Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-17

drown out the music.
The North Carolina and Kentucky
mountain regions do not have
monopoly of the illicit still business.
The women Of Fort Fairfield are Or
ganizing a village improvement society,
n movement that means much to the
community.
Three Maine boys are in West Points
graduating class this year: Ralph T.
Glass, Bangor, Henry ]. Reilly, Castlne,
and Philip Fl. Worcester, Portland.
Not the least part of Hebron
Academy's centennial celebration is the
graduation of the largest class-52
members--that ever left Maine
academy.
Not for years has the village of
North Bridgton seen such an active
market in real estate. This past few
weeks there have been more transfers
of property than have heretofore been
made in the same number of years.
1t is somewhat curious, in the light
of history that PASSPORT is counting on
crowds from over the border to join in
its Fourth of July celebration. More
over. the band which will play the
patriotic airs of the day, will come from
the domain of Edward VII.
Millinocket wants curfew law.
There is no race suicide up that way
and the youngsters are SO numerous on
the streets at night that their elders
have difficulty in getting along.
Augustine Jones, the Maine man who
has been at the head of the famous old
Friends School in Providence for full
quarter Of a century, retires with the
close of the present school year. He Is
of the famous Jones family of China
and after graduating at Bowdoin In
1860 taught at Oak Grove Seminary for
several years. Governor Garvin of
Rhode Island headed delegation of
the leading citizens Of Providence
which called on him, this week, and
presented him an elaborate testimonial
i'm appreciation of his work as an
educator and his worth as q public
spirited citizen.
Mrs. Rebecca X. Stetson, wife of Hon.
W. w. Stetson of Auburn, has just re-
ceived the degree of Master of Arts
from Monmouth College, Illinois. Mrs.
Stetson was formerly a teacher in That
college, and when convenient to do so
has always made a practice of being
present at it's cOmmencements. She
graduated there in 1868 with the highest
honors of her class, and was a class
mate of John A. Wallace, who has re-
Gently been appointed as chief engineer
of the Panama canal, by President
Roosevelt.
Perhaps the time is coming when
some of the things that most provoke
us now may seem as insignificant as
the following recorded event, which for
a minute was trouble enough for the
little man who is the hero of the story.
A Brewer youngster entered candy
store the other afternoon and asked for
one cents worth of sailed peanuts.
The obliging clerk Immediately COM
piled and waited for payment. 1t was
not forthcoming, as something seemed
to be the matter with the youngster.
Finally he blurted out: Il sWaliered II.
He had been carrying it in his mouth
and in his excitement had gulped IL
down, but he departed with his pea
nuts.
There's nothing novel in the appear
ance of stray cat at ones home; but
when a woman picks up her pet pussy
on the street and carries her home only
to find puss already summing herself on
her own doorstep. as Caribou woman
did last week, the incident is a little out
of the ordinary. And the strangest of
all is that said woman has canvassed
the whole town for the owner of that
duplicate cat, and can't find any such
person. She firmly believes that the
cat is living two of it's nine lives at the
same time.
After nearly two years of waiting the
county commissioners of York county
have paid the bills of the officers who
were engaged in the case of Olive
Broad who came to her death at the
hands of some person unknown August
20, 1902. 1t will be remembered that
Deputy Sheriff j. H. Miles of Saco was
engaged on this case almost continu-
ously for several months and Sheriff
Fogg. County Attorney Emery and
other officers put in a lot of time on the
case. The commissioners held up the
bills for a long time. An effort was
made to induce Attorney General
Seiders to foot some of the bills from
the fund which is provided by the
state for such purposes. This failed
and the commissioners have concluded
to settle with the officers. The bills
. are paid in full for the amounts claimed