Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-28

aged -four months, the SnlalieSl guest
in attendance.
| An old deed was recorded at the
| Waldo county registry of deeds recent
ly. 1t was dated Dec 20. 1908. and was
the paper conveying n small parcel OF
land in IslesborO which has since be-
come of some value. Islesboro then
was in the county of Hancock OF the
Province Of Maine. Commonwealth of
Massachusetts,. The deed had never
been recorded and the paper on which
! it was made was so much worn that IT
lad to be pasted on another sheet of
paper but the writing was perfectly
legible, although nearly 4 century old.
| A Bowdoinham fisherman recently
found in his weir a monster sturgeon
measuring eight feet in length. Very
few surgeons have been caught. this
year. and when fisherman does
manage to land one. he looks upon it
| in the light of a well earned prize.
| The AroostOOk farmers are still dis
| cussing last weeks heavy frost. The
has been found to be even greater than
it was at first thought to be. Garden
stuff, generally. was killed and the
| potato crop in some sections was also
badly damaged. The frost worked
peculiarly. Some rows Were badly
nipped while others escaped. Some of
| the farmers report that their potatoes.
| were not touched by the frost whik
| neighbours crop suffered Set back.
| 1t is thought that although the tops
are damaged the roots We're not cf-
fected and will probably yield ali
right
The Col. L. H. Kendall Command Of
| the Spanish American War Veterans
Association has been organized in Bid
deford. The membership will include
practically all of the 100 Biddeford and
Saco young men who enlisted and
served in the war with Spain.
Lightning struck a house In Bricg-
ton. this week, and although it did
not do much damage, it gave a star
exhibition. The bolt went into the
roof beside the chimney, splintered a
rafter IN each of the attic chambers:
then the current evidently divided for
ii burst through the side of the house
SCATTERING several clapboards while il
also went down another story, split
one Of the legs of bedstead. pranced
to another sleeping room chamber and
Knocked off a mass of mastering. i,
then SHE'D down into the sittins-room.
tore away pieces of wall paper. bat
tered up screen door. then sailed
away for the kitchen. where it tackled
lemon pie and made mince meat out
OF the pie and plate ripped the top off
from a table and wrecked a closet
door. Whittier it went subsequently.
no man knoweth. This same house
was struck by lightning last summer
and about the same amount of damage.
ddne-$l0 will cover it and the build
ing is provided with lightning rods.
The Portland Transcript comments
as follows upon a condition of affairs
which is not wholly confined to the
Forest City: "A much too common sight
IS sprinkling cart going over sections
of roads which. in spots. are still
muddy. from a previous drenching
The assumption in such cases is that
the gentleman of elegant leisure
perched upon the numbering machine
is planning to save himself the labor
and trouble of driving over such roads
again for a greater part Of the day,
and to accomplish this he believes it
necessary to dampen the earth thor
oughly for a foot or two in depth.
His object Is thereby accomplished.
but at the cost of impairing the sur
face. If IL is necessary to do this. the
driver should be instructed to note
strips of the road still actually mud
dy. and shut off the water when he
comes 10 them, and letting ii on only
on those portions which have become
dry We cannot comprehend why
judgment is not used in this work as
IN any other. Anyway. the Taxpayer
is concerned in the matter, and should
not be Indifferent to the destruction
of roads by the more slovenly method.
III Boston II is required that the water
shall be shut off at crossings, but
here this is never done. and daintily
shod ladies are annoyed by their con-
dition after the cart has recently
passed "
The cOndiment habit is said to have