Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-15

There is some talk in Brewer Of or.
ganizing wheel club
A Bridgton girl has run Harrison
drug store for four years.
Portland club ladies have decided not
to purchase a club house.
South Portland's soldiers monument
will be dedicated May 20.
Old Town hopes to have open air con.
certs, the coming summer.
Some Of the Lewiston and Auburn
ladies' club propose to start fund for
a club house.
The Brewer board Of trade is consid.
ering the organization of a loan and
building association.
Rockland labor organizations are
planning to celebrate Labor day. this
year, on a large scale.
During the year ending March /.
there were log births, 40 marriages and
81 deaths in Old Town.
The ice in Moosehead lake is said TO
be very strong still and Is not likely to
break up before May 10.
The Kennebunkport people are talk
ing of having coaching parade this
season instead of a river carnival
The 18th Maine Regiment will hold
its reunion, this year, in Caribou,
Wednesday and Thursday, August II
and u.
Representative NJ. A. Austin Of Mil
ford, will deliver the Memorial day ad-
dress before S. ]. Cakes Post, G. A. r.,
Old Town.
1t would be a very good thing IL Bath
could arrange so as to launch a vessel
or two on the celebration of her fiftieth
anniversary.
The Franklin county law library at
Pennington contains complete reports
of all the New England states except
Rhode Island.
j. H. Maxwell, Esq, has been invited
by KimbalI Post, No. 3S. G. A. r., to
deliver the Memorial day Grafton at
Livermore Falls.
The coasting business does not look
bright, but with duty on lumber We
may expect something better in the
near future, writes the Milbridge cor
respondent.
Damariscotta has ordered 1000 feet of
hose to make up the required 1000, feet
in order to get the extra reduction in
the rates of insurance. which will be
nearly 80 per cent reduction.
In one of the Portland primary
schools the teachers give an occasional
lesson on good manners. The children
are noticeably polite. always asking to
be pardoned when obliged to pass in
front of a visitor.
Rev. Harry Hudson, the Episcopal
rector at Winn, recently lost a valuable
COW in a peculiar manner. An examin-
alton showed that a darning needle
had, in some strange way penetrated
the flesh and worked its way to the.
animals heart. causing death. This Is
the second COW which Mr.. Hudson has
had the misfortune to lose within a
year.
A Rockland merchant has evolved
cutie a neat scheme. He, like many
others. has been much troubled by
loungers and customers who are in the
habit of detaching small strips from
the dried fish on the counter. There is
now a very attractive fish handy. but
those who strip it come to grief for
there is small WIRE attached to
battery with which the fingers come
in contact and the self-helper receives
q shock.
Down on board the Labrador today
the men have been getting in readiness
for a game of football Saturday after
noon with a picked team from the mill
hands at Westbrook. But one game
has been played before this season be-
tween these teams resulting in a de-
feat for the steamship boys. In game
last season the Labrador boys won
their game so Saturdays game will oe
for blood.
Frank Reynolds, Lewiston inventor.
has gotten up ripper for attachment
to sewing machines which. they say.y
beats the wide world. 1t is simplicity
itself being in but two pieces. the knife
Operating in a continuous semi-rotary
movement. 1t does it's work with the
utmost effectiveness and ought to cost
practically nothing to complete. Inc
Scientific American in recent issue
notes the sale of the ripper for sso'u"
and gives the drawings and description
of the same. Mr.. Reynolds little at
tachment, weighing only eight or ten
ounces. is incomparably superior in
and safety.