Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-06
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were named Rockland, after the lime
city.
new express business between
Portland and Biddeford and Saco has
been started.
A bridge built across Gellison Ferry
Haynesville, will be of great benefit tc
the residents
Warren is said to find the grades of hcl
streets running to the river a hindranct
to development.
Auburn and Lewiston are together
considering proposition to employ the
services of an inspector of wires.
The Ogunquit Water Company will
adopt method of water supply similar
to that in use in Portmouth, N. H.
The highest October temperature a,
Bangor was 81 degrees. on the 18TH The
lowest temperature was So degrees, or
the 3lst. Less than half an inch of rair
fell during the month.
DR.. H. H. Purinton has resigned as
secretary of the Lewiston board OF
health, and George A. Callahan will
take his place as secretary.
A dynamite blast blew the windows ou
of the front of a Biddeford house. the
other day. A minute before it was fired
a child was looking out of one of the win
dows. but he had retired in time to save
his life.
1t It's understood that the salary Of
the postmaster of Dexter has been cur
down 500. The excuse furnished for
this act by the authorities at Washing
ton is that two clerks are employed.
Mr.. Thomas j. Murray, formerly of
Portland, was elected member of the
New York Assembly, Tuesday, by a
large majority. Mr.. Murray is a Demo-
crat but was elected in a Republican
district.
A. H. S. Davis, Esq, of Washington,
D. c., former editor of the Farming
ton Chronical has been appointed assis-
tant superintendent and chief clerk of
the Washington street sweeping de-
partment.
Last year while $S4,775 worth of prop
erty was dashed to pieces on Maine
rocks, or engulfed in the waters that
wash it's rockbound coast, that saved
amounted to s199,205, and of the 1913
persons on board the doomed vessels
not one was lost.
The Northport Water Company has
ordered 100 feet of four inch pipe for
mains from the new reservoir to the
camp ground. The work of excavating
progresses favorably at the reservoir,
and if good weather continues it will be
ready for water very soon.
Eggs are so scarce in and about East
port now that they are being shipped
from Chicago cold storage buildings in
Calais. owned by Armour & Co., and
from there sold to some of the Eastport
dealers. These eggs are all tested and
no bad ones are to be found among the
cases.
An UNUSUAL sight was presented at
Lubec wharves recently at high water.
The docks were swarming with little
mackerel. and quite a quantity We're
taken in the weirs and readily bought
for 81 dollars per hogshead. The fac
tories are canning them, and they meet
with a quick sale.
Judge William p. Whitehouse of Au-
gusta, has presented the Franklin
County Bar Association with a framed
portrait of himself. which is to be hung
in the judges parlor at the court house.
1t corresponds in size and framing with
the portrait presented the Bar Associa-
ton by the late Judge Virgin.
The unfortunate Mrs. Hamilton who
was murdered by her husband at Wor-
cester, Mass, on Tuesday, was a cousin
of d. F. Long of Lewiston. Mr.. Long
has been a frequent guest at their
house. He says that Hamilton was one
of the best of men. highly esteemed.
prudent and attentive to business.
The walls of the Kilby house at Den
nysville, one of the Oldest buildings in
Washington county, are hung with d
unique paper illustrating an English
hunting scene. 1t is the only pattern of
landscape wallpaper of that kind in the
country and the colors are almost as
bright as when it was hung about 20
years ago.
Rockland women evidently take a
lively interest in the leading questions
Of the day, as the following list of
papers read at recent meeting of the
Methebesc Club will show: will the
Annexation of Hawaii be Benefit to
the United States?" preservation of
American Forests" 1.-The Campaign
for Good Government of Greater New
York"
Not mile from the village of Dan
forth, resides woman who went away
the other day, locking her two small
children up in the house alone, for the
greater part of the afternoon. Upon
her return. neighbor remarked, that
the house might have burned down
with the children. She holly replied to
her friend that the children were her
own and it was no ones business If
they did burn.
Miss Agnes Townsend of Lewiston,
had made preparations to go home to
Windsor, Nova Scotia, to visit her old
friends, and to accompany her mother
on the voyage from Lewiston to Nova
Scotia, when she received word of the
recent fire which destroyed nearly the
whole town. including $4,000 worth of
her fathers property. AS there was not
a house left the trip home was post
poned.
At an Ellsworth market the other
day a centipede six inches long. of the
most poisonous species, dropped from
a bunch of bananas. There was a
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