Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-01

commanded the Clara. the Shona, the
Minerva, the Gloriana, and other note
boats. Mr.. Barr, with a crew from this
country will very soon sail for England
to prepare the Vigilant for the trip across
the ocean.
MAINE GOSSIP.
boys, may their shadows never grow less
are breaking records by working up the
firewood
A Belfast man has come into possession
of pair of brass candlesticks which hi
prizes highly. They formed part of the
cargo, which Capt. Miller with six men il
an open boat seized from the British slooy
Mary in Belfast Harbor, Nov. 2, 1914.
Richmond clamors for a business mems
association.
The founders of what is now the towr
of New Sweden will be in reminiscent
mood, June 25th, the occasion being the
25th anniversary O. the establishing OF
the colony of 81 hardy, thrifty Swedes
in the midst of Names unbroken wilder
ness Not only has the colony prospered
but adjoining places have thrived from
contact with these industrious people
A feeling of "wait and see" is said tc
pervade the lumber manufacturers along
the Penobscot. Some of the mills have nc
logs and the proprietors do not seem t.
care to have any unless the outlook grows
brighter.
A Gardiner trader has said that he
would be one of thirty to give $1,000 to-
ward temple for secret society pur-
poses. They are looking around for the
other twenty-nine
The story comes from Harrison that
two hounds were sent ON the trail of a
fox. Late in the afternoon one of the
trio were seen, one hound being chased
by the fox, while the other hound was
giving hot chase to reynard.
They carved big block of slate in a
Monson quarry the other day. Its dimen-
sions were 26 feet long, % feet wide and
2 y feet thick, the estimated weight of
the same being III tons. Who has a rec
ord OF larger block ever being quaIried
in the State of Maine?
Since the recent experience with tramp
burglars the Richmond Bee comes out
fiat footed for putting the tralnps to work
upon the roads. Such happy combina-
ton could result in but one way according
to the opinion of the Bee. viz, our
Cramps and our highways would become
objects of joy and beauty forever
A Winnegance man has expended in
fares over tho Bath electric railway the
past year and half s63, and he hasn' t
been heard to grumble about the manage
ment.
If the energetic publishers of the Bidde-
ford Evening Record keep on as they've
begun that paper will be about the one
thing Biddeford Democrats will have to
congratulate themselves upon.
Biddeford hopes to have it's new opera
house ready to open with tho theatrical
season in the fall.
There was supper at Vanceboro that
didn't come off. 1t was all arranged be-
fore election day and great preparations
were made but the election didn't end in
the way that was expected and the de-
feated candidates went home hungry that
night.
President Lord gave tho State board of
trade sentiment that ought to be worked
into a motto for every local board of trade
room In the State. "Keep on enacting
good laws, keep on talking about Maine,
keep on standing by the old State
Brunswick Telegraph: They do say
that Bowdoin is to give a summer school
this year to which the ladies and gents
will be admitted on an equal footi NO.
We are very emphatically informed by
the gentlemen in charge that this is not
% oeoP SO"oANo w SAotoUiohs IL ElOTc
or less no experiment this year.
A former Dexter man. DR.. C. p. Hutch
inson of Holliston, Mass, has been placed
in peculiar predicament by his popular
ity, the Republicans nominated him on
the board of health for three years and
the Democrats for one year. Maine in
tends that in the future this kind of men
will be kept at home and be saved from
any such embarrassing situation as the
genial doctor now finds himself in.
In the time OF low water Rumford Falls
has demonstrated that it has sufficient
for its present purposes and during the
winter is troubled with no anchor ice. In
deed when many mills throughout the
country were obliged to shut down on ac-
count of low water there was enough and
to spare at Rumford Falls over which
passes the water from the immense and
unfailing reservoirs of the Rangeley lakes.