FRANKLIN COUNTY MAINE GENEALOGY TRAILS NEWS

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania August 23, 1826-

The house and most of the furniture of Rev. Sylvanus Boardman of New Sharon, Me., was destroyed by fire on Saturday the 12^th inst. Loss $1500. He had gone to a neighboring town to preach and was informed of the calamity just as he was about to enter the pulpit; but it did not deter him from performing his duty as a faithful minister nor disturb in the least the calm serenity of his mind. He preached three sermons on the same day.
submitted by: Nancy Piper

An act to regulate fishing in Lake Webb, Franklin County
An act to permit fishing for pickeral through the ice in Jenue (?) Pond, so called in Mexico and Carthage, partly in Oxford and partly in Franklin County.
An act to regulate fishing in South Boundary Pond, Little Northwest Pond, Massachusettes Bog in Franklin Bog.
(source: Private and Special Laws, passed by the Seventy-second Legislature
Daily Kennebec journal, March 25, 1905)

The funeral of Gen. Hannibal Belcher took place at his residence at Farmington, Thursday afternoon, and was attended by a large number of the friends and relatives of the deceased. The officiating clergymen were, Rev. Messrs. Hugh Elder and Rodney Welch, and the funeral was in charge of Capt. Wm. True. The Franklin county Bar Association attended the body and county officals were present. The bearers were, F.H. Thompson, Esq. E.E. Richards, Esp. H.F. Beedy, Esq. and E.O. Greenleaf, Esq. Music was furnished by the Baptist Quartet, composed of: Prof. and Mrs I.R. Potter, Mrs. C.F. Packard and A.B. Riggs, Esq. with Mrs. J.F. Woods as organist.

[source: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, April. 29, 1889 edition]

Harrison Harnden of Phillips was taken for a bear by a party of sportsmen at Madrid Center, Franklin County, October 5. The bullet passed beneath the left rib.
[source: Daily Kennebec Journal, Dec. 14, 1903 edition]

CAUGHT IN LEWISTON
FRANKLIN COUNTY JAILBIRD ARRESTED BY DETECTIVE ODLIN.

LEWISTON, Aug. 5:

Charles Herbert Hewey, who escaped from the Franklin County jail at Farmington, three weeks ago, was arrested today in Lewiston by State Detective Odlin. He was waiting the action of the Grand Jury on a charge of criminal assault on his nine year old stepdaughter and escaped jail by sawing off the bars. A reward of $50.00 was offered for his capture.
[source: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Aug.6, 1896 edition]

Cyclone:
The recent gale took the form of a cyclone in Oxford and Farnklin counties Maine. The damage in Oxford county amounted to $100,000. In Franklin county the loss is $50,000.00. Houses and barns were destroyed and cattle killed.

[source: Sacramento Daily Record Union, Nov. 16, 1883]

Baker Divorce:
They Want a Divorce:

Yesterday morning two divorce suits were filed with the clerk of the circuit court. One of them was filed by Mary T. Hallowell against her husband J.E. Hallowell on a charge of failure to provide. She asserts in her plea that she was akind and affectionate wife up to the time of their separartion.

The other is Laura E. Baker who wished the ties of wedlock severed from herself and husband, Mr. Gardner L. Baker. She states in her complaint that they were married on January 14, 1865 in Franklin County, Maine and lived together until September 25, 1885, that while they were together she was a true and devoted wife and always treated him with kindness and affection. She states as her cause for action non support and prays the Court to grant her a divorce. Baker is a fisherman at what is termed "Marked Tree," near Harrisburg, Ark., and no dobt attributes the unpleasantness to a "fisherman's luck".

[source: The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, Sedalia Mo. August 9, 1887 edition]