Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-11
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Tain the Washington convention June
5 and T. >,
waldo District Lodge |. O. G. T.
:" Meet in quarterly session with
wis VIII lodge. Friday. May Il.
r. rext annual meeting of the
pharmaceutical Association will
M"'s se,d ir Portland, July gil. in
elusive.
ouortorIy session of 1iancocl,
,,r,v district lodge, |. g. G. T., VIII
'V' LA at South Hancock, Thursday
Nay l6.
,,ro,eide Park at Bangor will have
.wslve weeks season of light opera
a.. GUNNER. The season Will open
June i.
wss,brook cat gave birth to five
,,..,rs recently. all of which are Joined
a.,er hy some kind of growth by
W. Mind legs. The family is flourish
ing.
uu;. Watts of Brunswick has just
s,d at the age of 65 years after pc
IA If over 30 years i'll the employ of
40 Maine Central Railroad. Few have
hacn longer in the employ of this road.
,rrj, appears to have been an I'M
..,,a, month for suicides in Maine. 1t
w.s an unusual month for weather and
tho two may have some connection,
cave the Portland Express.
Some Of the Portland people who
have been left with unsightly stagings
an their houses by the strike of the
buiIders are not in an amiable frame
If mind toward the strikers.
Young man in Belfast recently shot
Of flock of wild geese and killed one.
When he got ii home he found that ii
was A tame goose that beior gc1 to L
nsighbor. but was going away with the
wild flock.
Miss Helen Gould presented Capt.
Sol Jacobs of Boothbay Iarbor. with
a fine Get of bunting for the vessel at
New York last week in recognition of
the honor conferred on her by the
naming of the craft.
few years ago when Elijah Norton
Of Dover. began to sell ice he sup
yljed IS families. and one man with a
lamb-rack for cart worked part of
four days each week delivering. Now.
during hot weather. three men and
three teams keep busy six days OF the
week supplying the demand.
BENJAMIN Higgins. Jr.. of Yarmouth.
still continues TO have phenomenal
luck in Matching chicks. Recently four
hens came off which had been set upon
l5 Ii, L and ID eggs with Il. II. II and
il Z chicks. The chicks are a cross be-
tween the Minorca and Rhode Island
Red strains
The other evening a Bath lady
called at the home of Il friend who's Il
member of the Deserted Wives club.
The poor husband of the member of
the Deserted Wives club was alone in
the house trying hard to amusc him
self with game of solitaire while his
better half was attending q reunion of
the club.
The JoneSport board of health has
ordered schools closed on Beals island
by reason of the measles which. since
Inc appearance of the disease two
Weeks ago. has developed into an cpl
demc. In several instances Who'll"
families are attacked and nurses have
heeh called from the mainland to care
for the sick.
There are some absent minded men
IN Maine, but few who are so much
vas 10 pay their taxes q second
ume. One such man hunted up the
INJECTOR at South Paris last week to
gay Ms last years tax. and was pre-
'ei'ed IRON doing so only by the col
Fc'or informing him that the tax
vas pad several months since.
hockand parties have recently re-
.e"ed check for ten cents. the return
iom an overpaid assessment to a life
Insurance company. and while this is
o' quite so trifinC an amount as the
neck Tor two cents which New York
p'feis recently commented upon. it
Deeessltated the payment of 20 per
~ VI the principal for the revenue
stamp it bore.
III 'ohesport. with the factory hands
ven as the other class OF iaborcr;
oNgcle answers the convenience
"e trolley car and during the sum
season a larg" part d: the work
p"''e outside of the village, ride
wheels as means of conveyance
year the William Underwood co
u"ths building near its factory
lure their help can store wheels
having separate place.
"nham 7. Veazic of Bangor. 2
auuate of Bowdoin. 90 has sailed
H.. New York for Havrc. l.:
v;t " VIII meet party of fricnd>
IN "hoih ne will make n bicycle rcu,
y, lance and Spain This is; Mr.. Yea.
second triD abroad. he having re-
n. last year from an extended ton!
MN ortinent Upon his return he
IN 'tr apon tho study of mcdicin,
"e Vi The New York schools
n ~ :" reported that there was attached
lronr, 'Ae or truck of a car recently
N,irs INTO this city on a Boston &
Min.. freight train a large sized
,os nest Those who saw it won
Nv NJ" IL came there and if It might
M. been built on tho way to Portland
a,ir aIoei by the slowness of the
ka ~, nat could not have been posi-
Enirh rne nest is on exhibition 81
n '"'s'ilie-Portland Argus.
Ia r' william Rogers Of Eath. enc q
aqns n,eran shipbuildcrs of that ia.
entnr,. 4'pouilding city. has turned tho
be- hoy mark That is. on Saturday
naasr - rayinE the keel for four.
mndr, - i@oo tons, which is the enc
srend,S third vessel bearing hi.