Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-14

papers of his State that he is an ass
and anarchist and menace to the
party
MAINE GOSSIP
In the Shock.
They were standing in the corntield
When they heard the supper horn;
Farmers lassie and her sweetheart,
In whose souls love had been Torn.
"Will it shock you if | kiss you.
Mary, DEAR" said Jake love-lorn;
Ne" said Mary. and it didn't
Neither did it shock the corn.
Cincinnati Commercial tribune
The Topsham fair gets more than it's
share of trouble, this year.
The packers say that Names sweet
corn pack is about 70 per cent. OF the
average.
First snow furry, Wednesday
evening, Oct. 12." was the entry made
in the diaries yesterday morning.
This will be initiation night on the
Bowdoin campus and 81 neophytes are
in for a lively mix-up with the eight
fraternity goats.
1t will be a long time before FoXcroft
gets over the scare caused by the bull
moose which paraded its streets, this
week, driving everybody indoors and
causing a sudden and general suspen-
sion of all business.
Judging by the plans for future liti
CATION there must be quite a lot left
of the fortune of the late Solomon H.
Chandler Of New Gloucester.
Aroostook is not the only county
where they are raising big potato
crops. Here in Augusta one farmer
has raised 20O0 bushels and over in
West Gardiner a county official has
raised 1900 And there are others.
The Maine Good Templars do not
propose to be caught mapping and are
already planning to have 1000 re-
mOnstrances against resubmission, all
with many signatures, presented to
| the Legislature.
| Tho pIitpr nf News in
discussing the copyright laws, boasts
that he once secured copyrights of the
| Lords prayer and the multiplication
table. and that he still holds the papers
| duly signed and numbered.
| With the 26 embalmers, who took eX-
aminations the other day at the State
! House and received licenses there are
| now 131 in the State. 1t is thought that
about half the embalmers in the State
| are now licensed, which is considered a
| good record for the board, in view of
the fact that it has only been in exist
ence two years.
| The Brunswick water case is now in
the Maine law court on the petition of
the Brunswick attorneys that certain
instructions be given the appraisers. 1t
| is proposed to have the appraisers view
| the territory of the water plant some
time next week, the opportunity being
much better now than after the snow
flies.
George r. Smith, register of deeds
has one of the novel crops of Kennebec
| county. The product is all squashes
There will be about 10000 of them. He
has farm in Vassalboro, which he has
been experimenting with for two sea-
sons. Last year he went into the
potato business as a sort of a farm fad
and it developed beyond all expecta-
tiOns. He pulled out 1900 bushels of
the tubers and sold them all, landed az
the depot, for $1.05 bushel. So it will
be seen that he Melted quite a sum.
These potatoes were planted amid an
orchard of LOO apple trees. mostly new
ones. and it was feared that another
crop in the same place might injure the
roots of the trees, so this year he de-
cided to plant Hubbard squashes, part
ly to kill off the witch grass and weeds
that had begun to manifest themselves
very plenteously. He expects to house
about IS tons of these Squashes He
has raised so many that he has been at
a loss what to do as his storehouse is
not suitable for keeping them into the
winter. Last winter squashes brought
$40 and $50 a ton and if the same price
prevails this year he will make a toler-
ably good thing.
Biddeford Journal: Most OF us old
farmers know says the editor of the
Bangor News, that orange hawk weed
cannot live in land that is richly
dressed and we'll fortified. Hence.
orange bawk-seed is a blessing in dis
guise." But this is not the way prac-
teal farmers look at the pest wherever
it has made its appearance. 1t NAV be