Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-02

| The snake editor of the Bangor News
who has been making an investigation
in his special field of study finds that
the Maine snakes are being extermi-
mated, and that, too, without any State
| bounty.
Mechanic Falls. which will have an
all day celebration of Labor day, has
no fewer than three ball games
scheduled for the day.
Fort Fairfield rejoices in a good citi-
zen who was named after Alfred Aus
tin, the present British poet laureate.
The gentleman referred to is Alfred
Austin Hockenhull, a local miller and
feed merchant, who was born in Eng
land and not very far from the home
of the poet and whose people were adj
mirers of their neighbor who is now
the successor of Lord Tennyson.
Sagadahoc county will celebrate
Labor day by voting on the question of
rebuilding Bay bridge.
A Bowdoinham man reports that he
recently saw large coon cat in the
deep woods which had evidently given
up domestic life for one in the forests.
He says that it was a very handsome
animal but as wild as a hawk. Pretty
soon there will be blood -curdling sto-
ries OF a strange monster roaming the
Bowdoinham forests.
A Worcester, Mass, man had pc
culiar experience at Biddeford Pool,
this week. He has been spending va
cation at the Littlefield cottage at the
point, and while deep sea fishing, Is
miles off shore, lost his hat overheard.
He was unable to secure it again and
had to go ashore hatless. The next day
the hat 1ioated into small cove direct
ly in front of the Littlefield cottage and
was found by the owner while strolling
on the rocks. That the hat should float
ashore at this point, distance Of Is
miles, seems remarkable
Charles H. Dinsmore, the Fort Fair
field collector of taxes for 1902, had the
taxes for that year committed to him
August 25, 1902. On August 20, 1903,
five days less than one year, he settled
for the whole tax. That certainly
speaks pretty we'll for Mr.. Dinsmore's
skill-and the resources and financial
condition of Fort Fairfield. We Won
der how many towns have made a bet
ter showing.
The robbery of the Brewer bank was
the happening Of what nine out of ten
people in Brewer have been confidently
expecting for years. SO they say.
Brewer offers excellent facilities for
burglars and fires after midnight for
the police are off duty, everybody is
sleeping the sleep of the innocent and
just. No one is abroad and it would
be possible for an enterprising gang of
burglars to carry off the toll-bridge it
SELF if they wanted it.
Two Maine boys now playing in the
box in the New England league are
about to go into the fast q company OF
the big leagues. Josselyn, a Pittsfeld
boy, now pitching on New Bedford will
be with the Boston American league
team, next year; and Bushey of Water
vile, now pitching for Lowell, is
scheduled to travel, next year, with
the Chicago Americans.
Monmouth could have well afforded
years ago to provide herself with some
sort of fire fighting apparatus for the
village section, for in the last 20 years
it has been visited by three destructive
fires. When the last one came, last
week, it found things just as they were
when the first came along, with no
semblance of q fire company in the
town, or appliances of any sort for
fighting the flames. 1t has been sad
and expensive lesson.
II. C. Houston of Portland, has at
last completed a labor of love on which
he has been engaged for several years,
history of the 32d Maine regiment
The book is very handsomely gotten
up and is crammed with information
concerning the regiment.