Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-29
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Portland BARRIERS propose TO form an
association.
A Belfast firm used 10000 one cent
stamps last week.
Calais has been suffering from
horde Of blind CD beggars.
Peters hotel at Brownville Junction
was burned Wednesday evening.
The applications for summer board
indicate the best summer business
Camden ever had.
little son Of Charles Aver of Locke
Mills. came near dying last week from
eating paris green
Portland's board of health are cru
sading against pollution of Lake Sc
bago their water supply.
The wholesale fruit dealers of Port
land have put in heavy stocks of lem
ons, as an advance in prices is looked
for early in the summer months.
City of Bath Hose ! and Kennebec
steam fire engine company 3. propose
to enter for the firemen contests at the
big celebration in Augusta. July 4.
Eden. at a recent town meeting, APP
propriated an additional $1400 for the
centennial celebration, July and 8.
making the total appropriation $4,000
Mrs. Page of Livermore, who is in
her seth year, has woven over so yards
of carpeting within three weeks. She
intends to take a vacation of a few
davs and then weave another carpet.
Isaac Mcclellan, the veteran poet,
celebrated Thursday, at Greenport, l..
NV.J II.,,
was born in Portland. He was class
mate of Nathaniel Parker Willis. Long
fellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sar-
gent S. Prentiss. He has written
Poems of the Rod and Gun" The
Fall of the Indian" The Trout Brook, y
and other works.
Few people know that the very best
china made in America today is made
from Maine feldspar mixed with fine
clay from other fields, but it is a fact.
One-fifth is feldspar and four-fifths is
clay. The feldspar is ground up finer
than -four and is mixed with clay and
water and strained through silk cloth
600 strands to the inch. When the
stuff falls from this sieve it resembles
milk. and the water is strained off by
means of canvas bags. Then the moist
clay is made into the desired form
Hon. Albert A. Burleigh. Mrs. Bur-
leigh. and their daughter, Frances
Eurleigh, returned from their south
ern and western trip last Saturday.
They were away nearly two months
and a half, having started on March
II. Mr.. Burleigh reports a most en-
joyable and successful journey in every
way. and returns much improved in
health. He says that in his travels he
has seen no place that suits him Sc
well as Maine. He thinks that any one
can do better here with the same
amount of capital than in any other
state in the country.-Aroostook
Pioneer.
Several years ago we mentioned the
fact that a cask containing frozer
''candle fish, had been sent here to Mr.
Burnham from Alaska. This small
fish, of the same family as the true
sardine of the Mediterranean, gets it.
name from the fact that the Alaska
Indians dry them and burn them a:
candles. for they are very fat in the
North. This especial cask was sen
East for the purpose of packing then
in small boxes with the sweet oil O
California. The result proved that i
could be done. Now, it is understood
that under the auspices of forme
Maine firm, who put up the Eastpor
''sardines" (small herring) years ago
these small fish are canned in Califor
MIA olive Gil and the new Pacific In
0uStry is a success