Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-21
closed and all of the smelts go to New
York where good price is received.

York where 4 good price is received.
The fact is not generally known that
the Rickers are temperance men of the
strictest sort. Our people will then en-
10Y the privilege of seeing Hotel Break
water run without bar, and they VIII
nave the further satisfaction of seeing
that hotel thrive beyond the palmiest
days of wine-stocked Bay Point
Rockland Courier Gazette.
The last part of this item is all right,
but we think our contemporary errs in
thinking that the temperance princi-
pies of the Rickers are not generally
known. The Poland Springs house is
known all over the world and where
ever it's fame has gone it is well under
stood that no liquor is sold at the
house. There is pure Poland water for
all, but nothing stronger. The Rickers,
in making such success of this great
hostclry, one of the finest hotels on the
continent. have taken all the force out
of the old familiar argument that Il
hotel In Maine, particularly summer
hotel. cannot succeed without a bar.
1t used to be understood that lib
erai percentage of brown sugar was
used in the manufacture of pure"
maple sugar We are told now, how
ever, that graduated sugar is the ar
ticle used. and mixed in proper pro-
portion 1t gives maple sugar the light
color that looks so nice in the market.
The Eath Enterprise hears it told of
one man who manufactures maple
sugar, and who used to be a minister
also, that he had to give up preaching
because he couldn't make maple sugar
and preach too. His conscience
troubled him so when he put the gran
ulated sugar into it that he had to quit
preaching.
Probably the youngest member of Il
Maine High school graduating class,
this spring. is Miss Lottie b. McLaugh-
lin who will be but 10 when she gets
her diploma in June. That is about
the age when most pupils are entering
the high schools to begin four years
course. Miss Lottie has been a win
ner from the start, for she won the
prize at the Knox county fair in 1887 as
being the handsomest baby less than
one year of age.
A Prospect correspondent writes:
around that the Thomas Wagner house
located some distance from any other
house, is haunted. Some several years
ago the owner shot himself and since
that time the house has been deserted
Some few people claim to have seen
lights there and to have heard reports
of gun, with night rcvels and ghosts
Some few have made remarkably good
time running along the road by that
place. Besides, there are some
few here that could not be hired to go
by the house in the night. All we can
vouch for is that some good running
has been done there in the night. And
when we get anything more about the
haunted house that is truthful, we will
report. There are most Away some
few in community who can see
ghosts most anywhere. Once we had a
hired man that was not exactly right
in his head. He was pestered with
snakes and ghosts about all the time
and about every bridge he crossed he
could see 4 ghost under it.
N. E. Skinner, of Bar Harbor, who
last year embarked in the project of
converting Trafton's Island in Nara
guagus bay into a fox ranch, is to in
crease his stock of breeding Reynards
with valuable ones from Alaska, which
are expected here in April. Mr.. Skin
ner has a keeper on the island Austin
Mitchell, who keeps guard of his pro-
perty and sees that it is protected from
the incursions of trappers and hunters.
In turn the foxes have annihilated
flock of nearly one hundred hens be-
longing to the keeper.
Willis Goodwin Of Charleston has
just returned from fruitless search
for his son Ralph Goodwin, the young
student of Higgins Classical Institute
who disappeared so mysteriously about
a year ago and has not been heard from
since although the distracted father
has made every effort to locate his
whereabouts. A short time ago Mr.
Goodwin received a letter from man
in Chicago pretending to give inform
alton in regard to the missing boy
So straightforward and honest was the
letter in tone that Mr.. Goodwin started
ut once for Chicago full of hope. He
arrived in that city March only to
find, he says. that the whole story was
an imposition, fabricated by a noted
confidence man who was even at that
time serving a sentence in the house of
correction. He says that the impos-
ter was as surprised in his turn for he
had expected that instead of coming in
person the father would send money
for the boys return.
In the lower part of the Columbia riv-
er, between Oregon and Washington,
men are often seen on horseback wad-
ing about in what appears to be an aim
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