Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-02

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found cat not long since with a can
fastened to its head and got badly
scratched when removing it. This
caution applies particularly to salmon
cans as cats are fond of the fish. The
writer found a cat with its head in a
can several years ago and has since
pressed the heads of cans back after
opening them but it is still better to
Jam the cans together. This advice
may seem of little consequence to in
dividuals but it is of great Importance
to cats. and lovers of that animal must
be willing to spare them possible
suffering a so little cost of time.
The Commercial says that never within
the memory of those acquainted with the
business of rafting logs at the Bangor
boom has the season been so late as this
year. The logs ordinarily begin entering
the boom in June or July. but August is
an unprecedented date for them to begin
The freshets in the up-river country are
responsible for the conditions, having
piled the logs high on the banks and in
fields and valleys, making a long and
tedious job to get them back into the
stream.
The Maine Board of Legal Examiners
has a number of candidates for examina-
tions at the session of the board to be
held next Tuesday at Portland
! A Saco woman has recently received a
letter from an applicant for Homework
n vi he
given IS a week, and friend of hers be
also hired for $3.50. that she have the
afternoon free to sew for herself and
that she be allowed to keep a pig on the
grounds.
Here's one from the Bath Times:
Armed with a hooked bill, resembling
a hawk. with a spread of wing as big as
a good sized eagle and eauipped with
long legs which he carries stretched be-
hind him. a strange bird has been inhab-
iting the cove at Sabine of late and until
late last night none of the summer resi-
dents there could name him. Allan Irish
investigated and being bird expert
promptly named him a Observation-Disclosures
which Mr.. Irish says are rare in this
vicinity and this is the first one he has
seen since he was small boy.
DIN B. Buzzell has brought proceedings
against the town of New Limerick for
what came near being serious accident
by being nearly thrown off the Fisher
bridge, so called, on the county road re-
ports the correspondent Of the CONNER
cial, The front and rear wheels on one
side were thrown off the bridge. the car
leaning over the outside of the bridge
and il was only a miracle that saved the
occupants from being thrown into the
water. The bridge has never been re-
paired since the new State road was built
For the past few days the railing Of the
bridge is alleged to be dangerous
The new law permitting the issuance
o. marriage licenses to persons showing
cause why the fve-d days public notice
should be waived is being taken advan-
tage OF so often that the State bids
fair to become a popular temporary
residence for couples who wish the
nuptial knot tied in hurry. Our
judges Of probate are now clothed with
such powers that enables them to grant
the right for a marriage to take place
or the same day the license is issued
and they may naturally expect in the
future to have their slumbers more or
less disturbed by anxious couples.
It is beginning to dawn on the people
that the summer tourist business Of the
present season in Maine is not up to
what it has been. should be and was
expected. The people are here in num-
bers. but not in the great numbers we
wished. The inland resorts are faring
better than the seashore places. as
might be expected
It will be Of interest sometime to see
a list of the brothers serving in the
army. especially those from Maine.
Lewiston alone. has four sets of three
brothers in the federal service.
1t is the perfectly proper time for
the Bangor firemen to Rap wood"
after allowing an item like the follow
ing to appear in a paper:
! Bangor f1remen haven't wet line for
four or f1Ve weeks. and single COM
pany could have attended to all the
fires in that time, an unusually long
time with very few alarms and no dam
age of any account. So much rain
and frequent showers. no grass fires
and no coal-pile fires have helped
keep down the service calls.
Passengers on the steamer Boothbay
the other day had the rare sight Of
deer swimming in the outer harbor at
| Rockland. off Owls Head. It may have
been scouting for German submarines.
Another strange but fatal disease is
attacking the handsome shade trees at
Rockland. the silver poplars being af-
ficted to a dying stage by some un-
known cause.
! The people are warned to watch out
for anyone who might endeavor to dis
pose OF postal money orders bearing
the Maiden. Mass, name. as package
OF blank orders was recently stolen
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