Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-09

Portland has an underground system
of fire alarm and police box wires.
Bath reports 80 marriages, 173 births
and 165 deaths in 1896.
Warren has three magazine clubs,
representing "a families.
There is more numbering being done
in and about Norridgewocll this winter
than ever before.
1t is said that a nickel in the slot
machine in one Bath store took So,
in a single day recently.
Large quantities of smelts are being
taken at Searsport, and they are run
ming larger than was ever known here
before.
During the year 1896, Al births 20
marriages and - deaths We're recorded
n Warren. Among the deaths seven
we're over so years of age.
One Bath smelt fisherman caught i1o
smelts. Saturday, making about 10
pounds which. at eight cents pound,
1etted him 500 for his days work
In six years that F. y. Emond has
been the sexton at the French cemetery
at Lewiston. he has inferred 1898 per
sons and he knows the spot whore each
now lies.
A petition is circulated in Belfast,
asking the Legislature to appropriate
$500 for the support of 4 fish and
game warden in Waldo county, he to
take charge of the hatchery at Swan
lake.
Stock to the value of Site was
shipped from Pennington, Monday, by
Messrs, Harris and Fellows, anu CON
sisted Of IS oxen, 10 cows, 10 calves, and
240 sheep making five carloads.
Miss Mary Snow. superintendent Of
the Bangor schools. has just accepted
the Craftsmanship of the educational
committee of the Maine Federation of
Women's Clubs, in place of Mrs. DR..
Beedy. resigned.
A roundup of the old year shows that
from the first of March to the first of
January. ten months. there were 9oi
tramps sheltered at the police station in
WaterNille. During the year ending
March l, there were 925 tramps lodged IN
the station and the year previous there
were sos lodged.
Capt Albert King Of Southwest Har
Dor has been very unfortunate in his
seafarng lite during the past year,
having been twice wrecked, losing yes
sci and all he had. and narrowly escap-
ing with his life.
The Portland Savings bank people do
not propose to have any fire bugs
around in their building. Beside sever
al watchmen. the main doorway lead
ing to Masonic hall is guarded by a
two-inch steel bar.
The running of the town line between
and Warren has been COM
pleted. On account of the defective
records of past surveys it was found
quite difficult in some places to ascer-
tain the location of the line.
The bicycle craze added to Bucks
ports valuation in two or three of the
summer months some $500, or more in
personal property a sale really phe-
and unexpected. THERE'S quite
a probability that wheels will be taxed
the coming year or next.
Councilman Wentworth of Lewiston |
has just completed a four thousand dollar
house which was built for MIN by Day
Brothers. and which was built without |
a scrap of writing in the agreement by
either side. The trade has Just been
completed and everyone Is satisfied. 1t
trusting on both sides.
Remorse is getting in its work on
Palmer. the self-accused murderer of |
Mrs Kelsey Hobbs of Parsonsfield. The |
Young man is at Alfred jail and is really |
m a, pitiful condition. Palmer is unable
to speak of the affair more than three |
minutes without crying bitterly: He is |
thoroughly repentant and is beginning to |
realize the enormity of his act.
Hiram Kicker & Sons of Poland Springs |
viii winter about 100 horses at their liv- |
ary stable, but they expect to keep them |
ali hlIsy as soon as snow falls. Besides |
he great quantity of water which must
be hauled to the station, they have pur- /
based 2o0o cords of wood of the Shakers I
in New Gloucester They consume over
lC,f, cords of wood each season.
Boston parties have purchased the
lumber lot recently owned by the late