Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-28

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! The shrewd promoter now in Jail is.
No more I'll purchase blue sky stuff
: No more FL pay for fine enSraNiuGS,
| OF high finance I've had enough,
| Henceforth I'm going to save my saw
| ings.
| f Detroit Free Press.
| The Lewiston city government has
passed a law forbidding swinging signs.
It compels all those now in existence
to be removed and forbids the erection
OF any more The ordinance was ap-
proved by the Supreme Court and is
now in force In spite of this many
swinging signs still remain. Main and
Lisbon streets are well cleared, but
practically nothing has been done to-
ward their removal elsewhere.
In connection with the approaching
celebration of the tooth anniversary of
the incorporation of the town of Free
| dom this year it is planned, if possible.
| for the program to be combined with
graduation exercises. ut Freedom
Academy which was established in 1886.
The first settlers We're Revolutionary
soldiers named Smith. and the place
was first called SmithtoWn, afterward
Beaver Hill. When the town was in
corporated the people decided to call
il Freedom.
Nathan Goold of the Maine Historical
Library has just received from DR..
Mary Chandler Lowell LII r.. of Eos
ton piece of the rebel flag that sur
mounted tho Marshall House at Alex
andria. West Va, in 1861. The flag was
hauled down from the roof of the Mar
shall House by Col. e. f. Ellsworth.
who was thereupon shot down by the
proprietor, James 7. jackson, he in
turn being Immediately shot by Pri
vfte Francis f. Brownell-of Troy, n.
Y. The piece of the flag was secured
b. Charles p. Chandler of the First
Maine Infantry. who was in Alexandria
n few months later than the incident.
Biddeford Journal: Lewis b. StiIlman,
of the Saco Brick Co, sent by
parcel post this morning. brick of
local manufacture To be used in build
ing a brick house at the Coliseum iii
Chicago, during the Clay Products eX-
position, which is to be held, February
Is to March s. This brick will be one
of $4,000 sent by parcel post from ev
cry brick plant in the United States,
to he used in the construction of this
Ecase, which will be given away and
removed after the exposition. The idea
vas originated to test the merits of the
parcel post system and it is certainly
-Dl TS,.1 Nj no M
each brick from the time the brick is
mailed until it IS delivered in Chicago.
I'm order. to see how speedy Uncle Sam
can deliver brick house by mail. 1t
is probable that Uncle Sans mail car
riers IL Chicago will not be over en-
thusiastic for this method of delivery
Of brick house. Other mail carriers
throughout the country will watch the
experiment with interest and fear and
trembling. While the brick fireproof
house is becoming more and more pop
ular because of its permanency.> econ
omy and superiority, it is not probable
that they will be delivered by mail to
env great extent. At any rate the Saco
Brick Co. will have brick in the first
brick house ever sent by mail.
Benjamin f. Milliken, aged SO. the
oldest and most prominent citizen of
PASSPORT. died, Tuesday night. Feb. %,
after an illness of many months. He
was born at st. George, n. b., March
II, 1924, came to PASSPORT at an early
age and had been established in bust
ness since 1854. He was lifelong Dem
ocrat and was one of the aldermen of
the first City Council. Two sons.
Charles and Frank Seymour and three
daughters, Miss agnes. Mrs. Isabelle
Hinkley and Miss Louise of PASSPORT,
survive.
| Public requests of S1l 900 are proNid-
ed for in the will of the late Edward
Stetson one of Bangor's most promi-
nent citizens whose death occurred, re-
Gently The Eastern Maine General
| hospital, Bangor, will receive $4,000, this
sum to remain intact as TO principal
and the income alone is to be used for
the purposes of the hospital. The In
dependent Congregational Unitarian
church of Bangor receives 5000, the in
come of which is to be used for the
church The Bangor Children's home
| VIII receive N1Otu, anu tIlc bdiSoi
NJ. c. A. $1,000. the Kings Daughters
Union, which maintains and looks aft
er the Kings Daughters home in Ban
gor, $1,000 and the Home for Aged Men
| IN Bangor will>also have $1,000 from the
estate. To his widow, Edith II. Stetson,
| the deceased left the sum of SS0.0O0 alb
| solutely To his son, Clarence c. Stet-
son, he left the sum of $4,000 absolute
| ly To his widows niece there is be-
| Guest of $4,000. A trust fund is created
| of which Clarence C. Stetson and Hugh
| r. Chaplin are trustees and Tor TINS
purpose the deceased left $4,000. The
ret income from this trust fund is TO
| be paid to the widow during her life,
and at her death it becomes part OF Inc
general trust fund for the benefit of the
| son, Clarence c. StetSon. Another trust
fund is created of the remainder ana
residue of the estate the income from
which is TO go to the son. When he
| reaches the age of 81 in addition to the