Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-10-26

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Hon. Harrison Hume of Robbinston, has
left for the South where he will pass the
winter.
Mechanic Falls is forced to the seri-
Gus consideration and expensive en-
largement of it's village sewer system.
Some careless shooting is being done in
Bucksrcrt. One day recently the people
in the store of E. P. Nichols & Co.. were
startled when bullet came through one
of the large windows cutting clean
round hole and burying itself among the
grain sacks. Fortunately no one was in
range.
Mrs. Enoch Sanborn of Bridgton, has
a small milk pitcher. blue tinted, with
landscape sketch, which is 20S years
old Also linen towel, Of fine texture,
woven in 1910 by Betsey Greenwood Of
Hebron, as an article of her own we'd
ding outfit.
Thursday occurred the 5Oth ami
versary of Mr.. and Mrs. Luther D..
Cobb Of Poland. The gathering of
children, grand children and great
Grove Farm, the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
NODU 1OT ~ years. dIlO llS OSSOPe$AsS
now number four generations.
The Martha Washington Society OF
Harrington, one of the Oldest organlza-
tions in Washington county, observed its
5Gth anniversary recently. This society,"
which is composed of the lie adng women
of Harrington, has been valuable aux
Hilary III promoting public Improvement.
TO it is credited the honor OF laying the
first sidewalk in that village. 1t has also
maintaining the
gospel as well as liberal contributor to
charitable purposes.
Within a few weeks there will prob.
ably be established in Bangor a plant
for the manufacture of electrical
clocks. a new corporation having that
object in view having been formed by
Gen. Joseph S. Smith and others. The
company controls the patent rights on
a recent inventlon-a clock which will
run two years without requiring any
attention whatever. 1t is expected
that these clocks will be placed upon
the market within a few weeks.
The Farmers Product Company of
Maine have secured tract of II acres
& OF land of the northerly side Of the
Maine Central Railroad track at Ban
gor, The packing house will not be
erected until next year, but it is pro-
posed to erect this fall a large barn
and other structures for the accommo-
dation of sheep and hogs which may
be brought here from Kentucky and
Canada, for sale to the farmers of this
section for breeding purposes. The
buildings will be connected with the
railroads by a spur track.
A great amount of improvement has
been made this summer in Dexter. A
great amount of painting has been
done. A number of buildings have
been repaired, adding much to the
looks Of the streets on which they are
located. And four nice residences have
been built. Next year there will be
much more improvement in the village.
BY another summer Dexter will have
inaugurated in it a substantial ani
healthy boom, that will not stop till it
becomes city, connected with Bangor
by electric cars and known far and
wide as a summer resort.
Mother Petronilla, superior of st.
Josephs Academy, Deering. celebrated
her silver jubilee on Oct. %. The happy
event was fittingly commemorated by
while there was a grand musical en-
tertainment in the afternoon by the
pupils and former graduates of this
institution. After the entertainment
the large assemblage offered their con-
gratulations to the Jubilarian, pre-
senting her with costly gifts and a
valuable purse. For upwards Of 90
years she has labored faithfully in this
diocese.
Had not the death of John Hartley
of Biddeford occurred so soon it is very
probable that the literary world would
have had another work on the reminis-
cences of Mr.. Hartley while at Wash
ington to read. There were three
topics on which he was all ready to
talk, his college life at Bowdoin, his
trip abroad and his life at Washing
ton. He had way of seeing the
humorous side of anything and during
his conversation made his "reminiscences
doubly interesting by this vein. Dur
ing the latter years of his life he had
partially prepared manuscript of his
life in Washington with the view OF
having it published. This move was
cut off by his death. 1t is very prob
dDlc, HOWeFcI. lIdl tuC WoLh may olAtl
be published in an uncompleted form.
A fish dealer was asked one morning
whether there was any truth in the state
ment that there are worms in a Goldfish
and as truth is stranger and of course
truer than fiction it had to be admitted
that there were. From the Atlantic t
the Rockies thousands of citizens will
rise in angry protest when they learn tina
the honest old Yankee dish, "picked-uI
Goldfish and cream which they abhorret
in their boyhood and craved when they
left the farm and came to the city Il
live, has acquired like so many othel
things in this wornout century, the germ
habit. There are times when the nobl,
cod is troubled with worms. the horri,
fact might be exposed in words less harsf
AMI grating, but the fact rem airs and 81
do the worms. The fish experts hav,
known about it for long time. of course
but the great codfish-eating public ha.
been kept in blissful ignorance through
all the years. However. it is not neces
sary to stop eating Goldfish on that ac
count for cooking renders them harmless
Portland Express.
Mrs. Fannie Dignam, III Mott ST.
New York City, makes a miraculous
cure of her rheumatism. She writes
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