Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-05

The fire extinguisher agent is doing
the rural towns.
SangerviHe is getting quite excited
over the postmastership.
Subscriptions for a shoe factory are
being solicited in Bucksport.
Mr.. John Treat of Enfield. is now
serving his 51st year as town treasurer.
.Bucksport has two drug stores and it
can be said bona-fide that they sell no
liquors. 80 laft1A
There have been so snow storms and
fall of seven feet of snow at Skowhe-
gan the past winter.
A Biddeford inventor has perfected a
bicycle tire with which he rides over
tacks, nails and broken glass.
A share of Laconia mill stock sold in
Boston last week for $685. an advance
of $21 over the last quoted price.
The band organized in Fairfield last
year drifted to pieces but with I'M
daunted courage the musicians will try
it again this year.
Bowdoins VS.. University of Maine
won't look so well on a base ball poster,
but we presume the Solons never thought
of that-Brunswick Telegraph.
OF the eleven teachers assigned for the
spring term in Scarboro's schools. only
four are Lbbys. 1t must be that othe,
families are moving into town.
A petition to Congress for a duty on
imported kiln wood is being circulated
in Bucksport, and has already found q
very large number of signers.
Winthrop man is shipping from the
Hallowell station several carloads of APP
pies, loose. as potatoes are sent. The
fruit is hawked in Boston streets.
During the month of March the Pull
man car service on the Bangor &
Aroostook Railroad was patronized by
twice as many people as in March OF
1896
A Loudon Hill lad of an inventive turr
of mind, who is at work on an ''incuba'
tor to find out the proper temperat ure
set a setting hen on thermometer
That's practically.
The trouble between the whites and
members of the Penobscot tribe of In.
dams residing on Indian Island, ha.
been settled by the white family, OBJ
jected to, moving away.
Charles f. Bagley, who for % years
has been janitor of the City Hall build
ing of Bangor, was removed from office
peremptorily on Wednesday afternoon
by the mayor who addressed letter t.
the official to that effect.
Maraville believes in encoura gins
manufacturing industries At the tow,
meeting it was voted to exempt thy
kimball mill from taxation. This mill
by the way is the first hardwood man
ufacturing plant on Union river.
Though the accounts have not al
been closed, it is now known that tbs
ladies of the Bangor kindergarten AS.
ISOLATION have made upwards of s10O'
out of their recent venture in publish
ing a woman's edition of the CONNER
cial.
An East Winthrop man proposes thai
the new schoolhouse be built on al
island down the lake where the young
SterS could scream to their hearts con
tent. 'Twould be safer for this oil
bach to take to the island, thinks tho
Lewiston Journal.
1t is said that ore of the sardinC
packers is talking of testing the con
stitutionality of the sardine law passed
by the last Legislature by opening hic
factory for packing before May 10, tbs
time at which the close time ends, &C
cording to the last act.
The clerk in the office of the STATE
liquor agent was in Phillips a few day
ago to investigate a reported loss of six
gallons of whiskey from a barrel re-
ceived by Agent Parker recently He
tried to find a hole by which the liouoY
might have been drawn in transit. but
without success. The six gallons would
have cost about 500.
The State board of cattle commissioners
has nearly completed the work of in
speeding the cows in the vicinity of Bid
deford and Saco, and now there are less
than half the cows belonging to milkmen
in these two cities that have not been
given the tuberculin test. In almost all
the cases 1t has been the milSmen hem
selves who have asked that the test be
made and not the cattle commissioner
who have insisted that they do the in
speeding.
One day last week there We're handed
into the Portland Advertiser office the
death notices of four persons whose ag-
gregate ages We're 357 years. They
were Nancy Shannon. 100 years: james
Lloyd, 80 years; Nathaniel Cobb IS
years. and Mary Jamison. - years. 1t
is claimed by the relatives of Mrs,
Shannon that she had long since passed
the century mark ii being claimed that
she was 106 years Old,
Mr. j. w. Crafty of Moon & Crafty.
landlords of the PeIobscot Exchange
is as efficient a paper hanger and paint
CT as he is a hotel landlord. If this is
doubted. all should call at the Ex-
change and take trip over the house.
which shines like a new dollar. Dur
ing the past winter Mr.. Crafty has oc-
cupied his spare moments and has
painted and hung new paper in almos.
every part of the house.
Prof j. c. Written, the octogenaran
musician of Belfast. Me- has entered
into an agreement to furnish musical
entertainment for the coming Fourth
of July celebration at Green's Landing.
The music will commence on the night
of thetthird. at 6 o'clock and continue
without let up until the morning of
the fifth. This will he the 25th con-
secutive year that Prof. Written has
furnished music for this occasion.
Some of the members of the Sebasti
cook Encampment. Pittsfield are very
much wrought up over the recent act
of member of the order who invited
several ladies. members of the Re
bekah Lodge. into the hall and dis
played the robes and outfit used in