Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-21

a Dexter merchant has sold 20 dozan
straw hats this season.
The annual reunion of the Clements
family will he held at Swanvi,le
Thursday, Aug. 90
single plant of the pink family
with 255 blossoms on it is one of tho
beautiful sights to be seen in Ex.ter
at present
The Business Mems Club, bae
been organized at Warren With d
membership being 80.
The annual reunion of the Side
linger family will be held in the grove
at the Jameson homestead. North
Waldoboro, Wednesday, Sept. g.
The county commissioners ofAndros-
coggin county will petition the next
Legislature for permission to issue
some bonds, probably $4,000 worth.
Presque Isle is just now having a
visit from a gang of tramps There
are eight or ten in the gang, and they
are working on the good nature of the
citizens.
Joseph Anterior, the years-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs n A. Atherton
of Auburn, was drowned in the An
droscoggin, Friday. The body was re-
covered
Alfred Letarte. infant son of Charles
I.etarte of Biddeford, came near
dying, Thursday. from drinking a So
luton of potash with which his mother
was cleaning house, and which she
left in glass near his cradle.
The revenue cutter Woodbury. is at
Central wharf. Portland, undergoing
an overhauling. She will remain there
several weeks, during which time her
black paint Will be scraped off and she
will receive a white coat above the
water line.
A tank capable of holding 1900
gallons of water is to be erected at
Old Orchard for a supply for the
sprinkler cart. 1t is proposed to have
the streets sprnkled in an adequate
manner this year, and as there has
been difficulty about getting water
for the sprinkler heretofore. the tank
Will be built, and wind mill also put
up near it.
Mrs. C. F. Morse of South Paris. has
an old reprint of the first paper issued
by benjamin Franklin from his
brothers Office in Boston. 1t was the
New England Courant. No. so. and was
dated Monday Feb. 4, to Monday. Feb.
II, lf23. There are two pages o. two
wide columns each, rather smaller
than the blanket sheets of today. The
reprint was made about Il hundred
years later.
y curious circumstance connected
with the presence of three handsome
vessels now at a Brewer ice house
loading frozen penobscot for southern
ports. is that each one of them bears
the name of a man who eithe~ has
been or is intimately and in a rromi-
nent manner connected with the trade |
life of Bangor; the three are the bark
entine Thomas j. Stewart and the
schooners Edward Stewart and Isaiah |
X. Stetson.
Seven artificial ponds are being made |
at Green Lake, for which purpose II |
men are being employed. The main |
supply fume to the Rocky pond dam |
is being repaired and a standpipe is |
being built in the largest of the arti- |
fetal ponds. pipe is being laid |
three-quarters of mile on the hill |
across Great brook to supply water
for the houses, hatchery and for fire |
purposes. The government has sent |
a crew of men up to Mountainy pond |
to repair the dams. All of the old |
are being removed.
The army worms still continue their |
devastating Wor.. in the neighbC rhood |
If Broadway and the old Thomaston |
road. In one field it was estimated |
that there must be 20 bush
els of the live worms, while the |
ground is literally black With dead |
ones. 1t is a strange fact that the |
fields Immediately across the street |
from this field are quite free from the
pest although the road which divides |
them is discolored by the crawling and |
lead vermin. People living nearer the
,ity are beginning to suffer from their !
lepredationS.-Roc Star.