Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

the Japs and Russians cease their pres
ent changes of the map of ASIA.
The <ittery youth who has confided
,o his friends that Il certain young ladv
has refused him just twelve times will
now probably quit making her pro-
posals if he is at all suPerstitious.
Smoking CT proposals and Sucn
things. the most unique honeymoon of
tn. season was taken by that couple
w no were married at Bingham. last
Saturday morning and started at orc"
f0i Portland where I'll" bride was opeT-
ated upon for appendicitis
Here is the confession of a Wesley
correspondent: We thought when we
wrote several weeks ago, that surely
we'd have a wedding to report by this
time. but somehow thos" kclls we heard
kept sounding more and more int,is-
tihct till now we don't hear even Il
faint tinkle. Sorry We got you so
aroused over the matter and Well be
more careful next time to- find out all
about it before we say anything.''
The Bath Times says that Hon. and
Mrs Harold Sewall ant family will
sail on the Steamship Republic from
New York. April Is. Cor Naples and
Genoa Mr.. Sewall will return in Au
gust but Mrs. Sewall and the children
may remain until the holidays.
THO 7 ouictOn Iotyp11 annnnnpaS
that it has "entered no serious COM
plant against the recent report of the
Printing Committee" This is certainly
surprising. Ii our Lewiston contem-
porary has missed any opportunity to
insult and vilify the able members of
that committee the fact has certainly
escaped our attention.
1t is announced that the Ram Island
Ledge Light will be light al on Monday,
April TO- The new lamp is of the third
order, Illuminating the eEtire horizon.
and giving white fash every six
seconds. The light is - feet above the
water and will be visible 141a miles in
clear weather. The log signal will be
Il bell to be struck during thick or
foggy weather single blow every 10
cecOn,ls.
The sum Of $4,000 is pretty large
one to be expended in improvements
upon Il home in a Maine village, but it
is announced that that is what Col f.
J. Mayo will expend upon the Calvin
Chamberlain estate IN ToXcroft village
which he has just purchased 1t is said
that it will be by all means the finest
residence in that part OF the state
An interesting report on the diet Of
the Maine lumbermen is published by
the Department Of Agriculture. These
ual labor. and are much exposed to
cold. wet AMI hardship. and the staple
daily fare consists of pork. or beef,
sour dough biscuits, made Of dough
which under goes fermentation with a
wild yeast, tea and mOlaSses. and
beans which are frs parboiled in the
forenoon and are then packed with al
telnate layers of salt pork in a pot
which is covered with lot ashes and
earth and allowed to cook over nig:l'.
IL Is COusiutfcl lIltll llc utttdIy, DIS
regards protein and energy, is the
highest yet recorded for any American
laboring man, is reality digested AMI
costs about 23.5 cents for each person
day.
At the annual town meeting in Mum
son. March 90 on motion of Hon. J. +.
Sp-asue the following received the
unanimous passage: Voted, that the
school committee and superintendent
of schools Of Monsoon. be instructed to
prohibit any football playing or the Or
ganiZing or the maintaining of any
football team by any of the scholars
Of Monsoon during any time of the en-
suing year while the public schools are
in session." The Monsoon boys have
the sincere sympathy of all others in
the State. The town fathers seem to
have FORGOTTEN that once on time
they themselves were young
This will be remarkable year for
Maine village building. if it keeps to
its promise. Four new villages are
probably to be built out of raw mater
ial and another is to be rajuvenated
from condition that closely APP
preached abandonment. At Stock ton
Springs, the Bangor & Aroostook rail
road is to establish new terminal
| with steamboat and sailing vessels
there. and Il large amount of business.
AT Milo Junction, the Bangor & ArOoS-
took railroad is likely to establish new
rcpairshops TO take the place of those a
Oldtown. At Hiram Falls on the Saco
river, a new manufacturing village is
alnUEg the prOba bilities. Somewhere
OF the extension of the Somerset rail
way, large sawmills will be established
and Il settlement will grow around
them. The Great Northern Paper
Company has bought the waterpower,
the tenement house. and some other
property of the burned tannery at
VIM, together with q large amount of
| Iand and additional nowage. The de-
serted houses are expected to again be
the scene of human joys and sorrows.
| for the people believe that the Great
Northern managers did not buy that
property for their health.