Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-12
There We're nine deaths in Bath, last


There were nine deaths in Bath, last
month.
Sanford business men have decided
to organize a board Of trade.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Holland of East
Hampden, celebrated their golden
wedding recently.
The storms of the past two or three
weeks have sorely tried the patience
and purse of Maine fishermen.
j. w. Longfellow of Machias, has
the Jefferson Medical College, Phila-
delphia.
The sixtieth anniversary of the mar
riage of Mr. and Mrs. Amos A. Libby
of North Bridgton, will occur the 18th
of November.
w. S. Alexander of Topsham, was
Sc years old last April. Recently, III
two days time he felled fitted and
piled cord of wood.
The gross receipts of the Lewiston
police ball held recently, We're about
500, which insures handsome sum
for each member of the force.
W1ScaSSel Is considering the fedSl-
bility of series of lectures by local
talent this winter with a short musical
programme to round out each evening"
The stores and residences in Lubec
are being systematically numbered
and street signs will soon be placed at
all corners where they have not al
ready been put in position.
A. d. McFaul, Esq, of Machias, has
contracted to have five tenement
houses built for him at PASSPORT.
where he owns a large tract of land
| that has been divided into house lots.
F. A. McGrann of Portland, who en-
listed with Battery e, 18th Regiment.
Heavy Artillery of New York, June IL,
and who was honorably discharged for
! disability, has been granted a pension.
Golf links on very extensive scale
| are being built on the grounds of the
| Rangeley Lake hotel. A big building
| for dances and a playhouse for chill
dren are other additions and improve
ments at this popular resort.
| 1t is said in the registry of deeds that
an era of prosperity has struck Cum
berland county and that great many
| people are buying real estate either on
warranty or by the purchase of out
standing mortgages. A number of
mortgages are being discharged also.
Dr. Harold l.. Coffin of the Rhode
Island hospital and native of Addi-
| son, Me, has been commissioned as
assistant surgeon in the LIST Rhode
| Island Regiment to take the place
made vacant by the resignation of Dr.
Rowland Robinson.
The frame of the old White house
in Biddeford on Whites wharf, which
was built in 1856, 152 years ago, was
| sound enough to be left a part of a
new house which has just been erect
ed on the site. The nails in the old
house were all handmade.
| The mother of an Auburn eight
yearsold boy, who drove to the school,
| house, about three-quarters of a mile
away. on a recent rainy day, was much
Disguised on her arrival there to find
that the teacher had sent the small boy
in another direction for her rubberS
and umbrella, and the mothers feel
ings can be imagined when the boy re-
turned from his errand thoroughly
soaked through.
up the battery at Popham will throw
a shell weighing $50 pounds. They
will carry charges of powder Weighing
$50 pounds. These were the largest
shells used in the famous fight at Ma
Mia Bay as well as the largest shells
used on fourteen of Uncle Sans gun
boats. Solid projectiles are now rare
ly used and the shells that could cas-
| il1r oh Haa bl
Kennebec will contain explosive
charges of wet gun cotton.
There is a unique race in progress in
Machias. Several of the best known
citizens purchased young pigs in the
spring time and since then have been
striving with might and main to pro-
duce the heaviest porker.
S. d. Leland, representing the Me
Kay Machine Company of Boston, has
been in Bangor and northern Maine for
the past two weeks. Mr.. Leland's visit
here was for the purpose of ascertain
ing what natural advantages this sec
ton offered for the erecting of one or
two mills by his firm for the manufac-
turing of wooden pegs for boots. After
consulting the prominent lumbermen
and wild land owners and having made
visit to several sections of timber
lands. Mr.. Leland has found that he
cannot secure silver birch in sufficient
quantities to supply the demand which
even one mill equipped with the Nc
Kay peg machines would make.
A rather good joke was perpetrated
upon a we'll known Dexter citizen one
day recently. He had a hog that had
been sick for number of days and he
was fearful that the animal would die.
In sheer desperation he called a doctor
who is in practice in another town but
who happened to be at a house near by.
The doctor told him that he could doc
tor pigs as well as men and proceeded
to prescribe. The hog needed a hot
water bath and some drops that he
: had. Going to the house where he was
stopping the doctor took some sample
bottles of medicine that had been left
there, put the contents into another
bottle and added a fresh label, gave it
to the owner of the hog and awaited
the results. The man faithfully fol-
lowed directions given while the neigh
boris who had gathered and been given
tip enjoyed the work. Strange to re-
late the hog was better the next day