Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12

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The highest building in Machaas is
SIX feet tall.
Caribou leads Aroostook county with
1900 school children.
Thomaston sports would like to have
some hose reel races.
There were six marriages at 81. Petef >
Catholic church. Monday.
One Brunswick firm has sold ~ pi-
cycles thus far this season.
The assessors of Pittsfield, found Only
twelve oxen in town this spring.
Horse races will be held at the DANA
riscotta Driving Park. July or ..
The Bethel library contains l,1oo Voi-
umes. 80 having been added the pass
year.
The lobstermen are beginning p
think a lobster hatchery is neeoeo VI
the Maine coast.
The annual meeting of the Some hss5
Sunday School Association, VIII DE heiu
in Pittsfeld, May is
The Bowdoin College library con-
tains 60. 600 volumes, and extensive au-
ditions are constantly being made.
Harpswell has called a special town
meeting for May IS, to vote on the
nuestion of aiding an electric railway.
Perham has just Joined the list OF
Maine towns, and reelected It's plahta-
ton officers 10 serve under the new or
der.
Foxcroft people are especially wen
pleased over the new hook and ladaef
company recently organized III Ina,
place.
The Grafton at the dedication Of the
sailors and soldiers monument, Soutn
Portland May %. will be delivered D!
Gen. c. p. Mattocks of Portland.
There is kicking in Bath at the prop
osition to transfer to Portland the man
agement of a fleet Of vessels, of which
f. S. Crosby was managing owner.
Lieut.. Butler of the Signal Corps,
Portland, has arranged ccde OF sig
nails with bicycle whistle. which ne
uses instead of commands while drilling
the bicycle detail
Col. Jacob Kemple of Wheeling, West
Virginia, who is passing the season al
Pennington has been assigned by the
Republican national committee to do
some campaign speaking this fall in
Ohio and Virginia.
The heirs of the late Hon. Jesse Davis
of Lisbon have given to Westbrook
Seminary Maine Central Railroad
bond of $1,000 for the purpose of estab-
fishing a fund in that institution to be
known as the Jesse Davis scholarship
fund.
Charles Wolfe of Bath has charge of
the construction of the new stone resi-
dence to be built at Popham for Mr..
Ingraham, near the old Irving house.
1t is to be built of common field stones
laid up in cement. 1t will cost from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Arrangements are being made for a
series of lectures to take place in the
laboratory at the Bangor High School,
on Wednesday afternoons. They Will
be well illustrated and upon fine topics,
such as the X-ray, meteorology, adj
vancement in electrical science, etc.
Excursions to different power stations
are giving the students an insight into
the practical working of electricity.
At a meeting of the board of mana
gers of the Maine Society of the Sons Of
the American Revolution, held at Port
land, Saturday, the following were
elected members of the society: Bige
low T. Sanborn, Augusta; William j.
Mayburry Saco; Charles S. Deake.
Mark p Emery, Portland; Horace II.
Burbank Saco; Frank T. WadsWorth,
Charles o. Gardner, Eastport; George
a. Hunt, Jonathan l.. Jenkins, Novello
Crafts, Portland.
The faculty of the Bangor Theologi-
cal Seminary deny emphatically the
published statements to the effect that
the students have become so greatly
excited over the proposition to abolish
the English course that on several oc-
casions they have come to blows The
English course was instituted four
years ago, and at present considera-
BILE proportion of the students are TAX
ing it, including II of the II members
cfthe junior class. The faculty, trustees
on the question of retaining or abolish
ing the course, and there has been, for
years past, considerable discussion on
the subject; but, SO the faculty declare,
there has never been anything like a
breach of friendly relations on account
of it, certainly not an open conflict.
The annual commencement exercises OF
the seminary will take place in about
two weeks, and then there will be a
meeting of the trustees, at which the
matter will be decided. 1t is thought
by some of those in position to know
that, in all probability, students admit
ted after this term will be required to
include Greek and Hebrew in their
studies.