Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-20
Matrimonial fever in Palmyra.

Matrimonial fever in Palmyra.
Auburn Jail built for 100 now contains
York is talking of having a new
bank.
La grippe has Southwest Harbor in its
clutches.
Potatoes in the Aroostook cellars are
rotting badly.
Biddeford is supporting % people in the
insane hospital.
The profit sharing at the Bowdoin
paper mills has not taken place the
past year.
Monhegan must be firmly anchored
at present. as it sits in the sea sur
rounded by it's 5000 lobster traps.
Some INSCRIPTIONS person evidently de-
mented has been sending letters of a
questionable character to several people
about Calais.
much talked of wedding is looked
for between one of Brunswick's young
ladies aged go. and a gentleman aged
IS years of age.
Says one of Baths legal lights: There
is not full report of the session laws of
the Legislature of Maine to be found in
town and there ought to be-
About 200 Bowdoin students were in
the Brunswick postoffice waiting for
their mail at one time one evening
recently. Was it freeze out on
townspeople?
George Goud of Topsham. discovered a
deer skin in the river several days ago,
in the rear of the Bowdoin paper mill.
The skin was a perfect one and many be-
lieve that the pelt came many miles
under the ice.
More Bath women remove their.
hats when at the theatre. the size of
the audiences being taken into con-
sideration. than in any other city in
Maine" said a theatrical man re-
Gently.
pendicitis in Lewiston and Auburn the
last year has attracted many comments
upon the subject and one frequently
made is concerning the number of cases
in this locality that have apparently re-
covered without any operation.
Among the cities which seem dis
posed to keep their mayors in Office
are Rockland. Mayor Lovejoy for a
fifth term. Portland. Mayor Baxter.
FOR a fifth term: and perhaps Lewiston,
Mayor Noble, for a fourth term, says
an exchange.
A new work to be added to the employ
ment department of the Bangor Free |
Night school and Free Employment
agency. II will be called '.The Poor
Mans Woodward. and designed to sup |
ply wood-sawing work for some of the |
many men and boys who are enrolled in |
the agency books for employment The |
profits of the wood will be devoted to |
building up this department of the work |
md supplying destitute people with the |
necessaries of life.
If anybody calls one Deer Isle woman |
l gadabout, he deserves to be ban
shed 10 Outer Pumpkin island or some
ven more remote spot and kept there
for the rest OF his days. But this lady
probably considered herself quite 4
traveler. for the other day she left the
sland for the first time in her life and
vent over to Camden a-visiting. She
s now 81 years old and never was on
'teamboat before and, it is needless to
;ay, never saw a train of cars.
1t is claimed that the discoverer of the
method of keeping windows clear from
rost by the use of electric fans was f. |
3. BiSbee, superintendent of the Auburn
water works. And it was by chance that
slr. Bsbee made the discovery. One cold
Winters day he was at work on an cleo
rical fan and he had occasion. while the
an was in notion to set it down near
he frosty window for Il moment. When
text he looked he found that the wind
made by the revolving fan had started
he frost off the window. place as large
ver as his hand. He became interested
It once. He moved the fan closer to the
window and the effect was SO striking
hat it ticlIled him immensely. He al
owed the fan to remain in the window a
ew minutes and the result was the clear
nS away of all the frost. leaving the
window as bright and clear as in a fair
s day.