Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-15

There is not a vacant rent in Livermorc
Falls.
ssomesville will have new $4,000
schoolhouse.
Pennington has recently missed her
English sparrows.
Seven men have committed suici ie
in Phillips In the past seven years.
A man in Friendship last week sawed
six cords of wood in seven hours and %
minutes.
The average cost per inmate of the
Portland aims house for the past year
was SIS.
Twenty-six cases Of scarlet fever are
reported at the Naval and Military DR.
phans asylum. Bath.
The bulletin of the Maine Expert
ment station relating to fertilizer in
specticn for 1897 is out.
A prominent ice man estimates that
over 81 0Oo.0 600 will come into the State of
Maine during this year for it's ice crop.
. In some parts of the State it has be-
come quite n fad for the school boys to
go into the lumber camps for vacation
and nshng trip.
Col. Victor Brett city clerk. with the
outgoing city government of Bangor has
completed Il years of service as recorder
of the city's affairs.
a we'll known Lewiston teacher Is COM
mencing Il campaign for the purpose of
having the State pension teachers after
"A certain number of years service.
The shipment of a carload of buck
wheat from Houiton leads the Pioneer
to remark: II used to pay well to raise
buckwheat in Aroostook county and
doubtless would again.
II Is claimed that the hard wood fac
tory ut Robinson las paid out between
$4,000 and Sl5,co0 for hard wood lumber
this season. besides the extensive en-
ployment it has given to labor in build
ing.
Some Belfast enthusiastic wheelmen are
already preparing for summer trips and
1t is understood that arrangements are
being made to get up party for a
weeks trip through the New England
states.
An evaporation for turning salt water
into fresh for use on long voyages has
been placed on the big schooner n. r..
Palmer is building at Bath. This is the
first one that has ever been put on board
Il schooner.
a citizen of the town of Marion recent
ly fell and broke one of his legs in two
places. badly shatteriug the bones. The
accident reminded him of another which
he met AZ years before when he fell and
broke both legs, together with his collar
bone.
At Il meeting of the trustees of the New
England AGRICULTURAL society IN lbOStOn,
this week, it was decided to hold the an
nual fair at Rigby park, Portland. Au-
gust 1921. The amount of $4,000 will be
offered in premiums. $1,000 of which will
ment.
The new church which has just been
completed at Ellsworth Falls is a very
handsome structure. The main part of
the building is AZ feet wide and 70 feet
long. Its windows are of stained glass.
with loaded sash. The building is fin
ished with California pine throughout
and cost $500
The Monson Burmah Slate Company of
Portland, have recently produced an inn
Samples shown to experts in New York
were pronounced to be perfect limitations
ana a large business is expected to he
done in this new product for wainscoting
and interior finish.
The Torrey Roller Gushing Works, one
of the important industries of Bath. and
one that gives employment to many men.
Is to begin at once the erection of an adj
dition to their present quarters 40xio feet.
The new building will have iron frames
and the wallis like those of the present
block will be of steel.
Major S. II. Allen of Maine. formerly
warden of the State prison. is in Wash
ington for few days. He has been sug
gcsted by some of his friends as a capdi-
0ate Tor the GOvernorShlp OF the Soldiers
Home at teavenworth. kas.. in case of
has been criticised in a report of con-
sressionai investigating committee.
A daughter of Rev G. N. Musgrovc of
Biddeford, who had been having trouble
land where the organ was examined by
Dr. Holt of the Maine Eye and Ear In
Urinary. who found a small pebble i'm
oeaded in it. The pebble measured three,
evidently been lodged in the ear for some
time.
1t may be an old one. but the story of
the young women. who called al a
inquired if there was a letter for her. * IS
a good one. nevertheless. Business or
love letter." jokingly inquired the clerk.
Business; was the replyl accompanied
by blush of the deepest crimson. AS
there was no such letter to be found. the
young lady took her departure. She
came back. however. after little while,
and said in faltering accents: please
would you mind looking among the love
ietters?"
The new ice harvested this year on the
Penobscot only amounts to a little over
100000 tons and 1t has all been sold. to be
shipped during the summer The reasons
of the small harvest this year are that Il
considerable amount of old ice was car
red over from last year and that It has
looked until recent date as though
there would be a good sized crop on the
Hudson. The Hudson river harvest has,
however. not turned out especially well,
being only about five-eighths crop.
This fact caused some of the Bangor
dealers to continue cutting as long as
possible and fill up their houses. With
the new ice so soon disposed of it looks
as though there might also be market
for the old ice.
1t has been the boast of England that
the sun never sets on her domains: by
recent calculation of the u. S. coast and
geodetic survey. America shares for a
part of the year at least. a like distine
ton. which will be of local interest be-
cause of this locality figuring very prom
inently in the contamination of the fact.
AT Point Barrow. the northernmost point
of Alaska. there is continuous daylight
for 81 days in the year. from May 10 to
Aug. 2. approximately. and that from
about June / to Jnly r. in each year the
sun rises on one day at West Quoddya
Headlight, Catitude "A degrees. 4S min
utes, s. seconds, ~: longitude s. degrees.
set the preceding evening at Cape Wran-
CELL. Alien Island, Alaska latitude 50 de-
grees. 80 minutes. N: longitude q de-
grecs, 80 minutes, W.