Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-31

A grinding crash and roll
Which tells you that your neighbor gets
His winter store of coal.
New York sun.
The end Of October. Two brief months
to 1898.
Auburn suburbs are nervous over a
strange animal in the woods
1t will he Il bad blow for Lincoln if
the winter
The Maine college games Saturday
will be Bates vs.. L. of NJ. at Oronn,
Bowdoin vs. Tufts at Portland and Col
by vs. Exeter at Exeter.
The mystery of the two skeletons
found on Peaks Island remains I'M
solved. though some persist that they
are those of Indians.
Tonight the COLLINS and hobgoblins
will be abroad in the land helping the
merry young people celebrate Hallow-
cen.
One Maine schoOima'am has ceased 20
IVORY about better pay for teachers.
She lives in Sanserviie and has just
been lett fortune of $50" 900 by an I'M
Gle who has died in the West.
The cruel abuse OF a ''Canliuate' by
Deering High school boys ha.; led the
Portland school authorities t, realize
that the high school is no place for
secret societies.
Houton will long remember the visit
of the kora Temple Sllrincrs and their
famous camel. Incidentally it WAS also
IL memorable occasion for the camel. z
Cyrus J. Hall, who died recently i'll
New York was the first to start the
granite quarricS on SomeS sound at Hall
Quarry. AZ. Desert. in the early part Of
1871. There were no buildings there
then, ard no road.
Not one is left in active service Of all
the old time Searsport commanders OF
full rugged ships. From 1884 to 1907. in
elusive. Il period of 3 years. Searsport
furnished $50 commanders of fun rugged
ships. In 1850 she had 36 commanders
of fuil-IicceG ships in active service
being one tenth of the ships then sail
! ing under the United States flag.
The Bath independent telIs of d
mock wedding" which furnished q
| merry cverinS for IA company of guests
assemlied at a Woolwich home. TIN.
raneS of the contracting parties
minister" bridesmaids" and others
are all given. and all the details of the
ring service, the wedding music. the
decorations. the gowns. the reception,
etc. We are told that il was an Occa-
| sion of great merriment. There must
| have been something very funny watch
| does not appear in the newspaper az
count. For grown people TO extract fur
! from Il travesty of the most sacred and
| solemn of human rites will strike most
people as something worse than poor
| taste. Perhaps they Will next get Il
merry evening out OF a mock tuDcEil.
we suspected that there "Ouu DC
| somebody heard from in reply to that
| item about Joel Bidder Of Portiad be-
ing the only surviving veteran # the
Mexican war living in Maine. Jhn l..
McCrda OF jefferson. whose potOfficc
address is North Whitetield. wires the
Journal that he enlisted in Juns 1S47.
in Co. D. of the L. S. infantr and
served to the end of the war Writes
Mr.. McCrda:-"I shall be 81 yeTS old
next March and am in active blsiness
each day. Am as well and heartyas the |
average man Of 20 years, or younger"
The Maine Central railroad. after |
having practically completed t.e new i
STATEN at Bangor and the extensve al !
terations of the terminal at a cot very |
near to S5Oa.000 is facing another sxpen-
sive proposition and will in, all prbnbil-
fty build seawall of granite ah con-
crete facirg Kenduskeag streai and
the main river. The station is oalnade
ground. apd badly made at tina much
old cobwOrk ard filing of much OGDEN
material The tide Gibbs and f.oS re-
meath, and when the fOunda io5.s1f The