Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-03-04

educated up to the idea of taking bet
ter care of their dumb animals.
A little girl in Foxcroft went home
from school and said the teacher told
her that a soft answer turneth away
round. 1t required a Bible and con-
siderable explanation to persuade her
wrath.
Nearly all of the relatives of the de-
ceased employees Of the ill-fated
Portland have now appeared before
Clerk Davis Of the United States court
to lay claim to wages due to the heirs
of the deceased paid by the Portland
Steamship Company
Riley W. Parmeter Of Palermo. was
born in Monticello Plantation in 1852
and was the first male child born in
that township. 'His father built the
first framed house and the second
framed barn in that township. When
Riley was six years old his father
moved to China and settled on Parme-
ter hill. Riley married and settled in
Palermo.
Charles. little son of j. Il. Sylvester
of Bluehill. while playing with his two
small sisters. recently. accidentally set
his clothes on fire. The three -year-old
sister began TO scream ana tried to put
the fire out. and the six-year-ol sister
rolled up the boys cotton dress and
smothered the flames before the child
was injured or before any of the
family reached the room.
The French physicians of Biddeford
have organized the French Medical AS
sociation. for the purpose of fixing a
scale of service fees and fostering
mutual interests. Dr.'J. A. Lapointe is
president. and DR.. Menard. secretary.
The scale of prices adopted is as fol-
lows: Office calls, 80 cents house
visits. 81; visits between 10 p NJ and I
A. NJ. 81: physical examinations, ST.
letters of advice, 81 each
The latest vaccination story is told
by an Auburn man whose arm has
bothered him SO that he couldn't sleep
nights. He would wake up in the
night with his arm paining him where
he had lain upon it. After two nearly
sleepless nights he devised the scheme
of sleeping with his arm in sling
He made sling and fastened it to the
headboard of the bed and now he
sleeps comfortably with his arm hung
out of harms way.
Among the articles in the warrant
for the GOrham town meeting is one to
see IL the town will instruct the select
men to work in connection with the
selectmen of Windham ito build an
iron bridge and sidewalk across the
Presumpscot river at South Windham
also an article to see IL the town will
take any active measures in the matter
of acquiring the unpublished history of
the town. prepared by the late Col.
Hugh ID. Mcclellan.
News was received in Portland from
Chelsea. Mass. that Mrs. Whiteway
had died i'm that city and left a fortune
Of $4,000 to her son. who. it was ascer-
tanned. was sentenced in the Portland
municipal court. January 18th last for
larceny of money from the person of
George w. Ham. and is now serving
out the sentence of three months. i'm
posed by Judge Robinson at that time
at the Jail. He has got some six
weeks more to serve before coming
into his property.
Some of the men on the Phillips &
Rangeley Railroad got fright the
other day from something that proved
to be very innocent. They had bunted
through a hard snowdrift and after
runninOa few hundred yards one of
the men looked back and saw what
looked to him very much like man
in the snow. 1t was right where they
found the drift the deepest and any
wayfarer happening along at that time
would be very likely to suffer The
train was stopped and backed up i'm
mediately and the men We're very
pleasantly surprised to find that the
man" was only the headlight that had
been knocked from the engine when
she plowed through the big pile of
snow.
Edward T. Mason of ward >. Lewis
ton. intends to have his tree-planting
society in operation before the frost
goes out of the ground in the spring.
1t is intended to begin with the organ
ization of the society in ward =, and
then carry it to other wards in the city.
His object is to have all the streets not
already provided with fine shade trees.
set out to them. and to interest the
boys of the public schools in the care
of them. The society will secure and
plant a certain number of trees every
year, and each tree will be named after
a boy in the schools, and he is expected
to keep the ground mellow about it's
roots and to make the tree grow as
best he can. He will be expected to
keep general outlook over all the
trees of the ward, and to help create
an interest in the care. of them.
Quite degree of excitement pre-
walls in Island Falls just at present
caused by the visits number of farm
ers are receiving from Deputy Sheriff
Smart of Houlton. 1t appears that
about two years ago. smooth-taikihS.
oily-tongued individual came among
them and represented that d canning
factory was to be established there
and that there would be Il Dig demand
for fruit. in consequence he sold them
quite quantity of nursery stock. TAX
ing in payment therefor noIes. which
are just about now falling due. Put
the new factory has proven to be "A
will-o' the -wisp-quite the reverse of
the fate of the notes.. and now some
So farmers in Sherman. 80 at Island
tn S15ffnrout 1npa liftoe.