Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-11

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Ellsworth parties who paid solicitors
fees for membership in an insurance
order We're hunting for the solicitors at
last accounts.
There is a rumor to the effect that
Senator Hale vii spend the season in
Bar Harbor and that he may build
residence here. There Is nothing definite
in the report however-Bar Harbor
Record.
Houlton is growing rapidly. Parker
p. Burleigh has sold ten house lots this
spring near the b. & A. railroad sta
ton. A new street will be built at
once, leading from Florence avenue
through the grove to Railroad street.
Representative Milliken has intro
duced in the House bill directing the
secretary of war to give to Thomas II.
Marshall Post. G.. a. r.. of Belfast, one
of the old cannon now at the old fort
at Castine. The cannon is one used in
the fertilization of Castlne by the
British in the war of 1912. The post
has now one of the same pieces
mounted before its quarters in the
MtllpIidl nulitiillS HI tltlS Wy anu
sires another to place on the opposite
corner of the building. The one now
there was appropriated many years
ago by some young men of Belfast who
wanted a cannon to assist in a Fourth
of July celebration.
The Portland Railroad Company has
ordered a trolley palace car. The new
car will be a beauty. 1t will be some
what larger than the standard size
and the interior will be elegantly fin
ished in hard wood. There will be
number of handsomely upholstered
large easy chairs and touches in the
car. At one end of the car viii he
buffet from which refreshments can
be served. and the other end will be an
observation platform. This platform
will be considerably larger than those
on the ordinary cars and will be COM
pletely enclosed with glass. The ex-
terror of the car will be finished in
keeping with the interior.
1t was not known until 1852 that a
good crop of corn could he obtained
from burnt land. Col Isaac Parsons
| of New Gloucester, observed the condi-
ton of the ground where growth of
hard wood had been burnt off-that it
was light and that there was nitre
with the ashes. He concluded that it
contained the ingredients necessary for
a crop of corn and was loose enough
without ploughing. a process always
supposed to be Indispensable. and that
il must be hilled up to make the corn
stand. Col. Parsons tried the expert
ment of opening the sod among the
stumps with the corner of a hoe and
| dropping in the corn. then letting the
| turf fall back in its place. The corn
came up thrifty and grew as well as in
plowed land. At the proper time the
rank fire weeds" were hacked down
with the hoe. and the result was an
| abundant harvest of sound corn. This
manner of raising corn came to be
practiced in all the eastern country
and the corn crop in the then district
| of Maine was more than doubled, with
| a great saving of labor.
The news comes that not only has
| Miss Loie Fuller danced herself into
nervous prostration. but that she has
| decided to come down to Skowhegan
| and recuperate. Miss Fuller is to
place herself under the care of her
uncle. DR.. F. s. BigeIow. well-known
physician of the town whose methods
are clairvoyant and have won him
much repute. Miss Fuller, too, is of
spiritualistic tendencies and admits
| to her Skowhegan friends that she
does" her world famous dances under
control" of a dancing girl who tiptoed
before Nero. The last time Miss Full
Ter was at Skowhegan she was an I'M
| known soubrette in Murray & Muir
| phys Company. She was there over
| Sunday and went out to Hayden
Lake to a Spiritualist campmeeting
The man who presided meant well, but
| he didn't know how When it was
intimated to him that he invite Miss
Fuller to sing he brusquely proclaimed
to the audience: There's a Miss Full
| Ter here from Chicago, and she wants
| to sing to We" We say it to the honor
of a sensible little woman that though
"a Miss Fuller from Chicago" flushed
and bit her lips in modification, she
nevertheless walked up to the little
| melodeon on the rostrum and sang a
quaint old hymn so sweetly that the
| audience clamored for more