Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-27

Several cases of pneumonia have de-
veloped recently in Bridgton from sud-
den and severe colds due to great ex-
tremes in temperature.
Among the exhibits al the New Eng
land fair was calico quilt which be-
ionged, 200 years ago, to Mrs. Cleaves of
Saco, and Is now owned by her descen-
dant. Mrs. Coolbroth of Boston High
lands.
Another man has found out that
Maine is a good place in which to live.
John Dexter, who has lived in Califor-
MIA for a number of years, has returned
to Sangerville.
One of Westport's smart and good
looking girls makes from SIS to SIS a
week in the Waltham Watch Factory.
She is one of the most expert of the
ladies there employed.
Bath men who have been stopping
at down river resorts have found it
such hard work TO secure Holsters
there that they would purchase them
while in Bath during the day and
carry them to their seaside home at
night.
II is estimated that Bath house
keepers make $500 loaves of yeast bread
daily, in addition to cream tartar sour
milk and buttermilk bread and biscuit
and brown bread. In ADDITION and
largely as a substitute for this staff OF
life, among the poorer families many
bushels of potatoes are eaten.
Up North and West Auburn way
they are having considerable fun at the
expense of a popular West Auburn
man. who owns a pasture where blue
berries grow and who accepted the
proposition of woman in another part
of the town. TO pick the berries at the
halves, provided the owner would post
notices in the pasture warning all peo-
pie to keep out. The owner was at con =
siderable expense and trouble putting
up the notices, and he even went so far
as TO find a market for his part of the
berries. But according to labor and re-
port his half is still on the bushes.
A well-informed Auburn bicyc!isf
says that the amateur bicycle racing,
as conducted in Maine. is of no earthly
use as a drawing card fer any fair OF
anything else for the reason that the
riders don't get downan hustle. Take
the big professional races where the
riders are cut for the stuff" says he.
they have great sport. But with
amateur racing in Maine it is different.
When riders with a record of go so
into race and pull in worse than $50
there's no great fun in it. There will
have to be some radical changes in the
rules governing bicycle races in Maine
before the races prove of very much in
ct "a no II lilo
There is a growing sentiment at Bar
Harbor that kebo is not as exclusive as
the itelets of its rules of entry and the
assessments of membership indicate
Any reputable hotel parties can secure
the privileges of Kebo by paying the
proper fee. Then. too, IT is far from the
town. a more central place of gather
ing is in the contemplation of the socie-
ty people. OF course a casino for Bar
Harb0G Is an oft mooted question. But
come it must and the Ladies Tea club
is an Indication of the want. There is
still a great hotel colony there which
is as regular in it's visit as the cottage
colony itself. There is no morning
place for society to gather as at New
port and the patrons of kebo insist
that there should be.
Eight Auburn letter carriers and ex-
carriers We're included in the list of
over time carriers, and the largest
amount received by one man being $3.50
The money was for over time while IN
the employ of the government several
years ago. The bills for over time cost
the government a tidy sum and it is
safe to say it won't be caught that way
,.,.
day and the letter carrier who works
over time does it at his own expense
and ii is also against the rules to do
it. If a carrier hasn't time to deliver
all the mail on his route in any of the
several trips through the day he is I'M
den orders to return to the office with
out delivering the mail. The post
office department has carrier time reg
listers and is getting things down fine
The Livermore Falls Advertiser late
ly saw the document that notified
James Starr, the first postmaster OF
Jay, of his appointment to that posi-
tlon. The document was dated Dee
20, 1914, and was accompanied by a
sheet giving the rates of postage. It
seems that the postage on single letters
going more than 40 miles was then -
ceISts; between 40 and 80 miles Is cents. |
the price increasing With the distance
carried till for those to go more than
800 miles the rate was 371a cents. |
Double leoters,cr those composed Of two
pieces Of paper doubled those rates
and for triple letters, the rates were
1rlpled. a newspaper carried not more
than 100 miles and not out of the state
in which it was printed. called for TX
cents; out of the state or over 100 miles
"a cents. What would the people of
that day have Thought if some one had
predicted that letters would have been
carried from Puget Sound to Eastport
for two cents?