Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-21
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| ton of the Lewiston city marshal ,,f
there will be an example. or two p n.
! can catch any of the children doing II
| The new upright hand writing piv.s
| away the author of the nuisance as q
school child.
DR.. Merlin of the Marine hosnital
Portland, is having a great deal Of
difficulty in inducing sailors to he var.
cinated. The Marine hospital service
wishes to have every sailor vaccinated
and to this end has ordered the sir.
geons at each marine hospital station
to vaccinate every sailor who will al
low it, free of charge. The sailors do
not take kindly to it. however. for sew
eral reasons, but the one most often
given is that they cannot pull and haul
on ropes with sore arms.
Sebat Susep. of the Penobscot In.
dams, young man about 10 wears of
age. has been sent a ticket bv Prof
Chamberlain of Harvard College. en-
titling him to scholarship in the In
dian school at Carlisle. Pa. Susep is
up river and on his return to Old Town
he Will leave to commence his studies
The selection of Susep by Mr.. Cham
young man and is another Of the many
kind acts Prof. Chamberlain has done
for the members Of the Penobscot IN
dians.
{. +. Lindall of Bar Harbor. has or
ganiZed minstrel company with
which to tour the State OF Maine and
other New England States. PLAYING in
the larger cities. He has secured part
of his talent from Boston and New
York but will use Maine talent as
much as possible The company is to
be called the Maine Festival Min
strels' as some of the vocal soloists
and many of the instrumental artists
took part in the Maine Musical Fes-
tival recently given in Portland and
Bangor. They will open in Bar Har-
Dor in about two weeks.
Dexter in former years has had quite
2 respectable fleet of sailing yachts on
Silver lake. but of late years these
boats have disappeared until sailing
craft seemed to be a thing of the past
with us. a revival seems to have ta-
ken place this summer and one at least.
G. II. Wyman. has put his religion into
practice and has purchased as fine
yacht as can be found in central Maine.
It is y feet long. and is furnished in
an elegant manner throughout He
will newly paint it in the spring and
lead DeXter's fleet on Silver lake next
season. 1t is now expected that others
will either build or purchase craft for
next season.
man who called on a South Paris
owner of small dog. the other day. and
remarked, Nov, how scared that dog
would be if he should see bear.
wouldn't he?" has changed his mind
since then. The oxford Democrat says
he decided on a test then and there so
he got down on all tours behind a
screen of some sort. and peeking out
around the end. emitted cultural
'B-r-r-r-r-r," which was a pretty good
imitation of the growl of bear. And
then that little cowardly yellow dog
brstled up and flew at that man and
set his teeth into the mans face so
that he carried the marks for several
days.
A well-known Middle street man.
who retired from the sea some years
ago was quite a practical joker in his
younger days. but he will never forget
how he turned cupful of molasses in
to the mouth of a sleeping skipper on
one occasion. The action of the sticky
fluid was to temporarily shut off the
victims powers of respiration. and for
a while it was hard telling which was
the more scared the boy joker or the
The latter has lived to a ripe
old age and still pounds the Vastly deep
for livelihood but he and the joker
never meet without thinking of what
came near happening.
A friend informs us that he has not
been in Bath for six years. He
know the place. Bath has
more in the past six years |
than in any previous twenty. In that
time two great CONGREGATIONS. the |
fire of 1894 and tn Wesley |
church fire of 1898. have swept away
whole blocks of old landmarks which |
have been replaced by new buildings. |
Front and Centre streets would be
to this exile and he
would be lost in the Wesley church |
district Six years ago the Bath Iron
Works was a struggling infant and |
the other shipyards were in a trance.
The Sewalls We're still building |
wooden ships. Our population then |
was probably under 5000 and now it is |
more than 1900. Within |
the past year alone more than hun
bred houses have been built to &C |
the inpouring population |
In these six years Bath has been |
raised from the dead. Streets where |
the grass was growing are teeming
with busy life. The shipyards most |
Of which were idle, now make the
city resound with the noise of their |
industry. Shops whose empty win
lows were curtained with posters are
everywhere occupied and there is a
demand that cannot be met. Business
offices are not be had now. Men to
occupy them were not to be had six
years ago Business. hustle and hustle
are everywhere where six years ago
here was silence and loneliness. 1t
would be like coming to a strange
place to come to Bath if you have not |
seen it since the fall of 1S93.-Bath |
Times.