Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-28
sIrs OF MAINE NEWS.

The preliminary arrangements have
been made at Norway for the erection
of the first Episcopal church in oxford
1t viii be built by the Maine
Protestant Episcopal Mission associa-
ton.
Casco Lodge. +. and A. NJ, Var
mouth, Saturday. observed the 18th an
niversary of granting of charter. The
lodge. which started with IL members,
now has membership of 162 and owns
a fine hall.
The cottage at Turtle Head. islesboro,
formerly the summer home Of DR.. A. S.
Davis of Chelsea. Mass. was burned
to the around recently. 1t was insured
for $1,000. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of firebugs.
The surviving members OF the Aroos-
took war viii have a reunion at Rum
ford Falls. Nov. 18th, the meeting to
gather in the wigwam at = O'Clock p.
NJ. Half fare on the railroads Will be
obtained for old soldiers. j. r. Han
Of Mexico is committee of arrange
meats.
A sad drowning accident occurred
Sunday at +. NJ. within a mile of Mt.
Desert Ferry. when Leonard Pomroy, a
young man "a years Of age, whose home
is at South Hancock, was drowned by
the capsizing of boat Winfield
Archer Of Lamone, who was with
Pomroy, was rescued.
Big Bill Mains. the popular base
ball player, was in the city. Tuesday
forenoon. He came in from his North
Windham home and returned on the
afternoon train. Mains is in splendid
condition and has been enjoying life
since the seasons close by hunting and
lishing.-Portand Express.
The 10-year son of Joseph Credi-
ford of Sanford. recently received bad
bite from a horse which he was UNI
Harvesting. The animal caught hold
of his arm which was covered by an
overcoat. under coat and shirt sleeves.
and without tearing the cloth cut a
cash which required four stitches.
Mr.. f. w. Haycock, who has for
several years been employed in the GUS
toms service in the Calais district as
Inspector was stricken with a stroke
Of paralysis a few days ago while at
his home at dinner. For some days il
was very much feared that the shock
would prove fatal but at present he is
showing signs of improvement,
4 Rockland physician was summoned
Saturday night to the home of Manford
Smith of that city. where he found e
terrible state OF affairs. Mrs. Smith
and six young children We're all i'll with
diphtheria in one room. One of the
children. girl aged two years and
six months died Sunday morning and
another child died Sunday afternoon.
s. Svenson of New Sweden dropped
dead Of heart disease at the steam grist
mill Of :. w. Collins & Son. Caribou
Oh Friday forenoon. He had just car
ried two bags of grain into the mill
and sat down to rest when he was
noticed to fall over and was dead when
found. Mr.. Svenson was one Of the
original colonists of New Sweden and
probably about seventy years Of age.
Some land in Blaine. lying between
the Robinson station of the Bangor &;
Aroostook railroad and the highway
has been purchased by the railroad
company for a particular purpose. The
railroad people will blast down the
ledge and remove some buildings, max
ing an open curve there; as 1t now is. il
is one of the most dangerous crossings
81 the line, and several narrow escapes
are reported.
G. Ney Iolrans summer residence
AT lngraham Hill, Rockland was broken
into Saturday night. The shutters
we're removed from two of the windows
in the ell part. through which the mis-
creants effected an entrance Things
we're considerably disturbed and scat
tered around somewhat promiscuously
IS Mr. Holman is at present in Chica-
go experimenting the literary bureau
Of the national Democratic party. no
one can tell how much may have been
taken.
Mr.. George w. Cochran of Rockland,
Is one Of the oldest knights Temp
lars IN the country. He joined the
order at Cleveland Ohio in 1854. Two
promising lawyers of that city took
their degrees at the same time Their
rames were Garfield and Spaulding.
Gne Of them afterward became Presi-
dent Of the United States and the other
Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme
court.
A Bangor lady wishing to procure
one of Ouda's novels stepped into a
bookstore and made her wishes known
TO the clerk. He devoted considera bic
time TO turning the leaves of q cata-
logue but failed to find the book he was
looking for. The lady thinking he
might not be familiar with the spelling
of the author asked If he had looked
through the Os. He remarked that
perhaps he would find it there, but he
had been looking in wv" all the time
The Bangor fire commissioners have
taken on trial for three months q new
patent nozzle, which is really a double
nozzle, throwing one stream of the
usual size and force and also q heavy
spray at nearly right angles with it's
tips so as to form a curtain that will
protect the ppemen from the smoke
and flames. thus enabling them to go
into a burning building with the hose
and close to the fire without fear of be-
ing smothered by the smoke or suffer
ing from the heat.
The laundry business in Portland has
grown to be one Of large proportions
and is now one OF the prominent in
dustries Of the city. Besides the dozen