Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-14

revenue. He will suggest an increase
in the taxation on incomes, tobacco,
| petroleum and whisky. A
letter from the I'd Maine cavalry says
| that the regiment is badly split up do
ing duty at several points about New
| Orleans. Not more than two COM
panies are together in any one place.
- The body of Capt. Joseph
Paradis, late of the 9Th Maine, who
died of wounds received in battle, was
buried from his fathers house in Que
bee on Tuesday The total
appropriation for riot damages in New
| York is s., 900, 900. A loan OLA quarter
of a million dollars has just been
placed in the market. 1t
was Gen. Harker and not Gen. Hooker
who was MORALLY wounded in the at
| tack of Gen Sherman on Johnston's
position. The steamer Ash
land, with PA sick and wounded SOL
diers left Washington Monday for
Portland. DR.. Perley. the army sur
geon at this post is preparing for their
reception. The steamer Is Que mere
| today.
Antonio Surest of Bath. judging
| from his name, is an italian and ne
reminds one of the son Of Erin who
| wrote home to his brother to come
over at once, as work was plenty ana
| all he had to do was to lug the bricks
and mortar up six stories and the man
| at the top die all the work. Antonio,
one day last week. mixed mortar all
day. carrying 200 hods of 1t up 81
| foot ladder and after supper worked
| for several hours in the. garden. Even
he admitted that 1t was pretty good
DAVIS work, considering that 1t was a
very warm day.
A Bath citizen recently remarked
,that years ago for a long time he was
having trouble with his stomach, and
so finally went to the late DR.. Charles
Packard for relief. The good doctor
said, 81 can give you prescription,
of course, but 1 should advise you to
go home and take teaspoonful or
plain ordinary cooking soda from the
| box your wife has in her kitchen and
stir It into half pint or more of warm
water and drink 1t half an hour before
breakfast and for few days take
the dose. each time q half hour before
each meal, then for 10 days simply US
ing the soda once a Gay, after which
your stomach will cease troubling you
and you can quit using the soda at all
The citizen did so and has had
healthy stomach ever since.
The new steel filing racks for the
file room of the registry Of probate at
Ellsworth have been installed. to-
gether with a steel double-front
standing-desk specially constructed
for convenience in searching records,
and a steel roll-top desk for the regis
ter of probate. With the exception OF
the wooden cabinet for the storing OF
blank forms, all the furniture OF the
room is now fire proof, affording long
needed protection for valuable papers.
One of Houlton's expert chauffeurs'
after having been warned several
times by the officers. attempted to
show off in the wrong place day OF
two ago. After coming down the hill
toward the foot bridge at rate OF
between 80 and 40 miles an hour
when the speed of cars is limited TO
IL by ordinance, he met two teams,
directly opposite each other on the
bridge. Nothing daunted, he shot be-
tween them in his car Three promi-
nent business men CHANGED to be In
the teams and, as the auto had but SIX
inches to spare on either side, by ac-
tual measurement, without having
struck the teams, and as only light
guard rail stood between them and
60 foot drop, in case they were hit,
they had the chauffeur arrested. Hs
was fined $40 in the municipal court
An automobilist informs the Bath
Times man that cats and kittens
are attracted at night by the lights
of a car more than are dogs. OF
indeed than any other animal. He
says that he nearly tipped over his
car the other night trying to dodge
kitten which ran into the road
ahead and would not get out Of the
way. The lights. he says. seem to
faseinate animals, especially the kit
tens. A squirrel one night ran out
and remained in the middle of the
road as he was passing in his car. He
had seen dogs run over by other cars
in this way but more often dogs, he
says, are picked up by cars. by run
ming toward them and barking. fall
ing sometimes to dodge the wheels
All this is doubtless true, but does
not excuse rapid driving Of automo-
biles around the city streets, as SC
many are doing endangering not
only cats and dogs but human lives.
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