Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-06-23

. rush for seAfs there would be IL snch .
feature was ADDED TO every graduation pro-
srsmHse.
The compiefi6n Of the Phillips Range
ley Railroad 10 Rangel<y lake sasf year has
80 developed travel in that region, bring
ing. ~ Il docs. many more business men.
that better facilities for communication with
the outside world are necessifafed, and the
construction of a Telegraph line betweea
Pennington snsi Phillips is already in pro-
Yress--the wires between Phillips AMI
Ranseiey having aiready been strung. The
connection. then, OF Rangeiey with the out
side world by telegraph. will be eensan-
mated in few DAYS, fact which we are
sure sill be- appreciated by the public.
| The advertising fan craze has reached
Bath. One young fellow there has a eolIec-
ZION of over twenfy different kinds.
/ Saeo has commenced movement for
city hospital with which will be connected
/ training school for nurses.
| Lightning played queer prank in Port
! iand Tuesday night. 4 man was sitting
1 with child in his arms at an open window.
! The lightning struck a tree, entered the
| window, shattered the plastsring passed out
| at the window again AMI struck a tree on
/ the opposite side of the street. The man
thought his time hal come, but vas not hurt.
! The child has been somewhat sick ever
since.
| Auburn has one woman xho has regard
| for the comfort of dumb animals. A clerk
working for an Auburn merchant stopped
| HE horse in front of house on one of the
| principal streets. Ia 90 in To deliver an or
der Of soods. When he came oat mo-
msnt later woman addressed him from
window of the house opposite The next
time you leave yoar horse I wish you
wouid leave him in the shade
| Calais has Young Men's Board Of Trade,
which has very pleasant rooms and is en-
gagged in active work for the good Of the
city.
| The editor of the Damariscotta Herald
was turnei out at half past five the other
morning by a frightened deer that, in its
efforts To escape pursuers, was endeavoring
10 Jump through the side of the editorial
mansion. The animal left a lock Of his
| hair on the ciapboards eight feet from the
ground. bat cleared the fence and dis
appeared.
| The notebook" man of the Portland
/ Express finds in an old attic in that town,
among other things, an old fashioned pos
ter giving an announcement of the winter
! .t,hI fabru Of rha mail
ton to Camden IN the District of Maine, run
ming through the principal seaport towns"
/ The poster was embcilished with cut of an
| impossible stage. drawn by four impossible
horses and containing nine impossible pas
| sengers and an impossible driver Re
garled as a work of art it had II most start
| ling effect. II was engraved, according to
the imprint, which according to the custom
of modern artists, appears in corner by
-. Akin, ;. c." and though il looks more
| like a earicature it undoubtedly was true to
| life in that it shows truthfully the style of
the stage, with its leathern thoroughbraces
| for springs, and its eliptical panel on the
/ door hearing the words - Boston and New
| bury" The poster was printed by W. &
j. Gilman. Middle street, Ncwbnryport,
and the mail arrangements were those to
| go into effect in Nov, 1906.
| 4 State convention of Kings Daughters
will be held in Bangor, June 18th, and Both.
Miss Georgia Libby, former treasurer of
the Central Council; Mrs. Isabella Charles
Davis, corresponding secretary, and Mrs.
Mary Lowe Dickinson, general secretary of
the Central Council, will deliver addresses.
1t is hoped a large delegation of the order
will attend. Half fare from all points of
the Maine Central Railroad.
Mr.. Samuel Garland of Gorham, has in
his possession medal that is valuable, not
only for its age, but because it was used so
extensively in the great campaign in which
the grandfather of the present President of
the United States was elected to the presi-
dency. This medal is about the size of the
current two cent pieces. On one side ap-
pears the face of William Henry Harrison
surrounding which are the words Maj
Gen. W. IL. Harrison. Born Feb. ., l773."
On the other side is a pair of scales. with
the Wing banner weighing down that of the
Democrats. Around this cut are the words
Weighed in the balance and found want
ing" IL bears the date 1910. Mr.. Garland
naturally values this coin very highly. He
has had it for period of about 81 years, as
ne tflIuks tHdl ne Dbldlilttt II Turing
famous Tippecanoc and Tyler too campaign.
lie has Il mania for old coins, and has quite
a large collection. One of these is a Brazil
ian dollar of 1914. Mr.. Garland has been
in New York for the past eight years, in
the auditors Office of the Rome, Water
town, and Ogdcnsburg Railway. During
the past winter he suffered severely with
the grip, and as consequence he resigned
bis 5it ~ rhap
where he is likely to remain for some years
StarHerald Now that the pioneer crew
Of railroad builders is actually strung out
on Aroostook soil with picks, shovels and
whcelbarrows. the long drawn sigh of re-
lief and abstraction through the length and
breadth of this county ought to be distinctly
audible in this still June weather to our
neighhors in New Brunswick and down in
Penobscot- With the grass and grain grow
ing two knots a week, thousands upon
thousands of acres of potatoes sprouting
into ruddy promise of big crop, and the
railroad work well underway if Aroostook
people are not happy nothing in this life
will ever make them so.
One of the hardest roads for horse in
Maine is the climb over Roxbury Notch
and all who ever had occasion to ride over
it will be glad to hear that the Oxford
county commissioners are at work for i'm
provements on it. The town of Roxhurv
is going to put 8 800 into the road. 1t is
the highway to Rumford Falls and all OK
ford county now wants good quick road
to this roaring cascade.
The Bangor 4 Bar Harbor steamboat line
will be more popular than ever this season,
with its fine new steamer the Sedgewick.
over thirty Maine towns are preparing
for Fourth of July celebration this year.
Hebron Academy has received a beauti-
full present of a clock from J. A. Hucknam.
Mechanic Falls, in memory of Dea. VIM.
Barrows, founder of the Academy.
The steamers on Sebago lake cannot be
run this season owing 10 the low water
which prevails there and in the Songo river.
4 new freight steamer ~ feet long. % l-2
feet wide and :, l-2 feet deep has been built
for the Maine Central for service on the
lake. She will run from the station to the
head of the lake and will draw hut two feet
of water, where the other boats require
four.