Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-01

tlSCHidGulS county say NiiF
slot machines must go.
In one Bath family four children
have the whooping- cough.
Tnspector-of- Milk Blake Of Portland.
reports Gio milk dealers in his province.
\ Portland young lady who was
married recently was attired in her
mothers wedding gown.
Bath has no empty. stores. every one
is taken. In Rockland at the present
time there are u empty stores.
Within the limits tof East Dover
there are Is little girls under the age
of six and but four Httle boys.
At the present time the prospects of
a large amount Of building in Skowhe-
gan the coming summer are not bright
Nathaniel Robbins of Deer Isle. cele-
brated mis- 99th birthday anniversary
last week. He retains his faculties.
ANA reads without glasses.
Dennis Mink Of Waldoboro. has on
his farm some white ash fence rails
that were split out over 100 years ago
by his grandfather.
A summer cottage with a $4,000 water
plant is one of the features Of our
neighboring resort, remarks the Bath
Enterprise.
William s. Pratt. g.. and his wife,
Minerva c.. GO years old died within
day Of each other. recently. in Bow
dpinham.
r. y. Srhoppe Of Rogue Bluffs, Who
is - years old. sawed and split four
cords of wood ready for the stove and
piled it up in five daya.
Bath did not see fit to follow the cx-
ample II ROckland. ana reduce the city
salary list The only changes made
there were two considerable raises.
The family of James \. Rowe Of
Holden. is sadly afflicted. indeed. The
three sons, the oldest about 10 years Of
AGA ana the youngest about three. are
critically i'll with typhoid fever.
HOLSTERS still continue scarce and
prices are high. During the month of
February 300 short Holsters We're
seized ii Cumberland county and
thrown overheard.
The employees in a Bangor restaurant
have 4 new hy-word since q man came
in there. the other day and called for
Il mince pie. saying he would take a
large one as it was for a sick lady.
For q small town Dyer Brook shows
m onyiabl- record in its report for the
year ending March !. 1899. II shows
that it is free from debt and has bal
ance on the right side Of the ledger.
The city council of Biddeford, will
probably be asked this year I" appro-
pirate money for the building of a hos
pital at the city farm for the use OF
The sick inmates of the institution.
A Cherryneld girl Miss Annie Nichols
hy name. claims to have raised and
eaten the first string beans Of the sea
SON It is needless to say that they
were raised in the house.
The Rucksport women who attended
10 the ringing of the bell 50 that ali
the men could devote their energies TO
lighting the fire. at a recent blaze IN
that village. are complimentesi by the
local paper this week.
BroOksville present board of select
men. Captains John I. Tapl9y. Angus
1us l.. Condor and George W. Blodgett
are all "old Sea-dogs;" men who have
had q taste of sea water from many
oceans.
John ID. Leen of Bangor. is the in
vcntOr Of a ribbon cabinet. on which
he has recently secured a patent, anC
which it is claimed will fevolutioniZt
the methods of handling ribbons II
millinery and other sEous.
The knights of Columbus Of Port
land, are trying to make arrangements
TO have Chaplain Chadwick of the lost
hattleship Maine come there and lect-
ure, next month. for the benefit of the
Catholic and Protestant orphan asy-
lumS.
4 WaldObOrn correspondent writes
that a rooster belonging to Mrs.
Charles Smith Of Winslow Mills. re-
Gently had the grip and afterwarC' the
Whooping- cough, dying at last of a
complication of diseases
The smallest letter ever received a.
ScagSpOrt came recently to Mrs G. )
Sargent from her sister. Miss A. ID
MoWry Of RoXbury. Mass. 1t was JUS
the size of the smallest two-ce.2
stamp The letter containing 100 words
and was plainly written.
Or. Elmer Small Of Belfast has two
swords which were used by the local
militia company. the City Greys. before
the war. They are. of the regulation
pattern of sergeants' swords in use at
that time. and are finely tempered and
nicely finished weapons
q. II. Tapley of West I5rooksville,
while splitting ii four-nch cedar. re-
Gently, split in halves bull ct that was
mbedded in the centre Of the stick.
There was noperforation in the bark or
tree. The question now is How came
it there"
\ Belfast stamp collector in eXGmin-
ing lot of old revenue stamps the
other day, found II that are listed in
the stamp dealers catalogues at five
dollars each. The person who saves
every old thing sometim es comes out
on top of the heap, after all
One Pressure Isle des aler is among
those who find business on the increase
ana money among Arc oStook farmers
much easier than last year. a year
ago he sold four pota to planters on
time: this year he has sold ten and the
larger part of them were paid for in
cash.
\ Waterville man recently had de-
livercd TO his stable "A ton Of as fine
nay as one would care to buy. for the
sum of just Sc Rece ntly when he