Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-03
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The fresh fish cargoes are coming In
The biggest cat in Belfast weighs II
pounds.
Belfast horses have disease resem-
bling la grippe.
Newport anticipates quite building
boom, this season.
A Soldiers Monument Association has
been organized at Rockport.
The assessors of Camden are to make
a new valuation of property in the town.
e. Tarr of Mapleton, the bee king of
Aroostook, Is wintering 100 swarms of
bees.
Since January /, there have been six
births, and six marriages and eight deaths
in the town of Union.
The great rattlesnake at Greenwood
Garden, Peaks Island, will have tasted
two years by next month.
Ray Piper of Starks, has built - new
sap house and put In a 12-foot evaporator
and Will tap some 800 trees.
There were four large baruues at Port
land. one day recently. loaded and load
ing with lumber for South America.
kennebunk is to have novel grocery.
Orders will be taken the night before
and delivered from Biddeford the follow
ing morning.
The travelling man. who repairs your
sewing machine and charges 465 for an
hour or two light work upon it-reaily
worth about 70 cents-is abroad In the
land.
There have been 10 deaths in Alfred so
far this year. the youngest was 81 years
and the Oldest was 81, lacking u days.
Their combined ages amount to over 1913
years.
Chase of Bangor. Good Will Farm will
receive the income the bulk of her
property after the death of Matte b.
| Woodbury..
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| Bar Harbor will be begun In August. 1t
will be built of brick with concrete floor
and iron roof and will cospin the neigh
horhood of 5000.
Alfred has one nonagenarian among its
residents, Mrs. Mary Goodrich now in
the a2d year of her age. who still retains
her mental and physical powers to
remarkable degree.
The town of Paris having failed to raise
| any money for high school, the voters
Of the precinct of the old South Paris
| school district have held a meeting and
voted 500 to establish such a school.
Clarence McCabe of Bath who has been
passing the winter in Jacksonville Fla
has returned home. In connection with
his father who resides in Florida, he has
been engaged in building small boats for
the Cuban insurgems. They have built
over forty during the winter. The boats
are used for transporting war supplies
up and down the many small rivers which
are found on the island.
Miibrldge man VINO shot by lamp
| light a rat across his store and killed a
rat with a small calibre revolver has con-
| WINGED his friends he Is crack shot.
Had the bullet gone quarter of an Incl
| to the right or left of the rat, ii would
have crashed through a lot of valuable
| window glass. but instead II went
straight TO the mark killing the intcuder
instantly. then lodging in the floor.
Mr.. Silas Ireland. aged 50 years. lives
in Presque Isle In his credit column
are the following items: Although he
never attended school a day in his life
he learned to read and write by himself
and is reckoned as capable business
man. He has been a selectman and filled
other offices at Presque Isle. He has
raised a family of % children. and de-
clares that his health is good today
as it was when 20. He never drank a
glass of liquor. never used tobacco in
any form.
1t appears that William Davis, the
llong-imprisoned Carmelte though re-
| leased from prison is not released from
his obligation to pay the amount of the
judgment, SITS, against him for assault
ing young Robert Pease. He was re-
| leased not so much because of a defect
| in the commitment papers as for the rea-
son that Pease's lawyer had come to the
| conclusion that there would be a better
| chance of collecting the judgment with
| Davis out of Jail than in. What Davis
did with the $500 which he drew from the
Bangor banks no one knows but many
| in Carmel.
Game Warden Pollard of Dover. has
been on an exploring trip after poachers.
He says there has not been one deer il
| legally killed this winter. where there
were ten last He did not on his trip find
| where one deer had even been slaught-
cred. Last Sunday he was at katahdin
Iron Works and found the snow shoe
tracks of four men leading out of a yard.
where several deer had been for some
time. He thought that he was on the
track of poachers. so he followed it. He
tramped for an hour and finally came
across a party of four Dexter men. They
had nothing to shoot with except
camera: They were out after a snap shot
| of the deer.
20, Godv' she cried. Hes deadr Such
was the startled exclamation of Mrs. w.
\. C. Rogers of Phippsburg. one day MOI
! long ago as a team turned into the yard
and the horse stopped right at their shed
door. A man in the sleigh. ths was just
the last of the sleig'hing) sat upright. his
head thrown back. eyes closed. mouth
| open. his nerveless hands clasped in his
lap. and no movement nor anything to
show but that he was dead. Mrs. Rog
ers son Elmer. was at home. and he went
out and shouted to the man who it
turned out was asleep: The man awoke
in Il bewildered way and was started Off
down the road again. He was a runner
and explained that he had been out late
the night before. He had been asleep all
the way from Winnegance.
| A certain well known Lewiston gentle
man was entertaining a few friends in
his den the other afternoon. Shortly
| after the party had entered the den
| they simultaneously smelled smoke. but
failed then to discover the cause and con-
| cluded that it came from the kitchen be-
| low. Finally the host glanced at the
drapery across the window and eX-
claimed. Why. what's the matter with
the drapery"' Sure enough there was the
drapery completely burned off near the
window sill, leaving 1t about three feet
shy of its original length. The burned
off piece had just fallen to the floor and
was smoking slightly. One of the party
| who professed to be somewhat of a phil
i osopher made an investigation and dis
covered that the trouble was caused by
! bottle of spring water which was placed
! ON the window sill in the morning to COOL
| but the host forgot to take it in before
the afternoon sun got around and when
| the solar rays got their work in through
the bottle they were focused on the dra-
perry and as the sun worked around the
heat gradually burned the drapery COM
pietely off in a straight line.
Miss Sophona Spear, an elderly lady
of Warren, has beencausing the select
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