Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-02

season On FFeHcn ana AafVdTu Streets,
Twelve carloads CT cucumbers were
shipped from Gray station one week
recently.
There were &c deaths in Portland.
last week., four resulting from cholera
tnfantumss y Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. A. Hill OF Deering.
will celebFate their golden wedding,
SeptemberJ,
The popular flowers at Bar Harbor.
this season. are American Beauty roses
and Shirley peoples.
James II. Mcfarland of Houlton.
has recently received letters patent
upon a ball-cock valve.
A rose bush bearing blossoms of five
different colors was one of the princi
pal attractions in Belfast flower gar
den. this summer.
Three hundred and fifty lambs are
being slaughtered daily at the Eastern
Fresh Meat Company's slaughter
house in Houlton.
Henry A. Ball of South Hancock.
has been appointed deputy collector
Of customs at Mt. Desert Ferry and
assumed his duties September 1.
DIR. George Curtis Littlefield OF Saco
a graduate of the Bowdoin medical
school in 1897. has settled in Peabody.
Mass, where he has bought out a
practice.
Prof. A. F. Caldwell of the Maine
Wesleyan Seminary has accepted 4
chair in the Illinois Seminary. Profess
sor Caldwell is a native of Oxford in
this State.
Captain Freeman Strout, keeper of
the Portland lighthouse is one Of the
oldest in years of service along the
coast having entered the lighthouse
service in 1869.
Bernie G. Carroll. formerly of Lew
iston. has been nominated for city JUS
tice Of Stockton. Cal. a nomination
which is equivalent to an election.
The Office pays $500 a year.
Prof. George r. Little. librarian at
Bowdoin College. as administrator on
the estate of mis- mother. Mrs. l.. ].
Little of Auourn. has sent the Auburn
home for aged women. gift of 5000.
L. A. Rogers. principal of the classi-
cal and scientific school at Paterson,
N. Y. has been spending some time in
the Katahdin region. Mr.. Rogers is a
graduate of Bowdoin and was former
ly principal of the Castine high school.
This has been the quietest building
season for several years in Deering.
Chairman J. C.. ColesWprthy of. the
board of overseers of the poor who has
for several years kept am-acrurnt~
record of all new buildings. reports
that about 40 new houses have been
built.
The Portland Board of Trade has
sent to the American comna1ssi1N -
Quebec message protesting. against
consideration of any speetal }niYerggsts
adverse to negotiation 81 commercial
treaty that will secure to both coun-
tries the broadcast possible measures
of reciprocity.
Several of the men who were en-
joying the best Of health when I left
Chickamauga are now sick unto
DEATH" says Rev. Mr.. Cummings Of
Auburn. "A man who has spent any
time at all in camp at Chickamauga
can never tell how soon he may be
stricken down."
Portland and suburbs are soon to be
still more closely connected than at
present with other cities and towns in
the central part of the State. through
the organization of new telephone
company at Lewiston for the purpose
of operating telephone lines in An
droscoggin. Oxford. Cumberland and
Kennebec counties.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Eva Forest Bisbee of Auburn to
Mr.. Charles Walton Small of Deering.
Miss Bisbee is the daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. r. Bisbee of Auburn. Mr..
Small is the son of Ruel Small Esq,
of Deering, and grandson of Judge
Walton. He is court stenographer
and an expert at the business. Mr..
Small is Well known all over Maine,
and Is popular everywhere. The date
of the wedding has not been definitely
arranged.
The opening Of the old kitchen fire.
place In one of the stately old man.
sions in Yarmouth Is vivid reminder
OF we olden TYNE" says the Six Towns
Times. There are the heavy old iron
flredoGs upon which the large logs of
wood rest. Above is the iron pot sus-
pended from a crane. On either side
of the fireplace repose the oldfashioned
warming pan and foot stove which
perhaps once warmed the feet of some
devout worshipper at the old meet
ing house on the HILL The large brick
oven at one side Of the fireplace is sug-
gestive of steaming fowl and pastry,
which once graced the tables of some
good old New England housewife on
Thanksgiving day. On the mantel
above are the old spirit and sperm
lamps which serve to bring the picture
down to a later day.
few days ago the city of Old Town
received a communication from the
town OF Canton, asking about the hand
1re engine. Dirigo. which is owned by
Old Town. but of no use to the city
since the introduction of modern fire
system. The old tub. however, has
seen the days when it was a valuable
piece of, property to the town and even
now to place in need Of such a ma
chine. 1t is adj right 1t was one OF
the best owned in the State and It has
inquired in many hand tub contests and
KS record for throwing water is pa
Feet. At that time there was only ono
hand tub in the State that could beat
that record and that was Tiger No 6 al
Bangor. The Dirigo engine was mr.