Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06

Bowdoinham has 2s widows and no
single widower
Five weddings at Winthrop, this fall
and more to come.
The last visible signs of the Norway
tannery have passed away, much t.
the regret of the citizens.
The Bangor News says a special ses.
sion of the Legislature to consider the
insane hospital would be inadvisable.
There is gentleman in Aroostook
county selling a receipt for a scent for
batting traps set for foxes. 1t is said
that the receipt works like a charm.
The only blot upon Baths hospitality
to the w. c. T. u. was the unfortunate
introduction Of sneak thieves who
found their way into the vestry, says
the Bath Times
C. E. Griffin OF Caribou. who lives OF
the outskirts Of the village, while re-
turning home one evening, recently,
was held up''lby two strangers and
after quite a struggle. was forced t.
hand over IS. he having that amour,
of money with him.
A Norway clergyman is the champion
gardener of the village. He raises two
crops year. July 20, he planted ripe
peas grown this year. Sept. %. excel
lent peas grown from that planting
were served at their dinner table, AMI
there were enough for all.
The long shaft at Kendall's MILL
Bowdoinham. now does duty in fur
nishing power for two mills. two saws
and stone crusher. There is talk of
adding pump to its burdens and fore
ing water from the river to a stand
pipe on the hill for fire purposes.
Camden's bowling alley, popular re-
sort for summer visitors, was not so
profitable as to induce the proprietor TO
decide to run it another year. Now thu,
townspeople are asked to form a COM
pany and buy it so as to retain it as
one of the attractions Of the town.
When a South Paris couple were
married they each weighed $50 pounds.
Twenty-four years later, both had the
same avoirdupois, and their son, aged
Is years was of identical weight. To-
day, "a years since their marriage, the
husband, tips the beam at 1917 and his
wife at 11Sh.
J. F. Lord of South WATERFORD, plant
ed GIG hills Of horticultural beans last
spring with southern white corn in the
hills for the beans to run on. The corn
grew to an average height of ten feet
and made two bulk loads for a pair of
horses; but the stalks are so big that
they have to be cut with an axe for the
COW to eat them.
B. S. Kelly Of Winthrop, has come
into possession of an old flint-lock
musket and bayonet carried by General
Henry Dearborn, while serving as a
private in the Revolutionary War; He
found it in Monmouth. in the house
built by General Dearborn when ne
settled in that town. The barrel is
very long, and, with the exception of
being very rusty, the weapon is in good
condition.
A recent issue of the San Francisco
Call has a large picture of the outline
of Cape Horn taken by Knox saa
captain. Ever since Cape Horns ex-
istence has been known efforts have
been made to get picture of it. Arts
have gone down there and some Ia
been fortunate enough to secure a feu
rough sketches, but an actual repro
ductiOn of the spot did not exist until
few days ago. This was when a mega
tive, made by Captain David H. Rivers
of the ship A. ]. Ropes was developed.
Some two weeks ago the wife of a
man living on the Oak Bay road, Calais,
disappeared very mysteriously, and as
nothing has since been heard Of her
considerable talk of foul play is being
made by the neighbors and others,
many going so far as to say that the
husband could tell more about her dis
appearance If he choose. There is
some talk of arresting him on suspicion.
The fact that the house where the
couple live was treated to q thorough
cleaning the morning after the woman
disappeared is being dwelt on by the
morbidly inclined.
The cave on Bald Porcupine islands
the discovery of which last year
created SO much interest in the vicinity
of Bar Harbor, has been visited this
summer by several parties in search of
the weird and outre. In fact exploring
parties became quite the fad and many
of the bellies Of Bar Harbor donned oil
skins and rubber boots in order to view