Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-10
MAINE GOSSIP.

The base ball craze appears to have more
than captured the good town Of Monson,
which now has three full fedged teams in
the field. Why not form town league?
The owners of the cranberry bogs back
Of Milford are talking of cultivating them
aud will make more effort than ever this
fall to secure the crop that grows wild.
There seems no good reason why
with proper attention this industry
should not be made to pay in that section.
The conditions are certainly most favorable.
In the window of j. M. Fernald's book
store in Lewiston 10 the original muster
in-roll Of the field, STAFF, and band of the
9Th Maine Volunteers mustered in June
gath, 1861. 1t was lost at the first battle
of Bull Run and found afterwards IN q
captured shed. where Confederate troops
had left it. 1t is to be hung at the regiment
building at Peaks Island.
There is funny little squabble going on
in Brewer among the relatives of a lady
who died last spring. When she died she
was stopping at the home of friend 10 a
nearby town, and she left will giving all
her personal effects and what little money
she possessed to that friend. The only rel
alive she had living was sister. This sister
is now making q struggle to get what she
left. The funny part of it 10 that 1t is not
worth fighting for. The amount of money
left was only about 500 and when the fun
eral expenses are all paid there will be only
few dollars left-about enough to pay
the friend who kindly cared for the deceas-
ed in her last sickness.
A Saco man was at Old Orchard recently
and found . pair of gold spectacles which
their owner afterwards told him he would
not have lost for $25. He found the own
er and returned the lost property and then
the man after telling him how much they
were worth turned around to q lemonade
stand and said won't you have 3 glass of
lemonade?' The Saco man said he never
INDUCED.
Searsport people are justly proud Of
their new hotel, now rapidly nearing COM
pletion. 1t is model of neatness and con-
venience. When completed this will be
one of the wants that our town has been in
need of for some time.
Houlton is having many additions in the
way of handsome and substantial buildings
this season. Three brick blocks are In
process of construction on Main aud
Court streets, and the large two-story
frame building for the Swift Cold-storage
Co. which is going up near the
B. "a. r. r. is nearly com
pleted. The new custom house will be
finished by next month. The temporary
bridge over the Medexnekesg stream, just
north of the B. & A. r. r. station has been
completed and is now ready for the rails
which are to arrive next week. A large
force of men will be put on and the work Of
laying the same will be pushed until Pressure
Isle is reached, which will be the terminus
for this year. James C. goyce, assistant
engineer, has completed his section at
Blaine, and has been ordered north to
Caribou, to help complete the work on that
part of the line.
The Pemaquid Messenger thinks it is the
duty of our State to make an appropriation
to aid in building suitable monument over
the spot where New England soil was fret
pressed by the foot of the white man.
Bristol is one of the Maine coast towns
that is coming into prominence as a sum-
mer resort this season. Nature has GER
tainly been very kind to it in the matter of
rugged beauties.
A Portland young lady only IA years of
age went into the country the other day to
spend some weeks with her grandmother.
All went well until Friday, when q strong
feeling of home sickness came over her.
She went into the yard, mounted her safety
and rode % miles, part of the way through
the woods, and came home to Portland to
| see her mother.
Maine brick makers are rejoicing in
an improved condition of the market. The
outlook for another season is said to be
quite hopeful.
A well known Bangor hardware firm re-
ceived a large invoice of wire nails recent
ly. The head salesman told new clerk to
go into the basement and count them. The
boy was gone good while, in fact 80 long
that they became worried and going down
found that he had opened two kegs and was
counting the nails one by one.
Bangor is said, by the Commercial, to
possess genuine curiosity in the
shape of young business man who
is fond admirer of literature Of a
blood-thirsty nature. Men of this kind
are usually "young" but rarely indeed
are they Cuisines" men. The Bangor
prodigy is said, however, to have q some
what unique but nevertheless effective
safety valve for the enthusiasm generated
in the pursuit of his literary tastes. 1t 10
authenticity stated that in the summer
months he will gather some of the latest of