Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-21

| I'M SAl
| Milo citizens will enjoy a course OF
| lectures the coming winter.
| A Bath clergyman had fourteen large
squashes stolen from his garden a few
nights ago.
Miss Martha L. Lovejoy of South
| Paris, who was shot by Daniel Nj
Cannon. continues to improve, and
her permanent recovery is anticipated
The town of Cutler is going to be
connected with the outside world by
the means of telephone line which is
to be commenced in week or so.
From an old diary kept by William
Fogg of Eliot, it is learned the first
steamboat seen at Portsmouth was on
August %. 1917. 1t made trip up the
river to the Piscataqua bridge.
Waldo county now claims to lead
with a cat one year old that already
weighs 40 pounds. But it is an import
ed one, having been brought from
South America this week.
Samuel Norton of Dover, still holds
his position as boss squash raiser in
hills from which he got 175 squash
weighing about ton, and of excellent
quality.
Waldoboro and Wiscasset are now
the only villages between Bath and
Rockland. without water works and a
survey in Wiscasset has been made
with the ultimate possibility of plant
ing water works there.
Stylish carriages are being sold at
bedrock prices in Lubec. one day re-
Gently leather top buggy was pur-
chased for four barrels of potatoes, and
the purchaser thinking he had the best
of the bargain, threw in a quarter of
lamb.
He thought he had heard of all kinds
of borrowing but a Parkhurst man
says he was really nonplused the other
day when a neighbours son drove into
the yard and said he wanted ''to Dor
row the side hill" 1t transpired that
he was after a side hill plow
Master Fred Sewal of Island Falls,
thirteen years old. shot two deer the
other morning. He started off with a
tote team that was going into Chas.
Flye's camp, and he had the deer all
ready for the team to haul out when
it came back in the afternoon.
c. L. p. Handy of China, has a Curl
osity in the shape of a small half size
apple with another miniature apple the
size of a marble growing on the upper
side of it. as though it had dropped
upon its larger brother and stayed
right where it struck.
The Reina Mercedes, the captured
Spanish cruiser, now at Norfolk, is be-
ing made ready to be brought to Kit
terry for thorough repairs and to be
used as a receiving ship. In view of
the pleasant relations existing between
this government and Spain. the navy
department has decided not to exhibit
her en- route.-York Courant.
Bath people in Boston are rather
proud of the trio Of boats now at The
Charlestown navy yard which were
built at the Bath Iron Works, writes
home a Bath boy now working at the
Hub The fleet here at present is the
training ship Chesapeake, the gun
boat Machias and the torpedo boat
Dahlgren, three of the best craft of
their classes in the L. S. navy.
Two young lads thirteen years old
had a lively time with a moose iear
Smyrna Mills. They were out in a
small boat and We're calling moose
when a large bull moose came out of
the woods and started for them. They
opened fire on him and after eight
shots killed him. He was within ten
feet of them when he received the last
shot which finished him. 1t was close
call for the boys.
There is one lady in Portland who
has reason to believe that there is
something like an epidemic of broken
hips among her friends. She met with
this serious form of accident herself
some time ago, and a lady friend, who
called upon her to prOffer assistance,
soon after fell and also broke her hip.
She has just heard of another-an in
innate friend-resident out West. to
whom information of the accident was
sent and strange to say. she makes the
third in the unfortunate list.
A queer condition of the earth strata
was shown in digging a well near the
Scarboro marshes recently. Within
about 80 feet of the channel of the mar
row, winding river that one sees from
the car windows the well was dug.
The earth seemed to be a sort of blue
clay. filled with shells and gravel, al
most as hard as if baked. but pure wa
ter, free from all saline taste, filled the
we'll 1t would seem as if the clay walls
kept out the salt sea.
The electric street railroad poles on
upper Main street. Lewiston. are marked
with chalk by school children, every
few days. and pictures which are not
artistic are drawn upon them. This
practice has been called to the atter.