Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-19

s. In a town adjoining N6caaand liying
within stones throw OF each other.
are three maiden. ladies and three
widows. all sisters. A seventh sister is
also widow.
Deacon John Robinson Of Farming
ton. believes no bread tastes so sweet
Is that man raises himself. Accord
ingly he raises good old fashioned eight
rowed corn every year for his own
brownbread and Indian cakes.
] win Twitchell claims to be the cham
MON fisherman Of Smithton. While
fishing recently he hooked an 1l-inch
pickerel and as 1t was being pulled into
the boat another, % inches long.
srabbed hold of No. l and both were
landed.
When you come TO reckoning up sta
tistics of housekeeping people. Exeter
Mills makes a good claim Tor position
in the van A Dexter Gazette cores
pondent says there Is woman in that
village who came from New Hamp-
shire nearly 80 years ago and has NOT
been over three miles from home in
any direction since.
Serene Leavitt OF Milford, who is
baggage master on the B. 4 A. X. H.,
in order to take his train from Bangor
at A. NJ, has to rise at o'clock and
take the 800 train here. The other
morning he found when he awoke that
the train had been gone 40 minutes.
and he must reach Bangor in an hour
or possibly find himself out Of job.
He reached his train by means of a BIZ
cycle, scorching the 13 miles through
the darkness.
w. c. Tuttle of Belfast, has eigh.
branch Photographic studios which are
managed by himself and his sons. The
first week in each month he spends in
Winthrop, and has done SO for several
years He makes a speciality of school
pictures, and for % years has visited
Kent's Hill Seminary at the beginning
OF each term and usually commence
ment week; and for the past Ii years
he has made similar visits to the cas-
tine Normal school
Hoxie Bros of Rucksport, have in
their window a unique sight in these
times in the shape of a stick and some
chips brought by Warden w. T. Pol
lard from Parin pond. The unique
part OF it is that the stick was cut by
beavers and the chips. which look as if
they were taken out with a chisel were
from q tree six inches in diameter
which the beavers had felled. Warden
Pollard says there is large and thriv-
ing colony at that pond.
Evidently one of Cherryfield's bust
ness men is not used to new clothes;
for after changing his money. spec
tacles, and other needed articles from
his old vest to new one, preparatory
to a trip to the Eastern State fair. he
got up in the morning, donned his old
vest and boarded the stage for Frank
lin station. He found friends on the
way so got there and back. but he was
obliged to forego the pleasure of visit
ing the sideshows and other "attrac-
tons for lack of funds and his specs.
A well known South Brewer man
started to ride to Bangor on his BIZ
cycle a few nights ago. He went UP
and back all right. hut when he jumped
off his wheel at home he remarked to
some friends standing about. that the
lantern on his bicycle didn't appear TO
be giving much light. An investiga-
ton showeT that such was the case.
for the light had fallen off without the
young man discovering the loss. OF
course when the discovery was made,
the crowd smoked at the expense of
the rider.