Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-01

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Hidiefords city missionary has opened
a free rcat.ag room. r
One Hollis dealer has sold 76 horse
blankets thus far this winter.
There Is an epidemic among Parkhurst
| 'dts' - having died recently.
Dnring 1898 there were In Dexter. IL
"Iths. q marriages and ~ deaths.
nope,s vital statistics for 1898 are as fol-
Tvs births. Z; marriages, 5: deaths, s.
non !. n. Phar Of Presque Isle. has
| Washburn.
| me town clerk of South Paris recorded
n1urins 1893, IS births, 90 marriages. and IS
q the 1920 works issued by the Bangor
| We're of fiction. 'A'-''
iVefm1re Falls has l. secret orgapiza-
, ,toi's anu elections and installations are
the order of the day.
ne oid records of Westbrook are being
library. ''e'''oiiai
one Bangor pastor reports that in bys
efHlfe parish but six families are fro.
| from sickness. NV
| a Portland firm received recently hy
one OF the English steamers The firsi for
| eign oranges direct.
Faith citizens are indiynan. over ,ba
wounding and killing, OF doves by nauel,t,,
| boys on the streets.
Owing to the dun times in the granite
business. Ninalhavcn WILL this w.nfer
foreSo Its annual lecture course.
Scarletina is prevalent in Isle an liant
anu IN Few instances it is Of very ST.
we're type. bordering on maiignancy.
The postoffce at Schoodc Piscataauis
county, mas been discontinued. and the
maa goes To Brownville.
The Associated Charities of Portland
are making an earnest effort for the or
SahiZaiion of Il Children's Aid Protective.
board.
"A bust by Franklin Simmons of Mr..
HARRISON Il. Brown of London England
formerly of this city has been presented
TO the Maine historical Society by Mr.
George Brown ~ wi
Alonzo Mcclure of Presque Isle is in
Issil ant.r OF !. very handsome pin made OF
hionuike gold. and sent to him by his
prother-in-tlw. &. a. Jamison who is M
present in the klondike gold fields.
A warranty deed executed in lS3S was
o.o1snt INTO the register of deeds office
NJ Portland recently. to ne recorded The
deed was yellow with age. bur aside from
,hat was III very good condition.
The winter has gone hard with some of
Inc me doves in the beifries in Lewiston
When the sexton of a Lewiston church
went into the tower the otner day to oil
the bell frame he found sixteen dead
doves.
A very peculiar sight was seen on Main
street this morning when a little fejIow
who was just about old enough to walk
WAS strutting along the street, smoking =,
II. u pipe with a look of satisfaction
upon MS face that showed he was not
green at the business.-Rockland Star
During the year ending Dec. 81. '9S. there
We're 3se births. so deaths, and % mar
riages among the French population of
lewiston and Auburn. All these figures
that nearly 1000 French Canadians have
left Lewiston during the last year
=, A claim of the town of Canaan against
the city of Calais for support Of paupers
Is expected to come before the courts
soon: Quite a large amount of money is
involved in the controversy and it IS
brought out in the event of the matter
being brought into court.
a Nobleboro correspondent writes:
church services are now held in the
vestry; scarcity of wood seems to Dc
still have our forests and Should have
church wl',,no IRE re- wood Let the church be
When the feet are cold.
The following incident occurred in a
portland newspaper office: An up COUP
try subscriber walked slowly in. stated
that he was an old subscriber and wanted
TO Know II he could have piece put III
the paper. He was assured that that
would be all right. We'll. I'll tell you.
he began in a mournful sort of tone. my
brother died last night and | wish you'd
out a good deal and a good many OF MS
friends would be glad to know he's dead
Through the Kindness of J. ]. Emery of
Cincinnati. one of Bar HarDor's wealthy
summer residents, the little ones who at
tend the Bar Harbor kindergarten are
brought to and from school every day. n
Bangor Penobscot Exchange. has been
procured. and every morning coachman.
footman and one of the teachers start out
and gather up the children thus saving
MI
the little ones cola walk to the school
in the Rogers building.
II want to offer Il protest against SO
many socials. says IA Lewiston business
man. Every day Il man or woman. or
ENID comes To me and asks me 10 put
a card i'll my window about ii dance by
mis- club, or social by. that one. ana
getting tired of it. | have taken thu
trouble to find out that not half of thos"
affairs given by local .ouges this winter
have been successful. No one goes to
order is no richer for their money. We
storomcn are asked 10 buy tickets till We
are tired and weary of it, 1t is Il dance.
Il social, ii party. a supper or Il drama.
Lets get onto the trick of being sane.
and let some of these things go by this
winter. People are spending money for
such things when their shoes need tap
ping and they need mittens. Lewiston
Journal.
During the fall term Chas. l.. Fox. the
Portland artist. delivered an interesting
tax on art before the students OF bfiUi,-
ton Academy. He awakened an interest
in the subject and since then many of tn"
students have sought for more knowledge.
relating to artists and their works. To
meet this want. Mr.. Spooner. the assis-
tant principal, this term has procured
small engravings of several hundreds Ct
the worlds most famous pictures and
having them artistically mounted and ar
ranged has opened miniature picture
gallery in the reading room. A small adj
is charged and the pictures or du-
plcates are sold at an almost nominal
price. The profits win be invested in
large picture for the chapel. and mean
while the appreciative scholars are gain
ing such knowledge of art as they %
could in no other way. Over two hundred
pictures were sold the opening day.
A black bear made an unwelcome APP
in the neghboring woods of
Perry last week and succeeded in fright
ening several young people. besides kill
ing a sheep and a number of hens belong
ing to IA leading farmer several miles
away. In the most northwestern part of
Perry township is dense woods along
a side road and known as Egypt to the
down casters A young farm hand
named Harry Brooks was walking
through the woods at this lone some place
during the past week. when he was
startled by a loud growl and breaking OF
branches near by and turning saw a large
sized black bear. He did not wait for the
animal to reach him. but started on "a
~ ru1, l1al nxN hIiS IN, he.