Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-25

Saco was the first city in Maine
where the world wide Salvation Army
established headquarters and the IND
of the event was celebrated
in Saco city hall last week.
The Bath druggists arc going to close
up at 9 o'clock instead of at II. Well,
. is an improvement on which is the
closing hour in some places.
Painting the faces of the new pupils
with red ink and dragging them around
the ward by Il rope tied to their feet
are cheerful forms of amusement
among the boys Of the Calais High
High school.
on thu. first pagr of the current issue
of the american Shipbuilder" is an
illustration Of the Aryan, the lirSu
wooden ship built in the United States
and launched by the late thaS. Y. Mill
Oft Of Phippsbur;s in 1899. Below this
picture is one of the Dirigo. the first
steel sailing ship built i'll the United
States, Il produce of the Bath yard OF
Arthur ScWall x Co, and built in 1881.
The hrckmaking season of 1906 at
the Bangor Brick CO. S yard breaks the
record in The number Of bricks manu-
manufactured in Bangor. From May J
to the present time eight kilnS hav"
been burned, with a grand total of ZIG
arches averaging 10000 bricks to an
arch, or a total of 3,3N0.om0 bricks FIR
the season The kiln which is being
burned at the present time is also of
the record making order. as ii contains
SO, 900 bricks. The weather has favor
ed the blickmakers this year. and the
loss from rain and wind was only about
40 600 bricks, the output of one day.
Says a Washington despatch: There
is a green-eyed girl up in Maine that
the civil service commissioners are an
XiOuS to see. She recently took an eX
animation for Il place in the public SER
vice but while her mark is not up to
the standard the chances are she Will
get an appointment on account of the
description of herself and her physical
characteristics contained in her papers.
II weigh 145 pounds" she wrote, Am
) feet 4 inches high. | have green eyes
and black hair" commissioners Green
and Black have the case under consid-
| Grafton. On account Of the colors Com
missioner Coley will not interfere with
| the action of his colleagues
Many interesting things We're brought
out in a summary of the criminal bus
mess before Justice Peabody at the
| September term of the supreme court
which has just adjourned in Auburn.
| one of the most remarkable features
Of the term is the number Of defaults
| in liquor cases. The total defaults
numbering "A will about equal those for
| the entire previous year, and the to-
| tai amount of the defaultcd bonds is
| SO. 100. The reason attributed for
| the defdulting Of 50 many cases
| is that the respondents knowing Their"
Will be a change in the county attor-
| ney on january LIST, had rather take
| their chances with an officer who has
a record to make than with one whose
| relentless diligence has cost them So
| much uneaSincSS during the past Two
years.
A Bowdoinham man had imbibed al
| together too often on one day recently
and his steps We're very unsteady.
| Leaning against lamp post he was
| scanning the street for q confederate
| and eSpied a salesman Fastening to the
station to catch an east bound train
| and he spoke thus. Say. how far is it
| to the depot? Two minutes walk"
was the reply. Fer you or me-" the
| inebriate blurted.
! Biddeford's gold mine has belched
forth again. The Pepperell corpora
| ton has further clinchcd its claim to
being the best dividend paying cotton
| manufacturing company in the world
| by declaring an extra dividend Of 80
per cent. Last week Ptpperell stock
sold in Boston for S30O This high liz =
| ure was rather a surprise to some but
| it is understood now. This dividend Of
50 per cent is paid upon n capital stock
| Of s.. $50. 600. which means that 81, 21S 600
| VIII he handed out to the stockholders
of this company this in addition %
! having received 4 regular per cent
Scmi-annual dividend August last AMI
the preceding February. In the three
years and a half that closed August /.
1905. hen an extra dividend of 80 per
cent was declared the Pepperell COM
pany had paid 103 per cent in dividend :
| or in a period of less than five years to
! date the company has paid dividends
regular and extra, aggregating 165 per
! cent. and it should be mentioned in
connection that for several months
| there has been the extra tax upon its
earning capacity of ten per cent IN
, crease in wages to the operatives
Within less than five years this cor
poration has earned more than double
the amount of its capital stock, when
money spent in improving the plant,
increase in wages and regular and ex-
ira dividends are aggregated. No Won
der Biddeford boasts Of its great Pep
perell plant as the most successful cot
| ton mill in the world.