Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-14

enforcement to the State ana 10 New
England, and we are not at all fearful
that the hunters from OUTSIDE MAINE
viii object to the payment OF d I'VE or
ten-dollar bill. if they can feel assured
that the money will be expended to
protect in close seasons the game they
come so far to hunt legitimately during
the open months
1.-The Little Green I'm" has disap-
peared from Maine journalism. The
new Bath Independent with which the
Enterprise is consolidated lis printed
on white paper like other newspapers.
Butswe shall miss the Green I'm!
The annual report of the Portland
board of health contains a statement
that 497 cases of contagious diseases
We're recorded in the city during the year
1902. OF these 349 were cases of diph-
iberia; 76, typhoid fever; AZ, smallpox;
LA scarlet fever The annual report
| submitted by the health officers of
Biddeford. shows a total of So cases Of
SMALLPOX in that city during the year.
| Narraguagus Times: Just think of it:
| in January That is what was done at
| Rogers Point last week and the two
well-grown and fully ripe berries are
now at the Times office, left here
Thursday by Mrs. M. E. Imam.
What's the matter with "Way down
east in Maine when the robins stay
with us all winter and cucumbers and
strawberries are picked out of doors In
December and January.
| William F. Des Isle of East Lamoine,
| is getting out lumber for building an
lold-fashioned rustic log house on land
located 400 feet from Shore Acres
| Hotel, near the shore, in a grove OF
birch trees. The building will be OF
great interest and beside something of
| a curiosity, as it will be constructed
somewhat on the plan of the log house
| of old Madame Lavalle, of whom Mr..
Des Isle is a direct descendant which
she had built on her first journey from
France to her grant in this country,
according to deed dated in France
more than one hundred years ago
While not in the exact location of the
former cottage, long since in ruins, II
will be on the same property included
| in the grant. The house will be of di-
mansions of "a feet wide and zS feet
long with two ellis. Two stories, with
| four rooms below, a bath and foul
sleeping rooms above. The lower por-
ton will be finished in rustic fashion
built entirely of cedar logs, While the
second will be plaStered inside. A
huge fireplace, six feet WIDE requiring
1000 brick TO build. will be an attrac-
ton below stairs. The stairway rail-
ling is to be fashioned from portion
of huge old tree two feet in diameter.
clothed in it's bark and moss, and a
limb attached will be utilized for cary
ling, some design reproductive of the
French home of long ago. The house
will be completed for occupancy next
lsummer.
The item which has been going the
rounds that the present Maine Legis-
lature has no editor in it's membership
| is not an exact statement of the facts.
The biographical sketches, to be sure,
do not>shoW any member whose occu-
patton is put down as editor, but it has
one classed as a publisher who has
been also an editor for many years.
| This is William II. Gannett of Augusta,
| who is not only the business head OF
the great publishing house which sends
the monthly magazine Comfort into a
million homes, but who also personally
edits the greater part of the matter in
| itc He iS member of the
| Maine Press Association.