Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-08

A school of wood carving will be con-
Quoted in Brunswick. this summer.
Fifty of the 50 members Of the
Thursday Club, BiddefOrd, are mar
ried ladies.
The BURBERRY bushes on the Bruns
wick Plains are blooming abundantly
and promise big bearing year.
A bicycle parade is among the novel;
ties that will be introduced at East
port. at the celebration Of July 4.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of PiscataQuis county, will
hold its annual convention in the Bap-
fist church at Dover, Thursday, June
-.
Through the efforts of Southworth
Bros, Of South Brewer. a lot of 5000
steel-head trout fry have been received
from the Greene lake hatchery and
placed in Hins's pond.
William A. Wentworth of Vinal-
haven claims to have the oldest poe
textbook of any man in Knox county.
He claims he has carried it in his
pocket for 1925 days. or As years.
During the month of May the re-
ceipts of the Portland pOstOffice were
s16,145.6S as against the receipts of
sl3.519.37 for May. 1900, gain of
$2.62631.
Registrar of probate Reed has re-
Gently completed a complete index of
all Cumberland probate records from
July 5, 1863 to January l, 1900, on which
a clerical force has been working for
a year.
The Brunswick dog constable has
not found 1t necessary thus for to dis
pose of any unlicensed CANNES, and as
most of the returns are now in, will
probably not be called upon to do so.
There have been 102 dogs licensed this
year.
Fred Haskell of Brunswick, while
scuffling with a fellow employee of
the Bowdoin Paper Mill last week, be-
came suddenly deaf and since that
time has been unable to hear any
sound distinctly. Physicians say the
drums of the ears are injured.
Although much is said about the
ranks of the Grand Army being rapid
ly depleted, it is fact that there were
only three deaths here last year. a
lOI any
other year in the past decade, says the
Rockland Courier-Ga
a Bath girl is mad clear through
She had made with great pains Il
flower garden and had had the pleas
ure of seeing most of the seeds and
plants grow UP thriftily. when along
came men to dig a cellar drain and
they piled the earth four feet deep
over the garden. running all her plants
The passage of the order appropriate
ing $500 for a July ith celebration will
not give the citizens OF Portland
much of display. There will proba-
lily be band concerts. salutes and the
ringing of bells and possibly an ad-
dress i'm the evening. but the sum is
too small to admit of much of a show
being given.-Portland Press.
Perley Sprague of Sprague's Mills.
has secured a lucrative and pleasant
position in Chicago. He is employed by
a sister of Philip Armour. the multi
millionaire. and has the guardianship
of two children. taking them to ride
on the lakes. and around the numerous
parks. His compensation is $500 per
month.
A domestic employed in a family in
Caribou was requested to go to the
pOstOffice and get the mail and after
receiving the key to the postofiice box.
she was given two letters to mail. The
next day the head of the household
went after the mail and was some
what surprised to find in his box the
two letters he had given the girl to
take to the postoffice.
Since the factories have started.
Robbnston presents a picture of I'M
usual prosperity. Where three years
ago there were two sardine factories
there now stands five. fitted up with
all modern improvements and where
full force of men are employed.
Fifteen new tenement houses have
been built, some holding as many as
four families each, not to speak of the
camps without number.
f. b. Nickerson of PASSPORT has a
highly priced relic in the shape of a
dagger stickpin of gold, once owned
and worn by the famous tragedian,
Edwin Booth. The pin came into Mr..
Nickerson's possession through n
brother-in-law, J. NJ. Merrill. now
deceased, to whom it was given by
Booth. while in New York in the early
years of his popularity, Il close friend
ship at that time existing between the
two gentlemen.
1t was voted at the annual town
meeting at Patten this spring, that the
town purchase a new fire engine:
S!C0O was raised for the purpose.
Since then our town authorities have
been watching for chance to secure
good engine and at last they have been
very successful in purchasing a good
and servicea BILE hand fire engine from
outside parties. The engine has been
tested few times and will throw a
stream of water an unusually long dis
tance.
Elias r. Thompson of Belfast, has
veritable "grandfather's clock" 1t was
owned by his grandfather, John
Thompson, IS years ago. The label on
the door reads as follows: This clock
was bought by John Thompson at the
auction Of the Nye family in 1893. The
case was made in 1923" The clock was
originally without case. the weights
and pendulum hanging without any
protection. The case is about feet
high The clock has been in the
Thompson family since it was bought