Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-25
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A reunion of the Mixer family will be
held at Waldo. Sept. g.
John T. Ward of Clinton had is sheep
and lambs, out of a flock of 90 killed Ply
dogs.
The b. & A. r. r. is offering remarka-
bly, cheap excursion rates to the Maine
State Fair at Lewiston.
The Bath Enterprise reports that +. b..
Cone, commercial traveller in the EN-
ploy of John W. Perkins 4 Co.; OF bos
ton. has been missing for ABOUT Two
weeks.
Alden ]. Blethen of Minneapolis MINI,
formerly principal of the Little biue
schol, Pennington. will son remove 10
Seatiie. Wash. to become the managing
editor of the Seattle Times.
W. A. Kimbal the wideawake excur-
sion manager, has arranged III ioI p a,s A. r.
r.. Canadian Pacific and Quebec c az
Railway, leaving THURSDAY. SeP no D.
Round trip ticket from Oldtown' sooo'
f. w. Gamman, amddle aged man man Nv w.
ing at Spurwink attempted SUICIDE ps
cutting his throat witha razor. Wednes-
day afternoon. He has been IN "a, "a very
melancholy state for some time; Inc az
givep nrompt surgical aid and will prob
ably recover.
A case of ice cream poisoning occurred at
L.oec recently. Inc ladies intelesteu III
the Kindergarten We're 10 CIV on anr'sa re-
tainment and were preparing 10 serve the
cream BEFORE the refreshments We're
taken to the hall. several ate some OF the
cream and were at once taken uanserous-
Iv III Had they not sampled the cream
and thus prevented its sale at the enter,
tainment, the consequences probapiy would
have been even more serious
Speaking from Beechers Ola pulpit. iast
Maine said: when l was a little boy,
nv father went from Roxbury to Maine,
and found there on the borders OF vii
age few acres. with i,s; q swamp va "a siu be
bought them and the practical New
England men sneered at this fooiish
man that had come down from the city
and bought a sand hill and a swamp and
a sluggish brook for home. But he dug
out the swamp, and opened the course OF
the brook, and covered the sand hill win
trees and grass. and after ne had worked
five wears and nature had worked five
wears or longer. Little Blue came to be
known through all that part OF Maine as
beautiful spot He NAB hc lor dner ewes
had not seen had wrought it out. So in
you and in me-nothng but swamp, a
sluggish brook sand M t ma o,heps
there is nothing there'-God sees the
possibility of glory and begins His land
scape gardening.
Bar Harbor is to have an elaborate
committee having its construction IN
charge is anxious to have Mr.. w. Clark
Noble. the New York sculptor, submit q
design for it which he has consented tc
do The monument will be in bronze and
is expected to cost $4,000 or upwards
When the model is ready in Mr.. Noble's
there to see it, For the proposed Hamlir
monument in Bangor. Mr. Noble will pre-
pare a model during the coming autumn
and intends to have it ready for eXXhi
biton in November. He proposes to have
figure nine feet in height probably
which will rest upon a pedestal some l,
feet from the ground. AS Bangors frs
monumental work Mr.. Noble believes
that this Hamlin memorial should be 9
pretentious one. worthy of the city and OF
the memory of the great statesman, whom
it is intended to honor. Following the
preparations of the Hamlin model Mr.
Noble will prepare design for IA monu
ment to Mr.. Blaine. which is intended fo
the city of Augusta. AS a Maine man Mr.
Noble is intensely interested in thes,
works and will put forth some of the bes
efforts of which he is capable in thei
execution And this is saying enough
Says the Bangor Commercial