Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-08

Kansas City Journal
There is great rejoicing among the
members of the Pine street, Free Bap-
fist people in Lewiston. For the first
time in it's history the church is free
of debt. A jubilee was held recently
and the mortgage burned.
News has been received of the death
in South America of Eben Hutchinson
formerly of Athens. Colonel Hutchin-
year commanded the oath Maine Regi-
ment in the Civil War.
Sermons on the Book &C job" Is the
title of a book recently presented to
the Baxter Memorial library in Cor
ham. The book is very ole, it being
more than 1875 years since ii was
printed.
The Oldest Methodist Episcopal
church in Maine is situated at Mon
mouth and it is lis years old. Jesse
Lee, the apostle of Methodism, passed
through the State in 1898, the follow
ing year he organized the Readfield
circuit and in November the first
church was gathered together.
Or. William Alfred Packard who
died recently, was born in Brunswick
70 years ago. and graduated from Bow
doin college in 1851, later attending
Dartmouth, Phillips Andover and the
University of Gottingen. He was in
structor in modern languages at Bow
doin for several years and added
greatly to the world of literature by
his TRANSACTIONS from later editions of
Curtius' History of Greece and other
works.
partridge story hard to beat and as
the lucky hunters are citizens Of I'M
challenged veracity. the youngsters in
Milo are green with envy. Ronelle l..
Doble and 1. G. Mayo recently took
their shotguns and wended their way
to some nearby woods. In the course
of couple of hours they had bagged
IA cartridges. and much to their cha
grin had to leave three birds calmly
roosting in a tree, as the hunters mad
used up all OF their shells, and the
best they could do was to try and
"shoo' them away in order to relieve
their disgust. They had walked into
covey of cartridges and the number
baggcd exceeds any record Of the year
in this vicinity"
One of the speakers at the recent
dedicatory exercises of the new
schoolhouse at Dixfield was Hon. John
p Swasey, congressman from the
fourth Maine district. He was at his
best and told of meeting Representa-
tive Brownlow of Tennessee in Port
land one winter day. The Southern
man had no overcoat on and he rath-
er quickly asked the Maine man why
the Indians We're ever driven from the
State as it was only fit for them to
live in. Mr.. Swasey told him that
the chief justice of the Supreme
court is a Maine man; we've furnished
a vice president, president OF the
Senate, secretary of war, postmas-
eSi SSAiSAol oil dIlOIIty 6CHCI
Now where in thunder would this
country have been if we had not driv-
en- the Indians out of Maine?"
Two hundred feet out into the ocean
will go the pipe which will connect the
pl esent sewer outlet at York Beach.
The work will have to be done at low
tide and in the following manner: 40
barrels are Grated up two by two.
Twenty of these barrels go on each
side of the 200 feet of pipe, which is
laid on the beach. At the right time
the tide is allowed to float out the bar
rels and pipe, and once in position and
with tide low enough the pipe is
dropped on the bottom, the barrels cut
away. the two pipes connected and the
work is done. All of which seems
simple enough. but when you take into
consideration that the combined weight
OF the pipe and barrels aggregates &c
tons. then you nave Some idea what it
would mean should an adverse wind or
tide carry the whole out to sea.
Waterville people regret that Dennis
E. Bowman has resigned his position
as superintendent of schools of that
city. Mr.. Bowman is a graduate of Co.
burn Classical Institute and of Colby
and has been principal of the Water
Vile high school as we'll as teacher in
the Penn Charter school in Philadel-
phia. He will take up the practice of
law in Los Angeles the first of the
year.
Oxford ocrat:-"Knowing that
Thanksgiving was the appropriate day
to show up poultry, pullet belonging
to Ernest p. Crockett of South Paris
which had stolen a nest in the bushes,
brought off three chicks that day. The
rigors Of the season were . little too
much for two Of them. and they sue
cumbed, but the third one is as lively
as the proverbial cricket