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

| ~. we way lived to be forty vcars ~ W
her b or'a WORK out her highway tax with
| place with the men with her she's, ne,
viii now she uses a whcelbarrow Sho
meeting " iicr iaVorite
man nS o noa wooden bridge, which for SO
nr"nsS Years has served as a means nf
Kissing an RUNNERS stream at Uarri,c'
sun. Is soon to give place to a more sui
annnai ana permanent structure. At the
tinn az 'oWn meeting In March, the ones
e ua OF rebuilding the bridge was d.
~ ~ =; ,or action at Il special town moot
~ s IN May. A committee was appointed
" maze an examination of the struc,,ro
ana also report an estimate of tbo ' ''i.
ppSnse which the work will incur S;nc.
t trsi, me former plan of rebuilding the
m iTo, WIN Wool mas been aba ndoncd ana
h hn IRON span with granite abutments has
n peer decided upon. Recently an agcnt i y,
ne ne american Bridge Co.. has been nj
harrington and contracted with ~ ~
iectmen to build the span which is ae Sc,
,,ohS. The specifications for the mason,r
maVS been received from the Amcrin,S
nilIsc 20, and the sclcctmen have Is
granite. 'i'AS" 'he
az Is very certain that if Dexter is Wis
. Yea oy burglars and these visitors CONF
, ,nTrS with view of blowing a safe il
VIII he very difficult for them to find ~
III winch there is kept at any time - cut
ncieht sum of money to reward them for
,helr efforts. For some years now il has
~ Nv pi1tuce 81 the owners of stores
TO IeaVe only books i'm their safes ANA
many of them have placard on which i
written This safe unlocked and thc
~ i,, attached to their safes. There are,
III aii probability fewer safes locked eocb
hisht IN town in proportion To the numben
owned, than i'll most any community ma,
can De named The citizens in anticinn
non OF Il call from midnight maurautn,.
nave been laying in Il stock of shooiin.
IRONS and Monday one store in the Villas
s ,n three revolvers. The demand for
les, ne GOODS mas greatly Increased within
me past two weeks and the sale of cart
ridges corrCspondingly 1t is exceefinrl,
doubtful If there are a very large numhcr
0i homes In town not supplied with Il
weapon TO be used in case of necessity
Three monster willows attracted
inc attention of gentleman passing
through Midtown. so he took mons
ufeihehtS or them. OF two situated
directly in front of the residence of
Mr. Smith Adams. North street. one
measured ii feet inches in circum-
ferncc five feet from the ground. and
mad numerous large branches. The
other girt l6 feet 5i2 inches, Just below
where the tree forked Three feet
above the fork one branch girt 10 feet
and the other 9la feet. The third tree.
almost diro fly opposite. is 10 feet 8
inches in circumference and carries
that size to where it forks. ten or
twelve feet from the ground.
Percy L. jackson of Bath is showing
sample of lace bark in his store win
dow that attracts considerable attcn-
ton. 1t was presented to him by Il
cousin VINO i engineer of an English
fruit steamer. which runs between
London and Tie West Indies. where
the lace wood tee grows profuscly
The bark derives its name from the
fact that when .naccratcd and stretched
latcrally. it resembles coarse lace and
in Jamaica is made into clothing, caps.
rufTlcs. ropes ana cahles. Mr.. jackson
is also exhibiting piece of black cedar
and on account of its present condition
he believes it to be in semi petrified
state.
There is a bluebird at Cape Elizabeth
which shows an uuncCountablc liking for
chmncyS as PAGES Of habtual resort,
though it has not been known that those
birds shared in the tastes of the chimney
swiftS. The other morning a lady i'll one
of the cottages found bluebird i'm her
stove. in which there had hcen no fire the
day before. lac had evidently passed
down the funnel used a chimney and
though he was covered with ashes ana
partly blinded by the SCOT. he was all
right in a few minutes. and flew away.
pcncd tn him. Another morning. pre-
sumahlv the same bird sat in tree not
far from the scene of his adVcntur n
the stove. and sang mcrrily for time.
Then he flew to Il chimney near bN. from
which stream of smoke was issuing.
and lowered over the chimney directly IN
the smoke for several seconds. 81 TAR aS
known such actions are rather unusual.
to say the least. in a bird of this kind.
Maine men seem to ne prospecting in
New York It is said that Inventor Hut
son Maxim. too. picked up about S25o0@
in the recent boom in railroad stocks. y
rowdcr br~ 'ess it is said that Mr.. Max
i'm on the advice Of banker friend, put
some money into Union Pacific and
Northern Pacific certificates. buying them
at prices that now look ike "thirtv cents
alongside of recent quotations. There was
not much doing in these stocks at thdt
time but the inventor. with blind faIth
in his friends judgment and none at all
block Of each stock He bought both is
Sics outright. SO that ii was pure BUS
mess investment. When stocks began TO
move after the election last November.
Mr.. Maxim bought some more
IN T" and using some Of his certificates 2 ;
collateral he added to his holdings until
he had outright and on margin more than
200 shares before there had been mucn an
holdings as the market advanced. When
Union Pacific reached par he sold his ac-
cumula tons of that stock at a proilt OF
over 500 600 and on his Northern racine
he cleaned up enough 10 max - Iils 81 pio, ~,
in the two stocks more than $250.mo ON
the day that Mr.. Maxims mon faciitc
was sold for him he was AZ SANDY iiooh
making experiments with high explosives
, for the war department.. His Northern
Pacific was sold during the sky-rocketilg
of that stock and since then he has made
other experiments.