Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-24

abatement. Thousands are pouring
| into Maine every day. the crowd ar
| irving being much greater than the
number departing.
| The Waterville girls are All a-futter
over the coming of those Canadian sol
| der boys to the Central Maine fair.
One of the liveieSt times which any
| Maine man has experienced this week
was that Of the Phillips man who tried
to hive a family Of hornets which he
| mistook for his missing bees.
The Richmond Bee tells this story:
| one day this week. a sheet of 'tansle-
| foot" fly paper, upon which was
| goodly amount of flies and also a fair
| sized mouse. who was still alive and
| making every effort to gain his free
| dom. but in vain. We laid the paper
| and its contents aside for future
| curiosity In the meantime our office
| cat "Tom'' made himself busy and
| proceeded to enjoy feast. Wishing
to exhibit the fly paper to a friend who
| came in. we We're aStonished to find
| that it had vanished. Upon inv"stiga-
| ton. found paper. flies. mouse and
| cat all tangled up in a heap and un-
able to gain their freedom. After con-
| siderable work. we succeeded in freeing
| the cat. but the other occupants were
| beyond recall and were cast to the
| depths of the great beyond.
Down in Calais this week they I'M
earthcd an old cannon ball nine inches
| in circumference. 1t was found two
feet below the surface and beneath
| the roots of an old tree. How and
| when it came there is very much of a
mystery. A fiat surface on one side
| was apparently caused by the mold in
which the iron was cast. An cd
| wooden cartridge case of the time of
George III. was found i'm the attic Of
the old house just demolished,
An attempt is being made to extend
the Bar Harbor auto-excluSion act to
the rest of Mt. Desert Island. At z re-
| cent meeting of the Bar Harbor village
| improvement society the aIto-terrOr
was the subject Of discussion, and the
anti-auto sentiment prevailed, in fact,
| was unanimous. Tho chief arguments
| against the automobile are the narrow
ness of the roads, the preciptous cliffs
| around which they skirt, the fact that
the island is terminal and that the
| conditions are not favOra BILE to the in
| PRODUCTION of automobiles. But one
of these days the voters who do not
| attend the anti-auto love-feasts will
| let down the bars, and then the drivers
of horses will wish their animals could
| have become accustomed to the ter
| ror" little more gradually.
A business deal that is now in
| process of construction has created
considerable excitement at Evergreen
| and Trofethcns Landing. Peaks Is
land. 1t is stated that New York
| capitalists are negotiating for the pur-
| chase of the Robert Skillings estate at
Thefethens Landing. consisting of
| three acres Of land well located for a
summer hotel. If the deal is con-
summatcd. it is the intention of these
capitalists to erect a hotel and to
have in connection with it. some
twenty-five furnished cottages. There
y
hotel. with capacity to provide meals
for all the residents of the main house
and the cottages. which will be used
only for rooms. Three hundred people
will be accommodated. The price
asked for the Skillings estate has
caused a slight hitch in proceedings. If
this is settled satisfactorily, work on
the new hotel will begin soon
The West Porter correspondent of the
oxford Advertiser says: Gregory VIII
| liams. aged II, Of Brooklyn, ". Y. has
| been stopping with his mother at one
of the cottages for two weeks On Sat
| urday he collected can full of grass
hoppers for fish bait. He forgot to take
the can from his coat pocket At the
dinner table MS mother noticing the
| bunch in his coat pocket asked him
| what he had. The lad did not reply and
she told him to show her what it was.
Gregory opened the lid and in less time
than it takes to tell couple Of hun
dred grasshoppers were doing the two
step among the dishes and guests. Tho
| insects got into the frizzes of the ladies'
and caused more commotion than n
| fire Two young women tainted and II
was fully an hour before the room was
| cleared of hoppers. One young woman.
| whose hair was red drew hoppers by 4
| the dozen. They drove her into hyster-
| les. In the excitement many dishes
| were broken and several evening
dresses spoiled. These were city people
who had never seen hoppers before and
it frightened them almost to death as
they did not know what they were"
| a peculiar incident occurred in Port
land q. few days ago that involved a