Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-20

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| the High school boys lose their annua
football game with The Forest City
youngsters.
Aroostook Times: The Aroostook
Alumni of Colby College will be glad
to learn that Bobby" Vail, one of the
famous pitchers of the Aroostook base
bali league. has entered Colby College
Jimmy" Cox is at Bowdoin. When
these two college teams meet in base
ball next spring Houlton people will
have more than an ordinary interest in
the outcome.
The West doesn't have a monopoly
of tall corn stories. A West Dover
man reports cornstalks standing Is
and IA feet high, and that isn't bad for
Maine in a poor corn year.
"Of all the cities in Maine destined
to grow, l see none more likely than
lewiston" says a leading Portland
business man to the Lewiston journal.
With the new pOwer-Service at the
tstIu anu Will Tic Va iA1"
electric railway connections via Me-
chanic Falls into the heart of Oxford
county it seems to me that this city
must add fifteen thousand people to
here population in the next ten years.
Portland is growing rapidly. Maine
as whole is growing. The connec-
tions of the Portland & Rumrord Falls
railway through to Megantic to tap
the c. p. will surely help Lewiston and
Auburn. All you want is confidence
and interpretation
A weird yarn comes down from Fox
croft that Il couple of hunters in a
neighboring town had recently found
on the Guilford mountain. an old rusty
rifle standing against and partially
grown into large tree, while nearby
it there We're bones resembling those
of the human body. 1t is claimed by
these lic-hunterS that something
like 20 years ago a man probably went
out with his rifle to hunt and either
deliberately committed suicide or ac-
cidently shot himself. then standing
his rifle against the tree lay down TO
quiet Dreams" where these many
years his bones have lain undiscovered
by man.
Recalling to mind that some men in
their time play many parts, when a
letter was recently received at the
Portland postoffice addressed to ''citi-
zen, soldier, banker, granger, governor,
captain of industry" it was sent to ex-
Gov. ROBBIE. and it reached the right
man. 1t was written by Citizen
George Francis Train. to Governor
Robbie, scrawled on the margins of the
pages of a pamphlet. Gov. Robbie met
citizen Train years ago, and he
promptly replied to his erratic COM
munication.
Mrs S. 3. Smith of Madison street.
Auburn. is the possessor of large
amount of rare and antique china. She
is the owner of a cup once in the pos
session of Mary Tyler. who was Of the
famous Tyler family and the prototype
of the character in the well-knoWn
school poem commencing: Mary had
a little lamb" This cup is over two
hundred years old and very fine. Mrs.
Smith values it very highly on account
OF its associations. 1t was given to
her by her late aunt. Ora Davis, OF Au-
burn,~and has been in possession of the
Tyler family for many generations.
She has several other pieces of rare
and rich ware from the same source.
The Tyler family originated in this
country with Job Tyler who settled IN
Andover. Mass. in the early days.
President Tyler was a descendant. and
so is President Roosevelt, who was
made president of the Tyler associa-
ton which held it's last annual reunion
at Andover. last year. Another cup
and saucer owned by Mrs. Smith came
from her grandmother, and were origi-
nally wedding gift. She was mar
lied to Asa Bradford who was the
eighth in direct line from Governor
Bradford. first governor Of Massachu-
sets and who held the position for
thirty-one years. A flax wheel from
the same source is an article that is
highly priced. Mrs. DIR. Bigelow, the
sister of Mrs. Smith. also owns Il
punch bowl which came to her from
the Raynes family who married into
the Tyler family. This is two hundred
and twenty years old. and finely pre-
served. A water pitcher that was III
use when Lafayette was in this coun-
try is another souvenir of historic
value and fame. This was made in
Serves. France. some two hundred
years ago. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Bige-
low have descended from both the
Bradford and Tyler families. and may
therefore be said to have blue blood in
their veins Their collection Of an
tiuue ware is valuable one, and the
pieces are among the Oldest in the
country.