Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-22

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window on when there is Il fire."
| One of Pressure Isles potato kings i:
Frank Higgins, who raised 5000 barrels
this year. on 46 acres.
Bangor isn't SO alarmed over it's x
cases of smallpox but it is planning OF
| another indoor circus. If it needs
| points. Gardiner can give them.
The record breaking game shipments
which are reported do not indicate a
great scarcity of hunters in the Maine
| woods.
The Congregational church at Gray
is another to celebrate it's centennial
| this year, next Sunday being the day
There are a lot of these centennials
now coming along.
The teachers are coming to Augusta
today, and the program indicates that
the meetings will be most pleasant and
profitable. The Capital and the Cap
itol are at their disposal
Bangors historic old theatre. the
Norombega, is being demolished to
make way for a warehouse. 1t was
built in 1855 and many famous speak
ers and actors have been heard on its
stage.
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berland county. received in the spring.
seed corn from Washington, such as
they raise in Louisiana and Texas, with
information on the packets that the
stalks might grow seven feet tall. Many
of those who tried it raised stalks II
feet in height with ears pretty nearly
in proportion, but they We're all cob
with undeveloped kernels. For food,
the corn is a failure in this climate;
but a profitable crop of firewOod may
be grown in the stalks.
DR.. H. f. Hanson of Bangor, owner of
the now famous hornblend quarry at
Hernon Hill, has been offered $4,000
for the property and has refused it, He
/ ~ INV clICI, IIlioC NY
Chicago parties, for the furnishing of
| 50 or so tons of the stone for a new
building which is to be erected in the
Windy City. Mneralogists who have
examined the stone say that it is doubt
| full if there is any like it in the United
| States and have therefore named it
HanSonite. 1t is a variety of horn
! blend but is entirely unlike the usual
| kind of this stone. When polished it is
particularly handsome with it's shiny
black crystals of hornblend cemented
| together by a fine grained feldspar. The
rock is particularly adapted for building
purposes on account of its being par
| TALLY unaffected by the weather which
| has no action upon it. At the quarry
| in places where the ledge has been eX
posed to the weather for thousands of
years undoubtedly but a very slight
crust is found on it which on being
slightly Clipped shows the original in
the rock or building purposes is RAPIDLY
| growing in favor and it is predicted
| that in short time there will be such
4 demand that a large crew will be kept
busy all the time in getting out the or
ders.
The Kezar Falls Burying Ground So
ciety have, for 81 years in succession
chosen Thomas c. Randall clerk of the
society. They would not hear his ex-
uses this year. although he is almost
81 years of age. They mean that he
shall hold his office until he is an ole
man.
| An Auburn teacher, much to her sur.
prise, received q note short time ago
from one Of her pupils parents request.
'ng that she would not shake Annie
any more as the child was sick ever.
night from the effect of these shakngs
What can it mean?" thought the puZ
lied teacher who has not found it he
,essary to use strenuous methods il
the government of her pupils. Sh
tkept little Annie after school and said
What did you mean by telling you
mother such a story,-when have
,ver shaken you?" The child hung he
head. Did ever shake you?" repeat
| ID the teacher? ''Nom," came TIL
answer from little shame faced Cir
| "tWant you, twas Sarahn that ShOol
me-" The teacher was more puzzle,
than ever until upon further investiga
ton she found out that several of tn
girls were in the habit of playing schoo
every night and that the principal dut
! If the teacher" who was larger an
, | stronger than the other children, was t
punish them. chiefly by shaking. Sh
thinks that many irate parents woul
often find equally simple explanation
$ if they investigated all charges agains
the teachers.
; Bangor News: Nothing shows ,h
growing kindness of the human rae
{ more plainly than the change whic
! has come over decent people regardin