Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-30

There are Sc clubs in the Main,
Federation.
A Dexter florist has 1900 carnation
pink plants to supply blossoms for the
winter trade.
Drummers say that there are more
ten cent cigars sold in Gardiner than
any other place of its size in New Eng
land.
Three hundred children received the
sacraments Of Holy Communion and
confirmation at st. Johns Catholic
church. Bangor, Sept. 26.
The next quarterly session of Saga
dahoc District Lodge Good Templars
will be held. Wednesday. October 9Th,
with Sagadahoc Lodge of Bath.
The remains of Hugh Flannery OF
Sherman. who disappeared Friday
night, have been found in the barn be-
longing to Byron Perry in Sherman.
A petition is in circulation among
Freeport young men for the signature
of those who are DESTROYS Of organic
ing and maintaining fire company.
The Noon, Minchen Co., Rumford
Falls are putting the largest dryer in
to the wooden mill that there is in the
country. 1t is 30 feet long and IA feet
wide. f4
Biddeford's city marshal publishes a
warning against crooks in the local pa
pers. There have been finn Hammers
and burglars and men with bogus
checks to cash whereabouts in the past
few days.
The city government of Calais has
voted to construct sewers on Chase
street, on North street, Midtown to
Barring street; from North stree,
through Barring street as far as Sum-
mer street.
Mrs. Betsey Fernald of Winterport,
Sc years of age, has spun and knit
twenty pairs of compassionate mittens.
besides doing a great deal of plain
knitting within the last year. Her
mittens took the first premium at the
late Monroe fair.
Mrs. Belle G.. Dowst of Bangor, ex-
president of the Maine Federation. is
compiling the Maine notes for Mrs.
Croly's History of the Club Movement
in the United States" Mrs. Dowst is
at present at Randalrs Camp. Roach
river where she will remain through
October for her health
There is paper at the Lewiston
postoffice the wrapper of which is adj
dressed ''To my Dear Husband" An
other instance of popularity was
shown one day last week, when a big
strapping fellow came into Lewiston's
postoffice and asked if there was a let
ter there from his girl. On inquiry
what his name might be he laughed
and said he had got the best of them;
they weren't going to find out that.
Miss BERTHE Phillips of Oxford, Me-.
has china tea cup and saucer that
descended from the famous Phillips
family of Boston. The tradition that
was handed down with it is that more
than once there has been brewed in it
some of the famous tea that. was
thrown overheard in Boston harbor at
the beginning of the Revolutionary
struggle. Boatmen in the harbor Sc
cured quantities of the tea and traded
it off with the servants of the rich
families.
An interesting move toward fore
closing the mortgage on the Franklin
& Megantic Railroad was made before
Judge Savage at the supreme court at
Pennington, Tuesday. Leslie c. Corn
ish, Esq, of Augusta, representing the
F. & M. Railroad Company, filed a bill
in equity before the court, looking to
the closing up of it's affairs and the
eventual foreclosure of the mortgage
upon it. It will be remembered that a
temporary injunction was issued
against the road after hearing before
Judge Strout short time since.
A case of some Importance has just
been decided in Waldo county. Two nom
union men were discharged from their
work on Mount Waldo because the union
men threatened to quit unless the nom
union men were discharged. The jury
Judge Peters presiding. gave the plaintiff
SIS. and damages. This imposes on en-
ployers who discharge help under intimi-
dation, the duty of paying the help SO