April 19, 1881 Machias Union Date: 97-07-29 18:16:55 EDT From: ctyankee@BIGFOOT.COM (Ken) Sender: "Genealogy and history in the New England area." Reply-to: Ken To: NORTHEAST-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Times New Roman STATE OF MAINE BY THE GOVERNOR A PROCLAMATION In accordance with a pious and time-honered custom, come down to us from the Pilgrim Fathers, and found so suitable to our love and veneration, I Harris M. Plaisted, Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Council, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the twenty-first day of April, next, as a day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer. And I do recommend to the Christian people of our State to keep this, their annual fast: refrain from labor, business, amusements, and in their homes and houses of public worship, humble themselves before Him whose mercy endureth forever:- supplicating His favor upon themselves, the State and Nation; confessing their sins and seeking forgiveness of the same, in humility of spirit. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselfs, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Given at the Council Chamber at Agusta, this thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifth. HARRIS M. PLAISTED By the Governor. Joseph O. Smith Secretary of State Hancock County. Ellsworth American. One of the smartest, among the old men of this county, is Mr, Moses Butler of North Hancock. Mr. Butler is 88 years old and is possessed of all his faculties, is active and continues to take a deep interest in the affairs of the day. Four more silver bricks arrived at the express office Tuesday from the Sullivan & Waukeag mine, and were forwarded to Newark, N.J. today. This is the fourth shipment within two weeks. There must be something there. LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS Mr. Ellis Hanscom passed his seventy-ninth birthday April 15th, in the enjoyment of health and vigor of the average man of sixty years. Wm. Lawton, Esq., at S.W. Harbor, died April 7, aged 55. He had been in the employ of Wm. Underwood & Co. for a number of years Mr. Isaac Heaton, of Machias, has been a scaler of logs on Machias waters for twenty-four years; has scaled for one hundred and fifty-five operators of whom one hundred and fifty two are now living; total amount of logs scaled during these winters 112,602,825 feet. We think the Deacon is entitled ti the medal as the champion scaler of Washington County, if not the State of Maine. Obituary. Calais Advertiser April 6, Benjamin Shattuck, Esq., another of our oldest highly respected citizens has passed away. He died at his residence, at Red Beach about four o'clock Monday morning, at the advanced age of 84 years 1 month. Mr. Shattuck was born in Littleton, Mass, and came to Calais in 1720- sixty-one years ago, and has resided here ever since. His occupation has been farming and lumbering - principally farming. He was the first to introduce the culture of the cranberry into this part of the country, which he did successfully, although at much expense and labor. After he got the business started several of his neighbors went into it and has for many years past proved quite a profitable crop to them, and doubtless will continue many years to come. He was a very industrious, upright man, and is as much entitled to be considered a benefactor as was he who made two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. He had been in his usually good health up to a day or two before he died. On Saturday he complained of a pain in his chest, but did not feel any alarmed at it, and Sunday he was round the house as usual, and read, and smoked, and talked on religious matters with his son's wife. Sunday night he went to bed and died as above stated, without any apparent pain or suffering. He leaves a family of three sons and two daughters. Two of the sons reside at the Beach and one in Kansas, the two daughters reside in Boston. MARRIED In Machias, April 17, by Rev Daniel Green, Benj. F. Smith and Mrs. Rachel W. Albee, both of Whitneyville. In Eastport, April 6th,by Rev T.G. Moses, Alenzo H. Fountain, Deer Island, N.B., to Carrie Ricker, of Eastport, Me. DIED In Machias, April 14, Miss Emma A. Spring, aged about 21 years. In Addison, April 12, Abraham M. Grey, aged 28 years. In Dennysville, April 2, Lincoln H. Kilby, aged 18 years, son of Cyrus H. Kilby, Esq., of Skowhegan. In Edmunds, April 9, Mrs. Nancy Lyon, aged 82 years. In East Machias, April 4, Mrs Mary D., relict of the late Samuel Elsmore, aged 76 yrs 6 days. In Eastport, Aptil 10, Jacob Clark, aged 75 years. In Lubec, April 10, Mrs Susan Tucker, widow of the late Davenport Tucker, aged 81 years, 5 months. In Trescott, April 5th, Benj. Kelly, aged 88 years. In Milltown, N.B., Aptil 3, Miss Rebekah Trecartin, aged 59 years. In St. James, N.B., March 11, George Yuret, aged 93 years. In Ellsworth, April 8, Capt. David G. Eaton, aged 60 yrs. 14 das, April 12, Capt. Peter Mazrall, aged 52 yrs 4 mos. In North Ellsworth, March 9, Mr. Rufus Clement, aged 82 yrs 9 mos In Eden, April 2, Mrs Lydia P. wife of Thomas P. Emery, aged about 60 years. In Brooksville, April 9, John P. Snow, aged 79 yrs and 5 months In Brooklin, April, Daniel Babson, aged 79 years. In Orland, March 27, Mrs Louisa T. Roberts, aged 60 yrs. 4 mos and 28 days. © 1997 by Kenneth A. Dill ctyankee@bigfoot.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7229 NOTICE: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. 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