Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-15

feline admirers
A Liberty dealer has sold upwards
of $500 worth of fishing tackle, this
season.
Sangerville. citizens are prepared for
safe crackers. One firm alone has sold
about a dozen rcvOlvers the past two
weeks.
Mrs. Mary Higgins of PASSPORT. has a
Seranium which she has had in her pos
session thirty-thrce years. The plant is
of mammoth size and a profuse bloomcr
and II is PRICED very highly by the owner
Belfast boasts OF pretty good sized
elm on Pearl street at the rear Of the
Bean house. The tree measures IA feet
and inches In circumference at the base
| Il feet and = inches. feet from the
ground, and spreads 80 feet
Schooner "Rozella" stocked nearly
81 200 the last trip out fishing. it being
the largest stock on cod fishing trip
| ever brought in at any one time by any
| vessel hailing from and owned at Graft
berry Isles.
| Application has been made to the
First Assistant Postmaster General for
a Rural Free Delivery" with Sanger
vile postoffice. The proposed route is
| twentythree miles. accommodating
/ dpouk cuC GU ldIIiiISS
Bath dealers in athletic goods say
that the call for tennis and golf sup
| plies is larger this year than ever be-
fore. and this proves that these tive
summer games are to be very popular
with Bathites this season.
Machias is taking progressive steps
in it's fire department. A circuit in.
Guiding large portion Of the village
with signal bells (eight in number) on.
| each for the fire wards and for Supt
| Field is being wired under the dir.
ection Of Charles c. Parker.
A year old buck deer got caught In
Coffin of Searsport. and before he coul'
be released got twisted up in some wa.
and broke his neck. Notice was sent TIL
State authorities and permission given t
dispose of it according to law.
A young man visited the city clerk.
office at Belfast last week to record hi!
intention of marriage. While he wa!
in the office his sister and her intended
husband arrived on similar errand
Neither knew that the other was 81
near the state of matrimony until thi
accidental meeting.
\ mortgage for s75o.oO is being recorde
at the city clerks Office in Westbrook
This is the largest mortgage recorde
here in the history of the city. 1t is
mortgage of the American Loan an
Trust Company against the Portlan
| Lighting and Power Company. AS par
of the personal property covered by tn
mortgage is in Westbrook it has to b
recorded there. 1t will also be recorde
in Windham for the same reason.
\ Bath lady. visiting sister town
Maine last week had occasion to hav
| some dental work done and sought firs
the best of the three local operators. i
was Sunday and he was on fishing tri,
The next she visited had his hands badl
| burned by rescuing his mOther-in-la'
from a lamp explosion and the office q
the third was just burned down. So tn
Bath lady didn't get her dental wor
done.
The Belfast Improvement Society. com
posed Of public spirited ladies. has ha
the rubbish removed from the sides g
Northport avenue where the sldeWal
| was built last year. and with the fern
and shrubs sprno,ng up the walk Is no
attractive as well as useful. The expen;
| of its construction was comparatlvel
small. and 1t has not only proved gree
tcOnyenjence to jewellers on the avenu
but is appreciated by the general public
Some miscreants have been Robin
the urns on the lots and in some In
stances the graves themselves Q
plants and flowers in the Saccarapp
!. cemetery. More than a dozen urn
were depleted, Saturday. A striC
watch is being kept and an effort wi
be made to bring the miscreants t
justice.
One of the fine young trees border
: ing the driveway at the residence
f.. f. Page in SacO. recently died. In
O,her trees seemed in a perfect
l healthy state, and the sudden withe'
ing of this one caused some cOmmen
among those who noticed its condition
On spading up the earth abound tn
tree it was found to have beenstreate
with carbolic acid or creOsOte. the ode
being very plainly discernible.
All communities have their smart o.
people. J. r. Gordon OF West Garland.
a man within a few months of S6 yea
, His Mace of residence is where the lat
l road is crossed by the East and We
: road The one guide board had becon
. dim with age and useless and in cons
ouence many travellers were compelled
: cali at the Gordon house for direction
: Mr. Gordon this spring, with no expens
self three boards giving. directions az
distance to Bangor. Exeter. two routes
v Dexter Monson. Greenville. Guilfor
Sancerville. Silver's Mills and Gariar
village 1t is an artistic job and tra'
a cInrs familiar with these facts give tines
: hoa rds more than a passing glance.
@ A prominent citizen suggests tina
some of the dining-rooms or othf
I stores in town that are privileged