Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-05

begun and no hunter can exercise too
great care.
The only one of the Maine colleges to
have game, today, is Bowdoin when
Cambridge.
Maine loses one of its bright weeklies
in the suspension of the Gardiner Inde-
pendent w!1,Se subscription list has
been sold to the Reporter Journal.
Miss Carrie Carter, Bluehll's famous
fat girl who now tips the scales at 800
pounds, has become sideshow attrac-
ton at this falls fairs.
The cry of rot has not been raised
this year i'll regard to the Aroostook
potato crop-about the first time ever
such a thing happened. There never
was 50 little rot known before, taking
the county as a whole, the quality Of
tr1bers was never better, and the yield
never larger There is much rot, how
ever, reported in Some sections.
The government course Of &C miles
from cape Ann to Boon island which is
off the Maine coast, is to BE- Increased
in length to 20 miles if the recommen-
dation of the naval officers comprising
the board Of inspection and survey is
accepted. The increased length of the
course is necessary because of the
higher speed OF the ships soon to be
tried
Church people of Brewer are talking
up the idea of taking a census of the
church goers of the city in the hopes
that il will increase the attendance at
the churches. In the city there are
four churches. two Congregational, a
Methodist and a Baptist organization.
They are all prosperous ana with the
exception Of the BAPTIST society. many
years old. \ dozen or so years ago the
first Congregational church built 4 fine
new wooden church and within a few
montha the Methodist society will
dedicate a brick and stone edlfice which
will cost many thousand dollars. So
far as any of those who favor the
census will say they do not claim that
there is a falling off in attendance at
the churches, but claim that the num-
Der in a city the size of Brewer should
be much larger than it now is. The re-
suit of the census will be watched with
interest
The three immense smokeStackS for
the battleship Georgia are in position.
The forward stack was hcisted on
board Saturday. The coming tower
which weighs forty-one tons will be
placed on board this week and the
forward military mast will be installed
before the day of the launching. With
masts and stacks in place the craft will
present a picture he day of the
launching never before offered at the
launching of a battleshir in this coun-
try. The work on the boilers is well
advanced and several boilers will be in
operation on launching day. The hour
set for the craft to go overheard is at
one O'Clock Tuesday October II. Bath
will be the centre of attraction in the
shipbuilding world IN that Gay. 1t is
reported that the city council will take
som" action at the meeting. Wednesday
evening, towards celebrating the event.
The Bath Cadet Band has been en-
gagged by the Iron Works to furnish
music for the occasion.
Says writer in the Portland En-
press: II called one evening this week
on some young married friends of mine,
and it seems to me that their methods
of financing their household might Well
be copied by others. When they We're
married they made up their minds
never to get into debt. Every day the
grocer. the milkman. the iceman ana
the butcher We're paid cash. Not A
thing was charged at any dry goods
store and tn" rent money was st aside
every Saturday. Under this rigid sys-
TEN small surplus was on hand at the
end of the Year and Il small life inSur-
anre policy had been kept up. The
young man hustled in his business and
his salary increased and it was not
long before Their" was enough in the
| treasury to ny Il vacant lot. the start
for a home. And it was not
a great while before the home came
and it was built without the debt of 4
dollar. 10 be sure there were one or
two rooms left unfinished for while
ana furniture was not quite 50 much in
evidence as it might have been. but
what they had was theirs and in due
time the home vas complete. This
couple has never laid awake nights
over the debt demon and they have
started in right. They are not rich Yet,
| hut if misfortune does not overtake
them it won't be many years before
| they are classed with the Well-to-do.
The marriage Of a regular army Off
Ger named Charles Morton at St. Louis,
last week. led the Journal into the
natural mistake Of assuming that the
happy bridegroom was the officer OF
that name detailed with the Maine
National Guard, few years ago. and
who was with the 1st Maine as lieuten-
ana colonel during its service in the
summer Of 1SaS. 1t vas another man.
however. Colonel Charles Merton of the