Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-28

Fairfield talks of having a loan and
building association
A class for the study of palmistry has
been formed, in Bangor.
The Westbrook board of trade is also
working for a shoe factory.
For dull season Rockland has good
amount of building going on.
The Fourth Maine Battery will hold a
reunion at Norridgewoek, June 20.
The Waldo County Veterans Associa-
ticn will meet at Winterport, June 3.
Swan lake, Swanville. hasn't been as
high for seven years as at the present
time.
The Waldo and Kennebec Musical As
ISOLATION will hold a convention at Centre
Montville, June 10.
1t is reported that Hon. Frank Jones
of Portsmouth, N. H.. will build sum-
MGR home at Camden.
A Bath dealer thus far this season has
sold 20 bicycles. His record for the en-
tire season last year was Jos. ..E...
The Portland city government will be
asked 10 take some action in regard to
observance of Queen Victoria's diamond
jubilee.
The members of Edwin Libby Post.
Rockland. have decided to return to their
Ole custom Temporarily uioPpSu aiiu WI
hold fair in October.
From the mouth of Eastern river at
Dresden for distance of six miles up
the stream there are % fish weirs for
sl,ad and alewives and they are source
of much profit. The catch is reported
large.
y. M. S. Hunter editor of the Farming
ton Chronicle, had very i'll turn FRIDAY.
ard has been obliged since then to remain
quietly at home. He is improving rapid
ly. however and expects soon to be NOV
ing about the streets as usual. = it.
The iron moulders of the Auburn stove
foundry company are still out on a
strike Many have left town and the re-
hinder are doing odd jobs about the city.
The company have all the stoves needed
II, trade and do not care to start up, any
way at present.
Fort Fairfield has engaged three bands
for her ceebrati ton July Sd. Nine of the
fastest horses in and about ST. John. n.
B., are to compete with WoodStock
trotters and a parade of 100 boys on
horseback uniformed as husSars, Will be
one of the attractions.
A Woodfords lady hung her carpet out
on a line in her yard short time ago
and during the afternoon couple of men
drove up and said they had been sent by
her husband to take it away and cleanse
It. They piled it into the wagon and she
hasn't seen carpet or men since.
George A. Field of Biddeford, shot a
carp in Little River several days ago.
This is the first fish of the kind ever tax
en- out of the river. 1t weighed seven
pounds A dam that held back a pond,
stocked with them, gave way. letting the
fish into the river. They don't bite ana
are hard to net and shooting is the only
way to take them.
artesian we'll was opened at the
works of the Portland Rendering Com
pony at East Deering Tuesday afternoon.
rhis was an eight inch well and Workmen
drilled 52315 feet into the ground to reach
it. The work of drilling was commenced
in August last summer. 1t was a long,
hard iol. the drilling being down through
a continuous hard white ledge ana IL was
of quite an unusual depth
Cant. Isaac p. Ware, assistant surgeon
| in the United States army, native OF
North Anson who recently passed exam
| inations in Washington for promotion 10
| his present rank. has been assigned u
| Fort Grant in Arizona territory, depart
| ment of the Colorado. His orders dlrec'
him to leave the post at Madison par
| racks N. Y, where he is now stationed
and to proceed at once to the first named
| post.
The members of the Cumberland bar
are TO tender q banquet to Hon. Charles
| ". Walton. who after many years OF
| able service has recently retired from
| the supreme bench. 1t is not probable
| that the event will occur before the law
court convenes in Portland In July when
| the associates of Judge Walton on the
bench NAV enjoy the opportunity OF aiso
| rendering their mark of respect ana al
| miration for the venerable jurist.
| Mrs. w. r. Crandlemire. bright
T,ownvilIe woman, is not being troubled
| bv the fraternity of tramps as mucn as
| she was. Mrs. Crandlemire Keeps =, a
wheelbarrow standing near the wooupile
| at ali times ready for action and when
ever a tramp tells her hungry story she
y SKIS him to wheel in wood Tor an hour
aud he has to work well too before ne
GETS awning to cat. Other Brownviiie
c;tizens have made the hoboes DO some
of the spring work about their places ~
RETURN for the sumptuous repast which
they have solicited
Aliens carpet cleaning ESTABLISHMENT
on Spring street, Lewis s IS ps .'nn an5i
If The roof Is a dove cote. on the otner
end the english sparrows build. On the
roof between the TCfoins perch ana look
orr for fat angle worms below, and IN
tba roar If the establishment flock OF
ducls holds forth. Great enmity exists
between the doves and the ducks. sat
urday forenoon half dozen upves new
down an the ground next to the water
u,han Two Of the brakes left the water
and chased them two hundred yards
ahout tho yard. This happens every day.
the na;ghhors say, and the doves have
o,',,, 70 Nv over the pond to enrage the
ducks 81 that they will leave the water
and chase them on the ground.
| When the Diet mission opened at 10
o'clock this morning. there was a long
line of applicants in the hallway Of