeport, Mass., ahout 82; April 14, Mrs. Eleanor Bennett, about 75; April 19. Daniel Holt, about 88; April 25. Mrs. Maria Libby, about 57; May 1, Stephen Pottle, about 56; June 12, Dorothy Bean, 81; June 28, Mrs. Polly Pike, widow of Seth Pike, about 75; Sept. 1, Iva T. Whitcomb, 53; Sept 3, Samuel Whidden, about 79; Oct. 28, Mrs. Almeda Bryant, formerly of Buckfield, about 77; Nov. 12, Mrs. Margaret Morse, 71 years 6 months.
1896
One of the greatest winter freshets since the settlement of the town, the rain beginning on the last day of February and continuing for two days. Norway escaped with very little damage, but in many
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places the loss of property was very great. About 8 inches of water fell in the storm; the last end turning to snow .- Only 16 persons living in Norway village, May 1, who resided here in 1836 and 106 in the whole town. In 1850 there were 15 persons living in Norway who were 80 years old or more, and two were over 90. At that time 22 persons were 80 and upwards and three of these over 90, one being 97 .- J. Wesley Swan, photographer, who mysteriously disappeared in Boston in Nov. 1893, arrived in Norway, May 25, and was joyfully re- ceived by his family and friends. Claimed to have been sand-bagged and robbed in Boston and when he partially recovered consciousness found himself in New Orleans. His memory left him and he wan- dered over that part of the country, finally coming to himself enough in Texas to know where his home and family was, when he started for Maine. A strange story. Some said they didn't believe a word of it, but didn't know enough about the circumstances to contradict it .- Mrs. Kate Jones of Boston purchased of C. B. Cummings & Sons the "Reed Place," on Pleasant street, and erected a fine set of buildings in place of the old ones .- During the latter part of May a hail storm of eleven minutes covered the ground and did considerable damage to garden crops .- For the year ending July 1, the Norway & Paris St. Ry. carried 170,000 passengers .- Deaths: Jan. at Winchester, Mass., Dea. Thomas G. Goodwin, formerly of Norway, 85 years 6 months. He was born in Londonderry, Ireland, July 9, 1810, and came to Amer- ica in 1837, and three years later to Norway where he lived over 50 years in the undertaking and cabinet making business; Jan. 31, Joseph F. Herrick, 66 years 5 months; Feb. 25, Wm. W. Gary, 76; Feb. 28, Tristram Richards, 66; March 18, Jeremiah Hall, about 75; Mrs. Col- man F. Lord, 61 years 6 mos .; April 11, Lavinia Smith, about 93; same day, Mrs. Eliza Robbins, 84; April 9, Asa T. Dunham, 78; Mrs. Orpha Frost, April 27, at Prairie-du-Sac, Wis., formerly of Norway, 90 years and 5 months; May 6, Oliver Frank Bolster, in Roxbury, Mass., formerly of Norway, about 68; May 16, James P. Dunham, 61; May 18, Thos. H. Richardson, 75 years 5 months; June 19, Mrs. Rox- ana Ames, about 89: July 17, Mrs. Emily B. Hatch, 85; Aug. 28, in Cambridge, Mass., Charles E. Stevens, a native of Norway, about 89; Sept. 15, Daniel Green, 76; Oct. 7, Sally Pratt, 99 years 7 months; Sept. 24, Mr. Moses O. French, 72; Nov. 22, Daniel K. Hill, 78; Nov. 27, Mr. Luther F. Pike, 92; Gen. Geo. L. Beal, Dec. 11, about 72. He was buried with imposing ceremonies.
1897
Freshet in July, the water the highest known in 55 years. Capt. Edmund Ames could remember storms back for 70 years. The great- est rain storm in that period was in 1842, when for several hours the water of the lake rose two inches an hour. There was a great freshet in 1869, and another in 1896. The lawn in front of shoe factory, in August was named Witherell Park, in honor of Mr. Ivers L. Witherell of Lynn, Mass., formerly superintendent of the shoe factory of B. F. Spinney & Co .- The County Commissioners relocated Main Street in the village below the tannery bridge in Sept .- Oct. 5 a party consist- ing of C. B. Cummings, C. F. Whitman, Geo. I. Cummings, Howard
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Moulton and Wilbur Farrar, went by train and carriage to the base of Mt. Washington, and traveled on foot up the carriage road. They stopped for several hours at the half-way house and reached the top in time to see the sun rise. They arrived home on their return trip that afternoon .- John A. Woodman of Manchester, N. H., purchased and took possession of Beal's Hotel in October. He proved to be one of the most popular landlords the house ever had .- Chapel on Paris street erected by Episcopal Society of Norway .- Extensive building and repairing done in the village .- Oxford Central Electric R. R. from Norway to East Stoneham, with branch from Rice's Junction through Waterford Flat to South Waterford, agitated. Waterford voted to aid the enterprise by appropriating $10,000; Albany granted right to locate in its territory on the road from North Waterford to Stoneham, but voted no aid. Norway voted to take $10,000 of the stock on certain conditions ;- chiefly that the road must be built before any money was paid over. Italian laborers not paid for work in Sept. a big strike took place near Rice's Junction; serious trouble was averted and the Italians left and all work on the project stopped. The town was at considerable expense but it was felt that great trouble had been prevented .- Clifford J. Lawrence, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. P. Lawrence, a very bright little fellow, was so badly injured by falling under Justus I. Millett's ice cart, July 7, that he died within two hours after, at age of 9 yrs. 6 mos .- Deaths: Jan. 16, Dr. Geo. P. Jones, stroke of paralysis, 67, b. Westfield, Mass., Jan. 7, 1830; Jan. 22, Dr. O. N. Bradbury, 68 years 3 months; Feb. 5, Mrs. Mabel F. Bradbury, from injury received in a fall, about 38, a most lovable woman; Charles S. Cummings, in Cal. Mar. 1, 35, remains brought home for burial; William Cox, Mar. 12, 88, the oldest man in town; same day, Allen J. Crooker, 74; March 16, Henry N. Judkins, a soldier of the Civil War, about 58; Frank E. Thompson, b. Norway, Dec. 19, 1861, at Cumberland, Md., hospital, March 20; he was a graduate of Dartmouth and prominent in busi- ness in Davis, W. Va., his remains were brought to Norway for burial; they repose in a mausoleum in Pine Grove cemetery; March 18, Aaron C. Noble, about 70; March 25, Albert H. Stuart, 64; Mar. 22, America Bisbee, 85 years 5 months; May 31, at North Benning- ton, Vt., Georgia A., wife of Capt. Wright Bisbee, 52; June 4, Amos A. Grover, about 68; June 8, Mrs. Olive S. Hillier, 63; May 28, Mrs. Susan P. Beal, 92 years 6 months; June 17, Charles H. Hayden, 39; June 19, Mrs. Ephraim H. Brown, 75; July 6, wife of Isaac W. Ab- bott, about 64; July 30, Mrs. Mary E. Bartlett, about 60; in Poland, Aug. 18, Adna C. Denison, about 82; Oct. 4, Mrs. Esther (Hawkins) Dyer, nearly 70: Elias Sinclair Mason, formerly in the hardware business in Norway, died in Rankin, Ill., Nov. 20, 51, he was born in Bethel, Nov. 21; Mrs. Thomas L. Newcomb, 63 years 5 months; Dec. 1, Mrs. Rosanna (C. E.) Dunn, 59; same day in Otisfield, Geo. F. Andrews, about 65; Dec. 13, at Mechanic Falls, Hiram Lovejoy, 76.
1898
The War with Spain had a glorious termination for this country. May 1, Admiral George Dewey's war ships defeated the Spanish fleet
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in the harbor of Manila in the Philippine Islands, and captured the city; Frank T. Bartlett, Captain of the Norway Co., died July 3d, after a four days illness at Chickamauga, Ga., about 30 .- The last of August the Me. Regt. was sent to Augusta. All were granted a 30 days furlough to visit their homes; the Norway Co. was mustered out at Norway, in October. The war practically closed by the naval victory off Santiago, Cuba, in which the Spanish fleet under Admiral Cervera was destroyed without loss on our side of a single man. A treaty of peace was signed at Paris, granting independence to Cuba, the cession of the Spanish Possessions to the U. S. Government, in the West Indies, and the Philippine Islands for $20,000,000 .- C. F. Whitman was re-elected Clerk of the Courts in September .- Consider- able building in the village and at South Paris this year .- Deaths; Jan. 2, Mr. Samuel Partridge, 88; he was born in Poland, Oct. 25, 1809; Jan. 3, George Crooker, 76; he was a pensioner of the U. S. for service in the Mexican War, at $72 a month on account of blindness; Elbridge G. Allen, born in Poland, Sept. 5, 1819, who settled in Nor- way in 1846, died at his home, Jan. 16, past the age of 78; Jan. 12, at Harrison, Mrs. Francis H. Whitman; Feb. 9, Mrs. Nancy J., wife of Rollin Towne, about 68; Feb. 5, at South Paris, Mr. James Deering, 99 years 3 months 3 days; Feb. 25, Mrs. Belinda Thompson Beal, 71; Mar. 22, Mrs. Cora E., widow of Walter S. Abbott, at So. Boston, about 40; March 27, Hattie A., wife of Col. E. F. Smith, 26; April 5, Mrs. Minnie Grace Hurd, about 29; April 3, Mrs. Roșanna Bennett, 56 years 5 months; April 1, Harrison Buck, a Civil War soldier, about 61; Lewis O'Brion, April 9, at Auburn, 67; he was born in Quebec, May 5, 1831; lived in Norway for many years; remains interred in Pine Grove cemetery; April 19, Edward G. Rounds, a Civil War sol- dier, 66; April 21, Mrs. Emma Bartlett Gurney, 58 years 6 months; April 23, Mrs. Mary A. Frost, 80 years 4 months; April 20, Mrs. Henrietta B. Walker, 59 years 4 months; April 28, at South Fram- ingham, Mass., Mrs. Emma Denison Collins, 41 years 4 months; at Lewiston, May 7, Mrs. Mary J. Needham, nearly 97; May 28, Joel S. Frost, 82; June 5, Mrs. Sophia Dunham of Hebron, 84; June 8, John B. Carter, 62; June 16, Mrs. Dorcas Partridge, about 79; June 24, Mrs. Sarah S. Hobbs, 75; July 23, William Foss, 66; Aug. 19, Rosanna A. Crockett, about 82; at Church Hill, Md., Aug. 11, Mrs. Lucinda Scott, about 72; Aug. 25, Mrs. Abigail H. Bolster, about 77 years 6 months; Sept. 22, Mrs. Daniel Holt, about 74; in Worcester, Mass., Hannibal H. Houghten, about 72; in Groveton, N. H., Sept. 17, Mrs. Ellen Tabor Danforth, about 58; in Andover, Mass., Sept. 26, Geo. F. Holt, 60; Oct. 16, Moses H. Harriman, about 57; Nov. 5, Mrs. Lizzie Young, 58; Nov. 13, Wm. E. Austin, 28; Nov. 12, Mrs. Cynthia J. Crockett, about 74; Nov. 25, Mr. Robert J. Frost, about 76; at Council Bluffs, Dec. 16, Mr. Josiah Danforth, 71; Dec. 18, Mrs. Chas. H. Adams, about 54; Dec. 19, Elden Brown, about 64; Dec. 30, Geo. P. Rowe, about 61.
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