Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-08

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A Washington street, Bath. young
lady fell through Park Pond ice Thurs
! day afternoon and scrambling out wet
through ran home and had to have
every stitch of her clothing taken off
and dry clothing substituted, relates
| The Times. Two OF her young lady
friends were coming down street yes
! terday afternoon and passing the S.
! w. corner of the park went over to the
| frog pond to view the scene of the
1 accident. The ice was still there and
one of The girls said to the other Try
| it and see If it won't bear" The other,
High st. belle tried the ice, her foot
| slipped, down she went and repeated
with variations the accident of the
previous day to her friend. Instead of
| accomplishing her errand, she too had
| to run home and remove her wet
garments.
A Bath man who has passed much
of his time during the past two or
! three years in Prince Edwards Is
land, tells how they catch rabbits
| large circle on the chosen ground and
sprinkle about the circle green stuff
of which the bobtails are fond, to toll
| them to the spot. When the rabbits
gather about the circle and are nib
bling at the tidbits which they have
| found, a large electric light which has
been placed in the center of the circle.
| Is suddenly flashed on and it's glare is
so unusual to the animals and so
bright that it practically blinds the
rabbits and causes their eyes to get
full of tears which SOON in the cold air
of the night freezes, so that they are
completely blind. Then the hunters
walk around the circle and pick up the
rabbits one by one, alive Then the
Bath Times says:-"Good story, good
lie," as the late and iamented Mark
Twain would have said,
Here's a report of a recent near
tragedy In North Norway as told by
the oxford County Advertiser DR..
l. P. Symonds, our veterinary surgeon,
successfully removed a bullet from the
leg of Will Browns horse last sat
urday The bullet has been lodged
there for several days, having passed
completely through the feshy part OF
the hind leg. The accidental diseharSe
of a rifle was the cause of the trouble.
The horse is thought to be doing We'll.
Someone connected with the Bath
Times has heard that IL is an Old say
ing with sailormen that the river
generally closes on the full OF the
moon and from that draws the con-
clusion that the Kennebec eannot ana
will not close until sometime in jan
uary.
December 4 ls64- All citizens or
Nashville Tenn, were ordered out OF
the city the preceding evening, bat
tie being hourly expected. IS Capt.
Hartley of the LIST Me. Heavy lett
Portland for the front with 70 recruits
for his battery. A detachment OF 30 IN
fantrymen also left for the front.
jackson Miss., people We're IN terror
over an expected attact by Gen. A. l..
Smith, who had crossed the Big BACK
river with Federal force OF about
e5ee men.
The entire country so years ago vas
going through very similar weather
conditions as this year The lakes,
ponds, streams and rivers were an
usually low and late winter was
being predicted, just as this year 1t
was remarked that the ponds ana
streams always had to be filed by "a
warm, rainy season, before winter sets
In.
Think OF it. Fifty years ago. down
in Halifax, the people were kicking
and growing because they were hav-
ing to pay 20 cents per pound for
butter!
A new dramatic society. has been
formed at Bates College with the fci-
lowing officers; Harold w. Buher, '16,
president; H. P. Johnson, Is, Vice
president; Karl A. Bright, l6.business
manager; Harold ID. Drew, 10. assist
ant business manager: Harold j.
CIoutrnan, '16, stage manager; William
w. Mccain, '1e, press agent; Prof. W.
FL. Hartshorn, faculty member OF ex-
ecutiye committee; ]. D. Mouiton, 10,
member t-large Of executive COM
mittee.
Rededicatory services were held
Sunday morning, afternoon and even
ing in the Fourth congregational
church at Bangor, which has been
practically rebuilt. The morning ser
mon was preached by Pres, DaVlo ~.
Beach Of the Bangor Theological Sem
mary. At the owship service IN the
afternoon Rev. George c. Sauer OF the
First Baptist Church, Rev. Z. NJ
Cousins of the First Congregational
Church of Brewer, Rev, A: q, Hyoe oi
the Essex Street Free Baptist Church,
Rev. Charles Harbutt of the Con-
gregational Missionary Society Oh
Maine, Rev, Ashley A. Smith OF the
Universalist Church, Rev. oscar D
Smith of the First Methodist Episce-
nal church. Rev. Benjamin T. Living
ston of the Columbia Street Baptist
Church and Rev. Frederick K. Gam
BILE of Grace Methodist Episcopai
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