PISCATAQUIS COUNTY MAINE
NEWS ITEMS

Foxcraft Acadamey has commenced its fall session with 80 students. E.P. Sampson, A.B.Principal. Miss Adelia W. Adams, assistant. Mr. Sampson was formerly the principal of the high school in Ellsworth.
(source; Daily Kennebec Journal, Sept. 10, 1881)

W.A. Allen, C.E. of the M.C.R.R. and A.W. Robinson, of Boston, and their wives are at Long Pond, Piscataquis County, where they are to camp for a few weeks.
[source: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Sept. 8, 1887 edition]

Grand Army men in Dover and Foxcroft under the leadership of Wainwright Curshing and George G. Downing, have chartered a Pullman car to go to Detroit for the next meeting of the National Encampment and are now forming a party to make the trip. They will go over the Canadian Pacific.

[source: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, April 29, 1891 edition]

James L. Tyron, night editor of the Argus, and wife are spending a week’s vacation in Piscataquis County.

[Bangor Daily Whig and Courier,September, 8, 1887 edition]

The home of Phillimon Parsons in Foxcroft was entered Sunday while the family was at church, and jewelry and silverware to the value of about $100.00 was taken.

[source: Kennebec Daily Journal, Oct.4, 1882 edition]

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