Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-04

Isle au Haut is having GOOD ToauS
built.
The annual reunion of the Burr family |
will be held at Phillips lake on Thursday, |
Sept 8.
General Neal Dow is quite unwell at his
home on Congress street, his troubles be-
ing Incidental to his advanced age.
Mrs Elizabeth Cowen. the oldest lady
in Bath. is in quite feeble health. She
will be one hundred years old next April.
Hon. Josiah II. Drummond, Sr. Of
Portland. has been elected president of
the Society of the Descendants of John
Bean.
Richmond Scales of Temple, lost u
two-y year old heifer, said to be the best
Durham in that town, by lightning re-
Gently.
Searsport man has found traces of
gold on his farm This will probably
induce him to stay at home. no Klon-
dyke in his.
f. c. Cunning of Bath. has the con-
tract for building the six bridges for the
oxford Central Electric Railway Com
pany in oxford county.
A Lewiston physician has "a pet cat
which broke its leg a short time ago. He
set the cats leg and the feline is doing
as well as could be expected.
An PASSPORT lady was made very Ill
recently by taking through mistake
dose of washing fluid in lieu of doc
tors prescription, kept on the same
shelf
By an ingenious arrangement made |
by a local electrician the doors of one
of Biddeford's engine houses are
opened by electricity when the alarm
rings.
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fast to Northport, thrty-nine years ago.
taking with her chrysanthemum that
was then about three years old The
same plant is in existence now growing
finely and blossoming regularly.
Hon. F. r. Buregh and wife started
yesterday. on a visit to Hartford, Conn.
This will be Mr.. Burleigh's first visit to
that city since he attended the grammar
school and military school there fifty
seven years ago.-Aroostook Pioneer.
A Bar Harbor tourist, having lost
faith in yachts mode of rapid loco
motion. decided, this summer, to try naph-
tina launches. The result was that just
as u water party given by him reached
the middle of the bay, the engine struck
for rest and the party had to get back
to shore by rowing. One more yacht has
since been taken from the retired list.
The Dorcas Society of North Arson,
held reunion recently. This society
was organized in 1872 by % girls, stu
that time six of it's members have died
and others are away so that on the
18th anniversary only 10 members met
The fame of the Maine Central Railroad
extends far beyond the confines of Amer
lea Col. F. +. Boothby, the general pas
senger agent of the road. has received q
note from Count Henry Iagnaguti. Flor
ence, Italy. in which the count says that
he contemplates trip to this country
and requests that time tables, handbooks
and the usual passengers literature of
the road be sent to him.
Rev. J. w. Bashford, d. D., formerly
pastor of the Chestnut Street Metho-
dist church of Portland, but now presi-
dent of the Ohio Wesleyan University,
was the officiating clergyman at the
marriage of Ensign Harry Elton Smith
and Miss Fannie Hayes, the daughter
of x-President Hayes of Fremont, o.,
on Wednesday.
Few people knew that the man who
went up in the balloon and came down
in the parachute was Lewiston man,
and that Tuesday was the first time in
his life that he had been up in bal
loon. to say nothing of dropping earth
ward in a parachute Everybody ad-
mitted that it was the best ascension
ever made, in Lewiston and that Mr..
Ferd. Stevens, formerly policeman,
and living on Hammond street, showed
remarkable pluck. He waited. after 60
ing up, hoping that the balloon would
go up higher. but as it did not he
dropped Seeing that there was dan
ger of coming down in Barkerville mill
stream, he swung the parachute off
toward the hillside and came down in
a tree, and after scraping along the
nhae.
have said, on the open ground and on
his feet. The critical moment" he
said today, lis when you are about to
drop. Then you realize by how slender
a thread life hangs. If the parachute
opens, all right. If it does not, you
will never have the chance to talk
about it."-Lewiston Journal
Several years ago an effort was made
by the citizens at North Dexter to have
a road built leading west from the
settlement to connect with a highway
in Cambridge which runs in the same
direction of the proposed road. If such
a highway had been built the distance
TO Cambridge village would have been
shortened to travellers at least three
miles, and an easy route provided.
People of Cambridge opposed the
successful in defeating the project, al
though it is questionable if their efforts
We're profitable. The town paid it is
said $137.50 to Henry Hudson, Esq, to
represent their interests Now petit
tions have been again circulated and
the same support favoring the proposed
route obtained. The length of the new
route to be constructed is 495 rods. 200
of which are in the town of Cambridge.
Three counties are interested in the
matter as the proposed route is in Dex
ter Parkman and Cambridge. and
meeting of the county commissioners
of the different counties will be held
Oct. u, to consider the matter. 1t Is
said that the town of Cambridge has
another petition of remonstrance in
circulation. There is a good prospect,it
is said. that the road will be built