Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-03
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Over $50 souvenir postal cards is
what one young lady in Thomaston
has received thus far, and they still
keep coming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Watson H. Keith OF
Auburn, have quaint piece of furni-
ture of the olden time. 1t is a wooden
chair over $50 years old.
Mrs. Jennie H. Libby of West Peru
has a clothes wringer which she has
used for % years, and now it is as
good as new apparently.
At Bath church wedding. once upon
a time, the monogram of the contract
ing couple was done in white on the al
tar. The initials We're 7. d. 1t made
the smokers smile.
Brooks has a smart old lady in Mrs.
Abigail Mckay, aged IS years. One
day recently she walked from her home
to tie village and back, a distance OF
seven miles, did her shopping at sever
al stores, called upon friends. and re-
turned home in time to get her sup
per ready at the usual hour.
Three brothers named Herring, from
Russia, have arrived at Lisbon Falls
where another brother resides. Several
months ago the brothers were ordered
to the front to fight against the
japanese, but their mother raised
money to enable them to reach
America, and they deserted from the
Russian army.
A number of Rockland persons re-
port being swindled by young man
taking orders for soap to be delivered
later. Being n young fellow of good
address he would interest his custom
ers with story of his college course,
which he was helping to follow, he
said. by selling soap during vacation.
Then he asks for payment in advance
on the soap. which is to be delivered
later. Several have thus contributed
amounts of money but the soap never
has tloated along.
For the past few years Brewer has
annually had one of the strongest and
best football aggregations among the
school elevenS of the State. The boys
have up to this year had the afternoons
IN which to practice as in nearly all
other schools throughout the State.
This year with the two-session plan in
force there will be practically no time
to practice, or, at least, SO it is said,
not nearly enough time in which to
develop decently strong eleven.
Mrs. Emma Shaw of Newport. is the
possessor of a curiosity in the antique
line in the way of a map. This map is
of the earliest made of the then
District of Maine (Maine at that time
being a part, or as it was called, Dis
trict of Massachusetts, and was pre-
pared in the year 1915 by one Moses
Greenleaf. who was one of the pioneer
settlers in the present town of Will
liamsburg. Piscataquis county. and
while living in the midst Of the wilder
ness, in the then most northern Settle-
ment of our State, perfected a map by
means of pen and ink. which was for
mally adopted by the general court
Gas the Legislature was called) of the
commonwealth of Massachusetts as the
official map of the District of Maine.
At that time Maine had but nine coun-
ties and the fertile lands of AroOstook
We're entirely unknown, and the cen-
trail and northern portions of the State
were an almost unbrOken Wilderness
The map was given to the late Francis
M. Shaw few years before his death
and. so far as known, there are but
three other like maps now in existence.
1t is priced very highly by the family
of the deceased as being very antique
curiosity and valuable for the reason of
there being so few copies now in ex-
istence. Mr.. Greenleaf was five years
in preparing the original pen and ink
sketch map from which this copy wa,
reproduced by a Boston engraver. and
ne afterwards published two more
maps of our State.