Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-07-31

About One-fOurth OF the average crop
is reported from the bluebefry plains
of Washington county. |.T
Midsummer brings the usual num-
Der of communications to the newspa-
pers in which the writers relieve their
feelings by vigorously scoldng The
"end seat hog of the trolley cars.
Somehow, we always feel that these
protests come from people who want
the end seats themselves.
The Biddeford Record gives almost
a column of it's valuable space to the
publication of the wine list" Of an Old
Orchard hotel. On the list there are
the price of each. But this was before
Sheriff Fogg's latest visit
Among Names multitude of summer
visitors there is evidently a gang of
petty thieves with country stores and
postoffices as their objective points.
The United States steamboat in
spectors are now on a visit to Maine
and the 265 steam craft doing business
in our waters will be carefully over
hauled.
The hopes of Calais are high for a
new shoe factory. Most of the money
for the building is in sight and nego-
tiations with a Boston firm are assum-
ing shape.
Octavius A. Hill of Portland who has
been member of the Masonic order
50 years wonders if any other man in
the State has been identified with the
craft for a longer period. He was
made Mason in Arkansas but has
was master of Casco lodge in Var
mouth, his native town, in 1851.
Cane PorpoSe claims to be the home
of the biggest Holsters along the shore.
One of the monsters recently caught
there is half as long as Miss Mildred
Goodall of Sanford is tall. We know
it because the local paper published a
snap shot of the young lady holding up
the big crustacean.
All have heard of the figs of Smyrna,
| but few are aware choice figs are
grown in Maine. Mrs. Elisha Brad
| ford of West Pennington has some of
| her own raising that are very delicious.
| The shrub was kept in the cellar last
winter and the unripe fruit it bore when
| taken there last fall has matured very
nicely this summer
1t is announced that Mrs. Florence
| Brooks Whtehouses second novel
| "TThe Effendi'' is now completed and
will be published for the Christmas
| trade. The first novel of this talented
| Augusta girl, THE God of Things" is
still enjoying good sale.
Napoleon Bonapart Washington Jeff
erson Blackburn is the prize name
which was encountered by the young
| man who took the school census of
| Thomaston this year
| A brave WOIldI Is MIS-. IL -. WaSS
of West Harrington. One night last
| week she heard a disturbance in her.
hennery and taking her husbands gun
and lantern she started for the barn
and on arriving there found that a
mink had killed several of her chick
| ems and was so busily engaged in dis
patching one more he did not notice
| Mrs. Wass and she "fired the gun three
| times before it went OFF, and the last
| time she killed the mink.
Mayor Boothby of Portland has been
assured that two vocal artists, who are
great favorites in Maine, will sing dur
| ing the exercises in City hall, August
IL, the occasion OF Portlands observ-
ance of "Old Home week. They are
Mrs. Antonia Sawyer of New York, and
Willis E. Bachelor who has been
heard with such delight in the. Maine
music festivals. That they will be
great attractions for the occasion, with
M. f. ingalls, of Cincinnati and Minot
/ ]. Savage of New York who will deliver
addresses, goes without saying. All
four are natives of Maine.
| The Bath Times tells of a Bath
couple who visited Old Orchard and re-