Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-11
THE LIPs or 4as pAs1.
dances At an Old Ksnnsboc Uevp-
paper.

graphed BY daily paper, and carrying sha
sheet forsarl in Imagination for ffsy or ,
hundred years. to be perused BY the peopl.
Of that day. The paper portrsys the busy
scenes and events Of the presens, and pre-
serves for future generations . mirror O,
actual life, Its fluctuations and il.
vast concerns" - il now is. Hencs
through the columns Of an Old news.
paper We bring bsck ~ If by magic the real
life Of former days-ve know Who vers
the busy mes on the streets, Who
we're engaged in public Affairs, VIA, peo-
pie wore, what they ate and drank, VIA,
prices they paid fx it, how they sravs lIed
who they married, Who preached to them,
hos old they we're when they died.
Oar valued correspondent Stephen Mars
ton, Esq, Of Eau Claire, Wis, having re-
Gently read several sketches in the Journal
about old newspapers, kindly sends Us q
copy Of the American Advocate and
hennebec Advertiser" Of July 10, 1916,
printed and published by Nathaniel Chez.
yer, at Hsllowell, District Of Maine, State
OF Massachusetts. This copy is No. rs,
OF Vol. 7, and is a four page sheet of four
columns each, the columns about seventeen
inches long. Mr.. Cheever the printer
learned his trade of Isaiah Thomas the old
Boston printer, Who founded the American
Antiquarian Society at Worct s,er, Mas.
He settled in Hsilo~eil and kept a book
store in connection with his printing Office.
His son DR.. Geo Is. Cheever became an
eminent divine and was for many years
preacher in New York The price Of this
paper vas 500, one half in advance.
The pure reading matter in this pape- is
some~hat limited. Mail Articles" forms
the heading for certain general new, and
miscellaneous reading. Foreign intelli-
gence is dated May 25; New Orleans new,
June Z, New York July 8, Boston. July
.. The local column 10 taken I'D with .e
counts of Fourth of July celebrations at
Augusta and Wsteryille, the only other
item Of local news being that Rev. Mr..
Packard Of Wiscasset pronounced an ad-
dress on Female Education at the Female
Academy in Augusta on the 3D." The &C
count of the Fourth of July cele-
bratlon says that "the republican
citizens" Of Hail,well, Augusta and
neighboring towns united with re
spectacle federal gentleman" in cele-
brating the anniversary of American indie
pendence upon National principals" The
Hon. John Chandler was President of the
Day, and "a truly classical and elegant ora
ly manner by peleg Sprague, Esq of Au-
gusts to crowded and highly delighted
audience" The exercises we're held in the
meeting house, after which the prominent
citizens without distinction of party" par
took Of dinner At the residence
of Pitt Dillingham;. Here there
must have been a grand time. Eigh.
teen regular and five volunteer toa,ts were
drank, nearly all Of which was received
with from three to nine cheers. The Hall
DWELL Light Infantry Company, Capt. Cool
i1ge did escort duty on this occasion. The
friends of separatiou"-,he question Of
the separation between Maine and Masss.
chusetts being then much discus.ed-held
a celebration at Waterville where an Grafton
was delivered by BENJAMIN Foster, ESQ.
One of the tos,ts given at that celebration