Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-14

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very valuable for museum specimens
on account OF their great rarity. Mr..
Pulsifer thinks it the greatest find IN
the history of the mining operations
on the mountain.
The Houlton public library has been
bequeathed the sum of $4,000 by the
will of the late Miss Emma Drew,
who lately died in Florida. She was
the daughter of the late James Drew
and lived for many years In Houlton.
The gift was made in honor of her
late brother, Mellen Drew, and is
very much appreciated by the citizens.
The sudden bursting forth of the
buds on the trees and bushes is a well
come sight 10 the people who have
been suffering all the inconvenience
of a very backward spring.
Houlton has not given up the idea
of a new High school building and a.
call for another special townmeeting
has been issued, the date being Mon
day, May % to again consider the mat
ter
Harry Allen of Bangor, who was ar
rested in April for threatening to
shoot Charles P. Morrison and who
was bound over, was Monday surrend-
cred by his bondsmen. Allen Sunday
evening met Morrison and again made
ts~d fYofS
HARM He later in the evening visited
the home of his former wife, Minnie
Frazee, who in April divorced him.
and broke q window. He will be ex-
amined as to his SANITY, there being
little doubt that be is suffering from
mental trouble. Allen told the county
Sunday night. he would have shot
Morrison.
The District Of Maine has new
district attorney, Stephen c. Perry of
Portland having Tuesday taken the
oath of office before Judge Hale at
Portland. All the court officers were
present, including United States Mar
shall Mayo and ]. S. P. H. Wilson, who
has been appointed to succeed him.
The retiring district attorney, Robert
Treat Whitehouse, made his farewell
to the court and it's officials and then
presented Mr.. Perry and Judge Hale
administered the oath of office.
The fiftieth anniversary of the
bloody battle of Spottsylvania occur
red Tuesday last and was vivioly re-
membered by many Maine survivors
of the Civil War. The S1st Maine was
practically annihilated and all the
other Maine regiments engaged suffer-
ed heavy losses. Twenty-three thous-
| and men were killed and wounded in
that battle.
Miniature models of the Defiance
made from mahogany like that used
in planking the defender candidate, de-
signed by Designer owen and gaily
| decorated with tri-colored ribbons,
were souvenirs of the launching given
| members of the syndicate and their
guests Monday at Bath. Little ques-
| ton exists of the models being highly
priced by the recipients.
The law court has upheld the Houl-
| ton town ordinance, whereby 1t was
ordered that all meat sold in that town
should bear the stamp of an OFFICIAL in
! spector, wherever slaughtered, the
court ruling that it is not only valid
police regulation but an imperative
one.
Lewiston and Auburn seem to be
| having q mania for the illegal use of
firearms. With a prominent Auburn
man in the hospital, having barely es-
capped death at the hand Of would-be
| murderer, a Lewiston lady is the next
to have a narrow escape. Miss Ethel
Gould was sitting in the home of her
| uncle. Rev. D. f. Faulkner, as Elm
street, Lewiston, when a spent bullet
| came through the window and struck
| her on the hand, making a lead scar,
! but not breaking the skin. No trace OF
| the person firing the shot has been
| found and it is thought to have been
| a stray shot from a 22-calibre revolv-
er or rifle fired by some boy.
| The prices of potatoes Monday In
Houlton was SITE per barrel and less
were being taken to market, on ac-
count of the farmers being busy with
their farm work. The latest estimate
of the amount of potatoes now on
| hand in Aroostook sets 1t at 100000
| bushels.
| Milo is to have another hotel. WAL
| ter Dillon has purchased the Blood
residence and will open it to the public
| at an early date.
The president of Uruguay is re-
ported to be considering the advis-
ability of creating a national printing
establishment to undertake all the
| printing work of the various govern