Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-20
At COBBOSSEE.
Many Visitors Noted at This
Charming Resort.
Some Interesting "reminiscences Of
Early Times in Manchester.
'"e weeks Social Affairs. The Town pumD''
Completed Notes Of Interest.
Lake CObbosSeecOntee

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lear journal: Suppose we again in.
terview our old and esteemed friend N
= weston Che is so, concerning early
lines III Manchester. AS he gives m.
cordial grasp of the hand. he ask,
NE 10 De seated in chair which ha.
speen cherished in the family for ::
years. 1t belonged to Captain Nathan
weston, the great grandfather of Chic,
Justice Melville Fuller.
- When Mr.. Weston was little bow q
Dear was seen on the hillside up which
runs Quaker road" Weston started
with "a pitChfork in hand. ready TO,
baa4le but he was sent back by his
father. who thought him too young TO,
Hear hunting. Moses Cummings. the
grandfather of Henry Cummings, had
the @iy gun in the neighborhood. il
Den& an old-fashioned flint lock affair
HtesStood on log fence by the road
side$asmed the gun at the bear. having
an Aacsllent opportunity to shoot it:
nutsNter swapping the gun three o,
foufsstimes, old Bruin marched off
westEard. swan the brook. and wen,
oyerstr Hilton's hill. He was follow
ed nfx by Henry Winslow ana VIM. +
A'te-tFAkNr scti ne Olt Dtsl
est0od his ground. showed his teeth
and the young men speedily climbed 4
tfee,ssand after the bear made off
meaehed down and went home.
On the west shore Of the lake cit was
eailsd pond in those days.. there
lived a man by the name of Packard
Who was very small in statue. He
made himself useful among the farm
ers by spindling corn. and he. was
popularity known as Spindle Packard. =
Any one having a field OF corn tina
was backward in coming forward
was told by some neighbor-'.Well
you'll have to send for Spindle Packard
to spindle your corn this year, OF
course everybody will believe that
story.
There once lived in the house now
owned and occupied by Lindley II
hammond, man named Brainarl
If a relative at all he must have been a
very distant relative of our hard
shell! Baptist friend and fellow sinner
JOhn r. Brainard Of this town. on one
occasion he caught two wild geese
putting them in his barn for safe keep
ing. In the morning they We're gone
and Brainard couldn't think how in the
world they could have got out The
cause was obvious to those who saw
that two large boards We're off the back
part of the barn.
Mr.. Weston's mother told him that
in 1893. when she came down from
place to East Winthrop. all the build
in, No, ha oil ~ nf ho
old tavern stand. Afterwards the main
part was added, and it was called the
Mansion house." and enjoyed good
degree of patronage. New England
rum and molasses We're dispensed
without regard to race or previous con-
Gition of servituda. At one time there
We're three public houses here. and
they were not only well filed. but their
guests overtiowed into the neighboring
houses.
At that time Manchester was 4 place
| of considerable Importance. Sampson {
extensive oil cloth factories were in full
| blast. The pine lumber in Fayette
Livermore and adjoining towns was
hauled through here to the markets. as
we'll as all the supplies for Oxford and
Franklin counties. That was before
the coming of the railroad on the
back route
Gen Jesse Robinson, sheriff of Ken
nebec county and cashier OF the old
American Bank at Hallowell. once kept
a very nice hotel here. He had high
toned parties from Augusta and Other
places. One of the upper crust OF Au-
gusta society was at one time at the
house with his wife. The couple got
into a heated dispute. and the dandel
was up to fighting pitch. me gentie'
man was Away exceedingly pohte II
all his conversation, and no douD
| thought he observed the rules OF strlc
p,opriety, when raising his voice IN hi'
rage he exclaimed, Did you, my
dear. if YOU tell me that again VII
throw YOU out of the window. III:
courtesy never left him. If called upoi
tn throw her out of the window. NJ
would do it in Il very gentleman!
manner, I should like to tell the gen
tleman's name. but he is too ciosei'
connected with one OF our lea"''is lam
lies Of the Capital city.
A company of summer rosters iron
Craic's point visited US on IueSoaS
took dinner at Mrs. Footc = an" ..
an excursion down the lake me.
numbered some "A. and while mere
through the hospitality of WIN. II
Reid. made his cottage their h'a''
charters They were so charmed W.T.
the lake that they wished they 'o"'
move Craig's point right over mere
The beautiful and expressive name
"Fernside" has been given 10 'i'e '''
tare Of Hiram Clark. Mrs. CLARK Sae
she cxnocts to return to her nome
The citv some time this fall. but 81,
hates to think of it, so charming
everything here.
Ida and Annie Bean of Augusti
have returned home after lof''hsI II
at the Wilder cottage.
Wednesday next. Charles r. klns
man. with Harris WOodman OF fh'
college. the two Turner boys ana Ni,'p
Smith will go into camp at the ti"rs
Shoe.
on Saturday. Miss Sterling OF Pc
, ton. closed her fOrtnights visit
Edgemere. and returned home.
! Mr.. Ernest Everett of st. John.
E.. came. Yesterday. This is his TIM
season at the lake as the guest OF Nj
t Reid.
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