Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-12-18
BITS or MAINE NEWS.

| A Magazine Club has been started In
Union.
South Hiram reports AZ cases Of
| measles.
Lewiston man has received 1860 tom
my cod for live bait.
A volunteer fire company has been
organized al Liberty.
Mrs. G. u. Webster of Old Town. is the
director of the Old Town festival chorus
Poultry thieves are abroad in Waldo
boro. One woman had % pullets stolen
recently.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has presented
the Gardiner Current Events Club with
a handsome gavel.
The prospect is good for the re-
building Of the Capen factory. recently
burned at Boothbay Harbor.
The Salvation Army of Lewiston. is
planning to give 500 free dinners to tie
poor of that city, Christmas day.
Out of 2s regular music teachers in
Lewiston 10 are women, and six of the
Auburn music teat hers are women in
structors
The most absent minded man in Phillips
il the one who took lantern to the store
instead of can to get a gallon of kero-
sene the other day.
Miss S: Marica Craft. the soprano singer
at the First Cniversalist church. Port
land, has accepted n position I'm a Boston
church at "A salary of 1920.
The Kings Daughters Union of Ban
gor, has engaged teachers to give free in
struction in cooking and dressmaking 10
the young women of that city.
The Bangor High School Cadets will.
beginning next term. in January. have
their drill for AN hour each day in the
forenoon during regular school hours and
all the boys must take II or substitute
study. Few will probably choose the lat
ter course, and it Is expected that nearly
every boy will take the drill.
Dr. ]. Sterling Lingsley of the bio
logical department of Tufts College.
Medford. has under consideration th.
establishment of a summer school OF
biology in some suitable place ON
Casco bay during the vacation season
of 1898
Master George Bartlett of Sullivan
Harbor, is quite a wonder at spelling
for he is but six years old. yet can spell
long words like Minneapolis. Missis-
sippi. etc. with great accuracy. besides
many shorter ones that puzzle older
people.
With the electric railroad, the narrow
gauge from Pennington. and tele-
phone line from Wayne and Leeds to
Turner village via Keens Mills and
Turner Center, Turner will no longer
be neglected by the power of CONNER
cial habit
l.. f. Gott of Bar Harbor. is laying
the keel for a new 32 foot yacht for
President Eliot of Harvard college
The one built for him. last year. by Nj.
Gott. did not prove acceptable though
built from the presidents own dimen-
sions. The new boat will be two feet
longer and six inches narrower than
the last one
The plans are all made for a new
wharf to be built on the site of the ola
one at Seal Harbor The increasing
business Al Seal Harbor has twice out
run the landing accommodations and
with every coming year the want of
sufficient wharf room is more and more
felt. The new wharf will be 1.0 feei
in length and 15 feet on the front
The amount OF grain which is being
exported, this winter via Portland. the
Grand Trunk terminus for ocean traf-
lic. is enormous. contracts being made
already for more than 10000, 900 bushels
of wheat. compared with about 2.000. eco
bushels for the same period a year ago
The new elevator. with a storage ca
pacity Of 100000 bushels. is full at
present. over 1000 cars. it is said. are
at present stored at various places
along the system.