Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-18

Saco may have hospital after ALL
There have been four burglaries in
Calais recently all committed within
four days.
A Lewiston man who was called sud-
denly to the bank the other day to pay a
note of his sons with his own endorse
| ment, seemed greatly surprised. Isn't
that your signature was asked. Yes, >
said he. 1T is. sure enough. but | should
have thought he would have let me sign
it," He paid the note.
Those who have been the most in
tereSted workers for the free reading
room in Saco are becoming discouraged
at the outlook for the room for anothe r
year and are seriously thinking of Civ
ing up all attempts to run the room
longer on account of the lack of sup
port by the citizens.
The saloons i'm Orono must go. AT
least so say the members of the w. Z.
T. T., who have inaugurated crusade
against the saloon keepers and il is
said the ladies propose to make it
warm for the liquor dealers just as
long as there is bar over which liquor
is sold in the town.
A new industry is to be started in
Alfred. if the present plans of the
county commissioners are carried out.
i is proposed to give change of occu-
patton to the 120 or more prisoners who
have been initiated recently into the
art of cracking stone in the new stone
shed connected with the Jail. The new
job will be cutting out heels for shoes.
The town of South Portland. through it's
counsel Ex-Governor CleaVeS and Stephen
G. Perry. has commenced legal proceed
ings against the new town of Cape Eliza
beth. The suit is returnable at the Jan
uary term of the supreme judicial
court in this county. and is brought
by the town of South Portland to recover
from the town of Cape Elizabeth between
six and seven thousand dollars. being the
amount found due up to November 30,
1896. by the joint committee appointed b.
the two towns to adjust their financial
affairs. resulting from the division of the
old town of Cape Elizabeth.
L. H. Walker of North Arson. is liv-
ing on a farm which has been in the
family for six genera tions. His great
grandfather. Jonathan Albee. a soldier
under General Washington, lived on
the farm with his wife. Sarah Danforth
Albee The old black meeting house.
SO called, built more than 100 years ago,
farm, on the bank of the Carrabassett
river, and is supposed to have been the
first meeting house built in Somerset
county.
A Knox county weather prophet has his
almanac all ready for the coming year
and lately had it printed in the Rockland
Star. He predicts cold January. after
the first week. snow storms between JAN
20 and Feb Is, a stormy March. a pleas
storm. cold and backward May. a Alng
spell of splendid weather from June 10 to
July ~. then cold and changeable till the
first of August. another spell of fine
weather up to Sept. p. a rainy and windy
October indian summer between Nov. )
and -, with II spell of clear cold weather
up to Dec. g. when he looks for rain snow
and a clear and cold Christmas.
a novel decision by the United States
supreme court is quoted by some Bid
deford men who are interested in the
present discussion between the officials
of the Biddeford and Saco Water Com
pany and the city fathers over the pay
ment of taxes on the corporation. The |
decision relates to controversy be- |
tween the city of Brooklyn and water |
company, and the ruling is that in
effect that a city may legally condemn |
the property of water company and |
take it by right of eminent domain
1T looks now" said Secretary Baker
Of the Portland board of overseers OF
the poor today, ''as if this was going
to be an unusually hard time for the
in our city. We have had
a much larger number of calls for as
sistance so far this cold season than
was the case a year ago and in the
almshouse and in the Greedy hospital
there are more inmates than there
were at this time year ago On the
first day of December this year there
were 203 inmates and on the same day
last year there We're III"
A bull dog owned in Monroe had a sad
experience. last week. He went into the
woods and encountered a porcupne. and
came home with his head resembling a
we'll filled pin cushion One eye was
closed and there We're quilts that had
gone through his tongue. Most dogs
would have been satisfied with the first
Taste of a porcupine. but dogs of this
breed never let go their grip and some
40 doubt the remains of his foe. The
'amily were much distressed by the dogs
and called the doctor to his aid.
Ihloroform was adlninistere,. and the
tuills removed. The dog slept most of
he following day but at last accounts
had his remaining eye out for more quill
Digs.
In the midst of all the good news
new contracts, the people ;