Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-11-30

The town of Yale is to have a stone
crusher
| Damariscotta can boast of one of the
| best organized fire companies in the
| state.
! The Smoker of the Bath Independent
! hears that there is good deal of beer
drinking among Bath girls.
! The jefferson lime cask makers find
| farming more profitable since the re-
duction in price of the casks.
| The PortlandjLoan and Building Asso-
Citations have business of 100000 in
! Lewiston and Auburn and it is rapidly
| increasing.
! A dealer estimates that 5000 pounds of
| turkeys We're cooked by Bath people.
| Thursday. At - cents q pound Baths
| Thanksgiving cost for turkey alone $3.50.
Avery Bond. rugged farmer of Jeffer-
son. has been dangerously sick on ac-
| count of being poisoned by wearing a
newly purchased colored shirt before il
was washed.
| Mr.. Allen w. Durrell and his father OF
Eustis Ridge. who is seventy-four years
old. moved and raked by hand with one
| days work. ninety-two horse loads Of
| hay this year.
The Kansas City Star lately called at
| tention to the roof of a new structure as
the finest ever placed upon a building in
that city. And why? Largely because
| it was built of Maine Sate-Irom a
Brownville quarry. Thus are Maine
products appreciated.
| The Madison Bulletin Nears that a new
minister in village in Somerset county
broke up good old custom Sunday. by
| remarking that those of the congrega-
ton who did not get their things on dur
| ing the prayer can do SO while l pro-
nounce the benediction.
| One of the most interesting things at
| p%l,r ,N,,r..
| summer was the collection of the flora of
| Maine, arranged by Miss Kate Furbsh
| of Brunswick. Maine has wonderful
variety of plants. and when anyone be-
comes truly interested in the study of
them it proves to be more interesting
than almost any train of study. The
late Charles a. Dana once said that he
| liked to do two things passing well. one
was to write political editorials. and the
other was to classify botanical speci-
! mems. The secretary of the y. NJ. &. A
at Waterville said last week that a lot of
the young men of the association there
| had asked him to form a botanical class
| for them during the summer and he was
more surprised at it because most of
| them were working boys who had had
very little chance to attend school.
| The war against the liquor dealers
was fairly commenced Wednesday at
Camden. 1t has been expected for some
| tliIlc ilo DSSlllHlIlse IldS DeSI dIlN-
| ously awaited in many places. For
several weeks it has been rumored that
| people who are of influence. have
| determined to use their utmost en-
| deavors to enforce the Maine pro-
hibitory law in Camden and that for
| this purpose a private detective was
| hired who has secured more or less evil
dence, some of it in bottled form against
| suspected parties. Rumor has it that
some druggists will have charges to
answer. The detective has, it is said.
| secured evidence in about 80 cases, all
| for single sale and several complaints
in each.
Brakeman ]. II. Wood is the hero of
the Maine Central at present, owing to
| a brave deed in which he saved several
people from danger at Newport AS the
Bangor Commercial tells the story, the
| engineer missed his calculation a trife
in entering Newport station in the dark
ness and the engine went past the stand
pipe making it necessary to back up in
| order to take water. AS soon as the train
came to a StandStill the lever was re-
versed. and the train commenced back
ing. The rush for the door of the cars
had commenced and the first passenger
to make an attempt to alight was a
young lady who would have fallen but
lOF MI Woou, VINO caught ana pushed
her back. Then instantly he turned to
| a lady who was on the steps with an in
FAINT in her arms, and forcibly detained
her there. AS he did this an old man
with a big fur coat jumped from the
steps of the other car. took a spin and
finally landed with one leg thrust over
the rail. but a few feet from the wheels.
He had hardly struck the planking and
settled in a heap before Wood made a
great leap and snaked him out of dam
ger. A second more and the old gentle
man would have been minus leg.