Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-07


Topsham has a bridegroom 81 years
of age.
All the Bath schools have been fumi-
gated on account of the scarlet fever
scare.
Nineteen good pumpkins from one
vine is one result from Richmond soil,
this season.
A Brunswick man has succeeded this
season in raising bushel or more OF
sweet potatoes.
The corn shop at Otisfield has finished
packing corn for this season. Inc
pack was $4,000 cans.
A grocery stock that changed owners
in Bath recently, included 500 pounds
of cheese two years old.
A Dexter man has been trying to give
away Is bushels of nice apples all
picked, and finds no takers.
: Rockland people are enjoying 100
feet of new plank sidewalk and looking
forward to more of the same kind.
Mrs. Kate Douglass CWiggin Riggs,
who for several months has been stop
Salmon Falls has returned to New York.
Mr.. Charles f. Boucher of Deering,
has been awarded the State scholar
ship at the Baltimore Dental school and
has gone there to take up his studies
C. r. Moses of Dexter. is having this
years corn pack at Corinna put in cases
as fast as possible and is at present ship
ping car load per day. There will be
AZ carloads in all and the corn is all sold
with the exception of small quantity.
Ladies of the Bath Benevolent Union.
are thinking of starting a cooking
school, where young girls can learn the
art of conducting the culinary depart
ment.
A young Calais man claims to have
found a diamond while working in the
ST. George quarries. On the advice of
a jeweler he sent the stone away to be
tested
The friends of a certain Lewiston
lady are anXiously inquiring where she
has gone She has suddenly disap-
peared leaving no trace of her where
abouts.
South Thomaston people are prepar-
ing for grand celebration when that
new Spruce Head bridge is thrown
open to the public. 1t lacks only two
or three weeks of completion.
1t is reported that Richardson's brook
in Benton has yielded he past sumner
several hundred dollars worth q pearls.
Warren Stevens of Fairfield, is said to
be the pioneer of this new industry'.
In recent thunder shower. lightning
struck the Greenwood telephone line be-
tween Pennington and New Sharon and
evidently running along the wire descend
ed to the ground down three different
poles, cutting deep grooves down the en-
tire length of them.
Buxton taxpayers are now studying
bills announcing the assessment of the
largest tax they have been called on
to pay for many years. Tie rate of
assessment is .021 and the towns valu-
alton is $4,000 less than last year
The house of Mrs. E. H. Elwell, Deer
ing, was entered by a burglar early
Monday morning. Eight dollars was
taken from the servant girls room and
from Mrs. Elwell's room the burglar
secured gold watch and chain and
several rings
Unless rebuilt. the loss of the Bedding
ton tannery by fire will prove severe to
Owing to the depletion of other growth
this industry in the future is largely de-
pendent on hemlock, which cannot be
protitably utilized without being peeled.
The tannery consumed 300 cords of bark
annually. and to furnish this requires a
cut of over 100000 feet of hemlock.
which amount was added to the lumber
product of this region. The plant was
erected in 1884 by e. f. Church. at a cost
of $4,000 Within two years the building
had been extensively repaired and i'm
proved machinery added. At the time of
the loss the property was owned by F.
f. Church and Fl. f. Whitcomb. There
was an insurance of 100000 on stock and
buildings
A frequenter of the Rangeleys who
owns an interest in a pond near his
Massachusetts home relates that when
his club acquired the resort in question
it was full of pickerel. They stocked
it with salmon and the result has been
that the pickerel We're driven out. On
his first visit to the place some time
after the young salmon We're put in. he
noticed a number of dead pickerel along
the shore and while he was there a
pckerel that would weigh three or four
pounds came up in sight swimming for
life with three small salmon fastened
to him. There are no pickerel in that
pond now.
Everyone at Bar Harbor is hoping
that the Hon. w. c. Whitney will de-
eide to purchase Mossley hall and make
that his permanent summer home.
Last season he occupied this cottage.
Some idea of the amount of money that
it costs him to live there may be gained
from the fact that he kept about 20
horses, had IS servants in his house. and
kept the large steam yacht Columbia
here all summer with crew of 40 men
on her. 1t was an ordinary month when
his market bill alone did not amount
to $1,000. Now that he has a wife it is
fair to presume that his expenses win
be increased rather than diminished.
Mr.. G. w. Hinckley in the Good Will
cident which lately occurred at the
thing that happened. Seven teams had
stopped in front of the Chas. e. Moody
pudding, the morning of Sept. 5th. 1t
was a quiet morning. The sky was
ctoudless. No wind was blowing. These
teams had come from various directions
building. a double page Of an old issue
o. the Lewiston Journal lay on the grass.
Suddenly ii rose into the air. as one often
sees Il small object or dust rise in min
lature whirlwind. But this paper con-
tinued to rise. 1t wound upward slowly
and almost perpendicularly. to a great
height. We consulted our watch to see
higher and higher. When We had watched
IL ten minutes 1t was still in sight h,1t !, r