Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-29

Bridgton News. just for old times
sake, are trying to stir up blaze from
the dead embers OF the Belgian hare
controversy. 49,
In Biddeford and SacC they are SELL
lirg Welsh coal. received by way of
Portland, at $40 ton while the price
to Portland consumers is $1s a ton.
A Portland teacher in the Philip
r:bes sent nome cocoanut by mail
recently, putting on SO cents in stamps
70 induce Uncle Sam to bring It. =.
The celebration Of its centennial by
the Methodist church at Dunstan
corner, Scarboro. suggests the time
when Scarboro possessed within a
half dozen as many souls as did Port
land, ard recalls that at one time a
clergyman who was one of the strong
men of the faith chose to remove from
Portland to take charge Of the Scar
boro station. -".-"
Three lucky Bowdoinham men
| found bee tree, last week, and Sc
| cured 100 pounds of rich honey. AS
they sold it for. 20 cents a pound it
was a good afternoons work and they
did not regret that they were side
tracked from their fishing trip.
Speaking of lucky Bowdoinham
men reminds the Bath Independent of
a son of the neighboring town of Bow
| dom who went West to grow up with
the country. He is A. c. Merriman of
| Marinette, Wisconsin, whose assessed
wealth is now three times the total
| young manhood he worked year for
$80S0. But it was push and pluck
rather than luck which gave this
Maine boy his fortune.
For the past two months herring
have been very abundant in Milbridge
bay. Singularly enough they will not
weir. but the fishermen have been able
to dip them by the hogshead, if de-
sired. Acres of them roll out of water
about twilight during which time scow
loads are taken and brought ashore to
be used as fertilizer. 1t is no I'M
usual sight to see twenty or more
boats being loaded with the herring to
be used for lobster bait.
| Here is the pean of triumph to the
| ebOny-hued hero of the day with
which the Lewiston Journal begins it's
breezy account of last Saturdays
great football game at Brunswick:
| Watkins. Watkins! Hear the voices
ring! Watkins! Watkins! he didn't do
a thing. He bucked the BOwdOin CEN
| ter; he lugged the ball mile: he
gagged 'em. he scragged 'em, he bat
tered 'em in style; he saw the holes
| our bruisers made; he struck his black
poll through; he kicked his heels in
| glee, did he, this wearer of the blue;
he ran mile minute the ball be-
| meath his chin; he leaped four hundred
feet in the air and then ieaped back
again: he circled Bowdoins ends
| nine times and nurdle6 'em conn
plete. he turned six hand
| springs through the line and
| landed on his feet. He did a cake,
walk past the backs and walked out
through the hole: his flying feet went
down the street for Goal! Coal!
GOal!!! Oh! Mister Watkins left your
classic head. You're neither man nor
| master nor student nor COED, you're
simply Mister Watkins ,the pride of
Colby's gray. the winner@of mighty
scrap, the hero of the fray!y
| -
The wadsworth-L IngfelloH house
closed Saturday night, for this season,
which has proved asdmqst successful
one. The paid attesalante has ,>been
6.322. The visitors ekister, keptt lin
the house for the twtzpeaSpns, has tITl
its pages over 5000 nfc and amoRs =
them are those of son Uf tbet dis(irf1
euished people Of the A md ga
from other lands. All4 hsvsI saeu3
| much pleased with wk} ~ 'e1k2eu
shown them and many ID IA 4.
| ticeably affected by the II ~ GOf
the many associations of tI,seI k2{nt
rooms with the lives Of the e.
cupants. Altogether it has r. fost
satisfactory to all concerneda re,
suit OF this seasons openines {been
that the total receipts havkf kche6
the sum Of over s1.sOO.00. th31t6r the
admissions. profits in the pfnt1Graphs,
souvenirs. spoons and small contribu-
tons In the box in the front hall. This
Is far beyond the most sanguine ex-
pectations and Is very cncouraaing to
those interested in the UNDERTAKING.
NO damage of any kind has been done
10 the house by any of the many WISH