Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-31
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then made him get up when the drum
mer changed his MIND

mer changed MS 1nlnu-
| EI Cook of Palmyra. has an inter-
esting sight at his farm in the shape OF
nine red foxes which are securely
Gagged in a large bin. the foundation LOT
! which is j.. solid ledge allowing the
/ tusy workers no chance for escape.
| About six weeks ago the foxes began
| Teasing on geese from Mr.. Cook
flock. and in order to stop their ex-
traraeant menu Mr.. Cook at once set
some trans with the above results.
The Bangor News says that one Of
| the most precious treasures about the
! University of Maine is Professor
Gowe,rs NET hen, which has laid 25l
eeps dur;no the past year. If all hens
we're as industrious as this Speckled
| Plymouth Rock beauty men could
| make more money IN raising eggs imam
, in selling stocks when yleld gu per
| cent. "A wear SO famous IS this Dusy
! bird that Commissioner Gilman has
caused her photograph to be printed iE
his latest report. She Is not OVer-nice
70 look at. any more than Russell Sage
or John D. Rockefeller, but her record
is UNSURPASSED and unequalled by any
Of her hon in the world. 1t is some
thing of n distinction to be a hen. pro-
vided it is the right kind of hen.
Among the gifts presented Mr.. and
Mrs. William F. CARL of Buxton who
celebrated their COLLEEN wedding ami
versary, last week, was a picture
painted upon a piece of bed ticking
which has an Interesting history. Mrs.
CARL is a descendant of William LARA
, bee of Wells whose first wife and her
children were murdered in their home
BY Indians in 1903. The ticking is from
the bed upon which the unfortunate
woman died of her wounds and the
, blood stains still appear upon it after
the passage of over two centuries. The
picture represents an Indian at II
spring with white man. Mr.. Larrabea
about to lire upon him from ambush,
while in the distance is the house
where the murdered woman lies.
The clerks in a certain Portland drug
store are having d quiet little smile at
the expense OF al Nolilttl Nlio littue IL
request that seemed decidedly unique.
She approached the first clerk who
came o,!t with a polite bow to wait
upon her and said she would like three
cents worth of the big chocolates-pen-
ny goods -"bnt would he please scrape
off the chocolate for her, as it made her
chldren's hands dirty The first clerk
thought he was being jnllied along a
little and simply turned his back and
went OFT to the rear shop. Still she
stood there and waited for a second to
approach her, when she met him with
the same request A smoker from thu
back room was distinctly audible and
the second clerk, thinking a job had
been put up on him left her rs did the
first. For some time she stood there
ard waited for her Crder, but when
time slipped away into eternity and no
cream minus chocolate appeared. q
door rather vigorously slammed, pro-
claimed the fact of her departure. She
was just u little fussy, that's all.
The question is being asked: when
will the city of Portland vote on the
question of annexation" Although
there has been littl.. said or done in n"
matter recently the matter is by no
means dead and the movers in the mat
ter are Just as anxious as ever to see
the cities of Portland and South Port
land become united. 1t is doubtful.
however, if anything will be done in
that line until next spring as it is desir-
ous not to put the question before the
people until after The Legislature has
met. The matter of forming a bridge
district comes before that body this
winter. and it is necessary to put off
the matter of annexation until after
that has been done, for the reason that
if annexation came first there could he
no bridge district. Naughan'S bridge
must he built, and the reason for form
ing Il bridge district is, that where the
city Of Portland cannot as a city I'M
der the present order OF things. borrow
money to carry on the work, by the
formation of a bridge district the de-
sired Iowa could be secured. In order
to form the district the two cities must
be separate, and if annexation was to
come thi, fall there would be nothing
of which to form the district. There is
no doubt in the minds of the friends of
annexation but wha: that will come as
soon as it comes to q vote, hut it is
unlikely that a vote will be taken until
next spring.