Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-11

There is some talk of organizing a foot
ball team in Houlton.
The Biddeford w. c. r. t. will open a
sewing school for girls soon.
There are 6SS dogs licensed in Portland
as against 1900 a few years ago.
A corn stalk grown in Rockland this
season is 10 feet and inches in height
Bddeford man was arrested recently
for the larceny of his daughters watch.
new postofiice has been opened at
Alewive 1t is located in a store at Day $
Mills.
John Starbrd of Guiford. secured sixty
pounds of honey by hiving swarm of
wild bees
Hon. A. l.. Lumbert of Houlton, has re-
moved to Bangor and will hereafter prac-
tice law in that city.
Down at Popham a gentleman has his
tent in which he camps out during ms
vacation lighted by electricity.
Mrs. S. l.. Brimmer of Mariaville, is
Hancock county's representative on the
board of trustees of the State Pomologi-
cal Society.
An ocean drive of ten miles is being
built around Schoodic Point at Bar Har-
Dor and the place will be developed into
summer resort.
Hon A. l.. Lumbert of Houlton, mas
removed to Bangor and will hereafter
practice law and conduct his extensive
timberland business.
A Lewiston florist is transplanting half
an acre of hot house pinks to MS green
house. They have been cultivated III
the open air like corn. all summer
Mrs. Mofett of Charleston. S. c., died
at Portland Tuesday. She leaves. beside
a daughter. Miss Moffett, a son, Ensign
Moffett of the ship Enterprise, L. 5. N,
now at Gibraltar
At the Bethel fair, Wednesday morning.
Fancy Boy. owned by c. b. Head OF
Sumner while exercising upon the track
wrenched his foreleg 50 badly as to END
his trotting for this season.
Mrs Mary A. Painchaud, the mother of
F. l.. Painchaud. leader of the First Reg
iment, died Thursday, at Biddeford aged
Il years. She was the mother OF 10 emil
dren, two of whom survive her.
Minor Trafton of Cornish village, has in
his possession manuscript copy of an
almanac made and written by the late
Alpheus Trafton for the year 1898 but
never published. 1t ranks with one of the
curiosities of the town.
The seventeen carrier pigeons which
were let loose Wednesday. at Biddeford
arrived at their cote in the Kittery navy
yard in just one hour from the time they
were liberated. 1t was merely trial to
give some of the birds training.
Mrs Marie f. Brann, wife of Cyrus II
Kilby the former editor of the Somerset
Reporter. Slkowhegan, and later the au-
thor of books pertaining to Odd Fellow
ship. died in South Portland. Thursday
after a long illness. Mrs. kilby was s.
years of age.
Something of a novelty in Lewiston mu
steal circles is the family orchestra OF
Daman Rocheeau, a barber near the
Main street bridge. The orchestra con-
sists of Mr.. Rocheleau himself and his
three little daughters aged 3, and
years respectively.
The paving operations about Vinalha'
ven are springing into activity after q
discouraging period of business depres'
sion. Twenty-Five men are wanted al
once at the Crown Hill granite works anc
preparations are going on at Granite
island for renewal of work in that Vi
cinity.
A large fleet of vessels is now on the
way to Bangor with coal, as all of the
dealers are stocking up for winter, while
the railroads are laying in immense guam
titles. I he retail prices of coal in Ban
gor are $5.75 for egg, 81 for stove size
which is lower. it is said. than in any oth
er place in Maine.
The Penobscot county commissioners
are examining sample of a prison sui
with which prisoners in Bangor Jail ma,
hereafter be clothed. The new suit is o
heavy wool cloth, made in the Winthrop
mills ana cut in the Cumberland count.
Jail The cloth is white and one-incl
black stripes run horizontally across it,
The Cape Elizabeth Sentinel wakes sar
castle this week and after remarking tina
il has been SO long since the hydrants il
KnightVillc were opened and flushed on
that If Il ire We're to occur one cOuldn
tell "a hydrant stream from the flame
of the burning building. but that rust
water is said to quench fire quicker thai
the pure article. propounds this conun
drum: If u neighbor borrowS tea tina
va a maid a
pays you back in an article costing
cents, how will the transaction be classi
fled in the ledger kept by the recordn
angel?"