Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-03
MAINE GOSSIP.


MAINE GOSSIP.
Coed weather for dwellers In the camps
of the hunters.
But so dry that the hunters will do
well to take along at least one Jug of
water.
Biddeford rumsellers are boycotting Il
merchant, who is also member of the
Enforcement League. Meanwhile the
work of enforcing goes merrily along.
Deer were never more plentiful, say the
commissioners. What will the hunters,
who return without one, say?
The farm In Unity, given by the late
Joseph Farwell to the grand lodge of Odd
Fellows to be devoted to the purposes of
home for INDECENT members, is said to be
worth $1,000 and is rendered without
conditions.
Some Lewiston people are discussing
the probability that exMayor Lyford, re-
Gently deceased, did not leave anything.
Some had supposed he was worth 800, 900,
but none of the assets have been dis
covered.
The sound of the hammers of those half
thousand stone cutters at work in Vinal-
haven must be cheering music.
A Lewiston druggists sensitiveness
vas SO shocked recently to find that some
one had ordered ten gallon key of whis-
key In his name that he had the liquor
hauled to his store.
The commission hopes to have the
foundations for the Eastern Maine Insane
Hospital in before the snow flies
c. W Hodgdon writes the journal
from Brunswick that while walking
along the banks of the Kennebec river re
Gently, he discovered nearly buried in the
sand copy of the Boston Daily Courier
| of the date Of Dec II, 1860. There is
little likelihood however that the paper
has been lying on the flood washed banks
of the kenDebec for 80 years.
AT the Saco Baptist church, last Sunday,
a collection, each one present to give as
| many cents as the person was years old,
was solicited. BY a wise provision and
delicate foresight the money could be en-
closed in an envelope and the giver's
name need not be upon it, so of course
the ladies gave freely. 1t Is suspected
however, that the pastor found his COR
gregation more youthful than he ex-
pected.
They do say business is going be
brisk at the South Portland bicycle fac
tory, this winter, and already the call for
a factory boarding house has gone forth.
Norway's railroad freights have in
creased ten fold in the past ten years
Well done!
Portland is getting to be quite a town.
A lady engaged boarding place there
few days ago, but the first day she forgot
the street and number and was obliged
TO advertise Tor 1t.
The New England Homestead suggests
that cheap excursion be arranged from
southern New England points to ARGOS
took county Immediately after the ma
tionsl grange meets at Worcester, in No.
vember. Very few people outside Maine
begin 10 appreciate the wonderful resourc-
rs of the county and they ought to see it
in crop time. But, perhaps, November
would be better late than never
Mrs. Russell and daughters, Lizzie and
Inez, who have been visiting Miss Lizzie
o Donnell, have returned to their home
at Augusta, says the Rockland Star
which also notes the return to Augusta
of Mrs. f. A. Burbank, who has been In
Rockland
Pcary tells Portland reporter that he
has no doubt that the North pole will be
discovered before many years, but saws
that he is too old and not enough of an
| athlete to again attempt Arctic explora
| ton.
The Maine Baptists In convention at
Oldtown are congratnlating themselves
| upon "A growth of their denomination in
Maine, the past year, exceeding the record
of the previous Is years and equalled but
| twice in half century.
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