Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14

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| There are now las prisoners confined In
| Portland Jail and about 100 employed IN
| the Jail workshop
The Mechanic Falls Ledger reports ina:
| the primary school in that town mas ~
| pupils and piteously asks, AN so"ie
one scare up one more child?
The cemetery board of Bath is dong.
good work in improving the lot ana
monument at the grave of Maine ilrs'
governor, William King.
Than Smith and Henry Levesaue OF
| Caribou, made a record in potato dlSsiiS
last week that will be hard 10 pea an ~
one half days time they dug picked anu ,ha
| sorted, IL barrels of potatoes oii 'ie
| farm of Geo. Irvine.
A wave of scarlet fever seems 10 pe
prevalent in certain sections ol 81 'iai'o.
| tuesday night case OF sc.rie' i ~
| the almshouse was reported ana tnS
| hnuce has heen uuarantmed. thus smut
| ling out applicants for entrance at IN
| present time
| While digging potatoes recently u.
| w. Carpenter of Letter Il found 6S
potatoes in one hill, and James Card
ner of the same township got yield
If notatoes from one hill, their com
bined weight being 10 pounds. One of
the seven weighed pounds.
The North Arson Union Advocate
notices that it is quite the style for
newly married couples to take a car
riage ride in Somerset county. 1t adds
| that this is a very sensible thing to
do. as there is genuine enjoyment in
riding among the hills and forests of
Somerset these autumn days with their
| bracing, health giving air"
| Biddeford is said TO be consuming more
| a. lrn ut h.4 ~,
ever before since bogus butter was first
| introduced. Just how much oleo is sold
and consumed in that city in the course
Of month il is impossible to find out.
although the licensed dealers, of which
there are two in town, could tell to :
pound if they felt inclined, but it is said
that the quantity j. 50 great as TO sur
prise most people ana amounts TO many
| hundred pounds.
\ Westbrook woman recently found
what she supposed was pot of black
paint in the barn and thought she would
take the opportunity TO use some u II
while her husband was away. She painte.
all she could find in her house that needle
a coat of black, but upon the return OF
much To her chagrin that the black
paint" was grease that he mad been using
on his harness. wet boots, etc. TO add
| that it was :. laborious task to undo inc
work of the morning, would be superflu q
| Gus.
| Four score little hearts We're gladdened
| in Bangor. Saturday forenoon last, a.
| follows: Through the generosity OF two
| well known citizens So We're given 10
Miss Snow. superintendent Of schools, to
procure tickets for children who other
| wise would not be able 70 hear The
| renowned Sembrich The cash was given
| 10 some Of the city teachers and through
| them 50 little folks Were enabled 10 AT
| tend the Saturday forenoon concert at
| the auditorium and to listen to me dis
| tinguished soloist. This kind act Will long
| be remembered by the little folks.
Several Rockland firms, who had goods
| shipped to them by New York steamer
| recently, found great surprise awaiting
| them when they came to open boxes ana
| packages In place of the goods which
| they ordered they found worthless ma
| terialS substituted, and in Such clever
manner, that it was difficult to ten that
| the packages had been tempered with.
| One dry goods firm lost large number
of valuable cloaks and furs and mill
| ner lost a valuable cons .gnment. IL IS me
general opinion in Rocldand that Tho
| goods had been opened and stolen Will
! on the passage.
| The introduction of kerosene into Bucks
port was by the late James Emery. July
| l. 1858 in a novel manner as no one N
own has used or hardly heard Of the new
| light The people We're skeptcal abodt
its superiority. Mr.. Emery filled and
| trimmed a large number OF the new lamps
| and as the people came into MS store
| would hand them one requesting them ~
| AXE ii home and if after trying II they
| lid not like it TO bring the lamp back
| the consequence was but few If any Werr
| returned while a large and profitable busl
| ness which he controlled for several years
| was the result.
| In an Auburn home recently the reg
uIar Sunday meal program was
changed to allow dinners being served
| at six During the afternoon callers
dropped in and one of the visitors, in
an attempt to be sociable asked the
| little SiX-year-old if she had been to
| dinner. No she answered, gravely.
| "hain't We lunched up a lunch for
dinner and were going to have dinner
| for supper.
| The Richmond Bee, in talking with a
| man who had just returned from the
| Northern woods. was told that left
handed man in a crew of Woodchoppers
| is worth fifty cents more a day than
| the average right handed man. a left
| handed man and a right-handed man
| being able to work to better advantage
| than two men who work with the same
hand forward: and that a left-handed
man always comes handy in a cT'vw
and can always get a job in the log
ging swampS when others cannot.
| The New England Shorthand Reporters
| y
! with the following officers: President.
| Reuel Small, Portland; vice president,
| Frank r. Burt; secretary. Charles Cur
| rier Beale; treasurer, Miss Cora Eliza \
| beth Burbank. There are two classes Of
| members provided for in the new associa
| ton First, active ones comprised in tn,
| main of official reporters or those who
| have been engaged in similar work not
| less than three years, and those who can
| stand a test Of 1870 words a minute for five
| minutes. second associate members. per
| sons Interested in stenography or type
| writing, whose qualifications are SatisfaC
| tory to the executive committee. the
| latter class will have all privileges IF
| full membership save that of serving as
delegates to the national conventions.
George NJ. Chapman, Esq. has in his
office in Fairfield, a most valuable relic.
| in the form of an old inkstand. 1t is
one Of those old-fashioned affairs, made
Of wood and having the small porce
| lain receptacle in the middle of it for
| the ink. The wooden outside is very
handsomely decorated, or was when it
was new. while in the top is a cork,
| attached by a string which has been
| in the stand since it was first used.
| The stand was given to his father, the
| late Hon. S. S. Chapman, by the late
| ban If ha