Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-12

The late Lewis Kingsbury of Bath
left GA grandchildren.
Ellsworth sells her old city hears.
and people will now look to the under.
taker.
1t Is said that gold has been found or
the Harvey Watson land in Chatham
that assays $26.82 to ton.
A Caribou spaniel, 16 months old, has
given birth to % pups. Recently she
brought forth the astonishing number
OF IA pups-nine males and five females
| An East Hebron man was so fright
ened when new engine passed along
the line near him few days since that
he seized an AK to defend himself from
some supposed demon.
Bath boy whose parents would not
| allow him to play on the regular foot
ball team engaged in a scrub game at
the school last week and one of his
collar bones was broken
The Industrial Journal presents "a
f1ne half tone picture of the State board
or trade assembled at Senator Hale's
elegant residence. on the occasion of
the recent meeting at Ellsworth.
Mr.. George c. Wing of Phillips. found
a young partridge perched on the roost
with MS hens few mornings ago. The
little stranger flew to the floor and Mr..
Wings daughter picked 1t up. The bird
showed no indication of being afraid.
survey for the new Old Orchard
pier is being made and though there is
little in the way of positive information
that can be given the pier seems to be
regarded by Old Orchard people as a
settled thing.
Harold Giddings Of Gardiner, is well
settled at Harvard. and by strange
coincidence his room mate, whom he
had never met before. Texas fresh
man, is the son of the minister who
married Harold's father and mother
There We're 10 pairs of horses, all If
Bridgton. in the town team exhibition
al the late fair: and. inasmuch as all
of them were fine animals. the com
mittee decided to divide the two pre-
miums equally among the exhibitors,
giving $3.50 to each.
One of the smart girls of the State
lives in Penobscot. Miss Maud f.
Bridges. aged 16, has earned enough by
knitting for Mr.. Creamer in the past
two years to buy fine chamber set
and bicycle. and has nearly enough
laid by to buy carpet.
A second well is being drilled at
White Head. on historic ground. 1t is
virtually deepening of the old well.
built in the time of the Rev. George
Burroughs, in 1876. where he and others
fed to the island from the mainland TO
escape the Indians, as told by the late
William Sergeant in his history of the
island
AS the result of a movement amongst
some of the prominent women of Ban
gor, Mt. Hope avenue, naturally one of
the most beautiful streets of this vicin-
ity. is to become a lovely boulevard
within few years. If the plans now
being laid with so much care come to
their logical conclusion, Bangor will
gain thus one of the most attractive
drives in New England.
A countryman. who has been we'll ac- |
quainted with Ex- Mayor E. l.. Jones |
for number of years, walking down |
Main street this morning, says the
Waterville Mail, came to the white |
tablet set in the sidewalk in front of |
the entrance to the ex-mayor's dental
rooms. 'Whew" said he, Il didn't
know Doc was dead. and what in the
world did they bury him here for?"
When Alonzo Seavey of Saco. went
into the kindergarten room in the Saco
city building, one morning last week.
he found live partridge in the entry
of the room. After a hard tussle the
bird was captured. 1t was carried to
the grammar school on Spring street
where it is used in nature studies. 1t
has been given a home there. cage
having been provided for it's resting
place.
Fifteen cOnvicts We're at the Bruins
wick station, Wednesday, en- route for
Thomaston State prison. A heart rend-
ing scene took place when weeping
mother held a four-year-old child in
her arms that it might kiss it's convict
father a fond good bye. A large crowd
of spectators We're present and many
were affected to tears by the sad scene.
1t was a pathetic comparison between
the innocent and the sinful.
Speaking of the late Deering excite
ment. the capture of the burglar and
the subsequent reward to ex-Officer
Cloudy, by the Alfred gentlemen, a
bright Portland young lady said, We'll,
think Mr.. Clough's baby ought to
have been given at least a rattle for
crying at the proper time" There is a
good deal of truth in this for the crying
Of the baby saved Deering as the pro-
verbal cackling of geese saved Rome. s
After waiting over five years, DR. A.
I. Harvey of Newport, has been grant
I'd patent upon a locomotive cab seat
The application was sent in, in April, i
92. The invention is one that engi- 8;
1eers will appreciate, and Wallace
well known engineer on the
Maine Central, has been using one OF t
hem for several years. The cushion Is
50 arranged that the jolting to which
IN engineer is subject, is overcome to a
great degree, and being on the principle ]
If swing, obviates to a large extent,
he trouble experienced by the swaying .
If the cab. The doctor says the idea
vas suggested to him by the trouble in
he small of the back, experienced by