Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-20
South Paris has a gun club.

vicinity OF Woolwich.
The Office Of supervisor of schools In
| York is going begging.
| camp of the Sons of Veterans will be
| organized soon at Yarmouth.
Four agricultural fairs will be held in
| Washington county this year.
| One Thomaston gardener will raise 80.
| coo cabbage plants this season.
A branch of the Maine Civic League
will be organized soon at Bangor
one storytelling Maine gardener tells
of finding buffalo bugs in his tulips.
Fish are said to be coming into Saco
bay as they used TO do 20 years ago
The list of WaIdoboro citizens wiz
have attained over 10 years, is a long
one.
Bowdoinham's little seven-by-nine lock-
up housed nearly 500 tramps the past
year.
The town Ct Washington has a tele-
phone, and a new church with a reaI
bell.
Pennington has voted to get along
without II milk inspector, for while
longer.
\ fine rifle range for the use of the
Iilson Light Infantry, Rockland, is be-
ing built.
i ne lnlEu annual reunion OF the PilErlm
association will be held at Thomaston,
August IS.
Edwin C. Miliken has been appointed
chief marshal of Memorial day by the
Portland G. A. X.
Russell ]. Bremen of New York, is the
first person to make the ascent of Mt
katahdin this year.
A resident of MiEbridge 20 years Of
cut cords a wood last wi a nd
piled it. all in fifty days.
Dexter H. Hamilton of North
Deerins. has picked Strawberries this
season from vines in his garden
Hon. j. W. Symonds. l.. l.. d.. of Port
land, has been elected a vice president of
the American Unitarian Association.
The Oldtown assessors report n net in
crease of between 5000 and $4,000 in the
amount of taxable property in the city.
The water in Silver lake, Dexter has
risen four feet since March II. and is now
but little below the high water mark of
last year
There is such an overstock of apples
in Shapleigh that some of the farmers
are carrying them to the fields and plow
ing them in.
1t will cost in the neighborhood of $40
COO for Sagadahoc county to rebuild the
Merrymeeting bay bridge carried away
IN the March freshet OF 1896.
The firemen's muster and convention
that was to have been held with the New
England fair in August will be held in
Portland instead of at Rigby.
Ex-Gov. and Mrs. Sidney .Perham will
return to Maine about June |. and open
their summer residence at Paris Just
now they are visiting down at Manassas,
Va,
Each of the two firms that furnish ice
to the people of Pittsfield put UP less last
winter. thinking the other was putting
up more than usual \ shortage is the
result.
Bangor is making Il move towards
more park improvements ana it is under
stood that the committee on appropria-
lions viii recommend raising $1,000 for
that purpose.
The Pcnohscot Medical Association held
an interesting meeting At Bangor. Tues
day a paper on Diseases of the Eye
was read by Or. Pond. followed by a dis
cusSion. No further meetings will be
held until October.
y family Of Biddeford children are
following the craze for postage stamp
collecting in a unique way. They are
decorating a chamber set with the pic
lures on cancelled postage stamps.
4 ne s6t will be vanished after being
decorated
1t may not be generally known. but II
is a fact. that within a short time five
thousand barrels of sugar have been
landed in Portland, says the Argus, and
every barrel is in storage there. Prior
To this shipment there Were three thou
sand barrels shipped there and they are
in storage. The sugar trust is supposed
to he Interested in this deal.
The 18Th annual meeting of the Maine
Medical Society will be held in Portland.
IN Wednesday. Thursday and Friday.
June .. } and 4. DIR. II. Hunt of Green
vile, will read paper upon 'Resusclta-
tion after Submersion' or Tuesday morn
ing, and DR. Galen NJ. Woodcock viii
read a paper Thursday afternoon on
Accuracy and Honesty of Purpose in
the Practice or Medicine
The Grand Lodge X. of Z. of Maine
was organized July g. 1872. and will there
fore be % years old on July of this year.
on July 9. 1872. there were but five lodges
with total membership of SO, while to-
day there are 106 lodges with a total
membership of l1G55, net gain in "A
years of l0l lodges and 1860 members.
The celebration of the silver anniversary
will be held i'll Portland on the Sth and
9Th of July on which occasion there will
he present the supreme officers of the SUI
preme lodge and representatives of the
various grand lodges from every State
in the Union.
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funny occurrence at the court house in
that city, the other day. A woman who
had been patiently waiting all day for
q decree of divorce from her husband,
finally got the news that cheered her
heart, ard in GREATNESS haste sh9
rushed down to the clerks office. and
demanded a certificate of her freedom.
saying that she had another and a
better man on the string, and that she
wanted to marry him right off in a
hurry. She got it.
The Parkhurst correspondent of the
Northern Leader, having heard that
leather boots would last longer If
creased occasionally. determined to ex-
pertinent for himself, so when h
bought a new pair last fall he adopted
the plan of cleaning and greasing one
once week and leaving the other to
take care of itself. A short time aga
they Wore out the boot that was
wearing exactly one day longer
than the one that was not. and the
Parkhurst man feels that great quas-
ton is yet undecided.
An interesting question and one that
may have far-reaching consequences is
liable to come up now, it is said in con
nection with the question of taxing tho
Biddeford & Saco Water Co. by the