Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-09-08

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Brunswick sports are talking of or
ganizing gun club.
4 J. s. Sanborn has given $1,000 to tn
Central Maine General Hospital a
Lewiston.
The Society for Prevention Of Cruelt,
to Animals is to begin a crusade ii
Brunswick. a"
Mr.. James q. Blaine was in Bangor
Monday, on his way from Augusta t,
Bar Harbor.
The horseless milk cart is a curiosit,
upon the streets Of Lewiston. 1t il
hauled by mule.
Ten carloads of sewer pipe have beer
used by the Biddeford street depart
ment this season.
A concrete walk has been bull
through Sullivan. and muscles are nov
in progress to pay for it.
Belfast has laid 800 feet of sewer OF
Church street and is now preparing t.
lay HOO feet on Grove street.
Two Kennebunkport girls have
earned $S2 this season picking and sell
ing sweet peas to the hotel guests.
Ex-City Clerk Martin C. Madden Of
Old Town, has entered the Universit,
of Maine for regular four years
course.
| DR.. II. H. Brock of Portland, ha.
been appointed surgeon at the Main,
General hospital in place Of the lat.
DIR. w. l.. Dana.
James A. Fletcher of the Biddeford
Pool road has crab apple tree on his
premises, having on one side blossom.
and on the other fruit nearly ripe.
North Berwick has accepted the new
| water works. a test showing that tn.
| pressure is sufficient to throw thc
water over the highest building ir
| town.
| The Calais Weekly Times is authorit,
| for the statement that the efforts in tn,
direction of an amicable settlement ol
the Eastport sardine strike promise L.
| be successful.
At the town meeting held at Bing-
ham. Sept. l. it was voted, after :
heated discussion. to pass by all the ar
ticles relating to a system of water
works in the village.
1t appears, after all, that there is
some question as to Westbrook's atti-
tude as to Westbrook- -Windham cleo
tries; and decided protest has been
made by the city solicitor.
A double wedding occurred Sept. l.
| at the residence of Frank Brown, West
Sumner. when his two daughters, Maud
| and IneZ, were united to Nellie Bur
rowes and James E. Chandler, all OF
Sumner.
Game Warden Huston informed the
Aroostook Republican that on English
lake. in Canada, just across the border
line, party of poachers killed seven
moose and 81 deer. taking only the
hides and leaving the meat to rot.
The Commercial is able to announce
that on the next change of time on the
Md ne Central Railroad, which takes
place on Sunday. Oct. 8. that Bangor
! will be afforded the finest train service
that she has ever had in the fall and
| winter
| leg between the ankle and knee one
day recently. Both bones were frac-
| tured. He had two sisters who have
| each sustained fracture of the leg
within the last six months. A strange
| coincidence.
Henry c. Tracy. teamster at Shaw's
mill. Bath, hauled a load of laths. one
| day last week, to the Boston boat
wharf with pair of grey horses,
weighing 2970 pounds, which attracted
| the attention of everybody along the
route. 1t was the largest load ever
hauled from the mill yard. There were
| 1872 punches of green laths. -
The residence of Mrs Ellen Snow in
| North Orrington. was the scene of an
| interesting celebration on Tuesday
afternoon in honor Of her S0th birth
| day. The occasion was remarkable
| for the fact that among the guests
were two others of the same age, Mrs.
Martha Stearns of South Brewer, who
was born on the same day, and Mrs.
| Eaton of Orrington, who is one day
! older
| The West Paris corn factory will
| start up next week, but can not do
| much business until the corn is more
| developed. Many pieces of corn are
| very light, while other pieces are late.
About 25 acres that were planted last
| spring, were afterward sowed to Hun
| garian grass seed in consequence of the
| cold, wet spring. A heavy frost by the
18th Of this month would ruin the corn
crop of this year and the fodder would
be all the farmers would realize.
| The interesting fact has lately de-
veloped that George Hunt, the blind
man. who has received partial support
from the town of Waldoboro for years
| and for whom the town paid out so
dollars this year for board after his
| injury last winer. has property in cash,
notes, ETC., to the amount of more than
thousand dollars Through the in
strumentality of the selectmen, Mr..
Hunt has been put under guardianship
and will hereafter be supported from
his own resources.
Lightning has done considerable
damage of late in this State! A horse
owned by Frank Douglass of Fryeburg,
was killed by lightning recently. y
recent thunder shower at Byron killed