Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-12-15

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Mrs. Sarah Shirley of Vinalhaven,
IS years old, has recently finished
patchwork quilt which has 1924 pieces.
Maine Christmas trees are reported
to be bringing small returns in the
city markets, owing to an over supply.
l.. H. Murch. who has kept a weather
record at Belfast for the L. S. weather
bureau forty-one years, has resigned and
the record is now kept by John S. Fer
maid.
Maine plumbers are now having
their innings. Let them, knowing their
power, be Observation-Disclosures Jour
nal.
A Bath dealer sold two pounds of candy
last year to a lady in that city to send to
friends in England. The same lady was
in this year for another supply, for she
said her English cousins claimed that
they never knew what candy was until
they received last years package.
Leading citizens of Red Beach are
talking of organizing a stock company
for the purpose of erecting a new pub
lie wharf at that portion of the city.
The understanding is that if the wharf
is built there the Frontier Steamboat
Co. steamers will make regular calls
at the beach to and from PASSPORT.
A young man who was at work re-
Gently in the registry of deeds, Port
land. called attention to what he con-
sidered a great shrinkage of value. He
said he had just sold lot of land for
$3.50 which he found by reference to an
old deed was sold thirty years ago for
$1,000.
The Cornish man who changed the
name of his horse to please his wife
and then entered the animal in a race
at Old Orchard under the new name.
has reason for wishing he had allowed
the old name to stick now that the
National Trotting Association has
spoken.
A singular thing occurred in one of
the Saco law offices, recently. During
the night two bottles of ink We're left
standing side by side on one of the
desks. The next morning the ink in
one bottle was found to be frozen
solid while the other flowed as freely
as though it We're beside warm
stove.
Considerable quantities of holly are
brought to Portland on the English
steamers during the days just before
the holiday season and sent through
to Canada, where it is as much in
customary use as it is in England.
Many dealers buy large amounts of it
and give it to their customers free
with their bundles.
Among other things of interest at the
national w. c. T. L. convention at
Washington is a pine tree taken from
the pines on the Dexter road in Dover,
where Mrs. l.. NJ. n. Stevens was born
a largo uJantifV and nine
and photograph of the house in which
she was born accompanied the tree.
These relics We're secured and sent to the
convention by Mrs. II. B. Hooke and
Mrs. Mary G. Garfield of Dover.
There is very little need of sports
men who are fond of deer meat risk
ing their lives in the woods when the
animals can be purchased for almost lit
tie nothing. Returning from up country
the other day a Calais man met a
hunter dragging a deer out from the
woods to the side of the road which
the hunter offered to sell to him for
81.
In a dense swamp near Green Ridge,
says Parkhurst correspondent, a
number of young men have built
camp. 1t is built of stout logs and
kept securely locked. None but mem
bers of the gang are allowed to enter
Twice each week at night. this band
gathers, armed to the teeth with rifles
revolvers and knives. What these
meetings are for, none appear to
know.
People would hardly do much in the
summer cottage line at this time of
the year and yet Portland real estate
men and cottage owners report a
flourishing demand for them all along
shore and at the islands for the next
season. One young man who expects
to have use for a cottage by the sea
next summer, went the rounds of the
real estate men, this week. and found
that a great many other people We're
ahead of him.
The punching machine has been afford
ing more or less sport to Rockland young
men of muscle and generous bunch of
nickels for the party who owns the con
trivance. Like the weighing machine it
registers good record not so much on
the merit of strength as on the manner
in which it is hit. "A local pugilist was
somewhat disconnected. when after d
great flourish of his powerful right arm
he only made a record of about 800. while
a youngster employed in a neighborins
grocery sent the hand up among the
ZOOS. y few sprained fingers are in evi-
dence. They belong to young men who
Were too much absorbed in getting bic
score to notice what they We're hitting.
A peculiar condition of affairs existed
in Blaine village last week. Owing IL
some real estate transfers that took place
recently some eight or ten families found
it necessary to change their abode. one
man named Smith held the key to the
situation. 1t was his first move, and
none of the other families could move I'M
til Smith got out. and he appeared to he
in no hurry about it. Things began II
look serious. Several conventions of the
families interested Were held. Smith
was threatened. cOaXed and all kinds ol
schemes Were worked TO get him tC
move; business was suspended to quite
an extent: landlords were busy serving
notices to Quit and rents were in gooC
demand. Finally il appears Smith could
no longer resist the pressure and moved
and there was general shifting around
and now social and domestic matters il
the village have settled down to their
normal conditions.
The bogus lace women are still
heard from occasionally IN the State
although they have been extensively
advertised i'll the papers. These two
women went around with what they
claimed was hand made lace of theil
own manufacture and that of new
and improved pattern that was much
better than anything else in the line OF
hand made lace ever known. They