Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11

The Old Town Enterprise says that
they are still wearing straw hats and
playing crouuet and tennis in that city.
A prosperity pointer is the unprece-
dented demand already made in the
great cities for Maine Christmas trees.
1t was the intention to fill the great
lobster pound at Bluehill Falls. the
largest in Maine, to it's capacity of $780,
900 Holsters but as yet there are only
IL 600 in the pound, and unless they are
more plentiful within the next two or
three weeks, no more will be put in.
If they are it is probable that 1000 will
be added. The scarcity of the lobster
is no joke. %
A Bath paper says that Bath store
keepers are getting disguised with
trading stamps and say they are a
gun to use them. One grocer figures
that he will pay out $500 a year to the
stamp people. This means a pretty big
reduction in his profits for the year.
A large water turtle died at the
Bowdoin College Science building last
week after being Gagged for four years
and three months. Prof. L. A. Lee,
instructor of this department, says that
the creature lived the above stated
time without eating food. Every APP
petiZing food was offered the turtle
vet it would not eat in captivity. 1t
was given plenty of water and seemed
to enjoy life. 1t would seem that moth
ing could exist without food but the
turtle lived over four years without
the slightest taste of anything but wa
ter. The story seems almost in
credible yet it is true. There can be
no deception as the turtle was kept in
a wire cage under a lock and key, and
although food was offered it by atten-
dants, it would not eat.
1t may be all right but it looks out of
place to those not up in the fashion of
the day to see women on the streets
with large warm muffs. heavy furs.,
and headgear of very light lace hats
Bath Enterprise. -.4.
Does the poor benighted man who
penned that paragraph imagine for a
moment that warmth or comfort are
considered when fair woman dons
heavy furs or fiimsy lace hats or any
thing else?
Tvn1acc n ri a n Of conditions
within few days the output of her
ring from the smoke houses of Wash
ington county will be the smallest this
season of any year since the business
has reached large proportions. The
town of Cutler has ranked as one of the
leading herring towns on the coast but
the pack there this season, according to
present estimates, will be less than SO
per cent. of the amount usually cured,
and some men estimate the amount
that will be prepared for market at
only 35 per cent. of what is sent out on
an average season.
Few Portland people realize what is
being done at the Notifications in the
iidIpof anu dDout IoTtidIu III Tile way
of preparing them for the occupancy
of the artillery companies which are
to be sent here. Already several mill
lions of dollars have been expended in
and about the city in erecting these
forts and building barracks for the men
and quarters for the officers The
work is by no means completed yet and
it will take a year or so longer to COM
plete it. but by September first of next
year there will be nine companies of
artillery located in the city, over 1900
men, and still more to come.
Twin brothers, so much alike in feat
ures. size and voice that their most in
innate friends can hardly tell them
apart, are both in command of four
masted schooners that are as much
alike as the brothers themselves. Or
dinarily the similarity of twins Is con.
fusing. particularly to strangers, but
the troubles which beset Capt. Willard
Wade and Capt. Willard Wade. of Wal
doboro. do not end there. Capt. Mil
lard Wade commands the -four masted
schooner William HI. Yerkes, and Capt.
Willard Wade the fOur-masted schoon-
er Thomas s. Dennison. In the very