Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-02

Portland is beginning to agitate for
thrce-cent fares on the street cars.
air. and Mrs David Fitzpatrick of Wes-
ton. recently celebrated the seth anniver-
sary of their marriage.
on a recent blackboard ride at Calais,
there We're four grandmothers and ono
great grandmother present
Nathaniel +. Kimball Of Biddeford. a
brick manufacturer, has assigned. His
liabilities are said to be about $3.50.
\ little island is Portland harbor is
devoted to the raising OF squashes.. the
product this season being 80 tons,
1t the present time there are l02 pris-
oners in the Penobscot county Jail. OF
this number. 40 are employed in the work
shop.
a large private mail box at the Lew
isJon post office was recently broken into
in the night and Il quantity of mail mat
ter stolen.
The low price of potatoes and lumber
is making the people cry for protection
and Mckinley. writes Mars Hill, cor
respondent.
A North Norway man has lost eight
horses in Is years by accident. Well
that's not so bad as losing Is horses in
eight years.
Monsapec has about two hundred in
habitants. and of that number p are
lobster fishermen; they report the catch
small this fall.
Dale, the man arrested by the Bath po-
lice Saturday night. on the charge of
diamond snatching. was released. as no
one appeared against him.
Edgar Scott of Philadelphia, will erect
a very expensive residence at Bar Har-
ln. start inv Ila u sod. Int
near Crcmwelrs Harbor last year. paying
$50. 900 for it. and this season he has Il
crew at work putting it in shape.
Joseph Nadeau. the Biddeford boy who
was badly burned. Sept. g. by the eX-
plodiag of a torch in campaign parade.
IL in & very low condition. Lockjaw has
set in. and the skin on the boys legs,
where the burning oil did its worst work.
has peeled of and there is little flesh left.
The Portland municipal has been
considering the question: Whether it is
legal for the proprietor to keep open
on the Sabbath day if the shop has
been kept closed on one of the secular
days of the week.
In complying with the United States
law in regard to equipping freight cars
With automatic brakes and couplers, the
Maine Central expended last year $751;
400. and to complete the work will re-
quire from 1925. 900 to $250.Goo more.
Mr.. Eli C. Wadsworth of Mountain
View farm. Hiram. remarks that the
first snow seen on Mt Washington was
Sept. Esd. The last seen from there be-
fore was on June 10th, so days before
The thermometer reached the freezing
point at Hiram on the 23d.
Inc high price of coal this year, es-
pecially at the way stations on the rail-
roads. has a tendency to make theAoeo-
pie use more wood this winter and less
coal. One dollar and fifty cents ad-
vance per ton on coal is quite an object
TO a laboring man through the long,
cold winters.
a South Paris man tells it on himself
that, when he came home from a visit
ing trip of several days, though strictly
temperate and sober. he had forgotten
his wife's name and handed back a let
ter for her that the postmaster gave
him. with the remark that he guessed
1t belonged somewhere else.
The work of putting up corn at the
Corinna corn factory has been finished.
About $4,000 cans is the product this
year. A part of the corn was not used
as no cans could be bought or manu-
featured at the time that they were
needed. The amount canned was about
30000G cans more than ever before put
up at this factory. The work of label
ling began at once and three carloads
will be shipped as soon as possible.
The late William Guthrie, whose sad
death was told in the Commercial of
last night might have been here today
alive and we'll, had he chosen wisely at
one critical point in his career, says
the Bangor Commercial. After being
injured in the Maine Central yards in
this city some years ago. he was offered
a life position by the company as COM
for his wounds. He per-
ferred, however,.to sue the corporation