Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-22


| every day-the latest report ID marble
of fine quality near Mt. Katahdin.
Five Bath mail carriers are rejoic-
ing in the arrival of part of the money
due them from Uncle Sam for over time
work.
The Hyde Light Guards Of Bath, held
| fair last fall which was such q sue
cess that they will hold another in No.
vember.
Plans have been drawn for new
city storage building in Oldtown, which
will be 60xS3 feet. two stories high, and
will have q fiat roof.
Blaine Is to have lecture course
this season. Gov. Powers will be one
Of the speakers and the Houlton quar-
tet will accompany him.
The new fog bell at Pemaquid Point
will soon be put in operation. 1t is
one Of the largest on the coast, and
will be rung by two oil engines.
Lieut.. L. c. Holston of the Cleaves
Rifles. Westbrook, has returned to
Chester. Penn, to resume his duties as
instructor in the military college.
The engagement is announced of Mr..
James R.Champlin Of the great grocery
firm. The Twitchell-Champlin Co., Of
Portland and Boston, and Miss Nettie
Wiggin of Bangor.
DR.. Frederick P. Hammond of New
York, son of Hon. George F. Hammond
of Paris. has recently received an ap-
pointment as surgeon for the Metro
politan Street Railway of that city.
1t is expected that there are to be
extensive improvements at Rigby be-
fore the next New England fair. The
big oval inside the track is to be graded
and an exhibition ground and half mile
bicycle track is to be laid out there.
Major Dickey Of Fort Kent says he
sat on the jury and listened to 40 cases
in which "Lero Powers was on one
side or the other" and furthermore.
that he was foreman of the jury dur
ing eight consecutive terms of court.
The school population of the State
according to the figures from this
years reports from the towns is
2lO.341. gain OF about 400. There has
been but slight change in the number
of scholars in Maine for several years,
and at times a decrease has been
noted.
The dahlia garden at Lows farm,
Brewer. continues to attract a large
number of people and many rode out
Sunday. for the express purpose of
looking at the wonderful garden of
flowers. Mr.. Low has over 800 vari-
cites and the most of the bulbs were
imported from Europe.
An artesian well has been finished
for the Portland & Cape Elizabeth
Railway tCompany. A depth Of rs
feet was reached and a total flow of -
gallons of water per minute was Sc
cured. At the last of the drilling the
rock was Of bearing quartz, and 1t
took three hours to bore, three inches.
One of the boldest cases of thievery re-
ported in Brewer for a long time occurred
in South Brewer ON Saturday night,
when some one entsred the stable of c.
A. Ring In Main street sand took two BIZ
cycles. The wheels were Of the Crawford
make. one u mans black enamel. number
59.3l6; the other a womans maroon enam-
ell. number 100. $50. Both machines had
brass rear sprockets.
Biddeford has two representatives in
Troop F. now. Phisse Masse and Ar
thdi thC Si6dA AiohCAs JoAhSu
Capt. Dodd's troop. last week, and re-
ceived their uniforms in time to go off
with the boys to Rochester. Both
young men are good riders. and will
work hard to learn all the drills. They
have enlisted for five years.
The annual lease of the wooden toll
bridge. connecting PASSPORT with the
rest of Maine. at Perry, was sold at
public auction. Thursday morning. at
the postoffice, by Auctioneer H. H.
Wadsworth. The attendance was not
large and Lewis Hallett will have
charge of the structure for another
year. The bid was $1,450 which was
$500 less than he paid last year.
Burglars visited the town of Swan
vile one day recently and succeeded
in getting away with their booty, leay-
ing behind no clue. They entered the
house of Arson Ellingwood in the alb
sence of the occupants and secured $lt
in cash. At the house of Horace Muir
ply they broke open the children's
bank and distracted the money. AS
yet no trace of the robbers has been
discovered.
1t is learned that four letters were
found on the ground at a certain point
in the woods of Northern Maine.
Three of them were sealed and one
unsealed, and the latter which with
the others. was directed to parties III
Massachusetts. was opened and read.
The writer, who signed his name. stated
that he was living on venison and hav-
ing good time The matter has come
to the ears of the Maine fish and game
commissioners and the gentleman 5
carelessness in losing his letters may
cost his a petty sum.
A trusted Exchange street clerk in
Portland has been missing from his
home and place of business since last
Thursday. He was seen about $50 in
the afternoon walking along CONNER
cial street. one hand in his pocket, and
his head bowed down. That was the
last. He has disappeared as effectual-
ly as though the earth had opened and
let him through. His employer is out
Of town, and on the Office desk has ac-
cumulated pile of unopened letters.
Search has been made everywhere but
not the slightest trace of the young