Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-13

Blue sky is overhead!
| The birds burst forth In melody
Warren E. Comstock.
Sunday will be Mothers day.
| w~ar a carnation-"White for moth
ers dead and bright for mothers liv-
ing"
| Bar Harbor made last Wednesday
Good Roads day and about 400 people
turned out and put in a hard days
work where it can be appreciated on
pieces Of road that really needed atten-
ton. The ladies served splendid
dinner to the tired men.
Sheriff White of Penobscot county
advocates changing the style Of suits
for the county prisoners from the
striped kind to kind of mixed goods
as being in line with the modern way
Of reforming men. The new steel cage
at the Jail, for the purpose Of prevent
ing assaults on officers by prisoners is
being put in. The Jail now has only 50
prisoners, the smallest number for
years.
| WaShburn is having revival ana
last Sunday SO converts of the Penta-
costal meetings were baptized, the
largest baptism the town ever had.
Another large one is expected in
short time.
| Millinocket had a real sensation
early in the week, what was supposed
to be a human foot being found in a
semi public place. After the sensation
! had developed into respectable size,
through the various stories and ru-
mors, the human foot was found TO
| have belonged to a defunct bear ann
the sensation subsidized as quickly as it
grew.
County Attorney Archibald of Aroos-
took is going after the rumseling evil
in sharp order, the owners of three
buildings in Houlton occupied by Ger.
tain organizations having been notified
to eject the occupants within re
stricted time or injunction proceeding
will be begun. The three clubs were
indicted as liquor nuisances at the last
term Of court.
A tame moose over in Hancock
county is having very pleasant time
this spring visiting about from place to
place and making many friends. She
was first seen in Otis, where she want
to w. D. Moore's barn with the cows
and several times repeated the call. A
neighbor put a bell around her neck
and she seemed to like it. She recent
ly stopped two men in Eastbrook and
accompanied them home, managing to
get rid of the bell, as if she meant to
stay. Another and larger bell was tied
to her neck and she was fed, exhibited
in town and driven back to the woods.
1t is expected that the repairs and
additions to the Sisters Of Mercy con-
vent at Pleasant Point. Eastport, VIII
be completed in time for the annual
religious festival Of Corpus Christus,
in the celebration Of which the Passa-
maquoddy Indians will be Joined by the
Penobscot tribe from Old Ttown, with
the latters band and baseball nine.
A pair of oxen recently killed at Lu-
bee for beef Is said to have been the
largest of which any record can be
found slaughtered for that purpose.
They were Holsteins and weighed to-
gether 500 pounds. They were raised
by C. L. and J. M. Pike Of Lubec, each
owning one. c. L. Pike is raising two
more, both Of which he expects will
exceed the weight of either of the two
mentions.
The first member Of Villas Volun-
teers in Maine arrived early Tuesday.
reports the Phippsburg correspondent
of the Bath Independent. He needed
no credentials to establish his identity
one prolonged note from his melodious
voice was enough. He gave promise
that there we're a million strong ad-
vancing in regular order behind him."
He allowed there'd been many reports
Of his determination, but, it was all a
fake, as his presence proved. That
MOSQUITOES voice ranged from low bass
to high tenor.
Nine Rumford teachers for various
reasons have resigned but all the 9TH
ers have been reelected and the sal
aries Of all who had not reached the
maximum increased-the principal Of
the High school from $500 to $500,
the sub master from $1,000 to $1,000.
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