Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-17

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| corinna records for 1897 show Is births
/ y marriages, and q deaths
one East Waldob0ro woman has made
% braided rugs, and is stiIl making them
! York District. Lodge of Good Templar4
| viii meet M Biddeford the 18th Of Feb
ruary.
A little boy twelve years old is
around Weld buying rags ana ped
ding tinware. one night he said he
I had TO stay in the barn.
OF the gentlemen who have represent
ed the town Of Waldoboro in the i.egis-
| lature the list Of whom goes back To
the year l1s2, but eight are now living.
There are 200 copies Of daily papers
sold on an average each day at Ne
chanic Fails The year after the war
there We're but two copies for the en-
tire village
Squire" Henry Young was appoir5
ed justice of the peace in Matinicus in
1851 ny Gov. Hubbard and served con =
tinuously until 1895 when he conclud-
"a h. had enough Of it.
The oldest member of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature is-just as was TO
have been expected-a native of Maine
This is MIR +. f Stanley who was
born in North Berwick "a years ago.
a Mi Small of Weld. that pretends
"a he an evangelist and wears sandals
With no stockings. has frozen his feet
10 his ankles. and his toes will CONT
off. they think The faith cure hard
~ extends To frost bites.
The late Mr.. Alexander Johnston Of
Wiscasset built the tirst summer re-
sort on the coast Of Maine in 1850
meaning the first house erected chiefly
for that purpose The big quaint
stone cottage at Mouse island is the
one.
The fact that rheumatism is Very
prevalent among Baths business men
has led an enterprising reporter to Try
and locate the cause. He thinks lie
has found il in the fact that many II
the stores are built on piling over the
water.
\ Washington special to the Port
land Press says that c. w Curtis of
Dexter has been recommended by the
Maine delegation for appointment %
the position of national bank examiner
in place Of Bion Wilson. Portland. re-
signed
During the last year in Bath. ac-
cordinS to the records. fourteenth
child was born to Mr., and Mrs Peter
PeIo. a twelfth to Mir and Mrs Will
liam l.. Sprague a tenth each to Nj.
and Mrs. Charles Whiting ana Mr.. and
Mis-. Benjamin King.
The correspondent at Robinson COM
plains about the school room at that
place. There are over loo scholars in that
vicinity and only one-half of them can
be seated. The same conditions apply
10 The Blaine village schools. About l25
scholars and not more than half that
number can be accommodated.
II. c. Parshley of Dexter.while look
ing over some old bills one day recent
~. saw one where he had been charged
20 cents per gallon for Kerosene SEA
for a barrel of flour, and So p per yard
for carpetne. In the light of present
day prices. these look rather eXor-
btant
DR.. George H. Bailey of the State
cattle commission says that this year
the board has killed AIS cows more
than double the number killed in the
two preceding years. He says there
is no doubt but that tuberculosis is in
creasing. but With no funds the board
can do nothing to stop it. Hog chol-
era is raging at Cornish at the present
time.
J. Il. p. Wheelden, the we'll known
Bangor horseman, has hog which
girths s feet, 4 inches and he is %
inches across his back. He is 33l,
i,c hoe toll rl ,hn a 60
from the tip of his nose to the end of
his tail The sporting men of that
city are paying % cents a guess on the
weight of the animal. the best guess
taking the porker
Among the family gatherings at
Christmas was that of the Simpson
family with Hon. Gilbert +. Simpson
and wife, of East Sullivan, at the Old
homestead built by Mir Simpsons
grandfather Jabez Simpson. 1877 years
ago. Dinner was announced by pound
ing on the ancient warmng-pan, and
coffee was served from a Delft coffee
pot over 100 years old.
a petition has been circulated in
Dexter 20 ask the selectmen to call a
town meeting and out of this move
there is no end to the discussion it has
created among the village people. The
purpose of the town meeting would be
TO see if the citizens would vote to eX
empt the mills from taxation for a
period of ten years. provided the par
ties taking hold of them will run them.
e. a. Russ, Esq, of Dexter. is clos
ing up the estate of DR.. Orrin Fitz-
gerald. Contrary to the expectations
of some there will he something left
when the settlement is completed.