Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-27
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public library
, Bangor Is planning to macadamiz'
: some of her streets.
Il The annual tournament Of the Portland
8 Gun Club Will be held next Monday.
: The nickel-in-the-slot gambling ma
t chimes In Lewiston were closed Saturday
night, owing TO a rumor that the police
!, were after them.
j, The veterans of the Civil war are rap
Idly passing away. Within two months
q six members of B. II. Beale Post, G. A
! r., Bangor, have died.
j Several Calais citizens are contemplat
ing removing to Port Arthur, newly es.
tablished town in Texas Several lots
4 are held there by Calais people.
/ If young King had known how to spell
Saco he might have escaped. His spell.
4 Ing 1t on the hotel register "Soco" was
the first thing that directed suspicious
toward him.
il Mrs. Charles B. Rogers Portland. will
assume the duties of matron at the Maine
1 General Hospital the first of June as the
q present matron. Mrs. Emma A. Pitcher
i will resign to manage the Hotel Went
worth on Spring street. Portland.
II Muscongus Island Off Bristol, is no
enjoying privileges of government
pays no taxes and its people do no,
vote, yet they report ten months gooc
lschool the past year, and The organiza'
4 ton of Congregational church with
"a settled minister.
Il Miss Susan Ludwig of Waldoboro, who
i HIS abandoned teaching for farming on
the old Ludwig homestead. Is rejoicing
Il over the fine appearance of her potatoes
corn. green and sweet peas, which sne
attributes to the fact that they were
4 planted by "A lineal descendant OF capt
i Myles Standish of Plymouth.
II The Saco police are hunting for an I'M
known man who had ride Saturday
night at the expense of three Saco stable
keepers. The stables were entered and
part of the rigging taken from each
). stable After the drive was over the
team was returned, although the thieves
!, forgot to settle the bill for its use.
4 r. A. Fairfield of Saco. one Of the old
est wheelmen in this State. fell from his
wheel Sunday afternoon near Dunstan
Corner and broke his shoulder blade on
/. the left side of the body. He was al
for some little time but after gaining a
little strength again mounted his wheel
! and rode back to the city.
| A praiseworthy work is being done by
| the cemetery association In Randolph
! The many fallen and broken headstones
l IN the cemetery ttIt Deiu6 Juihcu hhN
reset, at the expense of the association.
as most of the old families are dead. and
the graves are nearly forgotten by tine
living relatives. many of whom are
scarcely known TO the members.
Twenty-eight of the charter members
) of the Montgomery Guards; Portland.
> held a reunion and banquet, Tuesday. in
honor of their first captain, A. j. Nc
Mahon. who has been in the city during
the past week after an absence OF ID
years. and who Is now connected with
I the secret service at San Francisco. The
guards were organized October 4, 1872.
/ "a gang of smoothed-tongued sharpers
have been doing the State in the vicinity
of Westbrook with the old ''crayon por-
trait game. They exhibit sample OF
crayon work and offer to duplicate it for
a dollar collecting half dollar at the
time the balance to be paid when the
picture is completed. 1t is needless to
say that the payment of the money is
the last of the whole transaction, so Tar
as the victims are concerned
The First Baptist church and society
of Yarmouth. Maine. will observe their
1e0th anniversary on Wednesday June l6
Services begin at 10 A. NJ. with words OF
welcome by the pastor: address by Rev.
George B. Illsley. pastor 1Si3-lSi9. Let
tcrs and "reminiscences by former pas
tors and members. At p. NJ. history OF
the church by the pastor. Rev. John ii.
>. =
Nathaniel Butler. ID. d., president OF
colby university. grandson of Rev. John
Butler, pastor 1S31-lS35.
= On Sunday a train on the Bar Har-
Dor branch of the Maine Central Railway
ran into a big deer just south of Green
lake station and broke the animafs rear
legs so that he could just crawl into the
underbrush near the track and suffer.
The passengers of the train. which was
stopped for few minutes. tried to nave
the animal killed, it is said. but, accord
ing to the reports of the incident noth-
ing was done. and the poor beast was
left in the bushes to suffer to death. The
story is almost beyond belief.
The people smile while the Old Towr
Electric Company are wiring the houses
of the seven men who obtained char
ter at the recert session of the Legis'
lature fer the purpose Of organizing tbs
Old Town Gas Light and Power Com
pany. The members of the latter com
pany smile also. While they have
neither sold OUT ncr leased, it is SAT,
to predict that they will not commence
operations in the gas business this yeal
CT next.-Old Town Enterprise.
Friends of Henry d. Goold, former
lI,ortIand man, who has been many years
in Cuba. received Il letter from him Il
few days ago. He is now in MatanZas
and says that the people who are forced
to remain in that town by the Spanish
authorities are on the verge OF starya-
ton and that he himself has had very
hard time. The buildings of his planta-
ton have been destroyed by fire and he.
together with other planters. were forced
to abandon their property and assemble
in the towns. His letter was very care
fully worded as he said he did not dare
to write all that had occurred and all
that he had suffered as his letter might
be scrutinized by the Spanish authorities.
Among the treasures of the Passama-
quoddy tribe of Indians. it is said. is Il
letter from George Washington, written
from his army on the banks of the Del
aware Dec. oath, 1916. in which he ex-
presses his pleasure that the Passama-
quoddies had accepted the chain of
friendship he SEN. them the preceding
February. The Maine Indians were al
ways on the side of the Americans dur
ing the Revolution and rendered valuable
aid Capt Selmar Soetomah was sol
der and scout under Col Allen at Ma
chias. and his son. Chief Sopiel SemOr.
is one of the very few sons of revolution
airy patriots yet nving. Five Tarratine
braves were in a company raised by
Capt. John Lane in 1875 and three of
them went as guides with Arnolds ex-
petition against Quebec.
A novel method of cultivating the fac
ulty of observation in children has been
introduced by teacher in one of Port