Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-10

taeIiIeTdluIe WAS ABOUT oU ues lees pe-
low the normal, but the promise of real
June weather is brighter now.
Bath has had an unusual siege of
diphtheria this year, and reports seem
to indicate that the disease is still far
from conquered, but the energetic
measures being adopted by the new
Board of Health ought soon to produce
tangible results. The Times reports
that many of the recent cases have
of the schoolhouses, which if true con-
stitutes surprising case of negligence.
Here is a gem from the Wise Willie
Talks in the Waterville Sentinel:
"Well. don't know Willie, but Some
People who get the Finest Monuments
| won't Experience half so much Diff
Guilty in getting their Coats on over
| their Wings as they will getting their
Hats on over their Horns"
The summer hotels in the vicinity of
Portland are beginning to open and in
dications point to a prosperous season.
| The Peaks Island House is the first to
open it's doors and this hotel is now
accommodating guests although their
| number as yet is not large.
There are several towns in Knox
| county where the fight will be very
sharp. Warren. Hope. Appleton are all
! full of anti-Cobb Standardization
Journal.
| Reports from the Hope and Apple
ton caucuses will be found elsewhere
| in this issue. Both of them instructed
their delegates for William T. Cobb.
Bangor News: This great hue and
cry which we hear from Christian peo-
| pie about empty pews and laxity of in
terest is simply the result of an idle
| habit that has been allowed to run to
| seed. The average morals of the hui
man race are higher today that at any
| other time in the history of the world.
If Christian men and Christian women
would pay One-half as much attention
to inducing non-church-g to step
inside the edifice and listen to what is
said, as they do to making shows of
fine clothing and giving exalted i'm
pressions of themselves, the pewS
| would fill up, the clergymen would take
new courage, and the world would be IA
sweeter and more cheerful place of res
idence.
Lincoln county, which some good
people are proposing to wipe off the
map, was incorporated in 1850 when
Cumberland and York We're the only
| other counties in the District of Maine.
1t was named for Benjamin Lincoln, a
soldier Of the Revolution. who was held
in very high esteem by Washington,
was present at the siege of Yorktown
and was secretary Of war from 1871 to
1884. At the time the county of Lin
coin was Incorporated 1t embraced all
of the present State of Maine east of
the county of Cumberland. or as Will
hanson defines it. 1.-The residue of the
present State. including the islands
upon the seaboard and extending to
NOVA HoCotld edSlWdTu, anu 10 the Ut
most limits of the Province northward,
of which PownalbOrough was the shire
town." The original court house of the
old county of Lincoln is now standing
in the town of Dresden on the east
bank of the Kennebec. Since it's in
corporation i'm 1860 Lincoln county has
submitted to the carving process n
number of times. In 1889 it parted
with portion of it's territory to form
the counties of Washington and Han
cock; it gave a slice to Kennebec in
1889; n part to Waldo in 1927; another
big slice to Androscoggin and to Sag
adahoc in 1854, and finally gave enough
of its remaining territory in 1850 to
form one-half of the present county OF
Knox. The area of Lincoln county is
now about $40 square miles and it en-
braces Is towns and one plantation.
Bath Times: The comment upon
the proposal which was first mentioned
publicly in the columns of the Times
to cut Lincoln county in two and add
the western part of it to Sagadahoc
and to detach Brunswick and Harps-
well from Cumberland and add them to
Sagadahoc, has been varied and inter-
esting. The Portland papers with one
voice declare that Cumberland county
Will never consent to part with Bruns-
wick and Harpswell. We were quite