Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-02

A SearSpOrt man has sunk a wen
which Is $50 feet deep, and he does not
worry about dry times.
The latest trust is that Of the Old
Town milkmen and they announce that
the price of milk will henceforth be
seven cents a quart.
The Times has discovered a man
who lives i'm Bath who does not claim
membership to single club, secret
society or church. He says he is the
only such man in the city.
The thriving and beautiful town Of
Pittsfield is to be congratulated i'm
having the unsightly railroad sheds
that were formerly located almost in
her main tnoroughfare torn down and
new ones built further away from the
village streets. The removal of
these buildings will give a decidedly
different appearance to the town es-
pecially tc travellers on the railroad
trains who pass through the village.
uc ODStENllS IoIuutiOIu JOuTIdI IIidIl
remarks that Boston's suit case mys-
terry Is now hardly more mysterious
than the reason for the increase in the
number of suit cases carried from
Massachusetts and New Hampshire
into Maine by class of travellers who
never had occasion to take along on
their Journeys extra collar or handker-
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clothes, previous to the passage of the
already justly celebrated Sturgis law.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Duncan of
Washburn recently celebrated the
5Oth anniversary of their wedding, at
their home, surrounded by an UNI
broken family of 10 children, five
boys and five girls, seven sons and
daughters-in-law, and 80 grandchil-
dren, making family gathering of
40.
The story of this remarkable family
reunion is equalled by another one
from Lyman. For the first time in SO
years, the sons and daughters of the
late Ephraim and Lydia bennett of
Lyman, met in SacO the other day.
There are five sons and two daughters
living and there has never yet been
death in the family of children. the
Oldest of whom. Joseph bennett. of
Saco. is in his 61st year. and the young
est. Irving c. of Parsonsfield. is s.
years of age. The other children are
Cyrus W. of Kennebunkport. who is
f,f n rS. ATny na, Eel, nf
Ashmont, Mass, who is Il; Mrs. Clara
Lowe Of Highlandville, Mass, who is
IS: Samuel of Lyman. aged 72. and Ira
5. of Rochester, n. H.. aged So. The
average age of the seven children who
are all fairly well, is nearly IA years.
and all look good for many years to
come.
Miss Alkaline Marshall of York Har-
Dor is probably the only person in the
country who has a government job and
doesn't want it. She is paid a salary
Of $12 year as collector of the port.
which is virtually IL times greater than
the entire revenues of her Office. And
still she doesn't want the place, and
only waits the expiration of her term of
office to retire from the position that
she was forced to take by the sickness
and then the death Of her brother.
whose successor she has just been made
by government appointment.
DR.. Walker of Norway recently visit
ed lonely cemetery in Stoneham
where there is many neglected grave
of Revolutionary and Civil war vet
Grams. A outlying river. meandering
past the intervale is fast removing the
landmarks of the McCallister burying
ground. Few know the location of this
cemetery for the relatives of the dead
here buried are so distant that no one
interests himself about it. "The last
bodies to be placed there" said DR..
Walker, "were in about 1865. Since
that time the river has cut into the
cemetery. washing to such an extent
that some of the boxes were exposed to
view. The people of East Stoneham,
who knew of this. took up some of the
boxes and buried them in other places.
The stones are all down, and there are
few marks, or clues as to the identifi-
cation Of the graves. This was known
as the McCallister burying ground
from the fact it was a portion of the
McCallister estate. Other people who
We're buried there were the Evans,
Durgins and McKeens. The cemetery
is in secluded spot, dozen miles
from any farm house. The most of
the people whose remains were buried
here died during the smallpox cpl
demic that stirred this section in the
early fifties. I know of many a case
in those trying days when family after
family were stricken down, when the
father had to make a box and bury his
own children"