Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-01

tntS3t00lN8 letteTS the last one DclNS
dated 81 New York giving the sheriff
until March 26 to live. Sheriff Bry-
son pays no attention to these threats
and still lives. Madam Mona re-
6eived several letters threading her Il
she did not let up on the Hillman case.
while Deputy Foss of Danforth re-
ceived q 6rewsome find one evening
threatening him with the fate of Hill
man. 1t is the consensus Of opinions
that the wholesale liquor houses may
be responsible in great measure for
these threats. The sheriffs and dep
uty sherifs are enforcing the pro-
hibitory law lately and. this seems to
be the cause for the threats. Sheriff
Bryson Is not a man to be frightened
in the least and he will keep right
ON.
A $4,000 real estate deal took place
last week in Houlton when thu Frs
bic block on Main street was sold to
Clarence H. Pierce Of that town. The
block is situated on the south side Of
Market square and is one Of the finest
in town as well as one Of the hand
soonest in eastern Maine.
Portland's new exposition building
will be opened June by the Chamber
Of Commerce with State Of Maine
Products exposition, which will con-
tinue for two weeks. This announce
ment has been made by Frank M.
Low, who has had charge Of the work
on the exposition building since its in
ception. Frederick NJ. Prescott is to
have charge of the show. There WI
be about $50 exhibits to include every
industry in the State that can be
reached and without doubt it will
prove to be a great boom not only ID
the exposition building but to the
State as well.
There is no earthly doubt but what
the following could happen in Bath:
A boss painter of the Shipping city
said that one Of his workmen was one
day apparently sighting his work and
on investigation found that the man
had neglected to put on his specta-
cles. Being told to mount them he
did so and an improvement was at
once noticed in his work, which from
that time on for the entire day was
perfectly satisfactory. But, listen
When knocking off, time arrived the
man found that both lenses Of his
spectacles were in the case and he
had been doing fine work with just
the frames to improve his eyesight!
The coast guards, as the former life
savers at Popham Beach are now
known, are being complimented on
their valuable services at the recent
fire by which the hotel Rockledge was
destroyed. Well, the cost guard are
all picked men and know how to turn
their hands to anything that may
arise on land or sea, though their line
Of work was supposed to be confined
mostly to the latter.
Members of the famous Glover's
Band of Lewiston acted as bearers
Sunday when the remains of the late
Col. Enoch Perkins arrived from NAL
den, Mass, where he died last Thurs
day, and were inferred in the old
Briggs cemetery, Auburn. his native
city. Prayers were said at 8 o'clock
in the afternoon, Rev. H. P. Woods of
the High Street Congregational
church officiating. The bearers were
George T. Wilson, c. c. Davis, c. S.
Yeaton, F. /. Bunpus. Clifford McKin-
ney and c. H. Barker.
Eighteen more men from the army
of the unemployed arrived Saturday
at the colony in China being de-
veloped by F. w. Winter Of Auburn,
who is said to be promoting the
scheme for New York parties. The
colonists now include Danes, Firms,
Germans and Polanders, most of them
sent by the information branch of the
immigration service and still more are
expected.
John w. Butler, a Togus veteran
of the Civil War, who is an OCCASION
al visitor to Bath and was there las:
week and is expected to return fo'
another visit this week. has a book
about the size of a testament of the
pocket form, which was presented to
Mr.. Butler by a soldier friend, says
the Times. This friend had the
book in his pocket during a battle of
the war and a rebel bullet struck him
just where he had it in the inside
breast pocket Of his coat, boring a
hole through the pages Of the book,
but expanding it's force so that the
missile failed to do further damage.
Had the soldier not had the book in
his pocket the bullet would have
penetrated his heart.
C. M. S. Mcclellan, formerly Of
Bath, the librettist, has had his son
under the British law
that he may be a soldier. Mcclellan
is a native of Boston. but went to
England to reside soon after the hit
there in the late COS Of 1.-The Belle
Of New York." which remains his
chief success and is still in use. His
royalties on his plays and liberetti
have been in excess Of $1,5OO,OOO
since he first tried his pen for the
stage with a comic opera called "Pur-
tania." His one successful non-mus-
cal play has been Leah Kleschna,"
IN adoption. He wrote for a long
lime under the name of Hugh Nor
.on" and was for a while editor OF
Town Topics.
Now appears N. c. Newell of Lew