Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-04-11

A waterviIle Young LADY recently VOC q
| &C ID watch AID chain from her father By
successfully doing the cooking fer the
| family enc Whale week usassis;ed.
Oae CT oar Biedefofd Exchanges says
| shss q farmer from Al adj DINING town
| b,ough. bushsl Of email sweet apples 10
| a store IA tnis city yesterday for which ne
| received 80 pouads Of grsnuiated sugar. sr
| ssou ut ts,se ponds Of sugar for each fou,
pounds Of spples.
At the meeting Of York Institute held
Wednesday evening 9 lafgs number OF
donations for the library and cabinet were
/ acknowledged. aud the wives of the men,
bsrs were voted in ~ members of the Assg-
/ citation; also the lady school teachers Of
Saco.
The 6rst salmon for the present year was
caught 3, the Bsngor Pool April Oh by
Mr.. Frank G. Cowsn. The fsh weighed
seventeen pounds. II is unusually early
tor the fishing to begin.
Bangor Commercial Where can one
and better place to live than in Aroos.
took, where three barrels Of potatoes will
buy barrel Of good fl ,uf and sixty pounds
Of sugar, asks the Pioneer. They can't
after the county has direct line Of rail.
road, which just st presen. seems certain
Stock up an unknown South Sea island
with everything to supply the wants OF man
and it would not be very desirable place
for a residenee. The modern man likes
good communication with the rest Of the
civilized world-xnd will have it. Hence
lie present agitation in Aroostook.
Bangor Wing; The thorough work that
has been done in the State in stamping out
tuberculosis is giving an excellent reputa.
ton to Maine butter, cheese and beef,
which are Of the finest and puress quality,
AT there is no doubt but that in the future
there will be great demand in other states
FOR these articles. upon whose condition so
much depends.
The outlook for favorable vote on the
railroad loan in Aroostook county grows
brighter and brighter every day. The vote
is to take place Monday, April 20.
The Fairfield Journal pays deserved
compliment to the sketches and dialect
verses of Holman F. Day, editor of the
Dexter Gazette, formerly an employe Of
the Fairfield paper and a we'll known con-
.ributor to the Lewiston Journal. Says
our Fairfield contemporary "While in this
office be contributed a series of corner
stone talks which attracted so much atten-
lion that 1t was declared that they must
have been borrowed We did not think
so but determined to test the matter, and
50 one day when he brought in his regular
iustalment, we told him we wanted another
chapter to help enIiven an otherwise Try
supplement. He was agreeable and seating
himself began TO turn out about the droll
est coraer store yarn ever printed. That
settled the authorship Of the series and we
have from that day been looking to see the
young mans fame spresd far and wide
May he live long and prosper, say we."
In the music rooms of C. 0. Milliken,
Biddeford, are four old violins whose aggre
gate value is $1,000. The most unique one
| in the collection is Q Kiatz violin Of the
date Of 1747.
A new Old Fellows hall at Madison wa
recently dedicated with appropriate cere
monies. Many neighboring lodges were
| represented and speeches made by promi.
| nent members OF the order from different
parts Of the State. At the close Of the
| ceremonies foe supper was served BY
members of the home lodge.
The Esstport Sentinel says that the name
of one of the streets in that town originated
| in a Joke One of the sire cts now known
as Accommodates" Was origi aaily called
| Chapel street. But some young men who
found pleasure in calling at oeftsin house
where there we're attractive young ladies
considered the way thi,her great accom-
mediation, and thus spoke of it, aud vher
the surveyor who got up the town map oil
| 1855, was goiog his rounds he was in
formed that it WAS the name Of the street
and 20 put it 10 his map which led to il
general use.
| The Grant family reunion at Corinna,
short time since, brought together shre,
brothers. namely: Hiram Of Bingham
Dexter of St. Adams and Peter Of Comma
| whose united sges was two hundred an,
forty years; weight of the largest man on
hundred and tselve pounds, of the small
est eighty eight pounds. The eldest per
| son present was Mr.. Hiram Grant, in So,
year, thriving farmer on the upper Ken
uebec; the youngest, Dexter Of st Adams
A msa walked along the streets of Ban
gor Wednesday, who attracted more thai
the usual amount Of attention bestowe,
upon visitors. This man was noticeable OF
account of his uousaAl height he standin,
six feet. niae and one-half inches in hi
stocking feet. He claims to be Of Irisl
descent and q lineal defendant of Phil
McCcd, who Was seven feet, nine inches il
height. and whose son Con WAS the hero o
one hundred battles.