Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-29
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But two prisoners In Frankltn's new
jail.
PASSPORT proposes to issue $4,000 in
bonds.
There is talk of liquor agency IN
Skowhegun.
Everybody in Bucksport Center is down
with grippe.
A scarcity Of rabbits is reported in
Knox county.
The Summit poor farm ds tenanted by
a solitary pauper.
Appleton wants telephone communi-
cation with Union.
| The mania for old postage stamps Is
J spreading In Bingham.
| Houlton had the most harmonious
town meeting ever known.
| A West Bethel miss Is often met on
snow shoes with dog and gun.
| A petition for four months close time
| on clans il In circulation at Biddeford
pool.
Petitions are in circulation for a
change in the Cranberry Island post
Office.
1t is said hens In some localities arc
dying from a distemper resembling la
grippe.
Bryant Whiddcn OF Atkinson. Is about
30 and has cut and hauled IL cords OF
wood this winter.
Henderson, (Me) claims to be the COM
ing town. a dozen houses will be begun
| there right away.
A tree in Bingham Is 90 feet high, one
| inch In diameter at one end and three
fourths Of an inch ut the other.
A Rockland man on a wager carried
a bag of corn a mile without resting or
removing II from his shoulder.
The Wood Rim Company at West Paris
Is row turning out about 600 finished rims
daily. and hope to finish 1000 day within
IA month.
A Rumford Falls jeweler is proud of
his handiwork in the shape OF a clock
/ Ia feet tall. every part Of which the
jeweler made.
Sawyer & Robinson have finished their
job making ties at StacyyilJe- They now
have about 150O0 to load at Sherman and
Stacyviiie stations.
John Harlow has had landed this win
ter at the Dixfield and West Peru depot
about 100 900 feet OF pine for the Portland
Star Match Company.
Quite an interest Is shown In relation
to the appointment OF postmaster In
candidates in the field.
a North Arson man over 60 years old
has hauled 50 loads of wood to Madison
this winter and hauled 10 cords up to his
door besides doing his chores.
Everybody In East Wilton is having OPP
portunity TO participate In some sort of
amateur theatricals this spring. but
whether everybody will be able to attend
is another matter
The Auburn Light Infantry IS to give a
benefit hall soon Mr. f. r. Rist,ap
former captain OF the company. who Is
now i'll in a Southern state and who Is In
needy circumstances.
The town of Morrill, refused at its
town meeting to raise money to repair
or build school houses and so scholars
in the central district. have no house to
attend school in. 1t is said.
Such a thing as a failure or assign
ment of a business firm or individual
of Waldoboro WAS unknown until the
past few years. Several failures have
occurred within the past year.
This weather rs tough on the physicians
who have to make trips into the suburbs.
An Auburn physician drove out Il miles
to see patient Wednesday. Part Of the
way he used two-wheel carriage and
part OF the way a sleigh.
The Hinckley & Egery Iron Company OF
Bangor. has just purchased $4,000 worth
of new machinery to add to the already
extensive equipment of its machine shop.
This represents 1t Is said. the largest adj
ditiOn of new tools ever made at one time
to a Maine machine shop
Work on the construction of the Wash
ington county r. r. will commence as
soon as the ground is In a suitable con-
dition. Upward of 1000 men will be put
to work in the early spring. and the work
of grading the road will be pushed along
rapidly. is the latest report from Calais.
Several Maine towns will celebrate
anniversaries this year. Harrington
at a special town meeting this week
voted to raise $3.50 to be used in cele-
of the incorporation of that town.
which occurs June 18th.
The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is
doing a very heavy business. The bulk
of freight being handled is far in ex-
cess of expectations, as has been fire.
quently stated, while the passenger
traffic is said to be three times as great
as it was year ago.
In West Franklin is a spring where
minnows are kept for winter fishing.
home In a nearby clump of evergreen
trees: when anyone goes to the spring for
mtnnows poor robin flies out for those
that are left for him on the snow. then
flies back and patiently waits for some
other fishermen ITO come along.
At the State prison. Warden Smith
has set Philip Ross, the assailant OF
Farmer Blaisdell of New Sharon, to
sorting brooms. With one arm gone
and the thumb of the other hand shot
away by the farmers old fusee, it is
about the only occupation that the
warden could find for him to dc.
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