Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-20

| Tor the purchase of a street sprinkler
| by private parties
The Portland city government has
| forbidden the sale of cannon crackers
for the coming Fourth of July.
| There's trouble in one Bath family
| and all because the older brother has
stolen the younger ones best girl.
A valuable colt owned by Charles 1.
| Brown of West Ellsworth, was found
| dead in pasture recently having
| choked himself in the children's swing.
Building operations are booming at
J Van Buren,. There are about forty
houses now under construction and
preparations are being made for the
erection of as many more during the
summer.
1t is reported from Van Buren, that
gold has been discovered on Fiolette
brook, the analysis Of some sent away
shows ten dollars gold and one dollar
fifty cents silver, pretty good for sur
face rock.
AS result of the great amount of
weir building that has been done in the
Machias bay during the past few years
it is said that the supply of available
material for weir building is fast be-
coming exhausted.
Lisbon Falls is to have first class
baseball grounds. The citizens have
subscribed generously for grand
stand, and it is probable that an as
ISOLATION will be organized to look
after the interests of the game in that
section.
Pressure Isle citizens are discussing
the important matter of more efficient
water supply and service in case of
fire, and it is probable that large
standpipe from which greater and
sufficient water force can be had, will
be erected.
The merchants of Lincoln are all do
ing a much larger business and more
cash sales than ever. The one draw
back of the town today is that it needs
about 100 new tenements for the men
employed there that cannot move
their families into town for want of
rents.
Some of the Italians who came to
Biddeford to work in the mills from
Lawrence, Mass. have returned to
Massachusetts, because they did not
like the surroundings in BiddefOrd. A
Eiddeford man has gone to Massachu-
setts to get help, as the officials look
for a big exodus TO Canada in short
time now and there will be scarcity of
help.
A Portland man succeeded in steal
ing electricity from an electric light
company by tapping the wires for nine
months without discovery. He was
rounded up recently by employees of
the company and on his promise to pay
for the stolen fluid he was not COM
planned against. This man not only
tapped the wires for himself but for
some of his neighbors as we'll.
A Belfast family were aroused one
evening recently by a great commotion
in a front chamber, and on going into
the room found large number of
chimney swallows flying about. The
birds had their nests in the chimney
and had forced out the receiver and
got into the room. The room had just
been put in prime order for Il guest
chamber, and the havoc the birds
wrought can be better imagined than
described.
Tuxedo residents are planning new
summer colony at Sullivan's Harbor,
on Frenchman's Bay, nearly opposite
Bar Harbor. w. II. Nelson Bonn and
Dwight Braman have acquired three
miles of water front. They intend to
establish a resort similar to Nara
gansett and Bar Harbor. Several
residents of the Boston Back Bay dis
trict now have cottages on the tract.
The formal opening of Manor Inn and
the Chalet two weeks hence will invite
the first influx of fashionable guests.
The place will be the headquarters of
the Maine Fisheries Club, which will
stand as the authority for fishing and
hunting in the Maine forests.