Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-04-15

| That little story about the pretty country
| cousin ami the street sprinkler is doing duty
| for all the Maine cities, III turn.
Il is salt that plans for new soldiers
monument in Biddeford are being. consid-
| cred. This j. called for on account of the
resemblance of the flag in the figures hand
/ TO an umbrella, which certainly would be
more useful than flag to anybody but Il
statue. dependence has been opened
with the firm from which the monument
came, aad it is agreed that the old m0nu-
mcnt may BE- exchanged for new one,
similar in material and in design. except
that the figure shall carry a musket instead
of M umbrella The only extra cost wll
be the freight of tine two monuments. and
Biitictor,i people think they can afford 10
~hoop her up, 80 to sEcak, when their god
des- of liberty gets her new colors.
over FIVE hundred dollars have been raised
towards the one thousand needed for the
proposed building for the Pcjepscot Ilistor-
teal Society at Brunswick. Is Vet no so
Letting h;, been done toward raising the
amount necessary for the new building and
the society thinks that the voluntary sub
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the " hole amount will be raised.
Dne of the most remarkable surgical cases
on record is that of Il Young man in Port
land SAYS the Advertiser, who has had his
entire jugular vein removed, for relief of a
deep seated scrotulous affection of the
throat. After extirpation of the artery the
/ surgeons made the capillary veins do service
in its stead. of course. circulation was for
a long time not quite up 10 the demands of
the y stem, and cxcrtiOns were necessarily
moderate. The operation was performed a
| year or two ago. and though at first the
patient had to discontinue bicycling. his
/ fayorite pastimc and lately indulge but
moderately, now his reconstructed eircula-
tory apparatus permits as free Indulgence in
/ the pleasures of the wheel Is most any
/ dcvotec. The enlarged capillary veins have
| taken the place quite completely of the oblt-
Grated jngular.
! ilaulton Pioneer: The school census of
this village ha, just been taken and shows
a total of 1901 scholars, J more than last
/ wear This gain is really encouraging, and
( it won't bc long before We shall need two
more school buildings in the yillagc-one
/ in the south part aud one in the north part,
or off from Charles or Elm streets.
| At recent meeting of one of the literary
clubs in Portland, the lady who was 10 have
read paper asked to be excused because ,hay-
! ing prepared the paper her physician ordered
| that it be- torn up and thrown away She
had wrttcn part of it in the room where her
son was i'll With scarlet fever.
! The Maine Central has gone into the junk
I business on a large scale, an engine and
/ train of cars. with n gang of dozen men
being required. This train is going over
( the whole road picking up old draw ties,
4 link. pins, screws, bolts AMI all manner of
old iron that has been sown along the line
during the past year.
| The historic old printing office opposite
| Hotel tuhurn on Elm street in Skowhegan,
whore Moses Lttletell Names biggest ed
tur-he weighed 300 pounds--published the
| Clarion for 50 MANY years. and where he
| always kept 'Our porringer' right side up,
is again to be- occupied as 4 printing Office.
! Duc of the live organizations of Bruins
wick is the Village improvement s>socia-
ton. Daring the past year through the
| efforts of It's members, Maquot street ha.
| become one of the haudsumrst streets OF
| the town bv the dsconinuance of the mid,
| die road and the construction of park
! Through the efforts of Rev f. C. Child
| Barrett Potter. ESD, Mr.. ID. u. Gilman
and Prof, II. l.. Chapman, $3.50 in sub
| scriptionS have been obtained. leaving only
| 81, deficiency or the whole rnSt of the
park which was S1;i5. Scores of towns in
I NJ lju, mr.. lnnuinulN uwuifiup the trpluiya.