Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-25

Mon this query share
as il really time to
Chunk the underwear.
~ Boston Courier.
,rh, Fcnncbcc shad. bone. and all, is
on the market.
Watcrville cccms to be having 4
second thought relative to the cutting
down of the Lockwood :?lill taxes.
The fishing season is on at tho bcauti-
full Belgrade lakes. The Belgrade will
open for the season. May ].
Portland and Gardiner had special
elections. yesterday. but the fact seems
to have ESCAPED the attention of most
people in both cities.
An four of the Maine college teams
won :hcir opening games. but somebody
will have to lose when they get to play
ing each other.
The problem of the education of the
chidren at Shiloh is making lot Of
trouble over in Durham.
Bangor has been ~ little behind many
of The Maine cities in tho automobilc
craze but promises 10 catch up this
season.
Miss Laura L. Cobb. a popular Main.
singer. has been engaged for another
season as soloist with the Dcnman
Thompson company
The doubls tragedy at East Water
ford WAS bad enough. but it does not
appear that bard cider WAS factor in
it.
This week Bath entcrtains The Maine
Letter Carriers convention. and next
week that of the State Y. NJ. G. a.
The spring brccZcs bear over from
Knox county the cheerful runlUr that
Senator l.. NJ Staples is to be Il caidi-
date for the nomination for governor on
tn" Democratic ticket in 1906.
\ sample OF frenzied farming up in
Arc ostook is reported from Fort Fair
field where man recently bought 4
farm for $4,000 AMI 4 few days later
sold it back to the form." owner for 81
$50. II is sometimes very expensive
business for Il man to change his mind
In turning mOuldinGS for some of thu
Waltz's mill, Waldoboro. the tool cut
through Il bullet cmb 'di"d in the quar-
tered oak. This MmDer came from
western Virginia and probably the tree
containing tie builc: grew on SOM .
battlefield of the Shenandoah Valley
GCrm.,nia Lodge will therefore possess
an interesting rcli. of the Civil War
in the lcadcn bullet embedded in a
moulding Of one OF the hall pcdcstals.
An old and cvry int areSiing plow has
been received by Prof. IIurd. for tn.
museum of the Agricultural college at
Orono. The pow is The gift Of Leroy
Il. Mason Of North Windham. 1t WIS
built IN 1870 by Abigl Narney Of Wind
ham. 1t is of the SAN, style as the ol,:
Daniel Webster plow. hciug Il heavy.
clumsy. affair, but entirely Of wood
Nit. iron Plates .;heIthcd over the
share and point. This rlatcs are with
til" exception of tWo bolts held on by
wooden pegs. The plow when in us.
VAS pulled by ten pXrn and was de-
signed t" tear out III" stumps that
cam" in its path 1t was used princi-
pally in working up new ground.
Maine summer schools will BE- moro
attractive and helpful than ever before.
One of them will be located ut Hamp-
den and will be in session from July T.
to July 20. inclusive. instruction will
be given in general pedagogy. school
management. special work for common
school teachers. conditions IN Maine AMI
how to meet them, school music. nature
and geography. The only expense to
teachers will be board and travel.
The hotels and boarding houses in the
kcnncbcc summer rcsor. section arc
rapidly booking guests for the coming
season. Ono house in Rcadlicld has
contracted to board ten southcrncrs
from jacksonville. Florida. They are
wealthy people who a~e coming north
to escape the torrid heat of their own
state. They will come the first of June
and remain until fall. Mrs. Butler of
Boston is building large addition to
her hotel at Winthrop.
The registers of probate in the State
contemplate meeting about the last Of
May for social and business purposes.
An association may He formed for
mutual protection. .rhe .ast legislature
passed law. Chap. 81. which requires
that registers shall notify beneficiarics
ur6er Wills that requests have been
made to them. From the fact tina,
benefciaries under wills made for many
years may he dead or scattered, it is