Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-10
Bath may have a yacht club.

bers of the Calais Park society.
The next municipal will be Baths
fourth election within six months.
Lewiston has got. to have a dancing
canvass for her polo SCARED city hall
floor.
There were "a divorce cases before the
supreme court for Cumberland county
last week.
The Springvale Advocate appears this
week with an entirely new dress of type
for its reading matter.
Mr.. Harrison Hayford. keeper of the
poor of Belfast says there is not much
restitution in the CITY,
The hand eXtinguishers carried on our
Bath hose wagons have proved excellent
for quelling small fires.
The Eastern Argus hears that whist
playing Methodists will be asked to choose
between their church and cards.
The citizens of Topsham are kicking
over the large amount of salt used upon
the track of the electric railroad.
There are now 1856 persons confined
in the State prison with good pros
poets of many more before there are
any less.
The matter of a permanent high school
win be asked to take some action in the
matter at it's annual meeting.
The instructor of athletics for the girls
at Bates college has been urged by, the
nlCulCdlf examiner O1 luc college, SiilS "
try boating for them the coming summer.
A Vanceboro teacher showed her
plucky spirit after the big snow storm
last week by putting on pair OF snow W.
drifts to the school house.
Through the kindness of General T. w.
Hyde. the Hyde field near Elmhurst will
be placed at the disposal of the Maine
State college soldier boys should they
make their camp this spring in Bath.
A lady" drummer has caused a pit-a-
pat and a large increase of stocks OF
goods among AroostOok cigar dealers
She fitted to enter Colby but entered the
reVerSeS.
N. T. Palmer is preparing to build an
other. record-breaker as to size. at the
schooner with a keel about ri feet in
length. The frame has already been or
dered.
The Oxford county commissioners re-
Gently established a rule that persons
bonds should not be furnished with TO-
bacco or furnished with new clothing
when discharged from prison.
For two years in succession, the sixth
of February has given us storms of I'M
usual severity. In 1895, a snow storm was
accompanied with high wind and later
intense cold. swapping the water pipes; in
1896. a beating rain storm did some LITTLE
damage.
Brooks of Robbinston killed six crows al
one shot; two days later he shot five: a
few days afterward ten; and still again
nine, in no case using more than single
barrel at shot Had the original Abel
been endowed with similar luck and skill
it would have gone hard with Cain.
A young man named William A. Miner
residing at Jonesport, is the recipient OF
"A legacy of $4,000. Mr.. Miner is a native
of England, and came to Jonesport about
two years ago as seafaring man; he has
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beautiful young ladies, and since he has
received his money has gone into the
grain and flour business.
Something less than half century ago
a sailor boy married a maiden in Bath
He afterwards went away to sea and il
was thought he was lost His wife later
married another man and was living
happily when her first husband. like
Enoch Arden. returned from his wander
ings abroad. Heartbroken the sailor
went to California, leaving a child who
grew up in that city and now resides
there
A large proportion of the entertainment:
at ROckland. this winter are for charity
or church work. Charity whist parties
are common and pretty soon comes the
charity ball The latest suggestion for {
charity entertainment is made by gen
tleman who takes a great interest in the
game of polo. He suggests that the mem
bers of the old champion Forest City polo
team get together and practice with thu
view of having a game with the Port
lands in City hall the proceeds to be de-
voted to charity.
fra lady who resides in town not fa1
husband to provide her with a team fol
the purpose of visiting relatives who live
in Ripley. Said husband for reasons bes
known to himself refused the request
The lady was naturally considerably in
censed at being deprived of the undeni
able able right to this attention from her hus
visit. prepared herself. and made tn.
journey on foot. The distance from hel
home to her destination is eighteen mile.
and the journey was made in six hours.
A missionary from the new Durham
church is working in the family of an up
town Lewiston man. She applied for. :
chance to 60 to work as g, cook and tn
were a little surprised the first time tina
they sat down to the dining table to SEE
the cook advance. to the table and Offer
the blessing. Nothing was said, however
until at noon she repeated the surprise
and then the man of the house inquired
if It was her pleasure to so favor tho
families for whom she worked. She re
piled that at present it was. as she haC
been at Durham and had experienced {
renewal of spirituality while cooking fol-
the new church.
of four vessels chartered to bring salt tt
Lord Bros. Portland. the Bucksport fish
ermen. n. e. Symonds. was the only on
to reach port. the other three being los
with their cargoes. The first, the hi,
three-master. Henry Souther. 700 ton.
encountered terrific gale at sea sprung
a leak and was abandoned. The Portland
barque. Isaac Jackson. $40 tons, wen
ashore in snow storm on PasQue Isant
near Gay Head some ten days ago ant
will be a total loss The third craft which
attempted to get salt to Portland was tn,
brig Rocky Glen. 400 tons. of Boston
She loaded at the berth at Ragged islant
just left by the Symonds but went ashor,
while working out of the harbor and will
leave her bones there. The Symonds il
O the well-known three-master of Capt. T
NJ. Nicholsons Grand Bank fleet an,
measures but 1875 tons.
A Portland professional man stepped
into a wholesale and retail house there
for the purpose of buying cap. Pick.
ing up neat one made of cloth, he
inquired the price. The reply wa.
$3.50. He stared at the salesman, fol
he couldn't see where the value came
in. He priced another cap of les:
promising appearance. That one wa.
sc. Thoroughly puzzled now, the pro
fessional man waited to learn thu
price of but one more variety and was
told that one was $780, He rushed
into another store near by and bought
cap for dollar identical with tn.
one he had first priced in the whole
sale store He then asked the deale,