The Republican journal., 1913-06-12

a rough specimen of the female persua-
sion, terribly dilapidated in dress and
with face which did not indicate any
very familiar acquaintance with soap
and water, presented herself saying.
Mister, I'm going out to get some
refreshments and l want you to look at
me SO you'll know me when come back.
Do you think you will?" ''Know you'll"
replied NJ; "if you don't wash your
face shall know you, sure" The ele-
plant above mentioned was a female
and the largest animal of the kind which
has ever been exhibited in this place,
On her return to the west while passing
through York county she was fired at by
miserable miscreant and killed.
The early part of September was
season of extreme and in many instances
in this and neighboring localities of
distressing drought. Vegetation pre-
sented the appearance of having been
scared and large streams shrank to rivu-
let's. 1t was difficult in some localities
to procure a sufficient supply of water
for domestic purposes; many families
were compelled to procure the needed
supply from mile distant; cattle were
driven two miles to water. The forests
all around US were here and there on fire
and the village was literally enveloped
in smoke. The engine company and peo-
pie generally were called out several
times to protect buildings from the
flames Rain came, however, about the
twentieth of the month and stayed the
ravages of fire but too late to r, pair the
damage done to vegetation by the
drought.
The rain was followed by cold weather
of unusual severity for that season of
the year. On the night of the 29th there
was quite fall of snow; in some of the
three or four inches. 1t was an event
unprecedented in the memory of our old
est inhabitants. The greatest amount of
suffering and loss of property from the
fires which were prevailing at this time
was in the towns of Wiscasset and Alma.
A large number of houses, barns, and
their contents were destroyed. So great
was the restitution which followed that
an appeal was made for charitable relief
throughout the State.
At the annual commencement at Bow
doin College, Sept. 3rd, two young men
graduated who were residents in this
town; one was William Jeffrey Read,
son of Judge Read, who was born in Dan
vers, Mass, and died at his fathers resi-
dence in this town in 1829-six years af
ter he graduated, two years after he was
admitted to the bar-aged twenty-nine.
He was young man of brilliant talent,
and had his life been spared would have
been an ornament to society and the
pride of this the home of ms adoption.
The other young man was the compiler
of these annals; who in charity may be
excused for taking pride in the fact-the
only one in long life over which ne has
ever claimed to glorify himself-that he
was the first native born of Belfast who
ever graduated at Collegiate lnstitu-
ton.
4 Early in the morning Of November 18th
fire broke out in the boarding house of
Samuel jackson, then undergoing re-
pairs preparatory to converting it into
hotel, on High street. His daughter, a
very interesting girl about fifteen years
of age, who had been watching through
/ the night at the bedside of a sick rela
tive and who had retired to rest in an up
per room of the house only an hour or
! two before the fire broke out, persisted
in the flames. The dwelling house of
George Watson, Esq, store owned by
him, occupied by Samuel B. morrill, as a
shoe store, and two or more barns stand
ing southerly, and the store of John
Angler, ESQ.,, standing northerly from
the building in which the fire commenced
were burned Within two months after
wards Mr. Watson had erected and fin
ished so far as was necessary to make 1t
tenantable a dwelling house on the site
of his former one. 1t is the same build
ing now occupied by N. G. Prescott &
Company and George G. Wells as stores.
The store now occupied by Mr.. Calvin
Hervey stands on the site of the one &C.
cupied by Samuel B. Morrill,. The resi-
due of the burned district is covered by
Phoenix Row.
John Durham, son Of one of the origi
nal Proprietors of the township. died in
October, aged seventy four. He was
one of the Highway Surveyors elected
at the first meeting held under the act in
cooperating the town at the house of John
Mitchell on the 11sh of November, 1918.
He was married in 1880. and commenced
housekeeping in log house which sto cd
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