Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-16

mat mold us Tor your best,
Oh. the high trust, as my trust,
Who look to you for rest.
When the outer fight is done.
May | share the honor won
In the holy, homcly circle of the beauti-
full and blest.
Chicago Tribune
That gang of burglars has struck a
snag at last, and all Maine is grateful
to the Norridgewock people who cap
turcd part of them.
Aunt Salome" Sellers. who is prob
ably Names oldest woman, passed her
1O3d milestone, yesterday, on Deer
Isle where she was born and has al
ways lived.
The Bath Independent and Enter
prise issues a 40-page pamphlet filled
with illustrated sketches of the in
dustries, institutions and people of the
Shipping City.
This is glorious weather for an out
of-door life and every one who can get
out appreciates it-except the flies.
One Pressure Isle starch factory has
10000 barrels of potatoes on hand, and
is making starch at the rate of six
tons a day.
We have all heard of the man who
would steal anything short of a hot
stove. Union has such an individual,
and the other night he stole a stove. 1t
had been left in front of a store and
contained no fire. though it is not GER
tain that would have deferred him.
The Rockland Courier Gazette felt |
that the city's new Carnegie library
should have a mosaic floor, marble |
wainscoting and tinted walls and rs
the original gift did not provide for
such things it opened a subscription
and headed it with $50. The fund now
amounts to 1921 and is fast growing, as
the former residents of the city hear of
the appeal.
Newport is to have a new hotel and
the plans show it to be one of the best
in Maine. 1t will be 114x7O feet with
the lower story of stone and the next
three of wood, and with all modern
cOnveniences.
Capt. Julian Young of st. George,
takes the lead for potato stories. While
going down to his field one morning he
was greatly surprised to see a process
sion of potato bugs comprising IS
span. One old patriarch was standing
on q potato and driving toward the
house. After neatly doing his work by
landing the potato before the cellar
door, all the bugs proceeded back to
the field to eat up the rest of the po-
tatoes as d recompense of their labor.
This story can be certified to by Cap
tain Young's nearest neighbors.
The price of fresh eggs is jumping
upward and marketmen will tell you
that prices are TO be higher than they
were last winter when it seemed as if
the limit had been reached. The
moulting season is now at it's height,
and during this time hens are not over
and above inclined to lay. This period
will last until the pullets begin to lay
which will somewhat relieve the mar
ket. One cause of the scarcity, as al
most everybody knows. is the fact that
so many eggs are gathered during the
summer to place in cold storage. This
class of eggs sells during the winter at
| a somewhat lower price than fresh
| eggs, but the average person has no
use for the lime eggs as breakfast or
supper dish. Be that as it may, this is
the reason why eggs cost three and
four cents apiece during the winter.
Columbus would not have been so
frisky about demonstrating the egg
trick if he had lived in our time.
| Bangor News: If all the stories are
true about $40 deer, 1872 partridges and
woodcock. 81 bears and two carloads Of
small game have been brought into Old
Town since open time. The deer are
all beautiful bucks. some weighing less
than $50 pounds and all having ar
least II points. The birds have ali been
shot under the most trying conditions
nearly all with rifles. While aftar +h;s,
lot every hunter has seen from ono 70
six moose and knows just where to go