Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-15

water supply.
Alma Gan boast of one thing--it has Nc
| town poor.
George Blackwood, who for many
years has handled the mail on the star
Bangor taxidermist has mounted
more than GOO deer, moose and caribou
heads since last October.
The town of Warren. il has been est
mated has about one hundred miles OF
roads 10 keep in order. 1t appropriateS
$500 for the purpose but eXpends NOR,
than this.
A gang Of thieves is causing much
| trouble At Pieasantdale, and measures are
to be taken to stop II, If possible. SeV-
eral of the houses have been entered. and
more or less of value taken
House building still goes on at a
rapid rate in PASSPORT and vicinity
/ there being something like 80 new
houses in different states of erection at
the present time.
The Coast Watch says Mr.. Danie,
Brown of Durham, within a few days
has SEMI all his household, farm and peg
sonal effects. also his entire stock of cat
tie over TO Mr.. Sanford's settlement on
Beulah Hill. and together with his wife
and three children has gone to that place
to dwell.
The Oldest framed house in Lubec is
soon to make way for something more
modern. The NachiaS Republican says
the old DelesdeTnier house was built IN
1888, and in it were the nrst custom house
ana the first postotfice that the Passlm
quoddy district ever had.
One of Baths largest house owners
has increased the rent on all his tene-
ments by one or two dollars month.
Rents We're never SO high in Bath as
at the present time.
An Auburn man whose wife monop-
Il.
has retaliated by bringing home a
tiger cat; and now considerable fun
is caused by visitors being called upon
to express their opinion on the relative
merits Of the favorites.
A sight seldom to be seen, even by
those whose ambitions direct their at
| tention to the most minute of natures
attractions. presents itself in the shape
of birds nest, built by a fish hawk
| on the topmost part of the spindle on
Stone Island ledge. in Machias bay.
A Maine man who recently visited the
vicinity of Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont,
reports that capt. Dodd is still there al
the head Of Troop f and that his former
lieutenant. who is now Capt Tate. mas
now a troop of his own, which quit"
equals in efficiency that Which aroused 50
much interest on lis trip through Maize
in the fall of 1891.
Baths new directory shows that i'm that
city there are \ drug stores. auction
GERS. "A lawyers, bakers, banks, II
blacksmiths boat builders. shoe
stores ) carpenters and builders, Il cigar
dealers = clothing stores. : dry goods
stores - groCerS, Is BARRIERS - inSur-
ance agencies. luuUdrieS. : livery sta
bes. IL milIincrs. rs physicians. l. ship
building firms.
The Lubec Herald says the new village
sprinGiug UP III the American Can CO $
works has been chriStcncd Young Amer
lea There's nothing slow about that.
and if the new village ever gets post
office it will have the satisfaction Of
knowing that there are but two others o.
the same name in the country ahead Of
it-Indiana and Minnesota.
Frederic Shuman Of WaIdoboro. has q
harm over 100 wears old The last time il
was shinglcd was 20 years ago. and the
roof is still in good condition and water
| tight. Hemlock shingles. cut in Dtcem-
| Der. We're used, ana the nails with wnlch
| they are fastened are made OF wrought
| iron and were imported from England.
Some Is houses have been, are being
or are to be built this year in Bath.
| The estimated average cost is $1,000.
making a total of Sl50,000. Each Of
these houses will shelter from two to
| six. eight or ten PERSONA fair aver
age would be four or five-or total of
| 800 or possibly 400 persons
Mrs Susan Richards of Frankfort, is
| one Of the Oldest women in the State.
having been born in Vinalhaven on
July 8. 1877, thus making her age 102
years Mrs. Richards is of wonderful
ly activity, both physically and mem
tally and even now she is more enerSet-
ic than many women in her town who
are half century younger.
one of the night before the Fourth
pranks which was cut up in Rockland
| was the placing at the entrance of the
Knox county Jail of an appropriate in
scription borrowed from one of the
local restaurants. 1t read something
like this: Board and lodging by the
day or week This is not the best place
in town to get square meal, but it is
as good as any"
He was n practical young mantle lit
tie fellow III Rumford Falls school
| whose teacher recently propounded th!s
conundrum: Suppose you should 90 IN
| 10 the barn and find four eggs in a nest
| and you carried two of them at n time
| into the house. how many times wouo
| YOU have to go to get them all? Inc
little fellow Immediately ans y .I,H
"Our hens amt layin' now. and II they
| was | could get them all at once.
CAPTAIN DlnSmore OF the TOT llilli ~
| seryatory. says that during the eXccp-
| tionally clear days of last week he wa
able with the naked eye to discern tn
great snow banks that still remain II
Nit. Washington's hollows. one being e
J The left of Tuckerman's raNlne. IN al
the time that he has been in charge OF
the observatory, dozen years, ne "a.
never before seen snow banks on tins
mountain later than June I'd or 81.
| A hungry rat got into a Bath kitchen
the other day. and espying some i've lop
| STEERS seized one and started with IT fol
| hi. hole The lobster, in his turn, selzet
| the rodent and the next morning IN.
| lobster was found on the kitchen MOO
| and the rat was there also, the lobStt'
| alive and the rat-dead. There are dan
GERS in the lobster business for one Wh'
doesn't fully understand what he i
about.
While Dexter can boast Of having on
of the Oldest men in the state engage
i'm handling butter, eggs, and cream II
The person of II. G. Jenkins at Old or
| chard Corinna comes in with claim 70
: The Youngest. Guy Knowles, aged "
son of +. +. Knowles. a trader at INA
mace, is now stopping at Northport an
2 does unite a business in butter ana egg
sunplving cottagers who are glad to &c
good fresh products.
| r-,r months mast down at CuShlnS