Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-03

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July stands at the head of the fog re.
cord for twenty-five years at the light
station in Cutter harbor
The management of Portland's new
| theatre has been almost overwhelmed
with applications for jobs.
| There will be considerable golf playing
on the links near Fort Prcble, Portland
during the coming two months.
Walter Getchell brought to tht
Waterville Mail office, Tuesday, a wei
filled pea-pod which was grown from
seed raised this season
Farmers of Aroostook county are be-
ginning to harvest the grain. First and
last one firm has sold 90 rcapers and bind
ers to Aroostook farmers.
This season Mr. land Mrs. Samuel
Yeaton Of West Washington, aged 81
and 70. respectively, have cut and put
under cover II tons of hay.
The apple tree which Nathaniel Lyon
brought as twig from Amherst, n. s.,
in lIS0 and set out at North Lubec is still
| bearing good fruit every season.
singular thing happened in Bath re-
Gently. A lady was stricken with paral-
| ysis while watching Il funeral procession
go past her house, dying few minutes
! later
| Canned blueberries have now advanced
| " ~ tcHtS per uOZen Tor the new pack,
ana VIII probaly so higher The pack is
not so large as expected and but a small
| amount is now for sale.
Since March LIST there have been 81 bell
and still alarms responded to by the Port
iand hre department. and strange to say
| there was exactly the same number of
| alarms during this period last year.
The neiehhoring farmers report large
game very plentiful near their homes.
| Deer, Wild eats, foxes partridges and oc-
casionally a stray bear are encountered
| ON the road or in the pastures writes an
| Passport correspondent.
! James Fl. Bond and a. A. Skinner
have been candidates for several
months for the postoffice at East JEFF
ferson, and now a third. Marden John
| son, is canvassing for Tx.
Hon. Albert j. Ames of Jefferson.
who served as representative in the
Legislature last winter, win be a candi-
date for senator from Lincoln county
in 1888 says the Lewiston Journal
Il sold seven steam pumps last week
in Maine" said a Boston travelling man
the other day. and all of them were
large ones. Maine is headed for pros
perity,. and every man | see is full of
courage"
Finn was arrested in Thomaston
the other day and fined for being
drunk. In court he could not speak for
himself because he was not up in our
language, but on the way to Jail he
asked for something to drink and the
officer had not the slightest trouble in
understanding what he wanted.
st. George believes in keeping up
with the times as is evidenced by j
new church at Wileys Corner dedi- |
Gated this week. a new school house for
Port Clyde, business booming at thu
marine railway and a healthier tone
in the granite industry. Times are
looking better and ST. George is getting
her share.
Waldo county has the novelty of a lady
mail carrier. When the new contracts |
were made Fred r. Stevens of North |
Searsport took the route from North |
Searsport via SwanNille to Belfast. and |
during the summer. while he is busy with |
his farm work. his wife drives the mail |
team. Postmaster Kiigorc reports that |
she is always on time. and patrons OF |
the route find in her a model stage driv- |
II.
The Bath Independent learns that Har-
~ Sewalls life has fallen into very pleas |
ant rose beds in the Sandwich Islands |
located on the beach three miles from |
Honolulu 1t was originally intended for |
hotel. but the proprietor failed to Sc |
cure a license and thus Harry bought the |
place and converted it into a charming |
even an ideal home. In it Mrs. Sewall |
presides with hospitality and grace.
The Bath Independent well insists that |
children should be kept away from the |
court house cells where they go occa-
sionaily to converse with the criminals, |
and in support of its insstence relates |
the following: little five-year-od girl |
was on the banking there alone one day |
this week, eonversing through the bars
with Bickford. the Bowdoin abductor. |
Shocked at the sight. n gentleman. walk
ing by, called to the little girl to come |
away, which she did.
The growing crop of sweet corn looks |
well. and in a short time the Gamers will |
commence their work. So late is the sea-
son, however, that there is great danger |
from frost This would be a calamity
for about all the old stock is sold Pack
ers realize this and do not offer their
goods for sale. There will be no trouble
IN seiilng all that is put up at good prices,
even If, as is hoped, the crop comes out |
IN good shape as TO quality and quantity.
The outlook for squash and pumpkin for
Gamers use is bad-never worse. There |
will be but little.
Melvin Ellis left Ellsworth Monday
night. declaring that he was going toI
reach the klondyke or get stranded on
the way. For provisions on the Jour
ney he bought two big cans of Boston
baked beans and five boxes of sardnes.
BESIDES the provisions the traveller had
big wad of the long green His plan
is well mapped out When he leaves
the Maine Central he will take the
Canadian Pacific Railway for Tacoma.
Washington, and work at numbering in
the neighborhood until next spring.
when he will start for the gold fields.
There is a section in Warren that has
been prolific field for the incendiarv for
the past Few years. 1t is q farming sec |
tion that is afflicted with this souIless
depraved scoundrel and the authorities
nave yet to unearth him. The property
destroyed has been farm buildings con-
nected with some of the most fertile and
productive farming land in the State. vet
50 situated as to be outside the limit 10
be easily reached by the fire department
consequently when fire gets started in
such buildings it is not cxtinguished I'M
I'll the buildings are flat with the ground
and the fire dies out of its own accord
These fires of nccndiary origin is what
makes it hard for the honest and indus-
trious farmer to get any insurance on his
property .-Rockland Courier-Gazette