Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03


Miss Louise Lamb, who died recently
IN Brunswick, was born in the house
where she died and had resided there
y years.
Bath ought to be cleanly, for man
WAC should know estimates that its
citizens have bought $1,000 worth of
sodp of an out of town house, besides
what local dealers have SOLD within a
year.
A peculiarly sad fact in connection
with the -death oe Fife, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Skinner of Rock
land, recently is that it marks the de.
cease of the sixth and last daughter In
The family.
Lubec factory owners say that there.
never has been a year in the history
Of the sardne business that goods have
been sold up as close as they are this
year. Very few cases, compare lively.
new remain in the hands of the manu-
facturelts.
Rockport vii! hold a special town
on Saturday, December ), II
see if the town VIII vote to contract
with the Camden 4 Pockland Water
Company for a supply of water for fire
and other municipal purposes. and de-
terer;ne the terms and conditions eff
such contract.
This has been "a remarkably good fall
for the care of logs. not a particle of
ice to bother and all the log owners
have their logs cared for. The oldest
of the dealers can hardly remember
when they were so favored with
weather of the kind. 1t has rained
considerably but it has been warm.
Lisbon Fails merchants are protest
ing at the rate of insurance they have
to pay. One merchant informed the
Lisloon Enterprise that he paid about
four per cent. per year on $1,000 insur-
ance. ii does seem that this is an ex-
o,ibitant price, and it is an argument
in favor Of water works. says the En-
terprise.
AT the farm Of NJ. E. Weatherby at
Little Ridge near Calais, coal has been
found in a good quantity and quality
Shafts are being dug and everywhere
that pit is made there seems ito be a
better quality the lower the depth OF
the hole. There are also some places
on the farm where small veins of sill
Yer have been found.
A prisoner in Auburn jail speaks
from experience when he says that un-
der the administration of Major Hill
The Jail is cleaner and heater than at
any other time in his experience. He
has been confined in the Jail at various
times during the past % years and
therefore may be regarded as in close
touch with the workings of the institu-
ton. 1.
The latest achievement by a we'll
known Portland amateur photog
rapher, who is always doing something
shat nobody else ever does, is to take
half picture. He was after the First
Parish church and he got it from the
top of the doors to the tip of the spire.
There was some fault with the plate
and the remainder of the picture
wouldn't 'jell.
While digging a hole in the ground
near his house on Washington street,
Auburn, this week, Mr.. S. c. Shaw I'M
earthed silver mug. 1t was about
six inches under the surface and was
in as good condition as the day it left
the silversmith's. There are various
conjectures as to how the mug came
there. On one side is the inscription:
My mothers, once my grand
mothers"
The story is told Of Mr.. Ariis, who
died OF the Auburn almshouse recently,
that he once called on an Auburn
physician to look down his throat.
The physician did so. reporting that he
could not see anything. Cant see
anything" spoke up Mr.. Arris. why.
doctor, Whole farm. good pair of
oxen and no end of valuable things
have gone down there. Strange. doc
tor, you can't see anything
Four married sisters, all OF whom
live in Maine. held their first union
recently at the home of Mrs. L. A. AL
bee. Machias. They are Mrs. F. NJ
Veasie of Bluehill. Mrs. w. B. Thomp-
son Of Cherryfield, Mrs. S. NJ. Wallace
of South Lubec. and Mrs. l.. A. Albee
of Machias. This strange event came
about by the eldest sister, Mrs. Veasie.
marrying and going away before the
youngest, Mrs. Wallace, was born.
An Auburn man Tells of a recent ex-
perience illustrating the large number
of vacant tenements in Auburn at
present. He found it necessary to
move and with his wife set out to look
for tenement. They examined tene
ments for nearly "a fortnight before
they found enc that exactly suited
them. The man kept account of the
number of vacant houses they visited
during the two weeks. There were
just 40 of them.
A Bath citizen, so years of age at
tributes his good habits to the teach
ings of his mother. Once at school as
a small boy he ripped out swear
word but hardly had it left his lips
when the fact that he had sworn so
Enlightened him that it impressed his
conscience and he has never uttered
an oath since. Although in his youth
liquor was in common use, he never
has touched drop nor has ne used in
any way tobacco.
Augustus Cults, a Saco farmer who
died a few days ago, used to be one of
the most extensive cider makers in the
State. He had an elaborate mill and
the biggest vinegar storehouse in York
county. The cider law, and the falling
eff of the demand for his product cut
down his profits and in recent years he
had devoted his attention almost eX-