Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-25

,sr, crackers will be sold in Fort Fair
a.5 this season. the first time for sew
eral years
,,,nt stand the first ever" in tina;
town
Tcnnis bids fair to be one of the most
'uiar sports of the season in Bath. This
r rclr and several courts will be in use.
,n,y ten cottages ut York Harbor re-
ain unrented and parties are ncgotia-
linz for these. The outlook is unpre-
cented
inferred upon its fourteenth ycar-an un-
usually long life for publication of
this description.
Maine physicians as n whole report
,hat the paSt winter and spring have oc-
casioned less sickness than any similar
period for years.
The yachts and quarries have de-
pletcd Deer Isles supply of men. and
the women are doing the farming.
The York Transcript is doing com
mendable work in urging the residents
save their beautiful elms from destruC-
ton.
A sad coincidence is noted in a. Kennc-
hunk Beach family. three sons of John
Iitteiield having been stricken totally
hind when each had reached his 18th
year.
Mrs Lizzie Maddocks is one of North
ElIsworth's Industrious women She has
a large flock of sheep, and is Shcarinr
seven a day in addition to doing her
housework.
A Hope family owns Il trunk over 100
wears old which is something of Curl
osity. The outside measurement is nearly
~ inches long by 9i2 inches wide and
eight deep. with swell cover.
A Bowdoinham man was recently SEN
fenced TO thirty DAYS in Jail for abusing
his horse. but the the sentence was suS-
pended upon his promise to leave the
town within two weeks.
The fishermen at the mouth of the
Kennebec river have not gathered nearly
as many dollars this spring as in years
past. Shad do not seem To be plenty,
and the alcwives are unusually scarce
Preparations for a big catch had been
made.
The total number of passengers that
have been brought to Portland from No
vembcr ~, 1901. up to May Il. the last
ship being the Vancouver. was 667o This
includes cattlemcn returning to this coun-
try. all immigrants, tourists, etc, in fact
everything but StoWaWayS.
On July lst Cumberland county will be
gin the boarding of prisoners at the Jail
In to this time the sheriff has ALWAYS
commissioners will after July 1st super
intend the feeding of the county's
charges
At last Bar Harbor is to have Il
casino. y company has been formed,
a site secured, and contract for the
building signed. And it viii be COM
petcd in tinle for an opening this
season.
Burnside Post of Auburn has just
received twelve dozen small flags with
which to decorate the graves of their
dead comrades on Memorial day. 1t is
touching sight, and calls to mind
that the old soldiers are fast passing
away.
Kingficld is booming. and new buildings
new streets. ana new ideas are in cN-
denCe III all parts of the town. Plans and
foundations are being made for at least
Twelve tenement houses. besides several
private residences. There is also a move
ment on foot for the construction of Il
sewerage system.
Another new rural free delivery route,
TO run from the Harrison postofiice is be
ing talked of. 1t is to run through a
part of Harrison not covered by either OF
the other routes, through BOlstcr's Mills.
ana over part of Otisfcld; Il estab-
llshed 1t will cause the abolition of the
Bolster's Mills postoffice.
Peddlars are not always the most
was found to be- the, case by "A Farm
ington woman recently, who purchased
OF travelling salesman some wall
paper al twenty cents a roll and lit
tie later found out that she could buy
the same thing at a store in that town
for 13 cents.
Undertaken Bradbury of Saco. is GER
talnly a kind-hcartcd man, as Il recent
case Will show. y husband and father
oil large family died in Il neiGhbOrlnS
town and he was called to attend to the
funeral arrangements. After the funeral
It was told 10 Mr. Bradbury that the
family had been left with almost nothing
Tor their future support. The widow went
TO him to see about paying the funeral
charges and he promptly recciptcd his
Dill and handed it hack to her.
Thieves are getting in their work in all
quarters of EaStport just now but the
most daring THEFT of the season was ac-
compished one evening last week. when
a Canadian sloop boat lying in one of the
docks was boarded and the stove stolen
ana sold TO city junkman. 1t was not
learned whether said stove contained nro
or not but hot chase by the owner Is
reported, who succeeded in reGaining his
goods.
Some men who were working in the
wood, woods neal, North Hollis recently cap
tured a male otter. With the assistance
81 a dog they finally overpowcrcd 1t but
It gave them a GOOD fight. Although the
Jog got a good hold of it his teeth did
not penetrate through its hide. 1t meas
urcd over five feet from tip to tip after
uie hlde was stretched. 1t had lost par'
OF It's toe. probably having been i'll trai
some time. How it came in that LOCALITY
Is mystery.
Z. {. Plummer of Bath received 2
novel framed picture recently from ii
j. Southland OF Wiscasset. The frame
IS made of one thousand pieces of wood
winch are put together without the use
OF glue Of fastenings Of any kind. The
pieces are keyed together and vii
come apart by the turning of two
screws at each corner. 1t as quite 6
curiosity.
-Four Auburn fishermen know now thai
against the law to catch white perez
Sune and that there is i law against Sun
udy fshing as well. They were UP II
court Monday and settled fine of SCI
apiece for doing what other people hay
I'm dolnS according to their stories 10
a9lhe time past. The only difference Il
onat they were seeing what could %
ttausht there and got caught the msclVe3
lestcd
a summer colony of New York tere
ment hoIso children NAV he cstanishc'
III voc vicinity of Bangor this summer !
D suitable spot can be found and IN
ndihgor pastors have already received III
ene Presbyterian Church of ScaEand Ian
a. ~ o Henry street New York, who hay
IKE ahf project in charge. regarding SUIT
aoic iocalns, for the csta!1iishm ent OF tn