Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-07

Bath people are sore over the post
tween the Maine Water Company and
the city.
4 joint committee from the Merchants
Association and the Board of Trade are
talking over a new hotel for Lewiston.
The enforcement problem has pre-"
century, but that is a new one in Som
er.et county and the outcome will be
awaited with great interest.
If there is anything in the germ
theory OF disease, those clouds of dust
in the main streets of our cities make
it remarkable that any of us are living.
Recruiting Officer Robert Z. l..
Swan, who is in charge of the office
in Biddeford which has been open for
several weeks. says that go men have
applied for admission to the United
States army. and 10 have been ac-
cepted.
A Rockland man whose place of bust
ness is on the east side of Main street,
not many miles from the Courier-Ga-
zette office, has been awarded the belt
for champion memory. When he was
at the tender but precocious age of two
years his family moved to ROckland
from Biddeford. Several decades have
passed since that important event, but
the gentleman is able to describe the
house in Biddeford where he lived and
also mas q. vivid recollection of red
shirted liremen who paraded past that
house just before the family moved to
ROckland.
1t was in Lewiston home one eve
ming recently that Il trial was being
made of mental telepathy. One men,
Der of the party left the room while
the rest decided upon a number. under
ten. which the other should determine
without being told. The telepathist
OH returning to the room carefully
went the rounds, touching each per-
sons head in turn. When she fin
ished. she said that the number was
three. This proved to be right and
when much astonishment was mani
fested at the success of the trial the
experimenter announced frankly that
she had said "three" because one Of the
party, thinking intently on the num-
Der had ''chewed three times" This
brought down the house.
The city clerk of Bath, in making up
his record of births in that city, gives
interesting facts. The record shows a
total of 1870. of which SIS were boys
There We're two children. born in fami-
lies In which they made the tenth
child. three were born into families
making the nth in the family, three
were born to make the 18th. in each
family. one child made the nth arrival
while the nth arrival came to one fam
lily. There We're AZ children born which
We're the first in the family. One
physician OBLIGATED at So of the births
SylVanus Holden of Jackman killed
chicken recently and in it's stomach
was substance about the size of
pea which mas every appearance of
gold. The chickens have been allowed
to run over the farm which borders on
SANDY Stream and should the shining
sreck prove to be gold 1t will strength
en- tie faith OF the older people of this
community who firmly believe there is
goid TO De found in the region of Sandy
Stream, as they we'll remember a man
by the lame Of Barry who in 1910
found several pieces about T. miles
north of Mr.. Holden's farm.
There is strong agitation in the
town of Wiscasset concerning the
building of new church to succeed
the old Congregational edifice RACED
by nre two weeks ago. 1t is the idea
70 nave the new church built on the
same site as the old. to bear the same
dimensions and be duplicate in
every particular so far as practicable.
A meeting Of the church is to be held
on January Is when the matter will
be discussed and definite action taken.
IL mas been decided to recast the
Old Paul Revere bell If such a thing
is possible. although so much of the
molten metal has been sought and
1t seems doubtful if enough of it can
De secured for several months to
make recasting practicable. For
instance. it is said the bell weighed
about 400 pounds and thus far less
than a quarter of this amount has
been obtained and naturally to obtain
more. which is in the hands of SOU
renIr hunters, is going to be hard
task. The people in general who have
portions of the molten bell will be
asked to give them up so that the
bell may be recast at somewhere near
its original weight. 1t is reported that
Erastus Foote Of Chicago. a million
ARE who is a native of Wiscasset and
always spends his summers in his, ma
tive town, Is much interested in the
desire to rebuild the church and in
this respect his feelings are shared by
Prof. John c. Knight Of Chicago who
also Spends his summers in Wiscasset
Inere seems to be a good prospect Of