Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-16

For fifty years, Nathaniel Poole has
been hack driver in Portland.
The topic of conversation in Oldtown
now is where shall the Carnegie library
be located?
A thousand dollars worth Of new
concrete sidewalks will be laid in Cam
den, this season.
1t is stated that the employees of the
Bath Iron Works will soon ask for a.
nine-hour day.
The Bath Merchants Association has
| voted not to advertise in programs and
| like publications.
Mrs. Susan Allen Senter of Windham.
who recently observed her 9lst ami
versary, has made 10 patchwork quilts
the past year.
North Arson has made a step in the
right direction by engaging man to
look after the streets, keeping them free
from litter. and the walks in repair.
| Mrs s. j. Sukeforth of South Wash
ington, is an expert at weaving the
old-fashioned rag carpet, and receives
quite number of orders for them.
| Years ago Bath shipbuilders used to
get all of the knees moulded from
| Maine woods. Nowadays they come
from the West and South A few days
ago a carload arrived the freight alone
| on which amounted to over 5000.
| One of the youngest club presidents in
Maine is Fred c. Scribner of Bath. Mr.
Scribner, who is only 20 years old, is at
the head of the Colonial Club, one of the
most successful organizations of the
| kind in Maine.
A year ago Bath man built small
boat to use on the New Meadows. Last
fall she was stolen from her mooring
and not until recently did he find her.
She had passed through the hands of at
| least three different owners meanwhile
and perhaps more.
While it seems pity it is neverthe-
less true that Bath is fast losing the
beautiful drives in the suburbs for
which it has long been noted The de-
mand for timber and wood of late years
has been such that the forests along
our country highways have been at
tackled vigorously by the man with the
axe until some of the most beautiful
drives through the woods have been
robbed of their greatest attraction, the
towering pines, which made a canopy
of green over the highway. Too bad
Bath Independent.
A well known Bath man recently
showed the remnants of once
valuable pipe and one which the owner
valued highly as he had carried it
across the continent several times,
through Mexico, completely around the
world and to Europe three times He
had taken the pipe on all these trips
without an accident Detailing it, but re-
Gently as he was lighting it some one
accidently hit his elbow, the pipe fell
and was broken into a dozen pieces.
The following suggestion from the
Camden Herald may be acted upon
with profit by other Maine towns:
Camden has no Village Improvement
Society Git ought to have) to see that
the streets. roadsdes, etc, are kept in
a neat and attractive condition, conse-
quently it becomes the duty of each
householder to do his share towards
keeping streets and byWays clean and
attractive. 1t doesn't take very much
time for each person to look after this
in front of his own place and if all
will do it. it will make a surprising
difference in the appearance of our
town"
A peculiar case came up recently in
tie Pittsfield municipal court. A GER
tain tenement house is occupied by the
two families involved child was
leaving her home in the lower rent, and
had
something hot struck her in the back.
1t proved to be hot water which had
been emptied out of a window of the
upstairs rent. The child's back was
burned to a blister. The family living
down stairs claimed that the water was
not thrown on the child by accident,
but from i'll will. Judge Drake evil
IDENTIFY was convinced of the truth of
this claim for he fined the woman who
threw the water.
a peculiar incident happened to one
of Baths brick layers, not long ago. He
was engaged to build q cistern in the
cellar of a Phippsburg house. While at
work on the inside of the cistern he be-
came so absorbed in his labors that he
built the four sides within an inch of
tiit iiopl tiIlibtlS, lilIS making nll0Sell
prisoner. The family hearing an out
cry investigated the cause and found
him in his cell. They cut a hole through
the floor large enough to let him out
1t has taken many cigars to keep his
friends quiet.
George S. Jewett of Norridgewock.
who has been superintendent of the
corn factory there for years, secured a
patent a short time ago on a self heat
ing can. AT first thought one looks
upon the suggestion as a burlesque,
but it is a reality nevertheless. One
day, number of months ago, Mr..
Jewett was walking down one Of the
streets in Portland and when near a
brick building that was in process of
construction. he noticed one of the
Workmen rush out somewhat hurriedly
to mortar bin, and thrust his dinner
pail down into the mortar which had
been making. The lime. being treated
with water of course grew quite warm,
and the dinner pail and it's contents in
very short period We're warmed very
thoroughly. Mr.. Jewett went home and
the idea fingered with him. Next he
made can. or rather two cans. one
smaller than the other and being fitted