Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-06

street sprinkler cart. Inc cost OF the
new vehicle will be $500.
1t is stated on good authority that
there are indications of PASSPORT hav-
ing a government coalng station at
an early date.
BENJAMIN Grant of Newport. is the
owner and daily user during the VIM
ter Of a sleigh which has been in use
for over 80 years.
John Small Of Ashville. boasts the
largest calf in that vicinity. 1t weighed
l73 pounds when thirty days old. and
was old to f. H. Young. of West
GouldsborO. for SILL
Two hundred and forty men plus in
attendance upon one church service is
circumstance that few towns the
size Of Bar Harhbor can equal. says
the Bar Harbor Record.
Henry Hudson. Esq, who was re-
elected town agent of Guilford last
week. has served in that capacity
every year but two for % years and
one Of those years he was at Dover.
Two Of Brewers small boys created
quite a commotion, this week. by get
ting mired in a garden. The little fell
lows got into the soft mud and nearly
sank out of sight before help could
reach them.
Brunswick has a cat which, when
she wishes to enter the house, -ill
jump upon a window sill. take her paw
and rap on a window pane until some
one of the family is attracted to her
attention.
A Calais young man hired boy to
of
fish cart. The boy secured the piece
and received reward of % cents.
But it cost the young man s, more to
settle with the irate owner.
Surry correspondent writes that
that town has eleven good mill
privileges in a distance of two miles.
with two ponds each about three miles
long that can be made to hold water
enough to last through any drouth.
Comrades of Edwin Libby Post. G.
A. r., Rockland. have been discussing
n plan for a different order of Me-
mortal day exercises this year. it being
to omit the usual parade and hold ser
vices in the hall during the afternoon.
the graves of departed comrades to be
decorated by a detail of C. A. r. men
during the forenoon. This plan. how
prOyal and it is quite likely that the
order heretofore used will be retained.
a gentleman from Bangor who was
stopping at Il Nanceboro hotel left his
overshoes. an expensive pair. in the
hotel office in the evening, and when
he came to need them in the morn
ing, he found to his dismay only the
tops of the overshOes. He found out
later that man from Boston. who
was buying old rubbers, was also
putting up at the hotel and had cut
the tops from the Bangor mans over
shoes.
Bath woman few years ago had
a Bath merchant secure some mink
fur to be used for trimming on her
dress. The trimming cost her $50. for
it was the finest quality obtainable.
While travelling abroad recently she
had the dress made over at a fash
fOnable dressmakerS. On returning
home she discovered that the dress
maker had removed the fine fur trim
ming and replaced it with fur of an in
feriOr make.
A peculiar combination of accidents
occurred near Winslows Mills recent
ly. A son of Charles r. Brown cut his
wrist severely and was sent to the
Maine General Hospital. On account
of this accident and attending expense
Alr. Browns neighbors got up a wood
chOpping bee for his benefit. At the
bee son of Nathaniel Keene was bad
ly cut in the elbow and was sent to
to the hospital where he has been at
tended in the same ward with young
Brown.
Judge H. H. Burbank of the Saco
municipal court. and Bowdoin gradu-
ate of the class of 60. is preparing q
photograph album which will give an
idea Of the manner in which man
changes after his college education is
over. 1t is his plan to get photo
graphs of the members of his class
while they were students and also a
collection Of photographs Of the same
men taken at the present time. This
will be placed in the college library at
Brunswick.
George A. Emery. one of the trustees
of Thornton Academy. is preparing a
collection of photographs which will be
Of great value. He will have a number
of albums, one for each class. which
has graduated since the new academy
was started, and in these will b,
placed photographs of each gradua te
He has seen a number of alumni who
have responded to requests for photo
graphs. The albums will placed in the
school library and will be Of uniform
size and binding.
The trustees of the Maine Genera
hospital in Portland have decided thai
the use of the fence on the Congress
street side of their premises for adj
vertising purposes shall be discon-
tinued on the expira ton of the present
contracts, about Oct. LIST. This is done
in Difference to the wishes of many
citizens living in that vicinity as ex-
pressed in n petition recently presented
to the board. The State of Maine mas
much fine scenery marred by these
hideous things in paint.
Miss Grace Thayer of South Paris
has completed course in the United
States Embalming College Miss
Thayer is one of the first Maine I'M
dertal,ers to graduate from this school
and is believed to be the only woman
in Maine to hold diploma from the
college. Miss Thayer is the daughter
of the late Frank A. Thayer. For a