Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-10

one Bath woman has vacrinated her
husband ana family.
Miss Frances :. Moody % Bath. Me
has presented the state executive com
mittee OF the Y. NJ. 4. A. Of MasSachu-
setts and Rhode Island, an island near
Friendship Maine. which FOR the past
two years has been the Interstate Y.
NJ G. \. camp for boys
The Good VIII Home association now
has cighty-nIne annual members. Last
year it's annual members numbered
fifiy-four. The annual fry u $500. ana
the year begins June 20. There are
nov nincty-two life members of the
association. \ person can become a
life member by the payment Of $1,000
at one time
a charming elderly lady. who IL viz
iting in Portland. this summer. in re-
calling "reminiscences Of her early life
tells OF hraiding straw from rye Shc
distinctly remembers weaving straw
and selling it to milliners and earning
enough to buy q suit and hat. Her
brothers ana sisters earned enough to
buy a seated chaise Very few
industry in Maine.
Many a Bathite has admired the
giant willow tree which stands on the
grounds in front OF capt. Charles f
Patterns residence. at the corner of
Pearl ana Washington streets. Bath.
but few people know its history. In
the spring nt 1890 Henry Sewall. then
the owner ~ that property. went on
horse back ride, ana while away cut a
willow sWitcha Upon his return ne
stuck it in the ground where ii took
root and grew into the now enormous
tree. which is nearly - feet in circum-
ference.
In recent civil service examination
at the Portland custom house one of
the perpleNing problems was the cor
rettion OF an ill-prepared and miscon-
strued state paper in which among
other things. appeared an error in The
spelling OF the name OF that great AM
erican statesman stephen Douglas
In the paper to be corrected the name
appeared with two s.. but so unex
pected was an error in tn. name that
% out Of the 81 applicants who took the
discrepancy. 1t was good llustra-
ton of how alert one must be in
civil scry ice grind.
The Highland cadets of Montreal
viii come 70 Portland. August 3lst. for
an outing. Two companies will COM
prise the contingent. numbering about
50 mcn. captain 4. r. Hartnett has
made arrangements for them and has
secured the auditorium for a head
quarters during their stay in Portland.
1t is the intention of the cadets to give
exhibition drills while in Portland.
They dress after the Highland style in
kits and bonnetS and are very pro
ticient in Highland sword drills and
other manoeuvres of novel character.
Some years ago" said a Bath ply
stefan, "a child sick with diphtheria
amused itself in bed with Il favortej
book. The child died and the book
was placed upon Il shelf where it re-
manned for four or five years. when
one day a brothc, of the child begged
to see the book. 1t was taken down
and handed him. A day or so after he
also was taken with diphthcria and
tiCU- inference Is tuai Inc M.
crobe of the disease had lain dormant
in the book all those years until liber-
ated. The moral is to use the utmost
precautions in contagious Diseases
Bath independents
Some weeks since the Commercial
felt it duty TO criticise severely the
act of a mother in locking her child
in the house. while twas asleep. and
going off to neighbours. The child
awoke. somehow got to some matches.
attempted to start fire in the stove.
but instead her own clothes caught fire
and In less than half an hour it's little
life had gone out: Only few days
ago another little life was sacrificed
in consequence of want OF care on the
part of its mother. little girl only
two years old playing in the street was
thrown down and tramnled upon by a
runaway horse and so badly injured