Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-16

and many there are to walk therein.
The Portland & Rumford Falls Rail
road Company rejoices in a surplu
earned in the year of hard times
Maine railroads have way Of paying
This weather helps the bicycle deale
surplus stock.
Complaints are made in some of tn
school districts where the corn shop
are. in operation that the children ar
being kept out of school. This is no
as it should be.
What! Bar Harbor to have bicycle
factory! This cannot be, though repor
declares it true. The thought of tina
aristocratic resort becoming mechanic
vile will cause a revolution of soma
thing besides wheels made in Bar Hac
Dor It's too bad coming right on tn,
heels of the report that the New Yorl
yacht club proposes to change it's head
| uudIteIS " lndl pace IIolIl NEW port
This proposed bicycle factory, however
will employ but few hands, but there
is the awful precedent, don't you know
A Calais merchant caught an owl ir
his hen house the other night and has
the scratches on his face to show fol
| it.
| An eighty-year- resident of Mil.
| bridge will start on the deer hunt as
soon as close time is off. If he lived in
| some places, according to Professor
Bateman all he would have to do would
be to watch the oat patch to secure all
the deer the law allows.
The A. o. U. VS. of Brewer, adver-
tise a boomer social. Probably a night
blooming cereus will have to suffice
for the curious who attend!
Bangor gets Boston Landscape
architect for the work of identifying
her parks. She'll not allow Portland
to criticise if she can help it.
a blind man has found the scenery so
delightful at Camden that he is to erect
a $4,000 cottage there
Years ago a carpenter in constructing
building in Foxcroft lost his level.
The other day when the building was
torn down the level was found and re-
stored to the owner. This would hard
ly happen in the case of those old
houses. which were built to last 100
years.
Dexter is getting really interested in
a temperance meeting to be held there
Friday evening.
There is bigness, brains. Drawn and
b(u)oyancy in Bangor's delegation to
Bowdoin this year. Included is the
grandson of an old alumnus of the col.
leSe, a chief justice by the way. The
boy has record before him difficult 20
excel
The Bath Times rises to remark that
there should be dry government dock
at that place and gives the following
among the reasons for the faith it has
in the proposition: THE accessible en-
trance of this river with sufficient
depth of water for any vessel, the high
land near it's mouth enabling protection
against any enemy, and the distance of
this city from the sea- these all impor..-
n fn a frIr f,,11x Il;
water in this river is so fresh that YES
sells don't foul as nearer the salt water;
worms die, as they cannot live here:
and we have no freshets, and a mean
depth of 40 feet of water at some of
our docks. These are nearly all feat
ures not approached by any port on
this coast.
DeerinS evidently proposes to set an
example in the way of securing recon-
pense for valuable franchises. Her.
are some of the requirements demand
ed of the Sebago Power Company,
which asks for a location there: The
company shall execute and file with the
treasurer of the city of Deering bond
approved by vote of the city council
for. 10000, conditioned to perform all
offthe terms and conditions, and stipu-
lations contained in the order. 1t must
be in operation over the wires in that
city within one year from the date Of
the order, or the license shall become
void; it shall first have secured CAP
ital and assets of $50. 600 in excess of all
bonded or Observation-Disclosures; it shall
enjoy the license only so long as it
shall furnish to the city free of expense
so 25 candle power street lights to be
located as the city council shall direct:
it shall first secure the legal right to
furnish and supply all citizens and cor
poratiens of the city of Deering, cleo
tricity for purposes of light, heat and
power, and that electricity shall be 50
furnished at rates less than those at
present required in said Deering by
any existing supply company: that
poles and wires shall he subject to any
regulations or changes required or di-
rected by the superintendent of wires. |
or city electrician, at the expense of
said power company; that said COM
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