Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-25

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Auburn is said to be free from diphthe-
ria for the present.
The singing school is the popular Maine
institution this winter
The recent French fair i'm Lewiston
netted about $1,000 to the projectors.
Lewiston will dance the old year out
and the new year in for "sweet charity's
sake
1t is planned to convert the Portland
base ball grounds into a huge skating
rink this winter
There are now lo2 prisoners in Bangor
Jail and it costs the county of Penobscot
just $3.50 a day for their board.
Mr.. and Mrs. William II. Burnham of
Deering. will celebrate the 5Oth anniver-
sary of their marriage, Nov. %
Several wagon loads of pine knots were
dug up in the making of the foundation
of building in Lewiston a few weeks
since.
Old Town singers propose to organize
a chorus and take up the work for the
next musical festival to be held in Ban
gOr in 1898.
The estate of Martin Payne. Newport.
who was killed in the Etna accident. bas
been paid $500 by the Maine Central in
settlement of the claim. ~
The selectmen have caused the Old
advertisements to be taken off the
telegraph and telephones poles through
the village of Columbia Falls.
A Brewer man lately ate ten pounds of
grapes at one sitting in an attempt to
out-eat fellow citizen who consumed a
bushel of peaches in one day this sum-
mer.
The road pillow which Road Commits
sioner E,stey of Calais. has used with
work. has been patented by him in Can
ada.
The Irish societies of Portland. are
making arrangements for exercises COM
memorative of the execution of the Man
chester martyrs, Allen. Lar<in and
OBrion
Miss Jessie Henderson of Mechanic
Falls. has received an offer of a situation
in one of Frohmans companies to go to
Australia for two years but has not as
yet accepted.
Gen. Charles p Mattocks of Portland.
has been engaged to deliver the Memo
rial day address before the James f.
Cushman Post No. 81. G. A. r.. of Phil
lips, on May 30. next.
The Bangor Savings Bank has refused
to make a loan of $4,000 to the city upon
the security of $4,000 in uncollected tax
es. running back only to 1856 and .WO
of it the tax of 1896
ISOLATION will have its annual dinner at
the Congress Square hotel Dec. 81. at s
p. M. All members attending are eX-
pected to bring ladies.
Thomas H. Randall of Portland. ex-
street commissioner has gone to Man.
chester -the-Sea. where he has been
engaged as superintendent of streets at
a salary of $500 per year.
Miles Standish, tenth in the line of de-
scent from Capt. Miles Standish of Puri-
tan fame, has been appointed to a place
in the government printing office from
Portland. Me- He formerly lived in
Flagstaff. Me. His compensation is s3a
a day.
At the unwilling of a tablet common.
orative of the battle of Harlem Heights
in New York. recently. Hon. Edward
Paris was present, representing Surgeon
James Freeland. a Revolutionary patriot
who has large number of descendants
residing. at Paris HILL
The government workmen are engaged
in constructing shell room at Fort
Georges. the large fort which rises out OF
Portland harbor The work was begun
about ten days ago. about Is men being
employed. The room is to be about 30 by
10 feet in size. with concrete foundation
1t is to be of wood. covered with IRON
By reason Of the thunder storm last
week. the sardine factories at LARA
bees Cove and Bucks Harbor were
idle several days. These little fishes,
which supply the factories. always
strike for deep water when electricity
is sporting in the clouds.
Criehaven is a small community but its
citizens who depend on fishing for live.
lhood. are as public spirited as theil
brethren on the mainland. Two gifts
have lately been made that illustrates
this point. One gentleman presented 6
handsome flag for the school and the
church rejoices in a nice. sweet toned
organ, the gift of another citizen.
One day recently, William Richardson
of South Portland was standing in
pasture near his cow which he had teth
cred out with a rope when suddenly tn,
cow ran around from the rear in hal
circle. The rope caught Mr. Richardso,
above the ankles. throwing him. H,
struck on his head. He is now confined
to his home with serious injury.
During the recent snow storm there
a snow slide from the main roof o
Chatwold, the summer home of JOSEPH
Pulitzer publisher of the New Yorl
World. and the contents went through
the glass roof of the library, barely es
Gaping Mr. Pulitzer, who was in his Ii
brary at the time. Some glass was bro
ken. but Mr.. Pulitzer was not injured
The PulitZerS will remain in Bar Harbo
all winter
Joshua Littlefed of Mt Herderite. Au
cts of the finest quartz crystals eve
found in Maine. Some Ct them are al
most black, some are the kind known a:
the smoky topaz and others Of the crys
tails are a clear amber with single crys
tails two feet long and from ten inches t
"A foot in diameter. Mr.. Littlefed ha:
taken out over ton of the crystals ant
has not yet exhausted the pocket
Hermann Kotzschmar Jr.. assistant en-
gneer. L. S. r. NJ. attached to thu
Woodbury. stationed on the Maine coast
applied for transfer to the magnificen
new revenue steamer Manning just con
structed and placed on the Boston sta
ton. He was not only Immediately ap
pointed but thanked by the department
for making the application Mr.. Kotzsch
mar is one of the brightest and mos
skillful young officers in the service. say:
the Portland Press.
Mrs Scott Brown of Bowdoinham
recently picked up s12 in currency IL
the highway. Mrs. Sarah William:
Immediately put in a claim for tn,
same. according to the Richmond Bee
saying that the money blew out of The
window of her house. But Mrs. Brow,
thinks this is not so. huns the Bee
and is holding 1t to see if sonic OtheI