Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-16
yer. The brakeman Of the train, a
bright looking young man. stood near
and I didn't have to talk with him
long before I found he was enthusiasts
tic for Mckinley

The Phillips Photograph advises the
| purchase OF local real estate as il ia
| going up.
| Rural mail delivery win be given n
tiial from Portland to several Of the
outlying districts.
| The Castine Normal School Associa :
| ton will hold its annual reunion Mt
Bangor, Friday evening, Oct %. A
| banquet will be served at 100, after
which an interesting programme will
| be given.
AT Portland head the government
employees are as busy as bees. There
are at least $50 men at work and they
are constructing another battery. When
all the work at this point is completed
cortland will have remarkably strong
| series of Notifications.
one of our exchanges prints the fol-
| lowing from Clinton: Clinton has be-
come somewhat notorious as the home
Oh a certain number of men who, be-
SIDES believing in free coinage Of silver
nave certain socialistic ideas in regard
70 the property rights of the citizens
OF this, and surrounding towns and
rho 'uiiiei''
shaa. ' gu, y" Nehs' nor
,aa,. ,io' squ"sii' anu 'iiou siiait not
II ou' - nishl LOT
,iiou s"'i' i'o' n',u II III the
,n,,i,.' 'oN S''ou'u my uc-
ivy 80 i'e' VI 'oP
1t has been a matter of eongratula-
ton that Rockland has for the past
'e" years been singularly free from
''ie iiouisiohs or the tramp fraternity.
heiofe the operations Of the stone yard
r'.,,,,,,,,, g va, NV ""'iuei ING wines
49, -, MIN 'oo'i's u, ."'Se NUM-
-, w ''i'' s"i" - H' ioiis
'i"i''pS 'i' commencing
''i'9 way aSaih aHd more
ttas ,,oel,.l - III '''e pas' No Weeks
,,. Vt wv "u were
-. uf '"'"i"aS MS n', ms is
W ~ lamps anu 'nose ieo-
- '"air "''e'hei stone Safas
ut,o'iS aie III running
''"i'
AVN Merrill. who recently died at
'"Nef. aged nearly ~ years. was the
son OF the Margaret Forbes who came
Win hef parents from the Sheida river
II ito2. her father being a French re-
iugee Thcir food gave out when they
~ I" 'ie '"i Ms OF the hetihehec ana
,-T ia'nVi anu Soi' ie'' 'ht hiptHei Win
eH ..'e'N "''e th'9 ""h'
''"'s @p'"e iii"'"hS ~
''pV'i"o" 'He'ii anu t'e lathot ana son
- u i,u ~ 'iie rest OF ne iahliiy "hiy
- MIA ,"o oeao ana the ih"'her ana
'"e Sfl VINO lei"aia "e'a"ie the
--tV<fftt III -tlh III MEL RIA. nearly gone.
o"' 'te9 were resuSoitateu ana came
"''iiei uo"h iil'o Maine
The officers of the Eastern Maine
plymouth Association have their an
niNersary eye on Thomaston. as an APP
oropriate locality to hold the next Pill
grim reunion. There is no place in
tainc more appropriate to hold thai
history inspiring association than the
grounds where the noted mansion Of
he late Gen. Henry Knox stood,
4homaston is rife with early history of
eastern Maine, which with its having
been the residence of Gen. Knox. will
De an inducement for the Pilgrim de-
pendants to rally around the sites
where stood the fort. garrison, Wads-
-orth house. Knox mansion and many
locations ancient and modern that will
interest young and old.
The Rockland Commandments saws.
The granite business is dun duller in
fact than II has been for many wears
and the prosrects are not very nromis-
ing. The causes for the lullness are
varied and extend over a neriod of fo,,r
years. In 1899 occurred the bic strike
among pranite>workers ana ne bnsi
ness took a sll1tnp. The business grew
GltlOn today is something 10 he re-