Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-01

Tear the first leaf off the calendar
if it isn't frozen on.
January was way-beloW-zer2
month TO the end, though its closing
DAYS were full OF smiles.
The burning of the Sawyer publish
ing house was Waterville's worst fire
for a long time, but the plant will be
rebuilt larger ana better than before.
The unhappy spectacle of Bret
Harte's daughter in a Maine aims
house has aroused the sympathy of the
country and relief will doubtless be
prompt and adequate.
A despatch from Melrose, Mass, says
Mrs. Eleanor Blaisdell, the oldest wo-
man in that city, has just celebrated
her Gath birthday. Mrs. Blaisdell is a
native of Orland, down in Hancock
county, and the widow of David Blais-
dell, Bucksport man.
The report of the Portland public
library for 1906 shows that it now has
6J,522 volumes, 1000 being added i'll 1906.
There are 693l card holders and the
average daily use of books was S3S
The expenses were 1920 in 1906.
There seems to be q considerable sen
timent among the business men and
citizens generally Of Belfast in favor
OF using Il portion OF the city park
as a ball ground and general field for
out door athletics, instead of having
"a mere scenic gem of which there are
great abundance in this region OF
beautiful views and loneliness in gen.
eral For several years no ball ground
has existed in Belfast and consequently
with the exception of an occasional
school contest, the great national game
has been only d dear memory.
A paragraph which started in an
Oxford county paper, has been going
the rounds of the papers to the effect
that Wesley Chick, who is serving Il
sentence in the State Prison for the
murder Of his uncle at Porter. had died
and had confessed on his death bed
that he murdered Olive Broad at Cor
nish several years ago. 1t was stated
this week at the State Prison that two
parts of the story are untrue. Wesley
Chick was alive and enjoying good
health and so far as any one at the
institution at Thomaston knows he has
not confessed to killing Olive Broad.
j. w. Marsman Of North Arson is
proud of his hens and writes as fol-
| lows: Il would like to give you the
record of my flock of 25 hens, begin
ming Jan. l. 1906, and ending Dec. Il,
| 1906. This record does not include the
eggs we used in the family. have sold
| $i96S worth of eggs and $26.41 worth of
poultry. Cost Of keeping. 50 cents per
hen. which would amount to $50, SO
you see l have made $500 profit. II
you know any one that can beat that
| would like to hear from them"
The new Trull Hospital which is
rising from the ashes of the old one at
Biddeford, is nearing completion and
| will be soon ready for patients. The
| new hospital occupies the site of the
| old one but is about third larger. Its
upper windows command Strikirgly
beautiful! view, embracing all of Bidda-
| ford and Saco, many square miles OF
the SURROUNDING country, Saco river
| and bay, and on a clear day Mount
| Washington Nnd ether peaks in the
| Presidential Range. All of the wards
and rooms in the building are light and
airy; the operating room is spacious
and up-tO-date in appointments;
plumbing and sanitary arrangements
| generally are of the best: all floors are
of mosaic tiles laid in cement or the
best woods. The Nrull Hospital is
| unique in being the only homeopathic
hospital IN Maine ard the only one CT
| importance in New Englad outside OF
Boston.
| Figures compiled by the Maine
Bureau OF Industrial and Labor Stats
tics show that during the year 1906 the
manufacture OF PULP and paper was
carried on i'll IS different establishments
| within the State. Pulp in it's differen,
forms was manufactured at 81 of these
| establishments and ground wood puly1
at 20 of them. The amount of spruce
| wood entering in the manufacture OF
pulp in these mills during the past
year was 1887. 500 board feet The
amount of poplar used was 74.300,Oot
feet. Other kinds of wood amounted
to 1e.450.00O feet. bringing the total .:
all kinds of wood used for the manufac-
ture of pulp up to 421. 81. 500 feet. The
total number of employees for the veal
is S.6O6 and the total wages paid was
$4,S20.268. the value of the product was
$34,61I .66S. and the total horse pOwe,
used 160.:oS. There are now in use, in
the active pulp and paper mills of the
State. 2S2 grinders. So digesters. ::
Fourdriner paper machines and p
Icylnder paper machines.
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