Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-10

George w. McNally. about "a years
old was drowned at Island Falls Sun
day, on Mattawamkeag lake. His
| canoe capsized. The body was re-
covered.
The cargo of onions brought to Ban
| sor last week by the British schooner
| Sainte Marie. Capt. Wallis, from Hamil-
ton, Bermuda, was the first entire car
| go ever imported there.
Harry Clark Weber, city editor of
! the Bath Enterprise, and Miss a
Warren Morse, daughter of John Morse
| q retired shipbuilder of Winnegancc,
| will be united in marriage on June Il.
On July 18th, the Orangenen in
| Aroostook county will nav a big cele-
hration at Smyrna Mills on the line of
the Is. & \. railroad. 1t is expected
that there will be 1900 people at the
! outing. Last year 1900 people attended
The celebration.
Louis De Angelo. an Italian. was
killed Sunday, on the Ashland branch
of the Bangor & Aroostook. by land
slide, caused by a passing train. The
mans body vas carried under the
wheels of the engine, and was torn ana
mangled frightfully.
The engagement is announced OF
| Rev. w. Z. Mann, pastor of the Con-
~cregational church, Dexter, and Miss
| Susie Vieie Oneston of Yokohama.
.Japan. For the last six years Miss
| Oneston has beer pursuing studies IN
! this country and during that time has
made her home with Mr.. and Mrs. c
w Curtis. Dexter.
Invitations have beenissued by Presi-
dent A.. w. Harris of the Maine State
college. to the NJ. S. c. commencement
| exercises and by President and Mrs.
| Harris to the presidents reception.
Commencement begins June 18th and
| continues through the 18th. The presi-
| dents reception will be held on the eve
| ming of Tuesday, June 10th.
Mr.. w. w. Cookson, formerly Of Port
| land and well known as one of the best
| rifle shots in the State, who is now
| located in Washington and is color
| bearer Of the Corps of Engineers of the
District of Columbia. the finest rifle
| corps in the country, has recently made
| a magnificent record as a marNsman,
| having won the championship of the
| District of Columbia and of course
| thereby surprising all the members of
| this corps of engineers.
How LONG will brook trout live, is a
| question one often hears discussed. A
| Dexter gentleman, now middle aged,
saws that when he was quite a small
| hoy he caught three brook trout and
MT them in his fathers well. Two of
| them were probably sacrifices before
a very long time to the cannibalistic
propensities of their mate, but the lat
fer continued to live and thrive in thai
we'll until last summer, when he died,
probably of old age. The gentleman is
unable to fix the eXac length of time
hut he thinks the trout must have
been well on" to twenty years old.
Everybody who rides through Dexter
village takes note of an immense elm
tree that stands in a corner of the street
inst below the business part of the
town. saws the Lewiston Journal. Few
VIII have seen it wonder that it is an
object of local pride. because of its
haauty: but few know that 1T holds a
mace in local history as associated with
q umhe of citizens who helped make
| pewter the important business centre
n is today. All but one are dead. In
1897 Lysander Cutter, who later was
sacond in command in the Aroostook
war and became a major-general in n
war of the Rebellion, Nathaniei Dustin.
who was the means of starting the
business of machine manufacturing in
Dexter, T. P. Sawyer, Hiram Carr