Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-19

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1t is a sad fact nut the Buffalo bugs
are on hand with the other spring arri-
walls.
Skowhegan is delighted that the oil
cloth works will BE- rebuilt ana not
moved to winthrop.
II speaks well for Bath that man
who has been selling country produce
there for 90 years has not lost so in
bad bills in all that time.
Portland is trying 10 rival Bangor
as game center. For the third time
in a year a big musk rat has been
killed in Monument square, in the bust
ness heart of the city.
The newly elected president Of the
First National Bank Of Auburn. Hiram
c. Briggs, is 81 years old and is be
lieved to he the oldest bank president
in Maine.
Old Orchard has added 500 600 TO her
-
taxable property during the quiet sea
son, and now proposes better enter
tainment than ever for the summer
visitors who have begun to arrive al
ready.
Old Orchard expects to have three
newspapers this summer. The surf
Echo will be published by Saco part
les. Ii will be run as semi-weekiy
sheet from May to July !. and the re
mainder of the season as daily. The
D1d Orchard Herald another daily, Will
be started about July LIST. In addition
to these two publications il is under
stood that a semi-weekly paper will APP
pear about the first of June. The an
cient glory has departed from the Old
orchard Sea Shell which 50 well ful-
filled the functions of a daily at the
beach for almost score of years.
What sad story of the loss of life
and property is told in the list of Rock
lands great sunken fleet, as published
in the Rockland Courier Gazette. The
list covers period of 80 years and con
tains the names only of vessels actual
ly owned in Rockland when lost. The
list includes 500 names. including 10
ships, 50 barks Is briggs, i barkentine
and 443 schoOners.
A Lewiston druggist engaged a man
recently to scurry about among the
farmers and buy up all the catnip that
he could find. The Lewiston man pro-
posed 10 corner the market and sell all
the catnip raised in the county himself.
| The agent made his way all over the
county and all he found was 10 pounds
of catnip. There was a time when one
| could go out and buy n hayrack full
| any fall. But nowadays people do not
bother with the good old herb or have
| forgotten how co raise 1t successfully.
Much river and harbor improvement
| is to be made on the Maine coast this
year. The big job of dredging Rock
| land harbor. which was begun. last
year, will be continued. as will also
| the work at Bar HarbOr, on the break
water. A big undertaking is the
dredging of Union river to the head of
navigation. or to the city of Ellsworth
| This work will be done on what is
known as a continuous contract. Ban
gor is TO have improvements on Ken
duskeag stream; and Portland's great
harbor improvement is yet going on.
| Professor Franklin e. Robinson Of
Bowdoin College, has begun his Goth
year of service with the institution.
and has but one senior on the faculty
board-Prof. Henry l.. Chapman.
Bowdoin has seen great changes since
| 1874, when Professor Robinson was
elected an instructor in chemistry, AMI
in no department more than in his
own. The chemical laboratory was
formerly in the low brick building
which is now the college work shop
and consisted mainly of few benches
and a rude implement for laboratory
work. Since that time the Searles
Science Building, without a superior in
the country, has been erected and
every opportunity given for the study
OF the sciences. In no department Is
| Bowdon weak, but in none is Il
stronger than in that presided over by
the brilliant. 5ig-hearted chemist who
IS loved by all the college boys.
The Journal has received a cory of
the Riverside California; Press. and
copy of its annual souvenir hand
some pamphlet of 60 pages filled with
hundreds of half-tones of residences