Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-07

port coal consumers are wondering
whether it will be combine or war.
Triplets, two girls and boy, were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. George Parks OF
Bath. last week. The children are 40
ing nicely.
Some of the Old Town business men
are making a move to have their az
ernoon mail from the west reach there
| at an earlier hour than at present
| a Bridgewater woman who mas
counted one hundred blossoms on one
dahlia in her garden since July loth'
thinks she has got the worth or her
money in that plant.
| Twenty wears ago there were 20 saw
mills on the falls at brunswick. 10"
there are only two for saving long
lumber and neither of these nave oeeh
| in operation the past season.
| In making some repairs on a Bath
housa the other day. the carpenters
| found that the brick chimney had
| broken off about a third its height ana
that it had leaned so that half of 1t
covered the air space through which
the smoke passes. IL IS wonder that
a conflagration caused by defective
chimney had not resulted at that
house.
"Dinah." the pet horse belonging 10
Mrs. George 3. Putnam of Searsport.
| recently united her halter knot and
| going through the stable went up
| flight of stairs into shed. In the
morning she was found trying TO finish
bushel Of green apples. To get her
n take her
through the kitchen and out front
door.
Amos Small. Of Deer Isle, seems 10
be a most unfortunate man. Last No
vember his house and nearly all It's
contents were burned without one
cents insurance. 1t was only with the
help Of neighbors and friends he was
enabled to build another and make 1t
| fit to occupy. Last week his horse sick
ened and died. This leaves Mr.. Small
| without team and also without
means to purchase another.
One of the pretty and thoughtful
souvenirs which Miss Rose Nealy of
Lewiston brought home to her father,
Col. A. +. Nealey of Lewiston, from
Scotland. was drinking cup made of
horn and mounted in silver. On one
handle is the thistle of Scotland. and on
! the other is the holy cross. another
Scottish emblem. In the bottom Of the
cup is a bit of real old Gallo worked
into the silver in an artistic fashion.
How Indifferent men are to fixing up
Il damaged sidewalk that they them
selves have put out of repair by team
nph u
right to smash up the public walk in
such fashion. and il may be the place
II no one but the street commissioner
to make it good again, but it seems to
us if we were to destroy any portion
of the walk We should feel bound to
replace it-Bath News.
one Of the pleasant things about the
National Educational Association CON
vention at Los Angeles. California, this
year. was the reception given the
teachers Of the T'1ce. They We're in
| formed that the local teachers associ-
alton had purchased the entire crop
| of oranges on the trees of a farmer
near and the visitors We're invited Ia
90 to the grove and pick them for
| themselves. The pleasure of this, for
| Northern people. was great indeed A
number of teachers from this State On
ioved this gracious hospitality.
1t isn't worth a cent but | wouldn t
| take thousand dollars for it" re
| marked Mr.. w. H. Washburn of Turner
| as he held up "a SmOke-Stained wooden
pipe, Thursday. 1t is the pipe he did
| his smoking in during the war and
| bears the following jackknife inscrip
| ton on the bowl and stem: Wv. II.
| Washburn. co. \, 30th Maine Regi-
ment battle Sabine Cross Road.
| April 3. battle Pleasant Hill,
April .. 1864. La" The inscription was
carved by Mr.. Washburn in camp,
after these two battles.
| 1t isn't often that a young man turns
| his attention to fancy work. but when
| one does he is apt to accomplish such
| things as make his sisters envious.
| However. there is one instance on rec
ora where a Lewiston young man has
done wonderful things in this line.
James L. Griffin, well known as a SOLO
list baritone. has recently been confined
| to his home by the accidental meeting
Of tack with his foot. Unable to
| walk and obliged to stay at home. he
has been making tides. mats. etc. of
| the best Ctopian Germantown yarn.
| They are said to be works of art and
| are attracting a good deal Of attention
| among his friends for their originality.
| y Watervlle man. who thought his
| son was devOting too much time to a
dozen musical instruments and too lit
tie to his lessons. told the boy the story
| of the prudent ant and the careless
| grasshopper. and how when in winter
| the grasshopper approached the ant for
| the loan of provisions. the ant said:
! What We're you doing all summer
| oh singing and dancing" said the
| grasshopper. ''Oh, well. chop ice,
| now said the ant. so the hungry
| grasshopper went away, and dropped
dead from cold and hunger. II thought
| the moral to the story was too plair
| for me to make further comment" said
| the man in telling the story to the
| to leave it with him to think over, the
little fellow looked up and said, That's
| all right. pa, but there seems to be
just as many grasshoppers." And |
had nothing more to say"
| A vegetable curiosity in the shape of
| 4 potato that weighs two pounds ard
| six ounces is on exhibition in Belfast.
| Or. to be exact. it is one large central