Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-22

The population of Belfast is increasing
RAPIDLY of late, and a majority of the
newcomers are future voters.
over one hundred cases of la grippo are
reported in Sandy Point and many whole
families are afflicted so as to need a ply
siclan.
Two new halls are to be built at Can
ton this summer. one by the grange. two
Odd Fellows.
The Biddeford board of trade gave up
one evening last week to the discussion
of tuberculosis. There was an exceed
ingay animated discussion by some of the
milk dealers present.
A cook stove on trucks is the recent
Invention of an Auburn young man.
When the stove Is moved into the sum-
mer kitchen in the spring. 1t Is let down
upon the trucks and pushed out.
Liberty thinks 1t has the wood sawyer
Tom Cunningham. a lad Of eighteen.
sawed three and one-half cords of cord
wood Saving each stick twice) in one
day. and five cords in a day and a half.
county are having their herds of cows
examined by comgetent veterinarians
with the view to "a lean bill of health.
This Is in the interests of both producer
and consumer.
Mrs. Martha Havey, hostess of the Re-
lay house, Franklin, probably holds the
rug-making record of Hancock county.
She has averaged three rugs yearly for
-
dition to household duties.
Stenographers must be scarce in Cal
ais for one could not be found to take
down the proceedings at trial in that
city. As the evidence had to be taken
down verbatim the trial dragged along
with exasperating slowness.
AroOstOok potatoes are still being
transported over the Bangor and Aroos-
took and the other railroads to the west
ern markets, although not In quite as
large quantities as earlier In the winter.
Up to the present time the b. & A. Rail-
road has carried to market 100000 more
bushels of potatoes than last year.
Indications now point toward a most
prosperous season for Bar Harbor. Cot
tages are renting rapidly. 1t Is reported
on good authority. that a number Of cot
week. Lieut.. General j. M. Schofield.
who Is now on the retired list of the U.
>. army has taken cottage. and sew
eral other prominent Neutrality-suspicious..
sue gives a complete list of the guides In
Maine as far as their names can be as
certained. In the list appear ninety-four
guides who have residences In Aroostook
county. This is the largest number cred
tied to any section in the State. although
the Rangeley Lake guides are close
second with eighty,six enrolled. OF the
Aroostook guides thirty-twO give Nor
cross as their address with North Twin
Dam second with eleven, and Patten
third with eight: There are in all three
rolled as professional guides throughout
the State.
1t cost more to ordain minister in
1850 than it does now. There was Rev.
Solomon Lombard. the first settled min
lister at Gorham. Me. His annual salary
was less than $3.50 yet $l2O was raised to
defray the expenses of his ordination,
Dec. 26, 1850. The supplies considered
necessary on that occasion included two
barrels OF cider. two gallons of brandy,
a barrel of -four, three bushels of apples.
541@ pounds of pork, six candles mot to
burn on the altar thought one tea po,
and sone pound Of tea. four gallons of
rum. an ounce of nutmegs and the same
quantity of pepper, a pound of ginger
and one bottle OF vinegar.
Thomas Lowell of Saco. Me-. who has
been visiting his son, d. w. Lowell. at
Lewiston week or ten days, left for
home Thursday. At the Maine Central
depot he was taken with a shock. He
was alone at the time and fell upon the
platform. He was picked up by the bag
gage master who. seeing the ticket for
Saco in the old mans hand, placed him
on board the train and 1t was not till
the train arrived at Portland that Mr.,
Lowell revived sufficiently to know
where he was He Is GA years old and
now lies at his home In Saco in a critical
condition. His baggage is lost. He had