Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-11

Twenty-Five out Of "a Spruce Head fam
lilies are on the grip list.
Portland has during the past ten
years cut it's debt in two.
OF BrOwnfields 100 inhabitants. so
are United States pensioners.
A Bangor man 81 years old cast his
first vote in the recent municipal cleo
ton. |
ID. l.. Edwards says he will build
that roller Touring mill at Fort Fam
field.
The organist of the Beacon street
church, Bath has not missed Sunday
in 25 years.
The town Of Sweden appropriated
money to send woman to the Maine
General hospital
Few railroad men are drifting BACK.
AS yet they are as scarce as ROBINS,
however, and about as uncertain OF
meeting with congenial conditions, re-
marks a Whitneyville correspondent.
The engagement of marriage of Miss
Elizabeth Boutelle. daughter or con
gresham Boutele, to Mr.. william W.
Palmer of the firm Of Mason son & s Palmer a.
nounced.-BangOr Commercial.
A Young Maine sea captain is Mark L.
Gilbert who has taken command or the
schooner John J. Perry. which mas peen
rebuilt from the schooner Mary Jane Lee
now used by the Perry Bros. Of PORT
land. as IA lime coaster Capt. GILBERT Is
only 10 years old and was but l6 years OLD
when he first went in command OF YES
sci.
Captain Grape of the brig Manson that
recently loaded ice at the Rockport Ice
COmpany's wharf, is the noted Captain
Ia. sod
Atlantic in a 16 feet. two. sail-boat. MAX
ing the passage in 40 days. experiencing
severe storms but making the voyage in
safety. The boat is now on exhibition on
the ManSOn'S deck.
Passport merchants report a female
kleptomanac.w who has desire to carry
home various articles without their
knowledge and consent. She has been
closely watched, but never detected in
pilfering: although goods We're found
missing when she left and seen a few
days later on the street. ~.s.
Calais has an interested eye on st.
Stephen to know what she will do on
the Queens diamond jubilee. The lat
est. suggestion and the one which will
in all probability be acted upon is the
erection of a large public hall in st.
Stephen, also a grand demonstration in
the way of a parade, banquets, speech
es and entertainments in which the
children could take prominent part.
This is the greatest church going
town 1 ever was in," said a stranger
who called at the Portland Argus Of
flee the other evening to leave an ad-
vertisement Why there's more peO-
pie go to church in this city of 10000
people thanthere are in Providence with
a population of 100000 1t seems as
though everybody goes to church here
and / guess it must be a pretty good
city,
The Hollingsworth & Whitney mills
in WinslOw and this city, turn out
about eighty tons Of paper per day. If
any one had told "Bill'' Cook, Jake and
Joe Mitchell, back in the ''sixties"
when they were driving those old ma
chimes for all they were worth, that
paper making would reach this rapid
stage, they would simply have taken
their informant for crank and said
"Oh, get out."-Gardiner Reporter
Journal.
Hon. Josiah Crosby was in COrinna,
election day, to see that the town pass
Il proper vote to discharge the mort
gage which the towns of Corinna and
Dexter hold on the Dexter & Newport
Railroad. when the Maine Central pays
tha hopds ,,,,a Cont . 1907 If 10 said
wv "o.'" "e oSP'' - 100 =.
that there rs not announcer TalirOau III
the State that has paid as well as this
rort;c,,lor limo which has returned &
nor cont d;v,dends ever since If was
comn,ated
There recently occurred noteworthy
gathering in Skowhegan. There We're
present Mr.. John turner, aged %, anu
1t really was his party. Among the
boys and girls invited were J. H. Bise-
low, 80 years; c. L. Benson. ~ years
John Turner, Sc years; S. d. Arnold, SO
years; Michael keef, Is years; 5. "A.
Patten. rs years; Isaac Dyer. IS years:
c. X. Turner. Is years; David Horn, 10
years: aggregate. of ages, 726 years;
average age, SOY years.
The Sebasticook & Moosehead Railroad
Company is doing very profitable bust
ness now and i tme amount m ina. mas b beeI
Hartiand, is, "a pretty, good indication
uhat rresiaemt LaI1caster mhhersi air,s
that the road COMPLETED into HARMONY
will prove a most paying piece of prop
er1y' , Inc i , m,les OF compietea road