Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-03


Whore are the chilling blasts Of old,
And where the skies SO drear
Where are the drifts of fsaky cold.
The SHOWS Of ycsteryear?
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Those cold wave predictions we're
bound to come true if continued long
enough.
The woodchuck looked in vain for the
usual snowdrifts when he came out to
celebrate Candlemas day.
The Kent's Hill boys made record in
playing a regular baseball game OH
their diamond Feb. l.
The dates of the presentation Of THE
First Crusade in Biddeford are Tues
day and Wednesday, Feb. Is and IA.
A Palermo man offers s. to every
baby born in town in 1906. That is the
way to discourage race suicide.
The man who was planning to spade
up his garden Saturday afternoon has
wisely decided to postpone the job un-
til later in the month.
Here's 4 record of family longevity
in Maine which will be hard to beat:
Isaac Robinson, 4 veteran of the Civil
War, died Dec. 29th, 1905. at Liberty,
aged 81 years. His father, Thomas
Robinson was "A years old, when Isaac
was born, in April, 1915. The father
died in May, 1881, at the age of 80 years
and some months. The united ages of
father and son at the death OF each was
1S1 and their two lives extended from
the year 1741 to 1905, or 1874 years,
OF eight and one-fOurth generations.
Rev. Mr.. Peterson, the energetic pas
tor at Franklin. beside his arduOus
pastoral duties has hobby which Incl
dentalfy nets him sum every year as
large as his salary. He is connoisseur
in the matter of fancy hens and raises
some of the choicest birds which leaves
the Pine Tree State. He receives large
sums for the eggs for Matching purposes
as well as from the hens themselves.
He sent some fine specimens to the fair
at st. Louis and recently filled a foreign
order at a very handsome figure. Here
is suggestion to underpaid ministers
for pleasure and profit.
From each class as it graduates from
half dozen young men into the service
of the International Banking cOrpOr-
alton of which General Thomas II.
Hubbard, sc, of New York is the head
This is a splendid business opening for
those selected and all have made good.
Several are in European cities and in
the far east. From 1906 these have been
selected to enter the service of the COM
pany after graduation in June: Fred
l.. Packard, Turner; II. r. Stevens.
Eennebunk; c. e. Shaw, Gorham; J.
Town; Il. r. Williams. Pennington;
w. Sewall. Old Town; Il. 3. Williams.
FarmingtOn: and Il. T. Woodruff,
Brunswick.
Biddeford Journal: A Maine exchange
says: George Woodbury. of GuilfOrd
killed lamb recently. seven months
old, weighing co pounds. for which h.
received sS.15. And who says it does
not pay to raise sheep? And why is
sheep raising almost entirely abandoned
according to the report of the state as
SCISSORS? The easiest answer to that
question is that the breeding of sheep
killing dogs is too flourishing." This
may be the easiest answer, but 1t is
misleading. Men do not breed sheep
killing dogs for their shcep-killing
qualities. and the industry would de-
cline rapidly as soon as the farmers
began to take an interest in the posi-
bilities of profit from the raising of
sheep.
Beware of the man who says he is Il
government officer hunting down a
band of counterfeiters of 5-cent pieces
and wishes to examine all the money
you have of that denomination in your
purse or cash drawer. Two alleged
government counterfeit experts have
been captured within the last two
weeks, down Portland way. both OF
whom We're working practically thy.
same game in every instance
The Journal is in receipt of very
ucdl Hltle pdlilpIi1et containing q num-
Der Of notable endorsements Of the
famous Abbott school, located in
Pennington. Maine. formerly known as
the Little Blue" Under the direction
of Prof. George d. Church, this his
tOric school for boys appears to have
resumed it's old time place in the very
front rank of Maine educational institu-
tions. 1t has had famous career, and
the people of our state will indulge the
hope that its career under the new
management, which has started in most
auspiciously. may be in every way as
successful as that it achieved under it's
earlier management. Certainly the
great progress it has made under the
conspicuously able direction of Prof.
Church leaves little doubt but what it is
destined to accomplish an even greater
educational work in the future than it
has in the past.
"A Journal correspondent very much
| desires to know if there is any one
who can tell the date on which the
| first passenger train was run from Au-