Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-31

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ence is on exhibition at fresque Isle.
The clergyman of Houlton. have
formed a ministers club for the dis
cussion of social and religious topics.
A little Eastport boy celebrated his
10th birthday recently by a family
party at which one great-grand-
father, two grandfathers and two
grandmothers were present
There are number of cases of
typhoid fever in Calais and throughout
the st. CroX valley. This disease has
had a firm hold in that section. this
season, and a number of deaths have
occurred.
The new road which will be built TO
the top Of Mt Beattie. Camden, this
season, will follow the line Of the old
cannon road, which was built in 1872
to haul up cannon to defend Camden
harbor against the British
While attending conference at
Monson recently a Dover citizen no
ticed among the conference records a
paper that looked familiar, and upon
examination found it to be a report he
had made IS years ago. He secured it
as memento.
The flag carried in a parade at Bath
recently by George Leavitt of the Nc
Kinley and Hobart marching club, has
served in four previous campaigns. 1t
belonged to his grandfather who car
ried it for the first time in the Garfield
and Arthur campaign.
Miss Kate Vannah of Gardiner. re-
Gently won a $50 prize for baritone
song. Miss Vannah and Miss Bartlett
have just published three songs, while
a two step The Little Corporal" of
theirs. only three weeks old, has gone
into the second edition.
The Portland Street Sprinkling com
pany keeps a record of the weather
and Mr. Charles Dunn, Jr, says that
never in his experience has there been
Il season in which there was so much
wet weather During September it
was necessary to take out the carts on
only eight days.
Z. II. Roberts of Bddeford is the
possessor of an old canteen which was
carried four years in the Revolutionary
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shape of a small size drum and has two
hoops extending around the sides.
There is an opening in the side through
which the soldier drank.
A little child in the family of a Lew
fston clergyman met an accident on
Friday morning. She was very anxious
to see the inside of a pan on the kitchen
table and in standing on tip toe to look
into 1t upset the whole on top of her
little head. That was shower of
mama, mamma" she said when the
dough was finally washed out of her
hair.
Progressive Winterport does not
mean to stop with the establishment of
water works, but is providing addition
al protection against fire. The fire
wardens of the town. Messrs James
Freeman, A. +. Fernald and p. c. Rich
Nill have n hose house ready in a day
or two. One thousand feet of hose has
been ordered and they have one hose
carriage. all bought by subscription Of
rillage residents.
Felix Chene. aged 9S years. claims the
honor OF being Biddeford's oldest in
has never been i'll enough to require the
services of a physician. A remarkable
thing about him is activity Last
week he walked back and forth from
Hill's beach. and did not appear at all
fatigued. Last winter Mr. Chene
worked on a farm in Canada, where he
was entirely alone all winter, and had
- sheep, IS cattle and three horses
under his care. with no one to help him.
One day recently a young man with
his gun and two dogs started across
The trestle at Pennington, and when
nearly across an incoming train came
along. Taking Il dog under each arm
the young man stepped down on a timber
side of the track, so as to let the train
pass. This would have been all right
If the dogs had kept still. but the noise
and jar of the passing cars made one
of the dogs so uneasy and frightened
that it sprang out of the young mans
arms and onto the track just in front
Of the wheels, and in twinkling the
cur was cut in halves and dropped to
the ground. The other dog remained
quiet and escaped injury
After all it is the ordinary place mat
tiers in life that cause the most trouble
A man was passing the common. Bel
fast, the other day, while the football
players were in practice. The ball was
kicked high in the air, came down strik-
ing fairly on top of the mans head and
bounced clear to the church fence