Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-25
heria in a mild form is prevalent

Diphtheria in mild form Is prevalent
in Lewiston.
skowhegan is trying to have her shoe
factory enlarged.
Mrs William Smith of Camden, has
lobster cactus which has 400 blossoms
Ellsworth that has petitioned for an
earlier winter mail train expects to
secure it.
One of Auburn's women's clubs has for
two years devoted its time TO the STUDY
OF geography.
The October meeting and informal ban
uuet of the Penobscot Alumni Association
of the University Of Maine, will be held
at Bangor, Wednesday evening, Oct. ~.
Mrs. Mary Smyth of Brunswick. aged So
years, has just completed Knit peo
spread, by hand, in strips of one inch In
width that contains over two mllllon
stitches.
News reaches Bath that Mel Reed,
former barber and musician IN tnat CITY,
who went to Leadville, several years ago
is in the Klondike, introducing dry mill
ing machine of which he is the inventor.
The running of postal car on train NO.
% which reaches Bangor at so +. M;
daily, from Boston is now being aetateu
in the railway mail service ana douptless
the matter will be settled IN rev oavS'
The Hallowell Improvement Society,"
through it's committee on entertain
ments. is considering the advisapllltV
of conducting a course OF lectures the
coming winter
Company G. LIST Regiment. of Biddeford,
held a most successful field day, Weones-
day, About 80 men with a full comple-
ment of officers participated IN the exer-
cises. Among other things two sham
battles took place.
Renianin B. Whitcomb, a graduate of
Rowdoin, who has been attending lee
lures at Boston University Law school
and studying in the office OF John A. re-
ters. Jr, in Ellsworth was admitted TO
the Hancock county bar, Friday 1ore-
noon.
The Italians who have been working on
the sewers at Calais the past season
burned their camps and cook houses,
shouldered their belongings and started
for Boston last week. Many are OF the
opinion that the city's sewer system Will
be continued next season by workmen OF
this city. says the Calais correspondent
of the st. Croix Courier.
The action of the Biddeford school
board in electing substitutes for regu-
lar teachers and fixing their pay at the
rates paid regular teachers, has led 10
a great amount of comment from the
teachers, some of whom are inclined to
lay the blame for the new order OF
things at the door of teachers who it is
claimed have abused the substitute
privilege in the past. Heretofore the
superintendent has appointed substi-
tutes, but often his choice has been
guided by the preference of the regu-
lar teacher When teacher has asked
to be relieved for day or two from
work, it has frequently happened that
he or she has asked for the appoint
ment of relative or friend. AS in
most cases the persons whom they
desired to have appointed were we'll
enough fitted to take temporary charge
of the schools, the superintendent
offered no objection to the plan and
usually granted the request of the
teachers. Under the present plan,
however the election of three substi-
tute teachers by the school board takes
the choice cut of the hands of the regu-
iai. teachers, and relieves the superin-
fendent also from more or less trouble.
The Paper Trade Journal of New York
recently gave brief history of this in
dustry, from the time when Zenas Crane,
age your manufactures and they will i'm
prove. Ladies, save your rags till now,
when there are ITS mills with daily ca
pacity for paper and pulp of over 1900
tons. The changes since 1872, when there
were $40 mills, producing 217,637 tons of
paper annually. are most striking, and
are shown in the following table: