Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-22

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E. T. Burroughs of Portland has been
granted four patents on window
screens.
Yarmouth sent only one man to the
war, Ole Oleson sailor on the battle
ship Indiana.
The recent fire at Winnegance was the
severest since one of the lumber mills
was destroyed in the COS.
Miss Annie f. Magill has assumed
the duties of local editor of the North
ern Leader. Eo:; Fairfield.
There are ar 1t 100 boarders at the
Auburn jail. The supreme court will
settle the lot of some of them.
Portland parties are endeavoring TO
ness between that port and Wiscasset.
A Lisbon boy was dangerously poisoned
by eating the root of the water hemlock.
recently He mistook it for horseradish
root.
The man who had charge of the bicycle
house at Riverton park. Deering. checked
92C0 bicycles at 10 cents each curing the
summer.
DIR. r. S. Bryant of Bangor has ben
elected bacteriotogist and pathologist
by the trustees of the Eastern Maine
General Hospital.
The water is very low in the Penob-
scot. while throughout the country in its
vicinity farmers complaining of
distressing lack of rain.
According to the census of last April,
Rumford has 1855 scholars and 972
voters. This would indicate a total
population of al. least 5000.
1t is expected that the new filtering
plant at Veazie through which the water
supply of Brewer will be filtered will be
| ready for use by December l.
Mail carrier Robinson of Highland
has ben six years on the route from
Warren village to Highland and has
lost only two trips during that time.
Next season promises to be the best one
in the history of Five Islands. Two par
ties have bought lots and intend to erect
cottages, one of them TO be a very fine
one 'N"A
Timothy. Fl. Houlihan Of Bangor. a
member Of the senior class at Holy Cross
college. Worcester. has been elected
vice president of the general athletic as
| ISOLATION AT this college.
There were q deaths last month in
Bath, an unusually large number, the
| average being about u a month.
! There were only 140 deaths in Bath
| in 1897 ae
| Dexter. according to the Gazette. has
| become the owner of a Fornaldhyde
! generator which the board of health
| put into use on two occasions recently
| with very good results.
II. l.. Thompson of Lisbon. a gradu-
ate of Bates College. and member OF
| the Harvard Medical School. class of
1900. has accepted position in the
| Massachusetts General Hospital.
DR.. Joseph NJ. O'Connor of Biddeford
| member of the class of '9S BOwdoin Med
! ical school. Is ut present assisting the
| regular staff at the Boston city hospital
| i'll caring for the sick soldiers there
Dennysville is ITO have new iron
bridge to replace the wooden enc
| known as me "Old Fails bridge"
across the Dennys river wfthin a very
short distance of the railroad bridge.
Fred Hartnett of Bath. has "a very
unique hat and coat rack consisting of
two ant.ers and legs of young buck
mounted on wood. The an:Gers are
perfect in shape and the smallest pair
That he has ever mounted
Men who have watched the Androscog-
| gin river for many years say that it s
lower now than they have ever seen it..
| A person can walk all over the rocks
which are covered three feet deep with
water in the spring.
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r.lennor ai has haen sold e tn M Sreani EacMt
| Cardeza. Germantown. Philadelphia. The
| Eleanor was built for w A. Slater of
| Norwich. Conn, and member of the New
| York club. by the Bath Iron Works in
1894.
A rather unusual si.ht i, por,,,na
harbor is a large barge Wing ot n,,chnr
| with smoke curling III from the ION ~
! her foremost, which "A casual observer
might imagine TO be on. fire. The fore
| mast Is MADE or IRON. hollow. and per-
forms 4 double tdul~. that OF ii mast
ana smoke Stack.
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va,,s ,,1,, ,,q,, ala 49, .,.n e., ~ .
se".s uia' WI" oieu d. the SoWth Port
| land aimShoCse recently. was formerly
n glass hlower in England and. cr,,in,s
| 49, ~ "' u S-al'iiS
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