Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-08

blooms with the vigor of youth.
The longest distance which one ear
reach from Portland by telephone and
understand is Omaha, Nebraska, a
distance of about 1900 miles.
The watchword of Milo is measles
Whole families are down with the dis
ease. which started in Henderson from
a train of emigrants.
A good indication of Caribous con-
tinued prosperity is observed in the
handsome manner in which the stores
of that village are being fitted up with
hardwood floors, steel ceilings, etc.
StetsOn can boast of one smart girl
Miss Edie, the 13-year-old daughter of
Willis Murray, has. since the first of
April. done the work for family of
five. her father, three brothers and
herself
Commissioner Fernald of Portland
has placed six large buckets in various
places in the business districts to be
used as receptables for waste paper
and other refuse which is generally
thrown into the streets.
A Lewiston man was recently fined
for the larceny of a pair of trousers
from line. When they asked him in
court if ne was guilty. he said: Yes.
l have got 'em on He was fined, and
ordered to return the clothes.
No dog taxes have yet been paid to
the town treasurer of Whtneyville
The amount due the State, in accord
ance with the number of dogs rendered
by the assessors, will be added to next
years State tax to be paid by the
town.
This is a remarkable summer for
weather." said Rockland painter, the
other day. We have had all the work
we could do since the season opened
and since April 1st we have not had
our paint washed once. I don't recall
the like in the past Il years"
Some mscreant. whose time evident
ly hangs heavily on his hands. has
been amusing himself by scratching
the plate glass windows in Odd Fell
lows and other blocks along Congress
street. Rumford Falls. The scratching
was evidently done with a diamond as
it is cut in deep. A reward of $500 has
been offered for arrest and conviction
of the guilty party.
The type. presses and the rest of the
Biddeford Times plant has been sold
by G.. A. Guptill of Portland to South
worth Bros. printers and machinists
of that city The price paid is said to
have been $3.50. The plant will be
moved to Portland where the ma
chinery will be put in good order and
offered for sale. Southworth Bros. buy
ing merely for speculation.
One man in Burnham who has been
benefited by the late war is Captain A.
W. Fletcher. For more than seven
years he has had a large lot of heads
and slaves for barrels in his store
ppiee. sAnce the he, close Of the war, he
has had orders for all of them and the
last have been shipped and will be
made, into barrels for use in shipping
goods to Cuba and Porto Rico.
Not long since Elisha Scope of
Rogue Bluffs. unearthed three tablets
of stone near the Cranes Nest" cot
tage. supposed to be the tablets that
mark the graves of three Indians who
inhabited the village long before the
white man settled there. The stones
are of entirely different composition
than any rock that can be found for
miles around but the inscription. if
there ever was one, has been entirely
washed away.
A Caribou four-years-old boy disap-
peared from home, recently. He was
gone several hours and his parents,
becoming very much alarmed because
of his prolonged absence. commenced
searching about the village. After a
long hunt the boy was found in
dentists office. where he had per-
suaded the dentist to fill a tooth for
him. From the boys remarks, the
dentist inferred that the youngster's
parents had sent him, and he had just
finished his work when the father ap-
peared.
Ellsworth captains have had trouble
to secure seamen recently. and the
sailing of several vessels has been de-
layed in consequence. Captain Wood
ward, of the Henrietta A. Whitney,,
sent to Bangor for two men recently.
| They came to Ellsworth on one train,
| looked over the load of slaves ana
lifted a few bundles to see how much
they weighed, then took the next train
back to Bangor. They were not look
| ing for work; they wanted free rall-
road ride and yachting trip.
OF the conservative effect of putting
| rubber tires upon a wagon a sood
illustration is given by the VENICE
driven by Chief Eldridge of the Port
land fire department. This will make
| the third wear since the official car
rage was so equipped, and yet during
all that time and in spite of the con-
slant use in all kinds of weather ana
in all conditions of streets, not a dollar
has been found necessary in repairs
The rubber tires have taken up all th2
destructive vibration, and all the
| minor troubles that arise from paris
Earring loose have been avoided.
| A movement is on foot to renew the
interest in baseball which once pre-
vailed in Bath and there is some talk
of forming a four-club league consist
ing of Bath. Brunswick, Lisbon Fans
and Lewiston. the games to be played
on Wednesday and Saturday after
moons at Merrymeeting park. 1t Is un-
derstood that the electric railway man
ayers who own the park are interested
in the plan and may lay out a'hrs'-
| class diamond there.
An important feature OF the year