Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-04-17

Measles nave taken the tOWn OF BOW
dom, there being many cases reported.
mo swearing in this room during
the year 1885, is the sign printed and
placed in the Lewiston police station.
"A town meeting will be held at Win
terport. April %, to take steps toward
having waterworks put into the viii
lage.
Riddeford has q fin de steele club
of female bicyclists, but they will con-
sent to nothing more distinguishil g
than modest divided skirts and CATERS.
The cottage at Bar Harbor, called
Mizzentop, which was purchased re-
Gently by r. Hall McCormic., Of Chica-
go, is being repaired at a cost of
$4,000.
Mrs. Sally Pratt of Norway. who is
rs years old this month, is gettil g
newspaper attention as an investor
managing her property without assist
ance. and. it is said. so as to make
money by every venture.
summer hotel will be erected at
Biddeford Pool this season. by Horace
Evans. The hotel will be 12S by IS,
four stories high, and will contain 10
rooms. It will probably be ready for
A great deal of interest is still mari
tested in the rebuilding of the Putnam
& Rice block. The owners insist that
they have legal right to repair or re-
build as they see fit The inhabitants
of Houlton insist on having a brick
block.
A Rockport firm has contracted to
build a 'knockabout" boat for Lori g
r. Deland. Harvard's well known foot
ball coach. to be used at kennebunk-
port, where Mr.. Deland spends his
summers. Mr.. Delands wife is tie
popular author, Margaret Deland.
In the window of G. u. Estabrook s
Sons, Bangor, there is display of so
pounds of spruce gum. This is o!,e
half of lot of 1000 pounds purchased
by this firm last week. and which was
one of the largest lots ever bought in
Maine.
The Bath Iron Works are maxim g
preparations for setting up the tNo
gunboats. They will occupy the bloc.is
left by the Machias and Castine and us
the plant has now fully recovered from
the great fire. work on them will so
forward rapidly.
The Belfast city government has
passed an order authorizing the mayor
TO eXpend SO for shoes for poor child
rem. y petition was received from
lady member of one of our charita be
institutions asking for this appropria
ton and stating that many poor chill l.
rem are kept from school for the want
of shoes and clothing. The society
propose to furnish the clothing if tie
city will buy the shoes.
A Belfast dog was entrusted with tie
fish for the family supper which lie
carried home. nicely wrapped, in his
mouth. The mistress forgot about the
fish until supper time, several hours
later She said to the dog. 'Whera Is
the fish" The dog went out Of doors
behind the stable and unearthed the
bundle which he had carefully burlo |.
The fish was served for supper none
the worse for it's interment.
A patent has been granted to J. ".
Barnes of Roclland, on a street Ger
register for registering streets. 1t is
very simple yet very valuable appa
ratus for the convenience of passengers
as it registers every street on the lite
before the street is reached in time fur
the passengers to get off just where
they like by pulling little knob whi(
which is within easy reach. Capitalists
in that city, Thomaston and Bostol 4,
are Interested in the invention. 1t viii
be handled on a royalty.
Kelley writes the Bath Times from
Washington: Hon. Arthur Sewall Of
Bath, Democratic committeeman, has
been in the city at the Arlington Over
Sunday, and ! talked with him for
short time on politics during his stay.
Maine Democrats, he says, are in
clined to favor the nomination If
Cleveland for the presidency. The
third term idea doesn't make any diff
ference to them. 1t looks, he says. as if
Cleveland would be about the only
available man for the place and if they
decide they want him. he is under too
many obligations to decline to run.
whether he wants it OF not.
Arthur Stafford of Dexter. who mas
Just arrived home from Cuba. had his
business there so completely knocked
out that he has no spark of sympathy
for the insurgents or their cause. He
for many years found it very profita Bile
to spend his winters in Cuba as me-
chanical expert on the sugar planta-
tons. For Il few winters he remained
in Maine. but last fall went to Cuba
again The plantations where he Was
employed were sacked by the insur-
gents and the sugar machinery de-
stroyed. Mr.. Stafford considers himself
lucky in getting out of the country
alive. though with empty pockets.
Capt Winfield S. Pendleton of Isles
boro, president of the proposed tele-
graphic and telephone line between
that town and Belfast. says that dur
ing the coming season he will make an
effort to have the stock subscribed The
shortest distance between the main
land at Northport and island town is
from the Spiritualist campground in
the FORMER town and Sprague's Cove in
tne latter, about two miles. The cable
when laid will be between these points
FROM Northport the line will connect
WIN the Western Union to Belfast
me cable will have two wires. one FOR
telegraph and one for telephone. The
captain thinks $2500 will furnish the
cable.
ar. samuel Maxim one of the IA
nous wayne Maxims and brother of
the inventor of the world famed Maxim
I,