Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-14
There are 20 cases of chicken-pox in

There are 20 cases of chicken-pox il
Searsport.
Seal Harbor is to have another $685.
900 cottage.
The best apple sections of Maine are
In kennebec, Franklin and Androscog-
gin counties.
The biggest grocery bill in Maine Is
that of the soldiers home at Togus--
Sill, 900 last year
There We're sixty-two houses built
in South Portland the past year, and
ten in Cape Elizabeth, says a local
statistician.
Lubec has had quite a building boom
the past year, and several new houses
have been added to the taxable pro-
perty of the town.
During the year the oldest woman
and the Oldest man in Norway. have
died. The former was about SO and
the latter was in his 93d year.
A number of young men in Bath are
talking of forming an association with
the intention Of purchasing a hand tub
to be used for sport at firemen's mus
ters.
Basket ball bids fair to prove the
most popular winter sport in Els
worth this year. Teams will soon be
formed among the local hose COM
panies.
Misses Rebecca and Sarah Clark of
Norridgewock. t"Sophie May and
Penn Shirley) win spend the winter
with their nephew Dr. VIM. Wheeler Of
Cincinnati
There are nine physicians in Norway
of whom seven begin their surnames
with Il. One is woman. There are
five resident clergyman, one of whom
is a woman.
A Bath young man while riding on
the front platform of one Of the street
cars, recently had the misfortune TO
drop a gold headed cane over which
the car passed, completely running H.
Feldspar is being shipped from the
Mt. Apatte ledge in Auburn to differ
ent china factories in the country,
chiefly at East Liverpool. Ohio: and the
quartz from this hill is shipped from
the depots in Lewiston and Auburn to
sand paper factories 10 be ground up to
make sandpaper of.
Henry w. Hunt of South Bay, East
port. took out of his s,neit weir No
vember 2lst, the largest lobster caught
along the eastern coast for many a
day 1t measured 30 inches in length
and II inches in circumference. It's claw
measured II inches by 10 inches.
across and it weighed 1872 pounds.
Morris Wade OF Pennington. does
not care 10 repeat his experience of a
few days ago in loading a revolver,
The revolver was discharged during
the loading operation. and the bullet
took of the end OF one Of his thumbs,
passed dangerously close by the head
OF his sister. and buried itself in the
ceiling.
The American Express Company has
again reduced rates on produce and
now carries 100 pounds of any kind of
produce from Houlton TO Boston for
81. returning the casks. boxes or fir
kins without charge. says the Aroos-
took Pioneer. In many cases it is |
cheaper now to send small packages
by express than 10y freight.
MIR. Chris. Toole of Bangor. who made |
a big purchase of land at Green lake
last summer, and later sold parcel OF
it TO Il party Of Philadelphia gentle
men. says that they have made ar
to build a big club house
there next summer and the lumber for !
IL will probably be landed on the site
this winter. The club house viii he |
built on Green Point.
Fifteen years ago there was mvsterl- |
luS disappearance in the town of Sweden. |
\ litter OF young pigs ran into the ell of !
Mr.. John Evans house ana when they |
we're driven out one was missing and all |
Affort to find him was unavailing. one of |
he little boys said the littfe squealer had |
gone up the chimney but as nobody could |
see anything of him there. the boy was !
'egarded as Il romancer But time Often |
rings Vindications. Last week that chin |
ley burned out and set the wood work |
fire and in taking out some bricks to get |
II the blaze, there were poor piggy's |
ZONES.
While other towns are calling attention
o their smart Old folks, Brooklin doesn't |
want to be overlooked. Mrs. Dorothy |
Parker. aged 81 years. is bright ana |
mart. She moulded the candles to lila
tiniey's election. William Holden. aged
z years. walked from his home in North |
irooklin and took dinner with A. q.
;lake at Brooklin village on Friday. He
: do ltsifis W tfdth JOkt a. fAtiN tilt' "
IS. Mrs. Lucy A. Redman. y years old.
ives alone. braids more rugs and knits
more double mittens than amy other
woman in town.
4 number of Bangor people who have
at Green lake have asked the
ish and game commissioners to strictly
prohibit winter fishing on that body OF
water. This winter will be the first for
tx or eight years that the law has al
owed winter fishing there and those who
re Interested in the matter say that ii |
he ice fishing is resumed the pond will
re emptied of fish. The fish and game |
commissioners have received letters from
ifferent parties regarding the proposed
estriction and to give everybody a
hance to be heard they will hold a pub
ic hearing in Bangor about the 18th of
his month.
The members of John F. AppIetonI
POST. No. %, G.. A. r.. Pennington. haveI
or a long time been talking of making]
n effort to have soldiers monument
rected to perpetuate the memory of
heir deceased comrades. At the lastj
Meeting of the post the final actionl
aiken. AT that meeting a committed
vas appointed to solicit, receive and
invest funds to be expended ;
4 the erection of a soldiers monument ;
n the common in Pennington Centre
illage. The post subscribed twenty
We dollars.
One day last week Arthur Hayman. a
oy of IA years. Sltated too near the