Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-22

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At Bath planning mill. last week "a
900 feet of deck floors were planed in two
days.
Alonzo Frazier, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Jasper Frazier of Ellsworth Falls
presumably from the effects of sun
stroke.
The Free Baptist clergyman at North
lsleSboro. says that during the eight
months in which he has been pastor
there hasn't been a marriage. birth or
death in the parish.
Small notices bearing the ominous
heading Death to the user and orna-
mented by skull and crossbones. are
posted about PASSPORT warning people
against using certain brands of tobacco.
A Deer Isle man is said to have dis
covered remedy that Is more than n
match for the festive 'hornfiy,'' and Is
going on the road with it. The long suf-
iering kline impatiently await his com
Ing.
Monson has, just. stocked her lake with
$1,000 salmon trout. and has Il hatchery
which VIII raise as many more next
year. This Is being done with scarcely
norsxpense. Mr.. L.. S. Crafts offered to
tend the fish and the public spirited men
simply furnished the hatchery and met
other minor expenses.
One of the queerest legal cases of the
Week occurred in Saltwater where three
houses in three consecutive nights were
entered by a man who was seen in each
case a woman being struck and consid-
erabiy hurt in one instance. each woman
claiming TO recognize the burglar as the
same person. and yet when the man was
brought into court. Wednesday, he was
able TO prove satisfactorily. by the
mouths OF six or seven reputable wit
nesses that he was out of town all the
time.
The way the short hour schedule is be-
ing operated in the Biddeford mills does
not suit lots of the operatives who work
by the day. They claim that the corpo-
ration is saving big money in wages with
slight loss OF. product by the present sys-
tenn. The piece workers are rushing to
vantage OF, the early speed in the morn
ing and at noon. with the result that the
loom fixers and other day help are work
ing harder - keep up with the piece
very hearty full days work for two
thirds of a days pay.
At the annual meeting of the Maine
Wooden Manufacturers club held ut
mills in the State were represented.
These officers were elected: President
Lewis Anderson, Skowhegan; secretary
and treasurer, f. f. Hussey :of Sanford;
Sanford. d. X. Campbell of Sangerville.
j. r.. Pollock of Guilford. A. G. Fuller OF
Hartland. Thomas Walker Of Warren.
Resolutions were adopted and copies sent
to the Maine Congressman. pledging
their support to Mckinley for Presi-
dent. and proposing n manufacturers de-
partment in the cabinet.
Fred Sweetland of Rockland. tells rat
story which can't be beaten and every
word of it truth. says the Rockland Star.
Tuesday afternoon when he got home his
sons wife was sitting on the doorstep
mourning the loss of ten little chickens
which she believed TO have keen carried
off by Il rat. When her husband came
home he found the rats hole in the yard.
dug into it piece and then fired into ii
with revolver. Upon opening the hole
he found that he had blown a big rat to
pieces. He also found seven OF the chick
ems alive, which We're removed and cared
for. Yesterday they We're as lively as
crickets.. and feeding just as though
they had not been bereaved of seven
brothers and sisters.