Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-11


Machias is to have steam laundry.
Biddeford grocers are going TO cash
basis.
But two fires of consequence in Lewis
ton since July. 1896.
Rockland has 1872 feet of new sidewalk.
built during the past year.
Fifty-three tramps have taken lodgings
1T the Lisbon town farm during the past
month.
The official call of the W. c. T. U. in
NiteS All temperance societies 10 Keel
Neal Dow day.
The Portland Advertiser says General
Conner will he "A candidate for the pen-
sion agency at Boston.
The Public library Of Grafton is q little
over two and half years old and now
has nearly 400 volumes.
Nathan Gould. historian of the Sons OF
the American Revolution of the State Is
writing Il history of Peaks Island.
Kind neignoors in Grafton and Upton
are building IA house for a houseless Graf
ton family that has met with misfortune.
There are living in Indian River at the
present time II people who are upwards
of 70 years old. four of them being over
so.
The wife of Mr. Hector Scott of Water
boro. gave birth to two girls and a boy
Monday. The mother and babies are do
in;s nicely.
just at present the citizens of Willard
are asitated over an epidemic of scarlet
fever. The schools have closed on ac-
count of it,
The prospects for q building boom in
Houlton this season are very encourage
ing. 4 large number of buildings are
already scheduled for erection.
To increase the usefulness of the Cam
den public library a box is kept in a pub
lie place where people drop in lists of
books which they would like to have
bought
Mrs. Mary II. Curran. librarian of the
Bangor public library. will attend the
library conference to be held in London
next July. she being n member of the
American Library Association. members
of which will go to London. Before 60
Ing abroad ID, e, four ,, days session Will be
will be present at the meeting.
All of the fishermen in town who
have reeled their lines and bowed in
humble submission to the law recently
said to be in force on Dexter pond are
rejoicing at the discovery that some
one has made a mistake, and though
made at Augusta, it will not prevent
fishing at the pond.
In basket of old books that South
Paris auctioneer bid off at an auction
in a neighboring town recently, he has
discovered a well preserved copy of
Williamson's History of Maine, pub
lished in 1892, and now said to be
worth nearly $50 in the market. The
whole lot cost him SIPS. r.
City Clerk Murch CT Belfast, in MAX
ing up his weather report gives the
mean temperature fer the month of
January. as ELL degrees. This is
three degrees higher than January
last year, and one degree higher than
Tor The past So years. Rain fell upon
four days and snow upon eight
John Watson. one of the largest
potato starch manufacturers in the
United States. is to build a starch fac
tory this spring in Merrill Plantation,
few miles from Smyrna Mills, on the
Bangor & Aroostook railroad. This is
intended to be one of the largest and
lest equipped factories ever built in
AroostooE.
The town OF Stoneham loses repre-
sentation at this term of court When
inc juror was drawn it was found that
there was only one name in the iury-boS
and that man had moved out of town.
This is in the same line with the report
made by a StOneham man to the Republi-
can county committee in the recent cam
palgn. He claimed that one after another
the office of ballot clerk and each in turn
resigned on the ground that he was not
voting the Democratic ticket this year.
Finally one loyal Bryanite was found
but he could not read nor write!
Capt. Edward Wallace of Milbridge. has
IN ms possession Il silver three cent piece
which is u souvenir of a dark foggy night
on cape COD. Some dozen years ago he
sounding lead. from a depth of co fatnoms.
In thick weather, mariners help them