Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-02

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BatlrS delinquent tax payers.
BATH $40 fire alarms during 1886.
All tiita tkdidates for the Bath post
Office afS@esldents of the same ward.
Sheep are being sold off at q great rate
from Franklin county, many disposing OF
their entire f1Ocks.
Exports from Portland last week in
cluded general merchandise to Glasgow
and Liverpool to the value OF $so4,Ssz- al ~
George a.. Weleh of On North a,t ,,o Ber ,Sa
,Rta am 1855 laurel festooningsT g..
| the christmas trades IS.
Isath committed thres girls to the state
f7Hd{fstrial school at Hauowell during tife
l .rasf year. one-eightfl OF. the number sent
bf thesrest of the Sta3AE
s'GScR<es H. Buck. a klve of Harrison,
has Heen elected superlor judge for the
fourth. time in San Mats county. Cal,
| with 9, salary of $4,000 year
l. There has been some Nncrease in the
tclIafartn house in busineSSy3n Saco during
| th4s1k st few years, but even now the
Once Niar from being self supporting
| AIAtition is in circulation at Rockiand
ultimately to be presented the Maine
| LEGISLATURE, asking for the establishment
of a reformatory prison exclusively for
| women.
The prospect Of getting that Boston
boat which has been talked of, to run
to Machiasport this winter. are very
doubtful.
| An old-time feature which has been in,
| troouced anew in South Harrison social
| life is a weekly sing at the home OF
some of the residents. 1t has become
exceedingly popular.
There seems to be determined effort
to have a law passed at the coming ses-
sion of the Legislature. prohibiting winter
| fishing at Green, and Branch lakes says
the Bar Harbor Record.
| Nellie Haley, the three-year-old Farm
ington girl born blind, who partially
gained her sight very suddenly about a
week ago, is rapidly improving, and the
physicians think that she VIII soon pc
able to see as well as any one
Charles Storer of York village is en-
gagged in removing large lot of old apple
trees He will dispose of the SOUND
trunks to a pipe. mandatory. TO De con
verted into gelulne Drlar Wooo piPes'
says the York Courant.
Mrs. Louise j. Cabel, who officiated
| at a marriage in Lowell, this week, is
said to have been the first woman JUS
tice to perform the marriage cere-
mony in Penobscot county.
There is a movement under way for a
| reception to Gov. Powers in Lewiston
during January and February. under the
auspices of the Ladies' Hospital associa-
| ton. Twill be a grand .iete ana pii! anu lNC
! the ladies are already holding meetings
| to make the necessary arrangements.
| A Bangor firm distributed over 100
sleds to the poor boys at Christmas.
On Wednesday Commissioner .Beal
had killed Is cattle out of herd of IL
belonging to C. II. Patterson of Hamp-
den Center, the animals being diseased
with tuberculosis, and he also had de-
| stroyed three out of eight animals
owned by a Bangor man for similar
| cause. 5os
| The collections of money from the
various Maine districts is given IN a
report of the acting secretary OF the
treasury to Congress. Here are the
figures: Portland. $94.97777; Bangor,
| s52 2SO.87: PassamaquOddy, SCI. 194.39;
Aroostook. s19,2S2S6: Bath, $5,612.62;
Belfast SIT "a; Castine, $16S.24; French
man Bay. $23.99; Machias. $lS1.34; Saco
s122.93; Waldoboro, s16S.01; and Wis
casset, $s46.S0.
When Job G. Dubier Of Hudson was a
lbov. fifty years or more ago, his mother
| mt AWAY a sum Of money to pay the
EXPENSE of his burial when he died.
rhe money was not needed till last
week when MIR. Dubier fell dead Thurs
day while at work in the yard. The
money. which includes Spanish dollar
Of 1918, was found Friday and may
bring more than its face value from
some collector of old coins and DIS.
| Col. r. E. Boothby. general passenger
dish,,rsing agent of the handsome pic
tires ~ Maine scenery, purchased by the
last Legislature. He has sent t,av i h.g.s
number over the country ana las .n rssceive Wed
Cordial letters of appreciation Of the gifts
from the boards of trade OF san JOSE,
San Diego. Denver indaanaapons;; Ct Masp.
ington. Hartford, Grand Rapids, san
francisco. New Orleans, Phoenix, 81.
Paul and Minneapolis
According to. the looks Of Ellis Smiths
fur room IN Machias. coon in that part
Of the country are nearly as pientiful as
rabbits The fur of those which came
from Cross island .are Of decideuly
darker hue and more yaiu iand 'n Trad i
saws that foreign ship which was
wrecked upon the island about 80 years
ago had pet coons ono ar d, ah TO th e
escape to shore at that time,
A Grand Lake mstN while going after
4. load 81 meadow hay saw deer cross the
road in front of him. He noticed tnal
when he returned with the hay he took
the animals track, thinking he might be
able to run him down as Robinson
FER travelling an. hour On the tracks with
out coming in sight OF the game. he re-
turned TO his team. where ne found the
had evidently refreshed the animal. for
when he saw the driver approaching he
went across the field at a great rate OF
speed -.
At the Christmas festival and fair in
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