Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-12

Mrs. Cynthia knowlton Of Stunng
ton. aged d. has finished Il fin. silk
quilt Of loo pieces.
Sutton's island ana Big Cranberry
want to be- connected with the rest of
the world by telephone
There are eleven dwelling houses
building in North Haven. and prospects
of several more being built in the near
future.
Judge William T. Hall of Richmond.
has hard luck. The last three times he
has attempted to attend q launching in
Bath the vessel has stuck on the ways
IT is said that lady in Rockport.
who lives just over the, brow Of a hill
and about 100 feet from the electric
car track has never seen a car to this
date.
The gavels in use in Belfast Lodge
Of Coed Templars and Seaside Grang.
We're presented to those bodies by Or.
l.. w. Hammons. who made them from
beech wood which his father cut for
p!ow handles more than IS years ago.
Knox county physicians have bough.
the buildings on White and Maple
streets, Rockland. formerly occupied
by the House of the Good Shepherd.
and will soon establish 4 general hos
pital.
Few people realize the value and
necessity Of sawdust to Eastport yet n
large quantity of it is used for several
months of the year or during the sar-
dine canning season when it becomes
a necessity. The principal use of the
S.ly n y-t ID. IN, |,
from becoming SCARED, and in many
parts OF the sardine canning plants the
saWdust is used extensively.
orono people are selling their shot
guns and are at present buying up all
the young cast in town. This is caused
from the fact that DR. f.. n. Mayo's
cat brought in partridge Tuesday
forenoon. which it caught back of the
house. and laid it on the back door steps
The inhabitants are wondering what's
the use of proving around in the
woods with gun, when a cat can
catch the cartridges with no trouble.
There is every prospect that Mon
mouth will take big boom another
year as a summer resort II is known
definitely at the present time that two
Cora Gilman OF Portland the other BY
Herbert Owen Of Woburn, Mass
These will be erected in The Birches I"
near the cottage of DIR. Bassford,
Henry Gilman and the Bloomingboro
Club House. The land was purchased
Of ]. Fl. Gilman
There IS every prospect that casino
Will add to the attractions Of Rrooklin
next summer The summer people have
taken hold OF the project with the in
tentlon or carrying 1t through, and
they viii have the cooperation of the
townsreople. Subscription books have
been opened with shares placed at $40
each 50 that all may help. A pleasant
site for the casino has already been Sc
iected. 1t is convenient to both the
village and the cottage colony.
The highway surveyor of Northport
in repairing the Gray hill this sum-
mer found the impression Of sea shells
OF several species deeply embedded in
the clay bank. The place is a mile and
half from the sea shore and at least
! loo feet above the present tide water
The extent and depth of the bed OF
shells shows that they were not hauled
there for fertilizer. but must have been
deposited there a long time ago by
natural agencies.
Pressure Isle correspondent writes.
one sure indication that the era Of
prosperity is reigning in Aroostook is
the large business being done by our
stores in town. especially the dry goods
stores. Or course the grocery business
does not act as so great a barometer Of
! the excellent state of prosperity as does
other lines of business. Both dry goods
stores report enormous business last
week--even going ahead Of any week
before christmas. This means con-
siderable. and il also means that an era