Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-10-06
Rents are scarce in Lubec.

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Now the Ellsworth bicyclist must get
off the sidewalk.
Sixty new dwellings have been
erected in Deering since March.
At present prices Aroostook farmers
prefer to sell their potatoes to storing
them.
The Dover ladies are working on d
woman's edition of the Piscataquis OBJ
server.
People in Charlotte think an Indian
devil' is prowling in the woods there
abouts.
Bluehill is said to be one of the most
progressive villages of it's size in
Hancock county.
The keeper of Bear Island light last
week, spent his first day on shore for a
quarter of a century.
over in Newport potato thieves make
rounds at night with a wagon digging
the best tubers they can find
Some of the Aroostook merchants say
they begin to note considerable money
changing hands and some of it coming
their way in fall. trade.
IF Bowdoin College is going to sell
its boats and shells why wouldn't it
pay the Lewiston & Auburn Electric
Road to buy them or some of them,
and fix up good boat house at Lake
Auburn asks Lewiston business
man.
The morning after the Bostons made
sure of the pennant. Biddeford halter
who has been roofing all summer for
the Orioles came down town to find the
af 10. tis-ttr llxr
draped in black Grape. while long stream
ers of the same material extended from
the hat to the awning brackets on the
store front.
Speaking of the shoe manufacturers,
Freeport has been wonderfully blessed
in this direction. While other shoe
towns have been complaining of hard
times and lack of employment for sew
eral years past local shops have been
running right along.
A Dexter man has a photograph
taken not many miles from that town
which shows a crossroad close by 4
schoohouse and at the corner is post.
on it is signboard, displaying in large
letters the legend: Horses Shaved
al So-and- Sos, blacksmith.
An old resident of Lubec in his Gath year
can spin a yarn worth listening to. He
says that at East Freemantown. Mass.
Sept. % 1918, strong southeast wind
carried the spray from the ocean twelve
miles and covered the windows of the
houses in that village with salt spray.
Water from a pond. nearby where he re-
sided, was taken up, and acres of it car
ried far up into the air.
The Camden Comedy Company has
disbanded and in its place is a new
dramatic organization composed of the
best local talent in Camden and Rock
land. This new organization is to be
known as the Thalia club and is COM
posed of eight members. four from
Camden and four from Rockland.
The good yacht Glenesk has just
brought another big batch of books to
Portland to be scattered by steamer
Lilac among the Maine lighthouse
keepers. over two tons of literature
has been distributed through this mis-
sion among the life saving stations
and light houses and outlying islands
the past few years.
North Sedgwick takes the lead in
smart old ladies. On a recent after
noon Mrs. Lucy Closson. who is past
her SD birthday, went to cranberry
marsh some distance from her home,
picked - quarts of cranberrieS. and re-
turned home in time to get supper for
q family of three. She has never worn
spectacles and does the finest needle
work, a specimen of which was seen a..
the fair at Bluehill.
Isleboro was startled. Friday after
noon, by what some thought to be an
earthquake which. however. proved to
be a blast at the limekiln at the center
Of the island. 1t was a very heavy
charge of dynamite and was down
deep but it made more of disturb
ance than they We're reckoning on. 1t
ratified the glass and dishes in houses
three or four miles from the kiln and
the report was very loud.
The editor of the Kineo Echo found
an excellent specimen of stone Indian
socarhead on the Moosehead lake
beach the other day. 1t is one of the
best specimens ever picked up. 1t is
three inches in length from
point to shaft, the shaft be-
ing one-half inch long, and one
and one-eighth inches wide at the
widest part. 1t will go we'll with the
tomahawk he obtained last year.
An Eastport man has domesticated a
young Wlld cat. tOuf mOnlnS Ola tnat mas
been domesticated and answers to the
name of Bob (probably from the short
ness of his rear appsndageo The cat
very much resembles Il house cat and is
Just as docilc, being especially fond of
crawling into ones lap and gazing into
ones face, with a pensive look that
might be construed to say: IF l
hadn't been taught better | would like
to eat you" The animal was caught
when very young near North Lubec and
was adopted by house cat nVw exhibit
ing all the payfulness of a kitten.
The death of John w. Lane and his
wife of Bonny Eagle, is being investi
gated by a Boston detective agency.
according to George Drew, a constab7 e
of Boston. who was in Biddeford the
other day. Constable Drew intmated
that Miss Margaret Lane sister of
John w. Lane. is the person chiefly in
terested in the investigation. The de-
tective has been in Bonny Eagle for
several days, and has been endeavorina
TO secure evidence in confirmation OF
the theory that John Lane was not tbs
slayer of his wife and the suicide tha,
he has been supposed to be. but rather
that both he and his wife were the vic
tins of another party. He says he die