Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-09

Bar Harbor citizens want all stores
closed on Sunday.
In Vanceboro they are stealing or
chards-digging up the trees and Juggling
them off.
Since Jan LIST there has been reported
TO Secretary l. s. Webb of the Bridgton
board of health 256 cases OF measles.
one Bath bank receives $1,000 week
in small silver and 5000 in 81 and s.
bills TO keep Bathites in change.
An out-of-doOr entertainment, called
The Society Circus" is to be given
soon by the Universalist church Of Bel
fast
F.. s Mari of Popham Beach. who has
in his charge some six or seven summer
cottages on the beach says that he mas
only rented one for the summer ana the
| first of May last season he mad let all ol
| them.
The Oldest conch shell dinner horn in
| Cumberland county is probably owned by
f. H. Wilson Of Yarmouth 1t Is large
shell OF very bright pretty color. was orig
iraIlv the property Of Mr.. Wilson's great
great grandfather and is known to be
| over POO years old.
This year the seats for the gradu-
ating exercises of the Bar Harbor hlsn
school. will be placed on sale. the pro-
ceeds to go toward defraying the
| graduating expenses.
| Never before in the history Of Bar
Harbor have the streets at this season
| Of the year been more crowded. or
busting with business and arrivals OF
| summer visitors than at the present
time. Everyone is hopeful of good
season.
There are now four automobiles in
| -, NJ 1nnplr-
ances ana advices the number will be
greatly increased within few weeks.
The experiment Of using the horseless
carriage on the island of Mount Desert
will be we'll tried this summer.
Mrs. Edna Greenlaw. of Deer Isle.
who is in her eighty-seventh year. mas,
this spring. cleaned her room. papered
the walls and given her floor two coats
Of paint besides doing her regular
work and entertaining several friends.
| one Of Bass Harbor's young men
! seems destined to make something or
himself. Homer Pettigrew. at twenty
four years of age. has been given
command of the Rockland fishing
schooner ''Esperanza." carrying crew
If fourteen men. His first trip int"
mixed fish and 500 halibut.
George cobb of Westbrook. has cut
down the large apple orchard on ms
farm. This was one of the oldest or
chards in the city, every tree OF Whlch
was named. among them being tree
that was called the Sarah Blair tree
as the fruit on this tree was the faV-
orite Of a very famous and learned
woman Of the city many years ago.
\. {. McCausland Of Old Town. owns
one of the oldest and best-knoWn
horses in this section. The animal
Fred Weed. is now 80 years old, but
does not take the dust from many
Younger. Tuesday. Mr.. McCausland
idrove the streets with the rig which he
used Is years ago and then appeared
with the horse hitched to modern
bicycle wagon. He had the horse pho
ltographed in both rigs.
A school girl. IL or l6 years old. was
seen defacing the soft concrete walk
on LIMERICK street, Rockland, Monday
noon. The same thing has happened
several times before and If 1t occurs
again the young woman is likely to pc
\ come the object of some unpleasant
lnotoriety. says the CONFERENCE.-The.
The Belfast Republican Journal re-
ports n new method of stealing plants
from the cemetery. On lots where
| there are nice flowers common wild
blossoms are substituted for the rarer
| kinds When seen in the act tn"
thieves appear to be simply re-arrang-
| ing the flowers as they bring supply
| with them when they enter the ceme-
| terry.
| One Portland parrot, at least. has its
bump of humor well developed. The
| parrot in question escaped from its
owner, Sunday, and alighted in tree
on State street. where all efforts to
recapture him failed for time. One
of the crowd Of men and boys drawn
| to the scene by the commotion called
out. Polly want a cracker?" The bird
craned his head toward the man and
retorted Come up.
There was a notable meeting of
brothers in Ellsworth, Memorial day.
Lewis Morse of Searsmont, Samuel of
Belfast. George w. of Belmont. and
Lucius C. of Liberty, stood together in
a group with other veterans to be
photographed. All served in Co. 3 of
the Goth Maine. and Samuel and George
did further service in other regiments.
They had not all met before at pub
lie gathering since they were mustered
out.