Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-26

There were 20 deaths in Portland las
| week.
Bath has between 500 and $50 wheelmer
and women.
Bath Is to make Labor day a genera
closing up holiday.
There are &c prisoners In the Yorb
county jail at Alfred
Ground has been, broken at Camden on
the lot of the Home for Aged Women, or
Washington street.
w: c: Stevens owner of Stevens block
IN Mexico. which was burned the night Of
the Ttln, will rebuild.
The Portland Railroad Comuanv Is said
TO nave carried over $4,000 passengers
during the New England fair.
| Cherryiield Is talking of removing the
| covering or the bridge there. These old
Landmarks are gradually disappearing.
AT Misery stream three dams are being
built Tor driving purposes. Percy john
son OF Bangor, has the contract to build
| them.
Petitions are in circulation in Deering
| asking the city government to grant the
petition OF the Sebago Power Company
Ior permission to erect poles and wires
tor tne transmission of light and power
from Great Falls to Portland.
There was a strike at one of the Maine
summer resorts last week when the men
IN charge OF the stable connected with
the hotel refussd to work any longer un-
| less they were paid more money and fur
Eished with better food. The strikers
won the day.
At special town meeting held at Ken
duskelg recently, the town voted Ia build
steel bridge to take the place OF the one
destroyed by fire. across the stream at
Higginsville. There was quite a Lively
contest between the supporters respec-
lively OF steel and wood but <he first won.
1t has been decided to celebrate the
100;h anniversary of the Incorporation
OF the town OF Waterford September g.
The programme was not fully made on;
at the meeting Monday night but will
consist of speeches and music.
Mr.. Fred Lyons OF Biddeford. who has
been at the Eye and Ear Infirmary In
Portland for treatment for one OF his
eyes. injured while firing off a cannon the
Fourth of Jnly. has returned home. The
eye was removed two weeks ago and
when examined by the physicians was
found to be filled with little pieces of pa
per.
Sweden held a picnic. recently, with one
feature that deserves TO become popular
on other similar occasions. Twenty-Five
of the younger scholars, each with dit
ferent bunch of wild flowers in his or her
hand. and with a letter pinned TO the
breast, the combined letters spelling
Wild Flowers of New Sweden stood
in line. each child reciting few lines de-
scribing the wild flower he held
The Hartford Custard Pie Association
held picnic at Aliens Grove Monday.
Secretary John d. Long of bingham,
Mass. WAS present with his family and
was elected an honorary member OF that
famous society. They usually hold their
annual meetings on Fast day. this is the
first meeting of the association in mid
summer. Each member brought a GUS
tard pie baked in large milk pan and
this unrivahed rural delicacy was the
chief dish of the banquet.
The five children of Mr.. and Mrs Frank |
Green of Vinalhaven are all sick with |
scarlet fever. AS the family reside so far
from the village and had not been ex-
posed to the disease in that vicinity, and
the children were all stricken the |
same day. It is inferred. says the Rock |
land Star. that the contagion was car
ried into the home by pack peddler who
stopped at the house to show his wares,
about which the little folks gathered
without thought of danger.
w. A. Vinal is one of Ashlands enter
prising merchants. In addition to keep
ing dry gootis store. he cut 10000 feet
of logs last winter. selling 4,500,000 to the
Ashland Manufacturing Company and p
100000 to the Stevens Company, Fort
Fairfield. He has a shingle mill on the
Squawpan stream also a grist MILL He
built the fine cottage at Portage lake
now occupied by DR.. Thomas Inland. He
has purchased a lot and will build large
store for himself on the Masardis road
at Ashland this season.
Pauline Hall Mcclellan, the well known
actress and singer, who is spending her
vacation at Hotel Rockledge at Popham
Beach, often visits Bath and considers
the sail up the Kennebec SURPRISING in
beauty that up the Rhine. She also be-
ieves that the talk of Popham mosque
toes. SO often made by people who want
to be funny, is Islander on her favorite'l
watering place, for she has visited sew
eral of the coast resorts this season and
says Popham is comparatively free from
the little pests. Her little daughter is
one of the cutest babies that ever pleased
Rockledge guests.
Frederick Gregory Forsyth, formerly of
Portland, but now of Boston, who in 1885
was defeated in his efforts to secure the
English title of Earl of Mar, is now
claiming half billion dollars worth of
acres in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
together with the title of Viscomte of
Fronsas. His modest claim is for 1927