Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-25

me benefit performance given by
HE .Akerstrom in Biddeford Friday
evening. Melted 1896 80 for the strikers
relief fund
1t is estimated that $4,000 worth of
furs are taken in Maine every wear.
OF which offers and foxes furnish
$4,000 each, and muskrats $4,000
the other $4,000 being divided among
sable mink, blackcats and lynx.
Mr.. Henry Currier of Westbrook. is
minus ten dollars. Wednesday after
noon while walking down Atlantic ave-
nue., Boston. he was accosted by two
rather seedy looking individuals who
said they had just found ring which
they would sell cheap as they were oui
OF money. Mr.. Currier looked at the
ring which seemed to him to be very
tine diamond. After some bargaining
ne gave them $40 for their find and hur-
RED away fearing they might repent
their bargain. On going to an expert
he found the ring might be worth-ten
cents. His next visit was to the police.
The people of Milo are justly proud
OF the new building recently erected by
the Boston Excelsior Company at Milo.
which is now receiving the machinery
and will commence operations in a few
weeks. giving employment to a large
number of men. The new mill is sit
uated just north of the old one, which
Will be used after the new mill starts
for saving the logs and getting them
ready for the excelsior machines. On
both sides there are two buildings Cox
u feet. two stories high which VIII
he used as pressrOoms. These are
connected by long building, 10OxS2.
which will contain 40 new excelsior
machines. In these machines the log
of poplar placed and a sharp knife
shaNes the wood and sends it out onto
a carrier, which in turn, dumps it onto
another carrier. which carries the loose
excelsior to the second story of the
press buildings.
Mr.. Matthew X. Davis recently
showed the Rockland Opinion a couple
of silver dollars which he carries in his
calf-skin wallet constantly one of
them is a Mexican dollar of 1880. which
he carried even before he had pocket
When he was a baby. 90 years ago. It
was given him by his godfather. M
Matthew Kinney A hole was bored
in it and it was suspended about his
neck by ribbon. He has carried it ever
since. The other is a Spanish Pliiar
dollar of 1902. Mr. Davis's uncle, capt. 81
BarnabaS Fountain, carried 1t as a
p0cket-piece as long as he lived After
his death his widow gave it to MI.
Davis. who has carried it ever since py
the side of the piece he received Win
his name. They are kept apart, 50 s
they will not become abraded, and both z
are in excellent condition, the designs
being almost as clear as when 'heS 8
first came from the mint.
A Lubec woman according to the s.
Herald has earned the reputation OIL
being a sound sleeper. She had been
away and was expected on the BOAT - VS.
her husband and half dozen othet
relatives and friends were on the wharf
TO meet her. The boat came IN, aus
charged freight and blew thr'e
and the lady in question ND"
not put in an appearance. EVERYONE
concluded that she had not arrived
and so returned home. IWeh'l
minutes after the husband had reacheu
home, his wife walked in. Expiaha
tons ensued and it was found tn''
Mrs -, instead of dropping oo""
from the clouds, had actually come "a
he boat. but had been sleeping soui'a'
" all the while her friends were loon
ng for her. and had only been arouse'
Nv the cry of. "All ashore that's SoiiiS
ashore" which gave her scarcely tiin'
o make her toilet and reach the Wii''A
before the boat steamed away.