Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-03

Milford is preparing to dedicate its
renovated town hall on the evening OF
Nov. 10.
A prominent druggist in Auburn dis
plays prescription books containing
100, 900 prescriptions.
On. the last day of discount on taxes
in Portland, over $4,000 We're paid in
during the forenoon.
William Daley of Phippsburg. ships
each week about 40 barrels of clans
to the Boston market.
Mrs. Lyman Abbott Of Brooklyn. N.
Y, is now visiting her son, Rev. Err
nest Hamlin Abbott, at Fryeburg.
DR.. RI. l.. Gotten of Addison. a grad
nate of Jefferson Medical College. has
received an appointment as assistant
physician in the hospital in Provi-
dence. Il. /.
There are at the present time 50 men
in the Penobscot county Jail. This is
the smallest number that has been
confined in that institution since
Sheriff Brown took charge.
j. X. Waite. who recently announced
his Intention to btiild a summer theatre
at Peaks Island and to give a season
of opera every year, has decided thai,
the present time is not rropitious for
carrying out the scheme.
A Bangor gentleman who is in the
habit Of noting the changes in the
weather and keeping a record of the
b. foil live tl,..,
of rainy days in October, nine: num-
Der of cloudy days. nine; total, Is.
Rawger Bros. of the Foxcroft veneer
mill. have just finished an order OF a
thousand panels for the Wason Car
Company of Springfield Mass. to he
used in the construction of railroad
coaches FOR a railroad in Brazil.
Edwin F. Soule. the Maine Central
builder Of stone bridges. etc. has cat
named Jack which is a we'll known
character on the Western division If
that railroad. The other day. his mas
ter having gone down the line Jack
determined to follow him: accordingly
he managed slyly 10 secure Judgment
on the uckframe. underneath the
cook-car. and in that way rode from
Beeeher Falls. VT. to Fabyans. a dis
lance of 60 miles.
The work on the Grand Trunk eleva-
tor. Portland, has been greatly him
dered by the high tides The water
flows into the pit and for two or three
hours. or until it subsidies. all work is
brought 10 standstill To prevent
this inflow OF water the engineers, in
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bulkhead around the pit which will
act'as dam, and it is hoped will keen
the tide water out SO that the work Of
pile driving and excavating can he
carried on uninterrupted.
An important innovation to the in
dustries of Frenchman's bay is ma
rine railway. or rather three of them.
being built near the steamboat wharf
at Sorrento under the direction of Su-
perintendent Lawrence. since there is
at present on those waters no place
be hauled out for examination or re-
pairs. The railways Will be large
enough to take the steamers in service
about The bay. and will doubtless
prove valuable investment.
A clapboard nail driven into the wall
over spring in the rear of her house
at Ninalhaven had annoyed Mrs. Will
Burns several times lately and she had
been intending to remove it: but now
she is glad she didn't. Her baby boy, d
year and half old, was playing about
The yard one day this week. when sud-
denly he disappeared. Mrs. Burns
rushed ia the Sprjng and there she
found the little fellow where he had
fallen in: but that nail had caught his
hood and was holding his head above
the water, though it had drawn the
strings so tightly under his throat as
TO almost strange him. Mrs. Burns
Will make no more complaints about
that nail. no matter how many times
it catches in her dress.
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