Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-03-04

III VAEOlNE'
The town of Greene is without doctor
The grip and influenza are raging at
Winthrop.
The Biddeford Times that was to have
resumed has not.
owners of saw mill in Northport
want to be exempt from taxation.
There are now in Penobscot jail 76 pris-
oncrs. only one of which is a woman.
Bridgton probably will have. a new job
printing and newspaper establishments
Bangor is to have a bicycle show ON
April 1st. I'd and Sd in the Noromoega.
A Calais electric car made mile and
a half in three minutes the other DAY.
An old Castine landmark. the house
known in years past as the Parker mouse
and built in 1894 by Capt. Josiah Perkins
is soon to be torn down.
A meat man, who does business at
Kings Corner, Biddeford. has been
through the winter on wheels. and says
that 1t is as well as if he had sleds.
over a thousand invitations have
been sent out to the different parts OF
the State for the coming ball of the
Lewiston military band in honor OF the
governor.
The grand banquet and jubilee in honor
OF Hon Neal Dow. on the OCCASION oI
the 93d anniversary of his birth, Will take
place at fremont Temple. Boston. Thurs
day. March 18th, at so and p. Nj. :.
OF the 2644 arrests in Portland last year
there were for drunkenness and distur-
bance. 1854 drunkenness. 452: common
drunkard. 10; breaking and entering "a;
ARRAY, iS: assault. Sc; larceny lil.
A musk-rat has made himself
home this winter in the family of Ed
gar Stevens, Smithfield. eating from
the children's hands and lying behind
the kitchen stove like a house cat.
Mr.. Homer N. Chase of Auburn, who
has recently been in 4>ew YORK, says tnal
there is strong sentiment there Tor
Nordica's return to grand opera ana tnat
many of the box holders declare that
their subscription next year is dependent
upon it. If Nordica is in grand opera
she sings at the Maine Festival.
a happy impartiality is to be OBJ
served in the christening of those St.
Stephen triplets. born Feb. 90 They
will be named for George Washington.
Queen Victoria and the doctor who was
present on their appearance in this
world.
VIM. White and wife of Monsepec. are
dren and II great grand children. Mrs.
White milks two cows and does her own
work, spun 100 skeins of yarn. knit IA
pairs socks. II pairs mittens; last season ,
put up 40 gallons sauce. sold three bushels
of cranbcrries and also as many blueber-
rics. thinks nothing of walking to Jones'
boro.
On a recent Sunday morning several of
the pastors preached sermons that had
more of local significance than usual.
At one church the liquor question was
handled in way which showed the condi,
tion Of our city to be such that it could
not for a moment be felt we were ad-
vancing on the temperance road. At an
other church profanity and cigarette
smoking among the young boys was re-
BY order of the board of directors of
the Augusta Loan & Building Associa-
tion at a meeting held on the 18th day
of February. 1897, it was voted to retire
not less than eighty or more than one
hundred shares of the first series and not
less than Twenty-Five or more than fifty
shares of the fifth series of the unpledged
shares of the said 1st and 5th series.
Shareholders in those series are notified
to be present at the association rooms to
ballot for the retirement at 1.3O p. M.
March H.
Manager Owen of the Bangor opera
house rejoices in the possession of the
very latest style and most convenient
ticket racks in this or any other town.
These racks have as many compart-
ments as the theatre has seats below
place for each ticket. The rows of
compartments are numbered and let
tered to correspond with the chairs in
the theatre, so that any seat can be
picked out at a glance.
At an early hour one morning d
week or SO ago, as a West Sangerville
man had been to North Dexter and
was returning home his ideas were
aroused by a hideous yell. He looked
around and just opposite him with his
forepaws resting on the wall. he saw
a wolf. He gave a few leaps and land
cd by the side of the pung. The man
quickly hurried up his steed and got
out of the way, otherwise serious re-
suits might have happened. The an
imal retraced his steps.
The conductors, baggage masters and
brakemen on the Maine Central Rail-
read who are at present on the long
runs between Bangor and Vanceboro
and Bangor and Portland have been
given quite an increase in pay. Be
tween Bangor and Portland. the con-
ductors have received an advance of
% cents per day; the baggage masters
10 cents and the brakemen 10 cents
On the eastern division the conductors
have received an increase of 20 cents
the baggage masters 10 cents and the
brakemen 10 cents.
There was Il tall. lanky middle aged
man who stepped into the ferry waiting
room on Portland pier this forenoon. says
the Portland Advertiser. His dress
would attract attention anywhere. He
wore a yellowish Scotch cap and fisher
mems long rubber boots. The rest of his
body was concealed by long seal coat of
the genuine article though not exactly
cut in the latest style. Seeing that sever
al people We're looking critically at the
coat he turned to one of the group and
asked How do you like that for a
Goat?" Some one agreed that it was a
tine one. well" he continued that
coat Is the real stuff for got the critters
myself and peeled off their hides and
plucked the hair. Twas eight years ago
when | was sealing up beyond Behring
Straits. The engineer on the cutter. Bear
helped me to sew it together. That
coats wuth $500 If its wuth a cent"
Mr.. S. 0. Brown of Dover, recently
brought home a sample from a lot Of
wool that had a history. The wool was
raised in Wyoming and shipped to a
boston commission house. From Bos-
ton it was sent to a commission bouca