Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-16

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Three horses have been electrocute.
recently on Deerng streets. as result
Of contact with live wires.
| 1t has been sixty-four days since ar
alarm of fire has been rung during the
night in Auburn. This is a recorc
breaker, said one Of the officials.
| A conductor on a suburban road in
! Portland, stopped his car the other day
while he gathered lot Of lilacs to dis
tribute among the lady passengers.
What a time the Bath girls will have
Old Home week. The warships viii
| bring between seventy-tive and one
hundred commissioned officers and
| nearly 1900 bluejackets and marine
soldiers.
There is good prospect that Frank
lin parties will get $4,000 job on Tire
Washington County Railroad the com
ing winter There is big fill to make
across Gordon's mill pond and if this
is secured there viii be a years work,
at least.
Rents have been unusually scarce i'll
PASSPORT recently, caused by the many
strangers who have reached the city
for the summer, ana several enter
prising residents have begun to build
houses in different places about the
four wards of the city.
The recent eclipse of the sun came
very near being total for one Of the
HoWland young men. George Hopkins
neglected to use the smoked glass and
made his observations with the naked
eye. AS result he is wearing
colorcd glasses ana ~ lcisurcly repent
ing Of his folly. II is with difficulty
that he can see anything across The
room ana reading is out Of the que~-
ton.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Knight Of Roothbdy
Harhor father ana mother Of TIM
young man lost last fall. went ~
Semis. recently Ia renew the search
for their missing boy. They viii havr
that part ot the woods where the riff N
shots We're heard the any after y" W;l-
lost thoroughly searched. It Is stated
that The search ms been going IN most
NJ TIN time since th- snow went MI
several guides ANA other parties having
spent cunsidrrab ~ time III searching.
Charles Skll.ngs ~ Madison. recently
fuunI \ small cross III III" ground rt
oid Point. WI thc Stt NJ thu nld Indian
camping ervunI TIM cross III about
an mon ana un,- half III height ani
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\ frN days AZ" farmer RESIDING
across TN porirf lh AIM" l'FulsW I'N-
came "Nrr VAIN i'dd M HI "d'IoIS mi
potatoes ana s"i" III n' I" "H' III ti'
potato buyers 'I ildIi''. ~ P"l' III,
deputy collector Nll.l' duties dhu had
about 81 lett ~ take nome with MN.
IL said ther" WAS surplus Oyer mere
ana enc could n't SiNr mem away. ~
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\ Bdth collector "a antiques recently
found lH "A house thdt VIZ pulll ~ AZ
irish immigrant HI NoolWlch ~ l'''' 4
copper pulioh warmer NnieH III olo
ploilteF Hdl piouSH III "l'H HiIh 4ioiii '.'r
"li country. II y shdpcu Hhe 'dilh-
ara with q receptacle lor hol "dt't
within The tdnkaFG Mhlch KEPT the
punch warm. Ihe Bath man pouel,
~, mt 70 Keep punch warm 'he' Hk"
Mr.. PickWIck. never lhdulSes ~ warm
punchD but as curlo, the duplicate