Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

There were 20 deaths in Portland last
week.
There is talk of opening gymnasium
in Ellsworth.
Biddeford and Saco singers have or
sanized society.
Camden is putting on metropolitan airs.
The town now boasts of lunch cart
Della A. Michaels of Brunswick has
been granted widows Mexican war pen
siOn.s 80.
Twenty-seven children at the Portland
Catholic Orphan Asylum. are afflicted
with measles.
The receipts of the telegraph office at
Lubec during the last month, amounted
to the sum of $2S5.
The Knox Cunning Club was reorgan-
lied at Thomaston recently. after IL
years Of Inactivity.
Policeman Bailey of Lewiston. has or
ganized a cricket club, and will challenge
any cricket club in Maine.
Eastbrook citizens are building by vol
untary contribution, a house to contain
the hearse, recently purchased.
A new musical organization has Deeh
formed in Portland calling itself the Port
land Young Woman's Orchestra.
Congressman ]. T: Taylor OF cam
bridge, Ohio, contemplates building a co.,
tage at Camden in the near future.
The engagement of Judge Sanford L.
Fogg of the Bath municipal court, TO MISS
Jessie Moody, also of Bath, is announced.
Mr.. Frederick Hale, son Of Senator Eu-
gene Hale, will study law IN the ONCE ~
Portland, of his uncle, Clarence Haie'
Esq.
w r Hall ESQ.,. has been appointed
.+own clerk in Caribou, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Edward WinsloW
Hall.
Rockport has expended all its money
appropriated last spring for highways ana
a town meeting has been called asking ior
more.
Rev Henry Jones, the rector of the
Eniscopal church at Camden, was natur-
allied at the term of court which mas Just
closed at Rockland Rev. Mr.. Jones Is
native of Rawdon, Que.
The Woman's Council of Portland has
winter on the following subjects: Labor
a :.currency." Banning and Tariff"
!. T. Thivierge of Biddeford. who runs
two drug stores, has assigned. HIS Ia
bilities are about $47OO and the assets are
said to be comparatively small. He mas
been i'm business in Biddeford Is years.
The members of the First Maine Cav
airy Association have presented THOMAS
II. Marshall Post. G. A. r.. bei1ast, with
a COPY of history OF that regiment
written and published by Lieut.. T.. +. 10
bic. -. ,Ys
The work on the new sewer at New
mort Is completed and the town now has
1000 feet on Mill and Main streets. every
house along the line of it except two mas
been connected as well as the places OF
business.
nickIes this year for the trade In that
CITY. 1t was not an average season Tor on
account of the wet season the cucumpefs
mostly run to vines Several crops were
complete failure
CLAIMS are actually getting compare
lively scarce along the Maine coast IN
man, sections. 1t is not SO much the
home consumption, or the amount pul w
by Gamers, who have more and more al :
ficulty in getting stock, put IN the ~
mense quantities sent all over the Unltecf
States, both in the shell 7apd taken out.
Luther Luce of Aliens Mills. while par
fridge hunting recently, found pocket
book containing $40 which was lost some
two weeks ago by T. M. Rowlette, an at
torney of Brooklyn. N. Y. The BOOK was
lost on the east shore ofo5Clear Water
pond and fioated to the north shore where
it was picked. up by Mr.. Luce. He was
literally rewarded. .st
Charles Pineo of Bar Harbor, who owns
one of the largest dog Kennels IN Maine,
is about to sell out his dogs, about 100 IN
number, now kept on Bar Island ana VIII
remove from the island to the mainland.
Mr. Pineo has one dog. Rip-Rap, point.
Tor which he mas TeIuSeu oil OiIcl VI
$1,000. Mr.. Pineo will spend the winter at
the Boston Law school,
Capt. Leonard B. Smith, recently ap-
pointed as counsel to Curacao West In
dies, is one of the progressive and bust
ness-like mariners of Maine, widely
known in Penobscot county. Capt. Smith
has large business interests in Curacao.
He took a cargo of lumber and ice down
there as his first venture. Now he owns
the electric lighting and water plants OF
the city, besides the street railroads and
gas plant. The state department esti-
mates the salary of the position at lit
tie over $1,000.
The appropriation for dredging Georges
river in Thomaston has been expended
and work for this season has been sus-
pended The work done is of inestimable
value to navigators The business men OF
Thomaston interested in shipping as well
rs the navigators on the river would,
however, like to have the beacon rebuilt
as they consider this most important
matter. The money appropriated for
dredging next season could very well be
applied for rebuilding the beacon and
those in authority are going to be APP
preached with this end in view.