Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-04

| There are nineteen prisoners in ARGOS
took county jail.
| An average Of 1000 lambs a week ar.
being killed at the slaughter house u
HoultOn.
The outlook for Eastport sardines /,
very poor. The pack is four hundred
thousand cases behind.
Charles Richardson of Greenwood
sold $50 worth Of blackberries this sea
son, which he picked in his pasture.
A. M. Brown of Norway, who wa.
recently injured from defect in thu
highway. has settled with the select.
men for $500.
VIM. Farrow has recently completed
the largest sail ever made in Rocklani
| 1t is made for a sloop and contains 80;
yards Of canvas.
1t is reported that the recovery Of Fred
w. Palmer of Foxcroft, one of the vic
tins OF the Etna accident Is doubtful
| 1t Is believed that he is injured more
seriously than was at first thought.-Ban.
gor News.
Henri Grenier of Lewiston, who il
serving four years sentence at the
prison at Thomaston for manslaughter
has become partially insane, and was
transferred to the insane department.
Tuesday.
An exchange recently had an item IN
relation to man who had kept a diary
every day since Jan. !. 1870 Mr. George
w. Bean of Dover can tell a better story
than that for he has kept a daily record
since Jan. j. 1867. which tells where he
worked, what the weather was and other
facts.
On Friday. Sept. II. Mr. Zephaniah
Parks of White Settlement. walked a dis
lance of two miles. MIXED five cows,
moved four and one-half acres of heavy
buckwheat. walked home and was there
at six O'Clock in the evening Mr. Parks
is very vigorous for man of his age. be-
ing upwards of sixty years.
The necessary steps have been taken
and a hospital for Bar Harbor is an
assured fact. Already nearly 5000
have been subscribed. officers have been
elected and legal steps taken for OBJ
tanning 4 charter under the laws OF
Maine.
Hon. Lyndon Oak of Garland, is at
work on a history of that town. Mr..
Oak has taken pains in past years to
converse with the early settlers of the
town and get many facts connected
with it's history that ought to be pre-
served but would have been lost had
he not secured them.
Orders have recently been received a,
Fort Preble, South Portland. instruct
ing the officers in charge of construc-
ton to hasten the work. There are
three crews employed now working in
turn from 4 A. NJ. until 10 p. NJ. The
work on the Notifications will not be
completed for about two years.
Co. D. Sth Maine Volunteers, held
their annual reunion at Gray's hall
Plymouth, recently. The following offi-
GERS We're chosen: President, C. E.
Parker: LIST vice president, H. Stevens:
I'd vice president, b. P. Rollins; secre-
tary, N. Cole. The next meeting will be
held the first Saturday in September,
1898.
A new building is to be Immediately
erected on Main street, Mercer, and ii
will be the first building that has been
erected in the village proper for several
years. The structure will be two stor-
les high and 40 feet wide. The upper
portion will be used for a hall and the
lower floor will be fitted up for store
or used for residential purposes.
Two aged sisters in Rockland are
Mrs Lucy w. Snow. aged "a, and hel
sister, Mrs. Eliza Smart, aged 92. The
Courier Gazette cites the fact that
three members of this family have
averaged 100 years old. While Mrs.
Shows sight does not permit her to
sew, she is able to read without glasses.
= cI,o to
grand mother Of five children.
The management of the Eastpor.
Land Company have arranged to build
a summer cottage at Shackfords Heal
for F. w. Williams, ESQ.,. New York
commission merchant. Several other
cottages are to be built at this beauti-
full head during the winter months by
owners of lots there. and when work
begins on the large hotel soon. Shack
fords Head will present a busy scene.
1t looks now as if but very few apples
will be canned this year in Maine. The
crop of this article will be the lightest
ever known in this country in all prob
ability. Prices are from $2.25 to $3.50
per dozen. This is not high, for it is
the same as two years ago, but these
figures will probably soon seem low
Very few apples will be evaporated
and apples of the new crop will be hard
to get at any price.
One of the handsOmest cottages in
the woods of Maine is that of Fred H.
Appleton of Bangor, which is just COM
pleted and standsabo three rods from
the shore Of Schoodic lake and a quar-
ter of a mile from Chadwick's camp,
says a Lewiston Journal correspon-
dent. The cottage is 40 feet or so long
by rs feet wide. 1t is built of peeled
spruce logs and ispartitioned into three
comfortable rooms. kitchen, dining
room and sitting room. Overhead are
two bedrooms of unique design. The
striking feature of the camp is the fire.
place, built in the center of the camp
1t is of massive blocks of native granite
lined with fire brick and set in red NOR
tar.
Curious CONVERSATIONS.
The chemical name for EPSON salts
is sulphate of magnesia.
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