Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-28

| school established, with $4,000
subscribed, says report.
Biddeford and Saco have had few
calls from tramps since the work
Jail was established at Alfred.
| Dexter's total appropriations for this
year is SIS, sos Last year the appro-
priations amounted to $l6, sos, a differ
ence of about $1,000.
| George Brown of Lincoln. who has
4 been i'll for some time, recently coughed
up a piece of spruce bark nearly COW
cred with flesh. / is thought he win
| now recover.
| On Wednesday a boys coat was
found frozen 10 the head pier of the
Coburn boom in the Saltwater stream
1t has been identified as that of George
Orr of Saltwater, who disappeared last
November 1t was supposed that he
had gone into the woods and would re-
turn in the spring.
Business is rushing at the Brown
vile peg factory and a number of new
hands have been employed This in
| duStry would be Of great value to the
| town if the scale of wages could be in
| creased. But so cents per day for girls
| and 81 to ST. Is for men does not leave a
| large surplus after paying board bills,
etc.
| In the town of York last year, there
| were recorded 81 births IS marriages
| and 3S deaths. OF the latter. one was
! %, another SO years and 10 months.
| another 81: nine We're between so and
| 80; three between 70 and so: five be
| tween 50 and 20: and three between
| 80 and CO. making total of q who
| had passed the half century mark.
| At the request of Mayor Baxter.
| Speaker Reed invited the river AMI
| harbor committee of the House to eX
| tend their trip in New England as far
as Portland. But the committee re
piled that they had only accepted AM
| invitation to Boston and would not
have time to go further. They said
that they had already declined invita-
| tons from Providence and Fail River
Residents of Depot street. Calais
were startled by a pistol shot, one
evening recently and on investigation
it was found that a drunken man had
attempted To shoot his wife. Several
of the neighbors ran to the frightened
Woman's assistance and the infuriated
monster was finally quoted down
The bail from the revolver struck the
woman in the forehead ana glanced
off leaving a severe flesh wound, re-
ports the Bangor News
Mrs Elizabeth L.Davis Of Bangor.
who was Sc years old on February p.
lives on Ohio street and is one Of the
smart old ladies Of Maine. From March
tNpI "a Che
doubled and twisted 43 lhs of yarn
made six log cabin quilts. 10 rugs
tbraidedl. knit 20 pairs of mittens. A.
pairs of stockings and worked six en-
broidered chair cushions: she has as
sisted some in house work and picked
quite a number of quarts of berries
a gentleman from Brockton. who !
was in town Wednesday. stated that
George Garland. the missing eX-secrc- !
tary of the Rockland Y. NJ. c. A. has
been heard from. lie did not know
his present whereabouts but said h.
understood movements were on foot
TO settle up Mr.. Garlands affairs in !
Brockton and that he would probably /,
soon return to that city. There is a .
great deal OF sympathy for Mr. Gar .
land in BIockton and also in this city
-Rockland Star.
The preparations for the next big
blast at Long Cove were stopped for Il !
while for the food, but are now going I
on hriskly The blast will not be made )
until the rock is needed. probably not Z
until fall but everything is To be put
in readiness before hand. The blast
will be about as large as the last one
and some 500 kegs of powder will be
used The arrangements are being
made differently from last time. il
we'll about 90 feet deep will be dug and
then tunnels each way. The digging
before was horizontally, this time win
he perpendicular.
THE good old Julia Ann as sailor
affectionately called her, is one of the
latest arrivals at Portland. She Is
said to he the oldest "pinlley" afoat.
and was built at Gloucester in 1912
Tie ancient shipbuilder worked upon
honor, and the original frame. ard
much Of the planking is still doing
duty, and is as sound as eyer. Cap
tain Rand commands her. but a former
captain said yesterday, that about -
years ago she was repaired. She looks
strong. and is good for many years
more J. II. Blake regards her as the
best specimen of that sort of craft
We have left. Despite her u years of
active life the old craft is a good sailor
and gets good marine rates. She is
owned at Mount Desert Ferry
You can buy ticket at the Maine
Central ticket office here to almost any
part of the world. says the Bar Harbor
Record. Probably there is no better in