Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-27

cars were carrying about 1900 people
daily and they thought it something to
bragg about.
1t was thought fifty years ago that
Gen. Lee would fail back upon Rich
mond as Grant advanced and the re-
sistence along the Rapidan would be
slight. General Pickett was in COM
mand of the Rebel forces at Plymouth;
the Rebels had 80 iron-clads ready for
business; the re-enlisted men of the
18th Maine were on their way home,
being daily expected and Col. Kimball
and Col Illsley of the 18th were in
New York, en- route to Maine.
The Portland municipal court had
almost a sensation Thursday, when
man was hailed before the bar on the
charge of keeping an unlicensed dog
He pleaded Not guilty" saying he
was about to have the dog licensed, but
the Judge thought he had delayed the
matter a little too long and fined him
$40 and costs. He appealed. 1t is
said to have been the first case of the
kind in the Portland court for 20 years
1t looks as though the Maine Re-
serve might be deprived of the mimic
warfare around Portland this year,
the Machias, which was to have had
part in the game, being ordered to
Mexico. A possible chance exists,
however. that the boys may have a
taste of the real article before the
trouble with Mexico is settled.
Maine is already preparing to be
REPRESENTED at the Sind annual con-
vention of the National Education AS
ISOLATION July Ali at st. Paul, MINI.
Meetings of the National Council will
begin Saturday, July 4, Educational
Sunday will follow on July 5 and the
general sessions will begin Monday,
July 6,
Petitions are being circulated for the
erection of a bridge across the Penob
sect at Sunkhaze Rips. 1t would be
great convenience to the people of
Argyle, saving about four miles of
travel In reaching Old Town, and
would also be a great benefit to the
business and professional men of the
latter place.
The citizens of Sanford have turned
down a proposition for a clerk for Sc
lectmen. The former evidently believe
that if any person wants the job, he
is in duty bound to do the work or get
out, for plenty of others are always
waiting for just such a place.
1t being understood that the portion
of the Canadian Pacific lying between
Aroostook Junction, N. B., and Pres
qque Isle will be electrified as soon as
the need and demand is great enough,
the Fort Fairfield Review urges that
it is high time for the Boards of Trade
of Fort Fairfield, Caribou and Pressure
Isle to get into action and place the
situation before the Canadian Pacific
in such strong manner that the road
will do something at ence.
Potatoes are bringing from $3.50 to
$2.0e per barrel in Aroostook and some
of the dealers predict that before long
they will go to $500 in the big cities.
Dixfield is rejoicing again over the
business outlook, from the fact of the
transaction which was consummated
last week; that of the transferring of
the Foster Manufacturing Cos tooth
pick mills, both at Dixfield and Oak
10, -
lew and other Dixfeld parties 1t is
understood now that instead of new
mill being built at Dixfield for novelty
works. the Foster pick mill will be
used for that purpose and other enter
prises be added as time will reveal.
Rev. II. M. burlington, who for five
years has been pastor of the First Bap-
fist church at Turner, resigned the
pastorate April 49, At business
meeting of the church, April 81, the
resignation was regretfully accepted
and it was voted to release the pastor
May IS, at which time he will become
pastor of the First Baptist church at
Bar Harbor. During his passionate at
Turner Mr. burlington has been an &C.
tive force for good in the community
and will leave with the best wishes of
the town people.
One of the only two real pinkies
now afloat in United States waters is
owned and sailed by Captain Willard
Brown of Bristol who visited Bath
Thursday. The craft has two masts
and bowsprit and is schooner rigg-
ed; has the bulldog bow and the long,
tapering stern. The owner does not
know her age, but her appearance in
dicates at least so years of life. Cap
tain Brown carried four bushels of
fine CLAIMS to Bath, but could find no
sale, the market having been glutted
for the past few weeks
A new way of putting over" one
on newly married man has been dis
covered at Brunswick, so when r. S.
Corey went to his work at the Cabot
mill machine shop the. other morning
he found his lathe covered with rib
bons, his working clothes and shoes
| filled with rice and when he turned on
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