Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-10
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often try in vain to get a good place to
live. 1t has been learned that an or
eaniZed effort will be made to build adj
ditional dwellings in the near future,
in addition to the numerous new pri-
vate houses already projected.
Many peculiar circumstances in ma
ture are happening every day, but
recently a popularity in the growth of
a vegetable was noticed in Guilford.
Last week from a squash which was as
perfectly fair and sound on the outside
az when harvested We're taken seeds
which were sprouted, each sprout bear
ing n well-develOped leaf.
The Townsend family of North
Union was remarkable family, from
| the fact that it consisted of 10 children.
among them being three triplets and
two pairs of twins. The triplets are
Mrs. Sarah Fossett, Mrs. May Fossett
and Mrs. Martha Hager. They were
| born in June 1884. The twins We're
James and Nancy, and Oliver and
Reuben.
Company d of Norway is planning to
put in n requiSitiOn for shelter halves
| and their camp equipment, that this
| company may make excursions into
| the country, as they did last summer
| usually they marched six or seven miles
| into the country, Saturday night and
pitch their tents camping until Sun
day night Roans baked in the ground
are rare delicacies Of camping out and
the practice in pitching tents and wig
wag signaling is very instructive and
beneficial to the entire company.
The piano. which belonged to Names
| first governor, William King, was re-
Gently discovered i'm music ware
house in Bath. The instrument was
v?eIl preserved, and is of French manu-
facture. 1t has n case of mahogany,
supported by six legs. instead of the
usual four and the one pedal gives it
the appearance of n seventh leg. 1t is
thought that this instrument was I'M
ported in one of the Governors own
ships. Since the breaking up of the
governors home in Bath. the piano has
passed from one family to another
until it reached the warehouse where
it was seen short time ago.
One of the young lady clerks i'm the
Portland city hall performed an act of
to at least honorable mention from the
NJ. S. s. p. A. She discovered n pigeon
on the top of the boiler house with its
wing and one leg broken. She rescued
the bird and after due examination
found that it was incurably hurt. Then
after this discovery the next move was
to painlessly put it out of misery.
After vainly trying to induce some of
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she herself invested in some chloroform
| and put the pigeon to sleep that had no
waking.
An amusing incident happened on n
Cape car in Portland a few days ago.
A woman and a little child boarded
the car at the five cent limit. Directly
| in front of them was a man whose
head lacked much of the usual cover
ing provided by nature. The day was
warm and the man had his hat off.
The little child stood up and began to
nut his hands on the mans head, eX-
claiming papa, papa," The ma
turned around and looked ut the little
| boy severely. "Why what do yOu
mean? I am not your papa" Then
| the mother came to the rescue. Smil-
| ing sweetly at the man who refused to
| be called papa, she said: 81 ann afraid
Won will have to excuse Johnny. but
you see the back of your head is 50
| much like my husbands"
The Maine Central section crew No.
| Il. stationed ut Dexter, claims the
branch championship for laying the
largest number of ties during one day.
This record was established recently
, ard is 274 ties. laid and spiked down.
| This was done by four men, viz: Harry
| Goodwin, foreman: Edwin Bowley.
| second hand; J. II. Moulton. third hand
and Willie Tucker, fourth hand. This
was done i'm the run of the regular
days work and besides this the crew
went over the track which makes UP
| their section. Some time ago the Dover
section crew established n record of $50
| ties laid during one day and later on
! the crew at Silver's Mills beat the
Dover record by laying 2.05 ties. The
number laid by the Dexter crew is 60
more than was laid by the Siver's Mills
crew and therefore they claim the
| record for laying ties on this branch Of
| the Maine Central.
Timothy Murphy, engineer in the
employ OF the portland toOpeItSe
company, recently saved n young girl
| from drowning. Several children were
ut play on some spars which We're
made fast at the rear of the
cooperage shop on Commercial street,
| when one of the girls slipped and fell
from the spars into the water. The
| children screamed but II was not until
| the girl had gone down for the second
time that Mr.. Murphy heard the out
| cries. He rushed from the engine room
and jumped into the water reaching the
girl just as she was going down Tor the
| third time. Several men who had IN
| the meantime heard the connection as
/ sisted him. The girl was taken to her
home on Center street. This made the
second time that Mr.. Murphy had acted
| i'm the role of rescuer that week, the
first being when he saved Il young boy
who fell into the same dock in similar
manner.
Sportsmen who for years have
gunned in and around Casco Bay say
that each year it becomes more ana
| more difficult to shoot birds from the