Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-12

Hereafter during the months of July
August and September, the Rockland
attorneys will close their law offices al
noon on Saturday.
A South Paris business man of an in
genious turn has invented and put in
operation trolley line for conveying
wood up the. back stairs.
A deet was recorded in Waldo Coun-
Nv Registry of Deeds containing eleven
signatures with seals; nine notary
public certificates with seals, and 80
cents in revenue stamps. 1t conveys
40 acres of land in Lincolnville.
RAYMOND Mcfarland of North La
moline. who has recently finished a
postgraduate course at Yale, has re-
ceived the degree of Master of Arts.
the first man in, Lamoine who has
ever reached that distinction.
Charles Edwards, who sold his
farm at Pressure Isle in the spring with
a view of settling in the West. made a
trip to Washington state and finding
no location to suit his fancy, has re-
turned to Pressure Isle and is now in
quest of good farm, finding more sat
isfacton in Aroostook than elsewhere.
Calais ladies, with commendable en-
terprise. raised money and purchased n
dozen settees which were placed in the
park short time ago, but youthful
,andals, under the cover of night have
destroyed them all. The ladies have
exhausted their patience and are pre-
pairing to prosecute the offenders.
A banana stalk cost the New Eng
land Telephone company at Searsport
more than five dollars last week. Some
one had thrown it up across the wires
and in the morning when damp it
made "a most perfect connection and
demoralized business on the main line
After two men spent half a day hunt
ing in the office they We're sent out on
the line and just at night located the
trouble.
The trustees of the Old Orchard pub
lie library have decided to charge sum-
mer visitors, VINO are not taxpayers of
Old Orchard, two cents per day for the
use of library books. A deposit of one
dollar is required as a guaranty,
and whatever par of this amount, if
any is due will be returned to the de-
position when book-taking is discontin-
ued. This is following out the plan
suggested by many of the residents,
and which is pursued by other libraries
similarly situated.
Free lectures do some goods de-
clares c. NJ. Bailey of the Winthrop oil
cloth factory, land I'll prove it. Now
for some years past I've been lecturing
the men in my employ on the advisa-
biity of working on July 4th and saw
ing s. thereby, and this year of the a.
men in the local shop, 10 worked. They
not only earned 81, but they saved the
So or So they would have spent had
they gone away to celebrate. The OPP
portunities have not been quite as good
for lectures at the Center and in the
branch mill at Skowhegan, but I've
talked to them there occasionally and
about p per cent. of these men worked
all day. Why its the best Fourth
we've had here for years. 1 drove back
and forth here in town several times
during the day and not Il fire cracker
did hear. / call it about the best
Fourth the town ever had"
Two Calais kids who are fond of pie
and other good things We're prowlinS
stocked pantry. There was only one
inmate at home in the house, an aged
woman and the two worthless decided
quickly upon a plan of action. With
an mccarthy yell they brought up
against the door of the room where she
was sitting. and she hastily retreatei
into an adjoining room, the only exit
from which was by means of Win
dow. Then the youthful desperadoes
boldly entered the room where the lady
had been sitting, locked her into the
room whore she was hiding with fear
and trembling. and when she was re-
leased some time later by "a neighbor,
she found that every tasty morsel in
the pantry had been carried off by the
unwecome visitors who were having
a nice time in Il neighboring pasture
with the proceeds of their raid.