Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-01-04

just
Saw
Wood
And be good.
w. ]. hampton i'm New York World.
a notable magazine feature Of 1906
will be a series of Maine woods stories
by Holman +. Day in Leslie's American
Magazine.
oxford County made a gain of $4,000
ir its financial standing in 1905. paying
the last dollar on its temporary in
debtedness.
The record of Bath for 1905 in the
matter of those hatched. matched and
dispatched shows that there were 21l
births, 81 marriages and III deaths.
Down in Brooks there is a man. Will
liam \. Crosby So years old. who,
after having had three wives and
bringing up 20 children. is keeping
house alone On the old homestead.
Rockland begins 1906 by putting into
local circulation $lOOcU0 in crisp new
bills. issued by the Rockland National
bank.
Falmouth is to have a water system
il the near future. all arrangements
having been made with the Portland
Water company to pipe the town as
soon as possible i'll the spring.
A Boston paper hears that eX-Mayor
Baxter of Portland had plans drawn
for a $4,000 bridge to span an arm of
Back bay in his boulevard project. and
that il was his intention. had he been
re e-elected. to make to the city clean
gift OF the bridge
Frank j. Rich of Mattawamkeag has
the unique distinction of being deputy
sheriff in two Maine counties. Penob-
|scot and Aroostook. This is made prac-
tiCally necessary by the location of the
towns in which he works. From
Mattawamkeag to Kingman is only )
miles by railroad but it is II miles to
drive and the road runs in and out of
ArUostook. There arc other similar
situations and a sheriff to be- effective
must be all officer with jurisdiction in
both counties.
A giant lobster caught in Frank
Hutchings' travis in the Musscl Ridges,
was on exhibition in Il Hockland market
this week. The cruStaCcan measured
- inches from the tip of his nose to the
end of his tail. and weighed 13l. pounds.
Although smaller by nearly 10 pounds
than Il lobster caught at Matincus
some years ago. it was yet one of the
largest ever caught. 1t was forwarded
10 a Cincinnati dealer.
The Camden Herald announces that
Hon. Rcuel Robinson, of Camden. has
Undertaken the task of writing a his
tory of that town and of Rockport. the
latter having been a part of Camden
down to 1891. when it was set off and
incorporated as a separate town. am
den was originally Il part of the
L,
i'll 1863 and incorporated as Il town in
1871. 1t has Il most interesting history.
ann Mr. Robinson is admirably equip
ped to write it. Locke's history of the
town. work of great merit. covered
the earlier events. but comparatively
few copies are found outside the larger
libraries. and it is scarcely available for
popular uses. 1t will however be of
much advantage to Mr. Robinson i'll
producing the new and complete history
which he contemplates. Before the
work is published in book form, ii will
b" given. one chapter each week, begin
ming i'll January. in the Herald. 1t is
expected that this will be the means of
discovering much new information.
which will be added. and afford an op-
portunity of finding and correcting any
errors which may creep into the first
draft. The work is much needed. and,
written in the vigorous and clever style
of which Mr.. Robinson is master. will
be welcomed everywhere.
Rockland has a Buster Brown" He
lives or Willow street and is about the
brightest kid of his age in town. His
| latest performance was to put pound
Of butter in a spider and then put the
spider on the stove with the draughts
wide open. The distracted mother
| found the house full Of smoke and
! thought contiasration was in pro-
gress.
The birth of a son to Mr.. and Mrs
Charles a. Durham of West Bethel
brings to mind an interesting circum-
stance regarding the male descendants
| of Moses Dunham who came from
Carver. Mass. and settled in Hartford
| in 1903. He at that time had two sons
and today there are two grandsons
two great-grandsons. and two great.
great-grandsons. One hundred years
hence and what then?
| The Cnarlottetown. P. f. l., Daily
Patriot. where our Augusta actor Price
Webber is now playing a successful en-.
sagement. asks How old is Price
Weber," and then in the course OF d
sketch of Mr.. Webbers career. answers