Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-14

Dixfcld wants municipal waterworks
and has voted to have an engineer
look over the ground and make esti-
mates as to expense.
1t has been Il cold and sickly winter
down i'll Randolph where the liquor
agency reports that it cleared s2,G15
last year.
| A baseball league to include Augusta
Hallowell. Gardiner, Winthrop and
Richmond, with only local players TAX
ing part. is proposed for the coming
summer.
| Bar Harbor has appropriated $500 to
buy cup to be raced for each season,
by the crack yachts that come to
Maine waters.
| Augusta wants clean, honest, bust
ness administration for the coming
| year. and this is why every Republican
vote should be cast for Mayor Robert
son and the Republican ticket.
Beal island. Joresport, has been
| getting lot of advertising which
ought 20 help it if it has ambitions to
be summer resort.
| The usual stories are coming in OF
sheer starving to death, during the
| NJ
| coast A short time ago Il very serious
state of affairs was discovered by the
lagents of the S. r. c. A. On four
islands, in Washington county. from
twelve to seventy-five dead sheep were
found which had starved and frozen
to death. The four islands are Tibbets.
Cone, Little Nashs and NortOns. Each
island presents a bleak and fOrbidding
IaSpect buried in snow and ice and
swept by the chill wind of winter and
the icy blasts from the sea. Farmers
and stock owners have found it hard
! work 10 make their animals comfort
able during the cold weather housed in
Il warm, well stocked barn. What
then, of these poor. suffering sheep
| LEFT without shelter of any sort and
| W ltH dDSoluttly llo loOu Jul HIS I'll
| coolest weather? The sheep usually
feed on the sea weed, sea moss and
| pulp which they can find along the
edge of the sea, but the intense cold
covered share and Part Of the sea with
ice and the poor sheep had nothing to
60 but slowly starve to death.
| Speaking of cruelty to animals. it is
pointed out that during the winter the
| Old Orchard officers have killed 20 cats
(which cottagers abandoned there, last
| fall. The people who left their cats to
starvc and become public nuisances
will hear OF it when they come to the
resort. this year.
Blaine S. Viles, of Skowhesan, has
accepted IL position as general superin-
tendent of the great Corbin game pre-
serve in New Hampshire, and will as
sumo his duties Aug. I. Mr.. Niles. is
Il Bowdoin man and is now finishing
| his course at the Yale school o;
forestry at New Haven. His father is
considered one of the best judges OF
| timber lands in Maine.
portland will have 10000 people by
1914" is the pth of a communication
sent to the treasury department at
Washington by Postmaster Clark II
| Barker of that city. in response to Il
series of formal queries. The post
Office is a local thermometer on growth
of population. For instance, in $50:
. bod ~ NIL -e,G
who were able to take care of the mai
of the $1,000 people making up the
population of that date. Now the city
has total of $4,000. and the pOstoffice
has 112 employees in and attached tC
the central station with Il dozen sub
stations which raise the grand total t.
NEARLY 80 persons. Based on the fig
ureS in his office. Postmaster Bankers
estimates are elaborated by means OF
the federal census system, according
to which the growth of the city pei
year has been 1900 averaged over the
Ipast 10 years. With this average and
the population of South Portland
which he reckons will become part
of the greater city. the total popu-
llatiOn in 1914 will be 5000.
| Brunswick'S fat woman is famous
far and wide. but Bluehill claims tc
have q young woman coming along who
will soon rival the best of them. Hell
picture has been getting into tht
papers of late and also some figure:
which strain the credulity of the aver.
age reader. For instance. it i:
solemnly asserted that although she
weighted only 6i4 pounds at birth she
had achieved a weight of 211 pounds ii
the age of two years. This remarka biz
young lady. whose name is given a:
Miss Carrie NJ. Carter, is now IS year;
of age and tips the scales at 46,. He,
bust measure is given by the truthful
correspondent as 80 inches and her hill
measure as 81 inches. He also add tn,
interesting information that in th'
good old summer time she goes in wad
ing with the other children and enjoy.
life generally. She is very ligh
cater. but the Bluehill air is SO bracins
that she counts on weighing over so
before long.
Prof George Santayana aSSiStau