Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-29
Yofal aud State 1ews.
Wednesday July 90, 1895.
FINE JOB PRINTING.

wednesday July 90. loco
FINE JOB PRINTING.
The Job Printing E.tablishme Mt of the Kennebec
fourpal always well prepared for doing the incest
~sork, ~ well a. the more common branches This
,esce employs competent printers, carries a large
arjety OF paper stock. and keeps hand the latest
s.yes Of type. Wedding and visiting cards and
isnes in stock aso varied sortment Of dance
n,ders programs. announcements, etc, etc. Orders
ey mall will receive prompt and careful attention.
The hay harvest will be completed this
Seek.
The most satisfactory five cent cigar will be
found in Pixie"
Peaches are in the market. They cost
from to = cents each.
Small steam launches are coming into gen.
eral use on the Kennebec.
Patrick Lynch and William Fulton went to
iail for drunkenness, yesterday.
Mr.. NJ. C. Blackwell dned on sweet corn
grown in his garden, Saturday.
ne Clb-t tAibt Db pip'ri tubs IIt Isl udy
of August, and the fall shooting will open
then.
Kaspberrits are abundant. A berry picker
vas peddling them on the street yesterday at
10 cents quart.
Mr.. b. f. Gasln picked ripe tomatoes from
vine. 10 his garden, on Monday and on Sun
day ripe cucunbers.
The August (Criminal) term of the Su-
preme Judicial Court begins in Bangor Tues
day, August lth. Judge Charles Danforth
viii preside.
The boys, by the appearance of the east
river bank afternoons. have almost become
amphibious creatures, remaining in the water
a great part of the time
The Register say. that Capt. Jason Collins
has been appointed Deputy Inspector for the
port Of Boothbay. TO ill the vacancy caused
by the resgnation of C. II. Fisher
boy complained IN the municipal court
yesterday morning, that one of the hands in
the mill had used him roughly. The case
was dismissed, the parties settling il.
The company managing DIR. Lancaster
new wrench have under consultation an Offer
from firm to manufacture 5000 of the
wrenches. A slight Improvement has recent
~ been made on it,
The committee on the observance of tn.
late Gen Grants funeral have adjourned to
Saturday evening No definite arrangement,
have beer made yet. Several prominen
gentlemen have been invited to speak
There is a great rush among book agent,
in this section to secure territory for Grant,
Memoirs. 1t ia reported that orders are be
ing taken very rapidly for the book A Win
throp man has secured Kcnnehnc County.
Govcnor Robbie, with Adjutant Genera
Gallagher and Inspector General Richards Of
his staI and Hon. :. C. Hatch Chairman OF
the Executive Council, will repr, sent Maine
at the funeral services of General Grant ir
New York.
While the salvation Army was marching
on the east side. opposite Whitneys black.
smith shop, yesterday afternoon. on their
way to the station, Mrs. Capt. Thacher was
struck bv wheel and thrown to the ground
She was carried into house near by and as
nearly as can be learned. was quite severely
inured.
Monday night thieves entered the store OF
MIR. Geo Wadsworth, at Eaat Winthrop. and
stole some sl0 worth of goods. At Msnches
ter they made an attempt to enter Jesse
Woods store. by cutting through a shutter
\ lady residing in an upper story of the
building. discovered them, however and
ringing a dinner bell drove them of before
they had gained entrance.
The J. ID. Il. polo team starts FRIDAY morn
ing on a professional trip through Northern
Name and the Provinces. They will be il
Calais three evenings. Bar lisrbor. two; St
John one The club will be constituted a.
follows Pedder, goal; Fsrwell, LIST rusher
Gearside. 2nd rusher; Locke. point cover
Shcehan, goal cover. The sixth member OF
the team has not been decided on. but il will
probably he Drummond of Waterville.
More than fifty years ago. when improved
machinery was in embryo, certain gentle
man in Winthrop possessed of fertile brain
and inventive genius Luther Whitman by
name, conceived the idea of threshing by
machinery He invented the first horse
power and separator annexed for threshing,
and in quiet and humble manner commenced
the manufacture of this highly important
element in the year 1884. Year b. year he
made improvements and in ten years he had
succeeded in accomplishing for the northern
grain producer almost rs much as Eli Whit
ney had for the southern cotton. A portable
thresher and separator with horse power had
been put in the market capable of doing the
work OF dozen men.
city Personals.
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