Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-07-12

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Caribou has not vacant house In thu
village.
South Paris is to have handsome pub
lie fountain.
Horseback riding is becoming popular
Eight cases of diphtheria are reported
in Princeton.
The Portland coasting trade is said tc
be dull at present.
The Auburn tax rate will be % mills
1t was "a last year.
A number of Wcstbrook people arr
purchasing lots at Willard Beach
Wilbur A. Morse of Friendship. ha.
built. within p years. over 100 boats.
There were six marriages, six birth.
and seven deaths In Northport in 1896.
]. M. Benjamin OF Winthrop. is col
lecting data for history of that town
1t Is estimated that there are mere
than 500 bicycle riders In Rockland. ar
increase OF about $50 over last year.
Franklin street. DRumford Falls, has
seven nice residences in process of con.
struction and sidewalk is being laid.
Their will be a reunion of the Orcut,
family at the home of Ransom 3. Or
cutt, In West Franklin, on August q.
Charles f. Perry of Ki;tery Point, has
been appointed apothecary In the navy
and ordered to the U. 8. s.. Marblehead.
The annual reunion of the Barrows
family will be held at ''The Oaks on the
old Barrows farm in Rockville on Angus,
3.
DR.. F. N. Whittier. director of the
Bowdoin college gymnasium, is taking
a summer course at Boston city hos
pital.
Chas. II. Knowlton of Pennington, has
herberium. started In 1891, containing
$50 specimens of which 100 are Maine
plants.
A store on Main street. Westbrools
lately vacated. stands idle now for the
first time since it was built, oyer i(
years ago.
Louis Penick Clinton. the African
prince, of Cobb Divinity school, will go
on lecturing tour through Nova
Scotia and Canada this summer.
Henry S. Warren of Bangor. who Is a
has accepted an appointment to the chill
dren's hospital, Huntington avenue, Bos-
ton.
The Rumford Falls Times says that
large tracts of poplar growth looks as
brown as though a fire had run through
1t. from the devastations of the catapil-
lers.
More new houses are being erected In
Bridston the present season than in any
year recently. Eight have been con-
structed up TO the present time, with 9TH
ers talked of later.
The Bath man who has had charge Of
the big cannon used in firing salutes on
gala occasions for the last twenty years.
has well earned the title of "City Gun
ner." which his fellow citizens have be-
slowed upon him.
The Portland Railroad Company have
figured up their business of July 5th and
find that they carried in round numbers
66.000 people being 10000 more than their
former highest days record. There was
not a single misihap to mar the day either.
Rev. G. II. Ridlon. author of 'Saco
Valley Settlements and Families" has
nearly ready for publication two books
containing sketches of rustic life in New
England, titled ''The Bannocks of But
tertown." and 1.-The Damseis of Deer
wander
This has been great year for building
in Brewer One man who is in Il position
to know says that at least 30 new houses
have been erected besides large num-
ber that have been repaired Good build
ing lots are in demand and some good
prices are reported lor them.
New Swedens proof Of the lateness of
the season is that last year strawberries
were ripe there on June "a. while, this year
Up to July not ripe berry was in sight.
But exceedingly hot weather in Aroos-
took Us bringing crops and all kinds of
growing things rapidly along.
A Pittsfield bridegroom forgot to get
his marriage license. But he was mar
ried just the same, and it is ascertained
that the penalty falls not on the peo-
pie who were married, but on the par
son who performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller of Brook
lyn, N. Y, is spending a few weeks at
South Norridgewock. Mrs. Miller is a
noted writer and lecturer on ornitholo-
gy and spends much of her time in ma
ture's retreats, studying her subject.
Edward G. Gay of Pennington. has be-
gun the erection of q small pleasure ho-
tel on the shores of Clear Water pond. 1t
is the first hotel to be built on either of
the three beautiful ponds about Farm
ington stocked with trout and salmon
by the State and United States fish COM
missioners.
A Dexter house painter considers
himself lucky to have escaped from a
fall from a ladder staging Is feet above
ground, with no more serious result
than a crop of red hair, due to the emp
tying of his paint pot on that portion
of his person.
Harry Richardson, son of Fred c. Rich
ardson of Rockland, did very cool thing
recently. He was up stairs all alone
when the lamp which he had exploded
and set on fire the things nearby. The
little fellow who is only five years old,
quickly smothered the fire and after it
was all out he went down stairs and told
his parents what had taken place.
just What He Needed.