Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-11

Paris reports 30 marriages, 43 births and
40 deaths during 1901.
At a recent Bar Harbor fair a collection
of over 400 calendars was exhibited.
Bucksports vital statistics for 1901 show
Il marriages, 60 deaths and IS births.
The Sheridan Rifles Co L. of Portland.
Will entertain Co. H. of the 9th Massa-
chusetts Infantry, Feb. and G.
Parker NJ. Reed. Baths veteran his
torian and journalist is about to begin
work upon second volume of History of
Bath.
OF IA years was organized recently in Har-
rington for the purpose of doing chari-
table work in furnishing destitute
families with clothing.
1t now looks as though the Industrial
interests of South Berwick were to suffer
by the closing of the Berwick shoe fac
tory. The death of Mr.. Davidson has
left it without it's head and general man.
ager.
Once reformer, always a reformer.
Brother John" Hutchinson, who is we'll
known in Maine, at the age of 81 has en-
tered upon a new crusade. He recently
left his home in Lynn, Mass, to go to
Chicago, there to begin a battle with the
deadly cigarette.
The pretty pillow tops made f,om
photographs on cloth are having 4 great
run and have been source of revenue
to many young photographers the past
year. One Bath young woman who is an
expert with the camera and not at all
slow with needle, has sold over $500
worth of these tops the past fall and
winter and netted very neat little sum
for her work.
The Machias Republican tells this: The
daughter born to the wife of Ray E. Har-
mon on Friday, Dec. 90 first saw light
in the house built by its great-great-
grandfather. Thomas Gardner, and pur.
chased by her eat-grandfatIer. Hiram
Gardner, ana later by her grandfather,
G. l.. Harmon. and yet the house is not
an old one, being built in 1860. This child
has two GRANDPA theirs and two grand
mothers, a great-grandfather and two
great-grandmotherS yet living.
There is a man in Cape Roster who., in
an unfortunate mental condition, ina CINE
| he is Christ. He shows scars on his
| hands and feet where, he says, he was
nailed to the cross. He says he can per
form miracles; that he can cut off his
| wife's head and replace it without in
juring her. Twice he has been in an in
sane asylum, and returned as ''cured." 1t
is said his mind was ruined when he was
| a youth by his lying on the ice to cool
off after becoming heated by skating.
The Camden Herald suggests New
Years resolution to the voters of that
| town, and one which it would be well for
| voters elsewhere to adopt, and that is
for the citizens to attend the town meet
Iings and to put forth their best effort }
to make them what they ought to be.
| Let every man., says the Herald. "go
| there and stay through however tedious
| 1t may be. give every question careful!
reconsideration and vote on business prin
ciples. If we can't do this, town meet
ling government is a failure
l Word comes from Corea, the town
where lobster catching and fishing are
Ithe only occupation, that there was a
scarcity of the Holsters, the amount taken
during the past month being so small that
the fishermen are discouraged. Some at
| tribute il to the bad weather. but whether
! this is the cause or not, 1t is a fact that
where two men formerly hauled In pot
and found 100 good, stable Holsters. they
now get on an average from 30 to 50. and
not all of the larger size. This reduces
the wages of the men to 81 or $3.50 per
| day. where they were getting twice as
much. Since the fishing season closed at
| Corea, 90 600 Holsters have been shipped
| to Portland and Rockland.
In gathering up his lobster traps, re-
Gently, Quoddy boatfran came across
of the crustaceans in the lot and brought
the lucky find to Eastport for inspection.
On one of the Holsters claws was secure
! ly fastened a silver bracelet, which was
formerly the property Of some young lady
and had evidently been dropped overheard
way that it was fastened on the big CLAW
1T is thought that the bracelet must have
slipped on while the lobster was young
and as it would not come off had formed
circle around the she'll to hold It in
Mace as the crustacean grew up. very
little of the silver band had been left
Inv the action of the salt water, but
enough was there to indicate that It had
at one time been a bracelet Tor a iady's
wrist. and the next thing Is to find out
who lost such an article in recent years
| in the waters of Passamaquoddy bay.