Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-25
road matter would run the cars for the
first twelve months.


So far this winter there has been no
complaint against the street railways for
using salt on their tracks.
The public has an omnivorous capacity
for anything concerning Hon. Thomas b.
Reed, nowadays, and among those items
going the rounds Is the following The
crank is at large In the country and the
mails to Washington are heavy with vol
luminous manuscripts from parties with
large assortments of wheels in their heads
Mr.. Reed has correspondent of this
sort who signs himself Ear Heaven
This correspondent seems to be a harm
less individual and many of his sugges-
tioDs are but little milder and incoherent
than some of the populist theories which
disturb Congress at intervals. Ezra
Heaven recently wrote Mrs. Reed direct
ing the communication to Speaker
Reeds ~ One of this particular
scribe tricks Is to start communication
upon one postal card and continnc it on
another and 50 on until the matter finally
covers a dozen or so cards which are
mailed separately.
Everyone acquainted with the timber
regions of Maine knows something Of the
perplexity, which has often been occa
stoned those desiring to secure titles to
land, when those titles dated back to the
grants made to the veterans of the Revo-
luton. OF course those veterans little re-
allied what future value those lands
might have and not infrequently their
l,oI H. III
not by them, by their heirs.
A quite remarkable coincidence of this
kind is recalled. 1t happened in ARGOS
took county several years ago. James f.
Rawson of Bangor was prospecting for
timber lots and came upon one especially
fine section. But he learned at the land
office that it would be impossible to secure
good title to the land as the original
grant had been to a Revolutionary
soldier whose heirs were not known
Had ii not been for this reason the land
would have peen sold long before. they
told him, rs the timber had become very
valuable. Mr.. Rawson's surprise came
when he learned the name of the original
grantee. 1t was James Freeland OF
Massachusetts, his own grandfather, for
whom he had been named AS one Of the |
heirs, it did not take MIR. RswsoL very
long to get possession of that section, the |
reader may be assured.
To make the interim as cheerful as
possible they have been saying that next
year S hay and apple crop grew smaller
every day the snow held off.
The ice which has been going into the
local houses down PASSPORT way has been
hauled on wheels.
The owner of those Biddeford hens
killed by dogs has SO far received no por-
ton of the dog tax. She thinks the State
ought at least to give her the benefit of
legal opinion whether hens are domestic
animals within the meaning of the law.
Gardiner Rcporter-Journal One of
our dry goods houses took over one
thousand dollars in cash one day last
week. And yet some Gardiner people
will persist in crying hard times
Uncle Sans mail carriers will now
make mouse TO mouse COLLECTIONS In Port
land, and Augusta ought to receive like
treatment before very long.
A Lewiston man thinks he has dis
covered an asbestos mine in this State. but
as he hasn't got control of the land on
which the deposit is located he doesn't
take the public into his confidence.
Two entcrprising young women are to
start knitting factory down in East
Surry
An out -of-town syndicate has decided
that Lewiston shall have more BUILDING
next season than that of any past year in
the history of the city
Roundabout in the Rockland Courier
Gazette, writing from Washington saws:
Mr.. Dingley received pension letter the
other day that had two congressional en-
dorsements. The letter was from Ores
den, in Mr.. Dinglev's district, but it had
been sent to . Mr.. Boutelle pension attor
ney, Washington " Mr. BouteIle had
forwarded it to Mr.. Miliiken with tho
following endorsements
Dear Milliken-Here is one Of vopr
people who thinks am tension a tor
ney. q
Mr. Milliken forwarded the letter ia