Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-11

team to represent Maine az the Seagirt
national shoot are from that town.
One Of the Portland deputies found
a freight car with card on the door
which read: Dynamite. Dangerous.
Handle with Care. Keep out" He
broke open the door and found 20 gal
Ions Of whiskey. Still, the second and
third specifications on the placard were
perfectly true.
There are few localities of like popu-
iation with more phones than those
connected with the Livernrre Falls ex-
changes of the North ,as:ern and the
New England companies. There are 1T
the present time 112 phones in the New
England exchange, and $50 in the
Northeastern exchange. a total of 262.
II. J. Billings of Rockland. who has
been doing good stunts in the garden
ing line, has just shipped LOO pounds
of new cabbage to St. Thomas Danish
West Indies. The vegetables go i'm Il
vessel which loaded ice at Rockport.
and will be eaten in That foreign CHM,
some weeks before the average garden
or in Knox county commences to clip
off cabbage heads.
An attraction at the residence of S.
II. Powers Of Houlton, is a rustic chair
made from a whale captured east of
Mt. Desert by a boat used for fisher
L4t M b,,
captain and his son. they were towcd
by the monster 20 miles from the island
where he was secured and landed on
the shore. 20 years ago. The vertebrae
or section of back bone is large and
used as seat ribs form the back, all
being built up on wood and bone, using
/ figurehead as a front leg. Callers
can here sit on chair probably more
than 300 years old.
The Daughters Of the American
Revolution in this State are I'm a fiut-
ter of expectancy beside which their
agitation at the time Of tine visit Of the
Maine last winter wh2n she received
valuable gifts from the daughters is as
nothing. The cause Of this agitation at
the present time. is the approaching
visit of the presiden: general of the
society, Mrs. Donald Mclean, sur
rounding whose election there were
such exciting scenes few months ago.
1t has been announced all along that
Mrs. Mclean was to visit Maine, as the
special guest Of Mrs. A. A. Kendall. of
Portland. who was one Of her warmest
supporters in the memorable fight for
the election. the time of the visit to be
regulated by the presence in the harbor
of Rear Admiral Evans fleet, the flag
ship Of which is the Maine. Now that
this has been definitely decided upon
for next week. the daughters have be-
gun to make their arrangements ac-
cordingly. and now have them well in
hand.
The verdict of the Portland hotel
keepers squares with the verdict of the
transportation managers that the city
is being visited by many more people
this summer than during the same sea-
son of the year 1904. A trip to the
offices of the hotels where the majority
of the summer transients are enter
tanned shows them busy with Corners
and goers. Suit cases plastered with
the tags of many places are awaiting
disposal and strangers to the cit are
formed in little groups in consultation
over guide books and accounts OF
pleasure trips by boat and trolley. An
inquiry at the desk In every place re-
veals that the hotels are doing a mos.
prosperous business. TO summarize
the remarks heard in answer to the
question, How is business" the COM
posite sentences every good" Much
better than last year." may be taken as
a true indication of what the Portland