Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-04

A few cases of measles are reported in
RumfOrd Falls.
The library at the State prison, Thorn
aston, contains 1875 volumes.
The Industrial Journal appears un-
der q new and artistic heading.
A Bangor firm recently received an or
der for three pianos from one family.
Private Phillips Of Fort Preble, Port
land, has been in the U. s. army nearly 30
years and served in posts along the coast
from Maine to Mexico.
While Mr. Enos Tracy of Gouldsboro
Point was putting a spring In wagon
recently. it flew back and hit his eye. 1t
is feared the blow may cause blindness.
The fire that has been raging in the
woodland at Southwest Harbor, has at
last been put out, after burning for about
a week and burning over some forty
acres
A 12-year-old son of Charles H. Berry
of East Sumner, recently shot a large
pounds. He had only a shot gun loaded
for partridge, but got there.
A monster elm tree near r. McCollis-
ters house, Canton, blew down in a re-
cent gale. The tree is said to have been
over 100 years old. 1t was "a feet in cir
cumference two feet from the ground and
1O5 feet high.
IL,
donna, who passed part of the season
with her sister, Mrs. E. l.. Dyer. at Cush-
ing's island, Portland, cOntemplates max
ing tour of the principal cities in the
United States with Nordica in the spring.
Who says the club has usurped the
place of the church social? In South
Hollis, recently, the parson gave cir
Gle" and the good people began to arrive
before the breakfast dishes were cold
and lot of kerosene oil was burned be-
fore the last conner departed late in the
evening.
The opera Cophetua, words by Mr.. Le-
roy Hight of Portland, music by Mr..
by amateurs in Bath during the winter.
Miss Florence Carpenter and Mr. Charles
Barrows are the only members of the
original cast that will appear. Miss Eth
el Hyde will appear in the leading sopra-
no part.
been formed in Caribou. Its purpose is to
study the famous composers and their
music The club Is composed of IL men,
bers and is to meet, every other Monday.
The name selected for the organization
was the Euterpean Club, with o. w.
Leonard. president and F. L. Cross, vice
president and secretary.
The good Deering women have discov-
cred a new idea to entrap the unwary.
They hold what are called penny sup
perS. You pay cent for every article
used; for instance, cent each for fork
knife, cup, saucer, plate and every ar
ticle of food. This scheme is intended
to increase the excitement and there
by the partaker's appetite.
Albion Dunning of Machias, was a
much interested visitor the other day to
the Shaw mill in Bath which, it will be re-
called, is now operated by electric power
Fifty years ago. Mr.. Dunning said, he
used to attend lectures in which they pre-
dicted that so years later light and power
would be furnished by electricity and
most of the people in those times laughed
at such ideas. But he has lived to see
the realization of the supposed wild
dream.
This fall while a crew of men was dig
ging potatoes on farm in Mapleton, one
of their number unearthed what seems tc
be a very curious and somewhat valua BILE
relic. 1t consists of what appears from
the regular grain to be piece of petrifie6
wood of about the size and shape of ar
egg, except that one side is flattened A
hole, about one-half inch in diameter, has
been bored through it lengthwise, and il
bears two inscriptions of the figures
1900 and the outlines of an Indian head
Those who have examined it surmise thai
the relic must originally have been part
of the outfit of an Indian medicine man.