Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-17

A. l.. Barton of Dexter, who celebrated
his seth birthday last March has moi
been inside of dry goods store for 81
years and has not been inside the post
office since 1t has been located in the
bank building. matter OF . years.
There is a man in Thomaston who
never rode in the steam cars or on cleo
trio cars: was never out of Knox county
farther than WaldobOro and never uses
rum or tobacco, except that on each
Fourth of July he INDUCES in one cigar.
The Androscoggin mills Of Lewiston
closed Thursday night for eight days. and
will open again Monday, August 23d, Incl
rest. the demand for goods Is not very
strong and the company desires to make
it's present supply of cotton last till the
new crop is picked.
A North Berwick correspondent warns
the public against a woman who pretends
TO be engaging agents for a well known
concern, which company does not employ
agents. and on the strength of these false
pretenses sells the would-be agents quite
4 bill of goods from her stock. Several
persons have been deceived by her.
Prof. Albert s. Gatchet Of the bureau
of American ethnology. Washington, is
at PASSPORT. Prof. Gatch6t Is an expert
in aboriginal language and although a
native of Switzerland has a marked fac
ulty for investigating American tribal
dialects and is still busy with the Pas
samaquoddy language and legends.
Two more mortar carriages and 1T
tings have arrived for the works at
Fort Preble, and they will be taken
there in day or two. Some idea of
the size of the mortars may be gath
cred from the fact that the bed plates
and turn tables measure IA feet in di-
ameter.
After long and tedious hunt City
together a copy of all the reports of the
city Of Lewiston and they are now
bound and make valuable addition to
the library in the city clerks office. Ii
took Mr.. Hale over six months to get
the reports together.
A fine artesian we'll has been completed
on the grounds of Gen. John Marshall
Brown at Falmouth Foreside. 1t was
based to a depth of 205 feet. all but two
feet of the distance through solid ledge.
and a vein was struck which yields 40 gall
Ions of water a minute. The water flowed
up to within 20 feet of the surface. and
when the capacity of the well was tested
the pumping of the 40 gallons minute
lowered the water only two feet The
water is said to be of the finest quality.
The case of the county commissioners
of Penobscot county against the Rowland
f'alls Pulp Company. in insolvency. in
which it will be remembered it was
sought to include the cost Of the building
of a bridge in the company's liabilities.
so as to secure IA percentage at least of
the amount has been decided by the law
court. The case was heard by Judge Pea
body who threw the bridge out ruling
that it was not the proper business of
pulp companies to build bridges. An ap-
peal was taken on exceptions. The full
bench has sustained Judge Peabody.
During recent severe thunder show
er the house of Mrs. Alice Foster Of
Bridgton, was struck by lightning and
much damage done. The two ladies Of
the house We're sitting each by a win
dow in the front room when bolt
struck the gable of the roof. ripped off
the boards and clapboards to the
ground and strangely enough neither
of them were injured. The freaks OF
the lightning were shown all through
the building, darling here and there,
doing damage to both the finish and
contents.
AT Mechanic Falls, about O'clock
Sunday night, during terrific thunder
storm set of buildings belonging to
Mr.. Harrison Dudley and situated on
the road to West Minot. two miles from
this village, We're struck by lightning.
The barn, together with about forty
tons of hay, eight cows, two horses
and several sheep. was entirely con-
sumed. BY the help of the neighbors
the house which was a few yards from
the barn was saved. The loss is
about $1,000: no insurance. The barn
was 125 feet long and had recently
been put in good repair.
A Maine man has been making things
rs lively for his nearest neighbOr as he
could conveniently for several months be-
cause he claimed that the neighbor was
occupying three inches of his land. There
was lots of talk about the matter and 1t
went so far that the injured man got an
attorney TO write the trespasser a letter
of warning. Then after they had looked
up the deeds and had the line run out. the
result is that they find that instead of
the neighbor being three inches on the
complainants land, the complainant Is
two feet and eleven inches on his neigh
bors property. The aforesaid neighbor
hasn't done laughing yet over the termi-
nation of the affair and there is no tell
ing what he will do, but the complainant
has called around to shake hands over
what looked like an incurable breach.
Out in the flourishing town of Wind
ham lives young man who does not
care much about seeing his name in the
paper, but he has solved the potato bug
problem, at least so far as his own
patch is concerned. He has taken a
regular orchard spray pump mounted
on barrel and placed it on the frame
of a two horse cultivator Then with
one hand to work the pump handle,
the other to hold the nozzle and his
foot to guide the cultivator, he cult,-
Yates row Of potatoes as fast as the
horses can walk. and dispense liquil
death among the bugs with no extra
trouble save the cost of boy to drive
the team.
man went into a hardware store on
Middle street, Portland, short time
ago, and bought two hooks that cost
the extravagant sum of five cents. In
the course of a week or so he returned
with them saying his wife said they
were not the right size. Considerable
time was spent in getting size to suit
and the customer departed only to return
with the information that he could ges
hooks at another store for three cents.
The deal began to get interesting to the
hardware man, and with the comfort
ing knowledge that there was not
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