Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-01

not TO saw q few men. Eontraetsr Foster
Al once presented her with cheek for ten
dollars A. a uiemeato Of the OCCASION
The county road from Lily hay, Moose
head lake TO Roach river, Is nov being
opened.
Prof. f. W Putnam OF the Museum OF
Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass
70 nom report wss ntafis Of the preiitnih-
AIRY cut in the siie Of tbs mound az North
Dexter writes that he docs not feel salts
fed, from the resnits shown by that cut, OF
Inc nature of the mount, whether srtIneiai
or net. lie Saws the matter will be male
eertsiu by further investigation at a Later
date.
Pttsiield Advertiser No appeal to Fits
hc!f. generosity u in vain. Notsithstani-
ing thu. crowded condition Of our village
some three hundred visitors la the Free
Baptist STATE Association were welcomed
ami. ACCORDING to their own warm testimony,
were well entertained in the homes Of the
people here.
Mr.. r. Dow, 90, Maine State College
.uterinten.i-nt of mechanical schools at the
-
spending the summer at the college study
ing and making drawings and plans for use
in the schools. He is now at the iron foun-
lrv At Dexter, where lac is 10 spend short
lime studying that branch of his work, ami
will return 10 the West Indies early IN oc-
tober.
An the schools are getting we'll at work
in the first term of the school year through
out Maine.
Cant. 4. w. Frost of Pembroke. lately
received q gold watch and chain from The
ow ners anil unlerwriters of bark Arlington
of Boston, ia recognition of services rem
,ared by him ON board that vessel last " IN
ter, the master having died and two seainen
lost overheard,
The New sweden correspondent OF the
Aroo-took Republican writes 10 that paper
under date of sept. 27 strawberry
blossoms have been quite plenty during the
past two weeks and ripe berries of the Jesse
variety have been found measuring three
inches in circumference.
Portland Press Litigation, which has
been a bane of the New England country
life appears to be on the decrease. The
number of entries on our court dockets
show a marked falling off, though the
purses of attorneys are still fat. Having
the law on ones neighbor has become too
costly a diversion for frequent indulgence.
The September term of the Supreme Court
for the county of York just closed, lasted
less than a week-the shortest term in that
ancient county for two hundred years
Perhaps the size of the attorneys fees acts
as "A sort of high license on litigation.
The project is discussed concerning the
erection of an observatory on Hersey Hill,
dexter or some one of the elevations near
er the village, like the one at Charleston.
The town has some frst-class hills to put
such a structure on. The claim has been
made for Hersey Hill, that it is the highest
! land in Penobscot county. An observatory
there would be great attraction for pie
| nickers and summer tourists.
| Somerset Reporter One day last week
| Samuel Woodman of Cornville, presented
| the Reporter with a piece of board cut from
| A hemlock hoard once on his fathers shed
on which Mr.. Woolman, when he was five
wears Old, remembers to have seen hi:
| grandfather, Samuel Woodman of Kings
ton, n. H., cut his initials and the date
IS. W. 1911" and they are plainly to be
| seen now upon the weather beaten piece
| in our possession. Mr.. WoOdman says this
| board was on his fathers shed 80 years, and
vet what is not worn away is rs sound a
| it ever was.
| A new organ has been presented to ths
! Bethany Baptist church Skowhegan, by
| Miss Helen s. Coburn, in memory of hel
sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Dodge Miller. II
was dedicated Friday evening by concert
| the organst being Prof. Wrigley of Quincy
Mass.
| The Piscataauis Observer thinks thai
! Mr.. Roscoe Il. Morgan of Guilford, has
sold more maps than any man in this coun
try. living or dead. For many years hi
made map selling a permanent business
in pursuit of which he canvassed the
! United States. Mexico, the South American
Republics the Empire of Brazil, the Sand
wich Islands. New Zealand. Australia
England. Wales and several continental
countries. He has made fifteen trips acros
the Atlantic Ocean, ard in his travels ha
usually been accompan ied by his wife. Mr.
Morgan has led variable life has mad'
and lost fortunes in Wall street specula
tons, but in all these charges has preserve,
his honor and integrity as a man unfair
nshed. Though now an unpretending far
mer in his native town, cultivating hi
paternal acres, his name is familiar toda,
on chang, in New York. where his word i
as good as gold with substantial stool
dealers. with HON he is still in touch.