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

Industry has built a new bridge over
Mitchell brook.
shark scared the bathers at Old
Orchard the other day.
Bicycle thieves have been unusually
numerous in Portland recently.
Sixtyseven members of Battery c OF
Lawrence, Mass. had an outing in
Portland harbor. this week.
Boothbay complains that the trotting
programme at the county fair shuts
out her one and only trotter.
The North Knox Veterans Associa-
ton will hold it's annual reunion at
Washington campground. September
10.
1t looks as though Gardiner was go
ing to do little business in the matri-
monial line itself, this fall.-Reporter-
Journal
One of the fine houses on the main
street at Boothbay has a painted sign
''peddlars not wanted" nailed on the
front door steps.
Driving is popular pastime in
Pennington this season, and the livery
otipiCS dlC uoIIS IuSHlilS
ness, much better than last year.
A South Portland farmer will go into
bull-frog industry and raise frogs for
the New York market, of which, it is
said. that the supply is not equal to the
demand.
Again the Indians from all over the
State are making their annual visits
to the Woolwich Dyke, to gather sup
plies of Sweet Grass" which they use
in their basket work.
A novel entertainment is soon to De
presented by the Penobscot tribe, which
promises to be feature of interest.
The old time customs of the Indians
will then be presented. while long kept
relics will be exhibited
Troop +. got a new recruit in Ban
gor. Daniel Murphy. formerly of Car
mel. but for some time a resident of
Bangor, was around town Monday
night wearing the uniform of the cav
airy, and he said that he had enlisted
for three years.
A Standish farmer owns an apple or
chard that returns him quite a sum
nearly every year. Last year in par
ticular he realized nearly $500 on his
apple crop alone. Quite recently he
said that he had just one apple in his
whole orchard, and that was a second
quality Greening.
Way back in 1859 a Waterville man
scratched his wife's name on a bright
new cent. He kept it In his pocket for
some time but it finally got away and
int NV
or two ago in looking over some change
| he had received the gentleman ran
across the very same penny and has
now put it by for good.
Theophilus Hilton, the ferryman at
Embden, has undoubtedly crossed the
Kennebec river as many times as any
| other man. 1t was 81 years ago the
18th day of last July when he stepped
into the ferryboat. and during the sum-
mer season of all these long years he
has been constantly ferrying across the
river.
A would-be sport of Biddeford, who
has been trying to get rich at so cent
poker lost seven dollars the other day
| and wanted the room to make his loss
good. This would not go and SO he put
his complaint in lawyers hands and
| couple of letters to the men who were
running the games resulted in squar-
ing the loser, but he won't be allowed
in any more games at that place.
| One thing that was most noticeable
on the morning trains Monday and the
trains leaving Etna campground Sun
day night, no one wanted to ride in the
rear car. When the express due in
Bangor at 4.35 arrived at the camp
ground Sunday afternoon, several hun
bred people got aboard. The cars were
terribly crowded. all but the last one
and in that two people only Were
| seated.