Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-13

patriotic demonstration at Belfast.
Lowell Dreamer of Thomaston. while
blowing garden recently, unearthed
scme potatoes of last years crop. They
were in fine state of preservation
Quite an Improvement upon some that
We're carefully housed last fall.
Russell Reid. a 4-year-old boy living
with DR.. and Mrs. Bigelow of Auburn,
on saying his nightly prayers recently,
went out of the ordinary course and
closed by saying God bless papa ma
ma, auntie. uncle. the soldiers. sailors
and Cubans."
Talk about the bicycle being play
thing? The Brdgton News says Cliff
| ten Harmon, the other day. shouldered
| a bag of potatoes weighing sixty
| pounds, mounted his bicycle. and bore
it thus from his fathers store. Pom
dicherry square. to the railroad sta
ton. and like the man on the flying
trapeze'' he speed through the air
| with the greatest of ease
The new clubs of the Lewiston police
| force are not exactly of the stuffed va
| riety but they are a step in that direc
| ton. The Lewiston officer has been
| using an oak stick. Even in the hands
|
wicked weapon. A slantingdcular wipe
| would be sure to peel the victim The
| new club is named the Nelson Humane
Stick" over the wood is rubber COM
| position somewhat elastic. A man can
| easily be felled by the stick but il is
| practically Impossible TO cut his scalp or
| his face by a blow.
| one of the most closely guarded
articles Of personal property and a
| noticeable sight on the arrival of the
| different crews of Italians to this city
I during the year. says an PASSPORT cor
respondent is their umbrella. a cheap
| looking and faded out affair on the
average, but valuable to the dark
| skinned laborers. who carry it always
| in their tramps to and from this city
| Frequently an Italian workman comes
| down for a brief visit on foot from the
| contractors camps in the country
near. but rain or shine the cotton UNI
| brella is rarely forgotten. if one is
| owned
An East Auburn man has the car
riage in which James Lowell took his
W ife to ride previous to numbering her
in lonely spot on the Switzerland
road. This carriage has been in 4
Lewiston livery stable for the past 81
years, and was recently sold for stor-
age. The present owner says that he
does not care to keep ii for his own
use, but viii trade it off when he has
good opportunity. LoWel's crime. ii
Win he remembered was committed
| one circus day. \ few months later
the bleached bones of his wife We're
found Al the first the body could not
lt, Int r.,
on the Woman's dress afforded clue.
| Lowell was traced. and finally cap
tured in small city near Boston,
where he had been for some weeks en-
gagged in driving a coal team.
| The following circular printed thirty
seven years ago and may have been used
| I'M calling together men for the odd
| Sixth Maine regiment" was unearthed
and placed on exhibition Friday. at the
| drug store OF d. y. Curtis & Co. Ma
chias: Wante1-Recruits for the Sixth
| recently returned from Washington and
will take any number of good men who
may wish to enter the service o; their
country, Full pay will commence as
| soon as youI name is down. The Sixth
| is composed of the very best men and is
| therefore one of the most desirable reg
| imentS II those who Contemplat e enlist
! ing. that you can join. Remember. ST.
! 800 bounty at the end of the war. or up
| on the expiration Of term of enlistment.
| Rooms opposite Eastern hotel. May be
| found during the day and evening. Dat
| Stone.
Mrs. Josephine Cutter of Westbrook
has in her possession a relic of which
she is proud. 1t is in the form of a solid
! silver shield 212X2A inches. On one siie
are these engraved words: "Presented
! by the w. r. G.. to their best marks
man. on the reverse side. 'June IS
lS'S Jacob Kimbali.' The letters ". r.
cob Kimball, the father of Mrs, Cutter
was in business for many years in what
| is now Deerlng. near the electric power
house by Deering bridge. There are in
| Westbrook today considerable number
| of Old fashioned iron oven doors cast in
his iron foundry If living Mr.. kimbail
would be Il Very aged man as he was
born in 1906 A list of those belonging
to the Westbrook Rifle corps has lately
been brought to light: it contains many
family names we'll known in Deering and
| WeStbrook a gentleman of Portland
| who was a stu lent at WestbrOok semi
nary some 70 years ago. says while there
he ran across some brass buttons with
| w. r. &. on them which he had Sewed
on his coat greatly to the justification
of his schoolmates. He informed them
that w K. c. stood for wisdom right
cousnesS and Christianity
A Bucksport man boarded the
schooner NJ. l.. StptSun which was an
! chored in the harbor one night recent
| ly and proceeded TO rob the ships
clothes-line of the various articles of
apparel which had been placed on it to
he dried. Now it so happened that the
cook had a bran new shirt on the line
which he had forgotten to bring in be-
fore the crew had retired and waking
up suddenly he thought of his new gar
ment and Immediately went out on
deck to bring it in. His surprise and
| CONSERVATION may be imagined when
he saw the thief pilferng the line of