Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-26


to another is said to be a recently
inaugurated scheme for beating the
prohibitory law.
With its leading hotel man sick with
the typhoid fever, Biddeford is in a
quandary over that State Board of
Trade banquet, Tuesday night.
They say the caribou are coming back
and will be quite plentiful in the Maine
woods, this fall, but the hunters must
not mistake them for deer.
The citizens of Belfast will hold a
mass meeting, Tuesday evening to con-
slider the purchase of a tract of land for
city park, together with shore privi-
lege The fact that Camden with all its
attractions has no right of way to the
sea has aroused some of Belfasts
public-spirited citizens to the fact that
it may be wise to take some action to
prevent like condition in their city.
Judging by the present outlook,
woodsmen will be very scarce this fall
and winter, and wages will be high.
Men are already in great demand, and
the Bangor employment agencies are
finding trouble in filling their orders for
lumber camps and mills.
One of the last, but not the least, of
the fall fairs will be the Dorothea Dix
annual fair which is to be held at Har-
mony hall, Hampden, Oct IA. and Is.
The object is to raise funds for trans
forming the old, run-out, rock farm
where Miss Dix was born into a memo
rial park. The association invites all
friends who would honor virtue and
patriotism to aid the cause.
Here is the Machias Unions reply to
the enquiry of Ear Harbor subscrib-
err: THE prohibitory law was not
passed last winter. 1t was passed in
1852. It's provisions have recently been
extended to islands. That is why you
notice the change in prices of which
you speak,
Who is Names oldest woman, now
that Mrs Ruth Curtis of Kennebunk-
port is dead at the age of 1O4--kenne-
bee Journal.
Our Augusta contemporary can hard
ly expect an answer to that Question
Belfast Journal.
Well, why not? There isn't so much
reluctance on the part of woman
to have her age known when she is
rounding the century mark as there is
two or three generations earlier in her
life. And then the distinction of being
first among so many thousands is
enough to bring out the claimants. We
count with confidence on many answers
to our question. Hasn't Belfast cam
didate, by the way?
Deploring the numbers of young peo-
pie who leave the farms for the city.
Vassalboro correspondent, whose ten
dencies are plainly musical and religi-
Gus, thus expresses his own preference:
THE grunt of the pig in the morning
sounds sweeter and more melodious in
our ears than the chanting music of
cathedral bells
The little Waldo county town of
Palermo, formerly known as SheepscOtt
Great Pond plantation, which is tucked
up under the border of two good
Kennebec county towns. Albion and
China, and which will celebrate the
centennial of it's incorporation on June
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historic and will have good reason for
recognition in future years. There has
lust been erected in that town Il large
monument to commemorate the first
settlers of the towns of Palermo and
China. The monument has been givena
prominent situation in the village of
Branch Mills known as the Junction"
The Junction is so called because the
village of Branch Mills which is the
principal village in the towns of Paler-
mo and China is located not only at the
junction of two towns but also at the
junction of two counties. China was
originally settled in 1714 by family by
the name of Clark from Nantucket and,
singularly enough, the place was called
not Clark but Jones Plantation" 1t
was first incorporated under the name
of Harlem, on Feb, 8, 1895. Twenty
two years later. on June 5, 1918, portions
of Harlem, Albion and Winslow were
incorporated under the name of China.
In Palermo we have the curious instance
where mail matter addressed to one
town goes into a postoffice by another
name and in another town. This mon
ument has been erected at the expense
business man of Palermo, and is a gift
to the town. 1t is designed to COM
memorate the first settlers of the towns
of China and Palermo and bears 20
names.
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