Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-23
Peaks Island Is to have waterworks.

There were three funerals in Biooklln
one day recently.
Palermo and China are preparing for IL
celebration July 4th.
Presque Isle Is up 10 date 1t has a
ladies' bicycle brigade.
Now Biddeford thinks 1t should have
about three carnivals year.
OF The six deaths in Portland, last week,
three were due TO pneumonia.
Pittsfield has Is resident tax payers
each of whom pay $50 or more.
A tame seal ut Eastport eats from the
same dish as the dog and the kittens.
a number of Rockland's young society
ladies have formed minstrel troupe.
BY securing bids for stone work on side
walk construction The city of Saeo saves
The Rockland board of health reports
eight eases of scarlet fever and one of
measles.
Biddeford is putting up iron guide
boards at fifty cents apiece in the country
districts.
The seleetmen of Stetson have just pur-
chased Il new hearse and i pair of double
harnesses.
At the funeral of Mrs Charlotte Dion
of Biddeford, four of her grandsons acted
as bearers.
There are 127 paintings in the art gall
lery at Poland Spring, representing about
so, 600 in value.
The Young Womens Christian Associa-
ton, Portland, Is conducting three classes
in stenograpny.
Lincoln is to celebrate Independence day
on July .. with fantasies, speeches and
races on the water.
June H. 1896. Ga cottages at Bar Har.
Dor were occupied. June II, 1897, 81
cottages had occupants.
There Will probably be a celebration at
Camden. Independence day, under the
auspices of the local band.
1t is reported that FIVE steamships are
Chartered to load al Bangor with spool
bars for the United Kingdom.
Rev. Horace H. Hayes WAS ordained
as pastor of the Dover and Foxcroft
Free Baptist church, Friday.
James Lynn of Hermon, recently cap
tured the largest owl ever seen III that
vicinity. 1t weighed about ten pounds.
A town meeting win be held at South
Paris. June %. TO take action on the
building of a new primary schoolhouse.
The graduating class OF the Lewiston
high school established q precedent this
year by having dancing AZ the reception.
An East Searsmont man lost his horse
"A It week and his neighhors turned out
or the first fair day and did his planting.
A Brewer blacksmith while pairing a
which locked like borer working its
way up into the quick
A Portland woman found two ripe and
four green seeds in pine apple sunday.
" is said THAT these seeds are worth 50
apiece as they are very rare.
The people of Stetspn will observe Sun
Gay. June 2, as temperance day. \
temperance sermon VIII bc preached in
he morning and there Will be 4 rally in
the evening.
Bass Cove bridge at York was carried
away by the flood last week. The bridge
was built several years ago at an ex-
peusc of $4,000, The selectmen will have
II rebuilt at once.
Several wealthy mon from Bethel and
Norway are regotiatins for tract of
land at Peaks Island. If they are sue
90 ssful they will build handsome summer
residences on their property.
.;tbattus Is booming. new $4,000
sehooihouse Is in process of erection, rs
.aie also two or three new dwelling
pdny are putting up a large storohouse.
There is quite a feeling in Newport
at presart that thu money raised eaoh
ear fer the benefit of three high schools
in town should be devoted to one in
stead
The smartest woman in the town of
Hartford is Aunt Marcia Bates nearly
meals day and does more knitting than
al tine rest of the neighborhood put to-
getner.
The Maine League of American Wheel !
men is seriously considering the PROPOSE
ton to change the annual spring meet to |
july it'll. as the Memorial day meet is |
generally sure TO run afoul of bad |
weather.
. Mrs. w. y. Overlook of Smithton. has
made Il practice of feeding two sparrows |
f,I~ J., To- -
yard and they now come almost hourly |
each day to the doorstep and quite often |
into the kitchen asking for food.
Mrs, Crawford of Brockton Mass, while !
with fishing party at Moos5lhead. was |
unfortunate enough to lose the stone out |
q her diamond ring, valued at $3.50. but |
the boy, in sweeping up the deck of the |
steamer, found and returned it to hor.
Mrs Burton Harrison, who has Travelled |
% 0o0 miles since she was in Bar Harbor |
Is months ago. came back last week anu |
rs She looked at the beautiful blue hills. |
remarked that she has seen no place as |
beautiful as Mount Desert in all her /
travels.
The farmers report that the crows are |
unusually active this year They not |
only pull up corn and peas, but pump |
kin seeds and beans, ana the ordinary |
oontrivances for frightening them d.
not seem to work this year
AT Gilman's mill, Dover recently w. |
c. and G. w. Knowles sawed one and |
one-fourth thousand shingles in 81 MIN
utes. The Messrs. Knowles have sawed |
a few shingles before this, the father G. |
w, having sawed forty-six years and /
the son twenty-six.
AT the recent graduating exercises of /
the Boston Dental college Seth j. Hill /
born Ct Portland, received the highest
f,onCr ever conferred upon graduates, il
being in the shape of a $50 gold piece.
After receiving this homer, DR.. Hilborn
delivered the valedietory address to his
class.
w. H. Littlefield of Hampden has had
q series of misfortures the past year
which have been sufficient to try the i
of the most stout-hearted, He
has lost his wife and a son by death.
other members of his family have been
sick and his house has been destroyed
by fire.
Rev. r. 7. Woodward of Portland. sa- !
.irizcs the church fair with its prizes.
rng-cal<es guess-cakes, postoiiicts and
other schemes for income. One church
hat has advertised a mcnagerie of living
animals. takes Brother Woodward's crit
icism very seriously
A Lewiston young man has broken an
in Auburn because Of the
parrot. He popped; was accepted and
was about to imprint q chaste salute to
bind the bargain when the parrot said.
Stop that Jack" His name is not