Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-08

l1nuIton VIII soon nave roller lnlil.
During the past year there were 25lS
arrests in Portland.
About 900 persons were vaccinated
free in Bangor. This spring.
Mrs. l.. +. Richards Or Gardiner. is
writing another hook. her nth. if rum
or is correct.
Pittsfeld reports that the building
outlook for the coming season is excel
lant
Several Bath citizens are planning
fol 4 flower show To take place in that
city in the near future.
! The suggestion that Bath school chill
dren need Il playground finds FAVOR
| with many citiZens-
II is estimated that about $4,000
worth at railroad ties Will be shlpPeo
from Aroostook, this spring.
The Bath police are making = vigor-
Gus effort 10 prevent loafing on the
sidewalks and street corners.
The professors Of Eowdoin College
and their wives have formed new
club called The Faculty club.
Rev. J. ". Webster Of Newport. has
attended funerals in nine different
towns in that vicinity since last 1all.
Josiah X. McIntire of Bath. is using
daily a wallet which he carried with
him from Augusta when he started for
the front in 1861.
\ barrel factory is one of Aroostook' $
Industrial needs. While the bulk Of
Aroostook potatoes are shipped by the
carload a great deal for the southern
trade is barreled in Boston.
There are now some 1900 telephones
on the Portland exchange and that city
ranks third in the United States in the
number Of telephones employed in pro-
portion to its population.
Last year. Nathaniel Jones. one Of
Eockland's most successful and eN-
pcrienced sweet-pea growers. planted
his sweet peas, March y. This year
the same date saw foot Of snow
above his pea bed.
Paul ana Philip Tapley Of West
BrookSvillc. aged 10 and II years. re-
spectively. have cut and hauled from
the woods. on their small handsleds.
two ana onc-half cords Of wood.
The Ellsworth American would like
tn know if there is an older horse in
Hancock county than old Charlie.
The family horse Of the late James F.
Moses of Rucksport: odd Charlie" is
now nearly % years old.
The Soldiers Monument Association
Of camden. now lack hut 5000 Of the
amount needed to complete its long
cherished scheme Of a monument to the
memory Of veterans VINO have joined
The army Of the dead.
There is Il great scarcity of that nice
article Of food. namely. HOLSTERS. Fish
erInen say that during the month Of
March the Holsters hurrow in the mud
and stay there for nearly Il month. be-
fore making their appearance.
Nearly. If not all the societies in
Machils have day during the year
which they claim is their own. The
workers W the Methodist church have
decided that every year they will hold
some annual entertainment on Maine
day" February 18TH.
4 Bach grocer says H. doesn't believe
that coffee is not healthy as he drinks
it three times day and has for over
50 wears. ana ii has never hurt him.
III e. Is smarter jlldll Iilt CIVIL - man
he retires every night at 10 o'clock and
is up in the morning at 4 attending T."
his business.
Mrs. SIMON Mitchell Of Yarmouth,
has a couple Of house plants such as
Are seldom seen outside of a catalogue.
/ one is Il red La France rose bush with
p blossom on it 81 inches across. The
other IL Il trailing fuchsia which has
On ii pa buds and blossoms.
West Paris puts forward a claim to
! the possession of the champion potato
eater. his average having been from lt
| to Il good-siZed potatoes at a meal,
The other day he beat his record by
eating y good-sized potatoes for his
| dinner. with other food in proportion.
/ Carmel still retains it's proud name of
being patriotic. five of her young men
| having enlisted in the regular army
within the past few days. namely
Lewis T.. Ieathars. Elwell Preble
Ralph Hunt. Eddie Cushman and tif-
ford Bowen.
The workers of one Bangor church
are happy. \ new lot Of books nae
been purchased for the library and the
| Easter collection was to go towards
having the bill. The amount Of the Of
fcljng was one cent greater than th'
total amount Of the book bill.
A number of years ago, one of Hath
merchants who was new TO business d
my kind was complaining to drum
mcr. when he came round for his sec
ond ORDER that he was only making
Lone per cent 'One per cent, how Is
that asked the drummer Well
pay 81 for such an article and sell =
for 81
Rose Carson White now SAYS tina
She did not plan that escape from TN
state prison but that the idea was tina
OF Charles A. Plummer. who was to haN
gone whether she did or no. the lde;
obtains in some quarters that Plumme
escaped to sea, but hereabouts man.
people think he persisted in the SNOW
and cold .-Rockland CONFERENCE.-The.
John Baker Of Township 80. Hancocl
county, SAYS his grandmother had :
, children. all OF whom lived and mar
, riad. ana all returned to the old HON
i three years in succession to spend Ney
, Years dav before the death Of tn
! mother Mr.. Bakers mother had :
i children. and the present Mrs. Bake