Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-27

30 years OF age. Inc prison now Has
191 inmates.
The list of wild flowers found by the
pupils of a South Albany school was 50
for the spring term and 81 for the fall
term, making total of 173 for the
year.
A little three-year-old of West
Franklin, whose father is i'll. said: Il
do not want my papa to take the doc
tors medicine. Granny took doctors
medicine, and she's dead
Not very observing people up BlnS-
ham way. A man lost pocket book
containing $50, on his way home from
the village and two weeks later it was
found in the road with its contents in
tact.
Three of the vacated farms in south
Limington have been sold recently to
young people from out of town. who
will soon move their families there and
try farming for living.
Bangor News: Yes, it is high time to
buy those slipper tops and begin to en-
broider them as a Christmas present
for the minister Two green doves on
yellow field is a beautiful design. Do
not have too much bright red in the
pattern, as this color may burn his feet.
Still, if the slippers are to have no
soles, he may be able to stand it.
1t is seldom that a person is called to
attend the funeral of as many relatives
in one week as has been the experience
Of Smith Maxey of West Rockport. On
Wednesday the 18th he buried his sis
ter, Mrs. John Thorndike, the next day
he was called to East Union to the
double funeral of his wife's sister and
her husband. Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Titus. on the same day and hour the
wife of his cousin VIM. Maxey of Rock
land, was buried and on Monday the
goth John Thorndike his brother-in-law
was buried, making five of the family
in six days.
What is probably the whitest deer
ever taken out of, the Maine woods has
been received by Reeves Brothers.
taxideImists. of Portland. This is
handsome albino which was shot by E.
c. Rogers of Putnam, Conn.,, at Brandy
Pond. The deer is perfect white with
the exception of very little patch of
| brown on his forehead. 1t weighed
when dressed about $50 pounds. Mr..
Rogers also shot another very hand
some albnO but it was not as white as
| the first one. This gentleman last year
also had the honor of bringing out what
was probably the finest head ever TAX
| en- in the State.
We are SO accustomed to associate
stories of extreme poverty with the
tenement house districts of the big
cities, that when such cases are
| brought to light in country towns, and
| right here in Maine, they seem hard to
realize. This is what Miss Juliette
Nickerson, State agent for the preven-
| ton of cruelty to children. found near
| Otter Creek: A family of eight chill
dren, six under eight years of age, u
baby of four months, in a box for IL
| cradle. The main house was 10x12, the
shed was 6xS. The large room had
bedstead made of fir poles nailed to the
| studding, and poles to lie on. With an
old mattress the children lay on the
| floor on rags. The shed contained d
stove, two parts of chairs and part of a
| rocker, and d few old Dishes The shed
| leaked so badly when it rained that
| they had to go into the other room.
| Miss NickersOn came back to the viii
| lage and went among the business men
| and got money and bought shingles,
| nails and boards and stove pipe and
! sent them out to the house to be put on,
| and sent also box of clothing.
When the snow gets deep and the
| cold bites hard. one class of wood oper-
ators most familiar to the .sportsmen
seeking game pick up their traps and
| start for civilization. They are the
| crews of shovel handle makers, whose
| camps are to be run across wherever
ash sa2lings grow in profusion, and this
is almost invariably where other for
est workers are not to be found The
ash usually springs up where pine has
| been cut off, and hence the tracts
where it grows are generally deserted.
except by the men who shape up the
handles. Usually from four to eight
work in each camp, in the pay and un-
der the direction of a contractor. The
men are necessarily Industrious. be-
cause their working hours are limited
to only seven as the days begin to
| shorten and snow flurries become com.
mon. but they make better nav than
the wood choppers or river drivers, al
] though their work is more laborious
and confined to narrower limits The
! contractor receives 60 cents per dozen