Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-12

Baths two advertised ministers cap
tured the most wedding fees last years
Advertising pays.
East Boothbay is feeling happy with
three good-siZed vessels on the stocks
building and prospects of more, later.
C1othes-line thieves are reported in
Belfast, but so far as noted they take
nothing but mems and childrcns
stockings.
Mrs. Rohame Austin of West
Erooksville aged seventy-six years.
has since oct. 10, knit 119 pairs of
stockings, besides doing housework.
REV. A. II. Coar of Ellsworth, re-
ocived a novel New Years gift from
members Of his society. 1t was a bag
containing ffty-two presents-one for
each week of the ensuing year.
During the month of December he
Portland police made 1873 arrests in
Guiding l06 for drunkenness: u for
larceny: nuisance, I; assault, s;
search and seizure. ): ARRAY, 3.
There was an amused expression on
the faces of many in one of the church
congregations of Milo. last Sunday.
when it was found, at collection time,
that the collection boxes We're lost,
strayed or stolen. However, after a
little delay the hat was passed in the
good old way.
1t was little late for Merry
Christmas but none the less welcome
was the telegram which told the fam
lilies Of Capt. Eugene Stanley and Will
liam Hanna of Southwest Harbor of
the missing schooner Fannie Earl
that they had been landed in Eng
land by a steamer which had taken
them from their wrecked vessel.
The free rural delivery system is
gradually extending its lines of travel.
r.. l.. BOutelle Of Bangor was in
f'reSQue Isle, last week, looking oven
the situation. After careful investiga-
ton, it was decided to establish q
route to be known as Mail Route No
I" from Pressure Isle. The route will
accommodate people living in III
houses, with population of over
400. Gordon ]. Oak has been secured
as mail-carrier, and expects to enter
upon his duties about the middle OF
this month.
a sad case of poverty came to light
with three small children, was found to
ne entirely without the necesSarieS OF
life In fact. so destitute were they
that two of the children went TO a
naighboring house asking for some
thing to eat stating they had been to
school that day without any dinner
as there was nothing in the house to
eat. The husband is away working in
know of the desperate straits his
family are in The citizen of whom
assistance was asked proved his Chris
tan spirit by supplying the family
with quite a stock of provisions. He
visited the house and found nothing
whatever in the form of food-all gone
and no money to provide for any.
The Y. NJ. &. A. of Portland is about
ia add another to its many useful
branches. In about two weeks
it will start a manual training
system. The necessary funds have
been raised among the friends
of the organization to equiv
the new department. The ain
is to take in those boys who have
finished their course in the public
manual training school. AS the ar
engagements in the city schools ar,
now carried out only the boys of the
grammar schools attend and it is the
intention of the training school at thu
Y. NJ G. y. to continue this course
Not only will students of the publ,
schools be admitted, but also young
men throughout the city who wish t.
learn a trade. 1t will accommodate
about 80.