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

The Portland Cycle Club has under
consideration plan to lease an entire
house after the style of the Press Club
Of Boston. 1t is thought that house
might be found on Brown street and
fixed up for model rendezvous for hi
cyclists. The plan is to have the wheel
room in the basement, use the ground
floor for the reading and smoking
apartments and upstairs have a bill
lard or pool room.
Never in Pennington history, with
the sole exception of ten years of re
building directly after the big fire, has
there been so much building in pro-
gress as at the present. 1t has been
estimated that $4,000 is being expended
for that purpose in this town, and Inc
estimate probably could he raised
| $4,000 more and still be within limits.
The building boom is by no means con-
fined to Pennington village but ex-
tends all over the town.
runaway moving machine was the
latest excitement at Shows Falls,
Paris. The horses attached to the ma
chine took fright near the Falls and
ran to Traps Corner, the cutter bar
LdNlIlS uIOpDcu SoOu liuS,
| cutting a wide swath for two miles.
The Oxford Democrat remarks. that the
combination was about as dangerous
as one of the old Roman war chariots:
and it was remarkably fortunate that
no serious damage was done.
Maine is usually near the head, and
now the Aroostook Republican claims
that the first bicycle invented and
made in the United States. made one of
it's early trips on Aroostook soil. John
Slocomb. formerly of Fort Fairfield.
and brother of w. w. Slocomb, now of
that town. was the inventor. One day
he rode this wheel from Fort Fairfield
by way of Caribou to Presque Isle, and
on the way met two young girls who
were so frightened that they started
for the woods.
The postoffice authorities are making
an experiment with the street letter
boxes. by changing the color of these
receptacles in Portland. The estab-
lished color of the letter boxes has long
been dull red. which is being changed
to a silver colbr by the application of
what is known as aluminium paint,
with red trimmings. 1t is claimed that
the new paint will be far more endur-
ing and economical than that hereto,
fore used and at the same time make
the box more conspicuous.
James Mitchell. who has been identi-
fled with the construction of the Wash
ington county railroad. made a short
stay at Machias. Sunday, while on a
trip across the coast. He said that
work will be resumed on the road in
two or three weeks and that men will
be lined clear along the route with
picks and shovels and that things will
be pushed until the snow flies. He said
that but for the recent improvement in
| financial circles of New York. he would
| not have succeeded in raising the
money. He wore broad smile and a
new suit of clothes. and weighs 20
pounds more than he did two months
ago. which is good evidence that he has
raised the wind.
Considerable interest seems to be
| manifested throughout Maine and
Nova Scotia in regard to o report to the
effect that large fortune in England
awaits the heirs Of Elisha Cr0well Cor
Crowe) who died at Bristol in 1912. 1t
seems that Absalom, his only son anil
heir, cmigrated to Rhode Island about
the year 1850. and at the beginning OF
the American Revolution, with other
loyalists. removed to Nova Scotia The
number Of Crowells in Maine and Nova