Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-02-04
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yAlu4.le eiffs Of important bsss have
been prs rssd - the HJso -sit pablo lib
vary ~ Prot. CHARLES p. Richsrison Of
Dartmouth COLLEGE; and IA the Pssten
Free Library Bath. BY DR.. A. 4 Gimofe.
Biaa~fo,d Times 1t isn Z gallant Il keep
psoGdiEg man shen he IL "a III lack. pus
Ne es-not refrain from Say ina thAs I. G.
Libby's letter, publishet in this isrue Of
the Tunes, il ye-v interesting resd ng for
LEGAL boomers Of Ses-eru AL ssusbern real
sssste-
The LAviston Ana Auburn Horfe Rail-
road CONT any ID 10 establish = plant fof
the manu-, cure OF is own rnll:re stock.
ard ell n occs commerce work vpsn four
new open cara Tor the summer basinsss.
Chaslas Cotton OF M-ehsaie Falls. who
Is huasine for his wife wao Il # sass ,osc, pre-
sunahly With sno.ber man. tells good
story which goes 70 shos thas when q man
hss wife il il & good thing TO hang OF to
her at any rate Ia Mechanic Fslis- The
story went about q follows: When oc
my way home from South Paris. says Mr..
Cotton, where bad been to see it my
~ise stopped there, l met one OF my neigh
bors ~ho Was driving fast, bat when he saw
inc he refined up and in an excited voice
yelled; BY thunder, Charles, mire 10 gone
too
There seems 70 be new sSakenlng OF
interest in behalf Of the Young Mems
Christian Association and the good local
work thry are doing, ali over the State.
In Gardner, Auburn, Bath and Lewiston
this interest is 40 decided that j. pervades
the. whole community. To Overcome evil
Nth pod Is What these associations are
doing and by this means are exercising .
most hope full aad helpful irfiuence among
sil classes Of young men in the towns where
they are located.
The town Of York is making move
toward an efficient fire service. Subscrip-
lions to that end have come in from many
wealthy owners of summer cottages resid-
ing outside the State.
G. NJ Noyes Of Caribou. will realize
5000 profit from his potato crop of 1890.
Ard yet Maine farmers want ito 60 West"
The busters can get 10 the front IS well 10
Aroostook or Penobscot. rs IN any other
counties in the United States.
Edward w. Box, writing in the Boston
Journal SAYS: A friend who has recently
heard from Blanche Willis Howard. the
chaIming authorizes, who recently Welded
Dr.. Won Teuffel in Germany, formerly Of
Bangor, tells me that she IL leading an
'dslIic happy life in Stuttgart since her
Her life is ss busy, ~ before
her marriage. when will in no wise inter
fere with her literary wo.k Her hus-
band told me- said my friend, "that
lt would be blot on his
scu,eheon if her marriage should
paral,ze his wife's literary faculties.
As he Is devoted TO her IS ~ife" Nine
Won Teufel is exceedingly popular in
Stuttgart. and a recent evidence Of this is
found in the dedication to her Of THE
Wawie Waltz" written by a rising young
GermSn composer, Herr Adolphe Kruger
The piece was simultaneously published in
New York, London. Paris and Leipzig, and
Is beng adopted IS ore Of the court
values Of Austria.
1t seems almost incredible, but it is well
bv the facts. that the farmers of
Houlton pocketed $ll5, 400 for what pota-
toes were disposed Of in that town the eth
er day.
One of the growing towns is Van Buren,.
The Aroostook Republican reports that its
population has increased on an average of
= birth day since the dawn Of the new
wear Plans are in progress for the erect
ion of several new residences, this spring,
and also for new places Of business, while
others are to be enlarged or remodeled.
viii soon be presented to the
l. g,slature for charter for bank and
also for a corporation to construct sys-
lem Of water works for. supplying the viii
lage with water.
Mr. L. w. s., Maine man now living
in Brooklyn, n. Y.-is writing some very
letters to the Eastern Argus
describing the great picture galleries,
libraries and museums of New York. In
a recent letter he gave an account of the
American Museum of Natural History in
Central Park, among other things desc,ie
ing the collection of American woods which
il contains, in the course OF which he said
The sample of old white birch is a miser-
ALL one, ard l wish some Malice farmer
v ould cut a six foot log from the "butt' of
he largest tree he can find and send it to
his museum, taking care not TO mar the
bark. Address, Museum Of Natural His
DRY, New York City, We are sure some
me in Maine will espond to this call.
BY the way among other natural products
# Maine to be shown at the Worlds Col
imbisn Exposition, should be fee repre-
sentative collection Of our indigenous woods
md timber products. Don't let it be for
,otten.