Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-01


chestra. the members to be recruited
from the ST. Croix valley. Officers
were elected as follows at the first
meeting: President, w. ]. Graham;
vice presidents, DR.. Wilkes, Windsor
Dewar, Bert Fitzpatrick, DR. Mason
secretary. Miss E. L. Hill; treasurer,
f. H. Lowell; director Frank Lane;
concert master, Frank Leave.
Portsmouth, n. H., people are urg-
ing the York county, Maine. people TO
take hold of the free bridge PROPOSE
ton, between Portsmouth and YORK
and make it a surety. The Portsmouth
Chronicle says: The commissioners
of Rockingham county and York
county, Maine can do their fellow
citizens no greater service than by
rushing their highways and start the
work of removing their great barrier
to local expansion The people have
waited long and patiently for relief
and the legislators haze made relief
possible and now let's have it,
All rumors about selling the Lewis
ton, Gray & Portland electric railroad,
which have been multiplying since the
death of the owner and builder, Hon.
w. S. Libbey, have been set at rest,
ditto. that regarding the reported taxi
ing over by the L., A. & W. Road.
work on the road is going on,
just as Mr. Libbey had planned
stated one in a position to know
The road will be opened for trafic
lust as had been planned. This date
has not been fixed; it cannot be as
vet. 1t will, it is hoped, be about
the fifteenth of June. Mr.. Liobeys
plans for the road were all we'll
known to his associates and they
propose to carry them through, just as
he would desire. The road will not
be sold!"
The Sheepscot had visitor the 9TH
err day that had not been seen there
for at least 25 years, so says an elder
" citizen OF Westport. P. E. Abbott
of Bath, a lumberman, who was IN
Westport looking over his numbering
operations, saw what he was toio was
a lib fish About six feet OF It's head,
body and forward fins were exposed
when it played around and leaped
from the water and its length was es-
timated at about 20 to 25 feet. me
name is taken from the shape of the
forward fins, which resemble YES
sells jib.
Mrs Berry, the wife Of Constable
Howard Berry of Livermore Falls, the
unfortunate victim of the murderous
shooting by Leonard Wyman in that
place Ia~4 Tuesday, when he went 10
arrest Wyman for payment OF
dog license, says that her husband
feared that he was going to have
trouble with Wyman when he left the
house and for that reason took his re-
volver with him. He did not, how
ever, expect an attempt to murder
him.
A hen story that rivals the best at
tempts of the Bath Times Henry
comes from the Otis correspondent OF
the Ellsworth American and Is ac-
credited to Lyman Salisbury of that
town. He says that one of his hens,
q valued one, OF COuTSt, WiiSn dltCihPt
ing to go to roost on a cross piece or
| the henery lost her footing and in
trying to save herself, pecked at the
| woodwork with her bill which was
penetrated by a sharp nall and she
hung there in the air until she died.
cartridges must be tanner than usual
in Woolwich, according to a story told
by Bath man. He was driving a
heavy team in the town the other day
and espied by the roadside a partridge
with brood of chickens. The mother
| did not seem the least afraid Of the
big team, but walked alongside it for
some distance, the chicks going off
| into the bushes, as unconcerned as
their ma.
e. A. Leavitt of Maple hill, Auburn,
| has recently received a letter from
| parties in London, Eng, regarding the
Leavitt ancestry. The Leavitt family
is traced back to William the Con-