Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

of on it and as. result the Jail officers
secured the city for an Escaped pris-
oner
Capt Thomas Moses of Elijah"
Sandford's bark Kingdom has
"jacked" his job and will not make the
proposed trip to Jerusalem. This re-
moves one of Sandford's mainstays
in the nautical line
Victor Robbins of Madison is one of
country. Though but II years of age
he has played solo cornet in the Lake.
wood band this season and at Scion
centennial was congratulated by Gov.
Fernald for his fine work.
The town of Vanceboro is the only
Maine town that never had a debt.
Last years pauper expenses were four
dollars. The town raises $4,000 annu-
ally for expenses and never goes be-
yond this sum.
Pennington Chronicle: A good crop
of apples coupled with a good price
for the product is bringing a smile to
the face of many q Franklin county
farmer, This happy combination COM
penSateS in great measure for the
somewhat unsatisfactory hay and corn
crop.
Members of the company attached
to the big Hayes ladder truck of the
Portland fire department have been
presented with a picture of the truck
as it appeared the morning Portland
CITY Hall was destroyed by fire. The
huge ladder was broken when the
dome fell and was soon encased in ice.
The frame around the picture is made
from pieces of the broken ladder.
Major General Henry Clay Merriam
is the only surviving Civil war officer
of that rank who is also native of
Maine. says the editor of the Aroostooll
Pioneer Gen. Merriam was born in
Houlton and went to the front in 1862
as a captain in the Goth Maine. He
was brevetted lieutenant colonel at An
tietam, was advanced to colonel of the
18th U. s infantry in 1885. brigadier
general in 1897 and Major General L.
S. volunteers in 1898 and was retired
with that rank in 1901.
Gardiner Reporter Journal-When
Capt Wakefield, who has had charge
Of the common this summer, cleaned
out the basin of the fountain prepara-
tory to covering it up for the winter,
he found lot of little fish in it. They
were an inch to an inch and a half in
length, and those who saw them
thought they We're white perch. Pre-
they came through the mann
from the reservoir, but whether they
were Matched before they arrived at
the basin or after nobody can say.
When the new reservoir of Andros-
coggin Reservoir Company at Aziscoos
Falls on the Magalloway river is fin
jshed there will have been created
new lake II miles long, containing s.
200. 600 900 cubic feet of water and add
ing 50 per cent. to the storage capacity
of the Rangeley Lake region. Mills
employing 1856 men and women are
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence. who re-
Gently died at Brunswick at the age of
% years, was the granddaughter OF
Gen. Richard Grdley who served as
a of hn cin0a of V,OujShllrp
in 1745 and when the Revolution broke
out he had charge of the construction
of the fertilization on Bunker Hill.
]. F. Nadeau who lives on the Fort
farm at Crown Point, N. Y, has sent
to the Maine Historical society for its
cabinet, a knee or timber from what
is thought to be Arnold's sloop Enter
prise which was sunk in Lake Cham
plain during the Revolutionary war.
The Enterprise was one of the British
fleet and was captured by Arnold.
Rumford Falls Times-An auto has
taken the place of the old stage on the
line between Bethel and Enrol N. H.,
when serves the towns OF GRAFTON, Up
ton and Lakeside Now the 35mile
trip is made in two hours which pre-
viously took about all day.
Two Wcstbrook girls dressed them
selves in mems apparel and went out
Saturday evening to take part in
Halloween festival. The clothes were
a decided misfit. giving them the ap-
pearance of rather suspicious if not
desperate characters. Nevertheless
they sailed forth into Main street
bound for the party to which they had
been invited. They were not long up
on the street before they found them
selves amuck with the guardians of
law and order. They made every pos
sible plea to be allowed to continue on
their way without disclosing their iden-
tity to the officer but the blue coat
was obstinate or possessed of a desire
to turn the joke to the expense of the
ladies and so they were at last obliged
to turn two blushing faces into the
light of the arch lamp at the corner of
Main and Bridge streets. And now the
story is going the rounds and the
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