Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-16

really are. One of the chief resting
places for the kits is on the rug near
the warm kitchen stove. Mr.. Sw1fts
, slippers are frequently placed on this
same rug. salso at dusk. that they Will
pe handy for him. One evening Mr..
swift went into the dim, unlighted
Kitchen to slip his stOckinged feet in
| TO the slippers when he found an OBJ
struction in one of them. He prompt
ly investigated and there, curled up so
shugly in the toe of the warm slipper
SO that not even the tip of his ear was
visible, was Moses, taking solitary
nap. Since then the slippers are
Kept near the stove and the kits take
tilelr daily siesta therein.
Mrs. Benjamin Garland of Ellsworth
Falls would undoubtedly favor any
measure to prevent the careless hand
ling of firearms. after her narrow
escape from death Sunday. She was
sitting in a chair in her home near the
Bangor bridge, when rifle bullet
| passed through the door and passed
Within few inches of her head and
lmDedded itself in the wall opposite.
Upon Investigating the matter, it was
! found that two small boys were shoot
ing on the railroad track near the
| bridge and evidently used the house for
target. The citizens of Ellsworth
rails say that this reckless shooting
mas become altogether too frequent,
thls being but one case out of many
reported, and the law should be invoked
before some one is killed.
York Transcript: Two unusual loC X
ing craft appeared in kittcry Han Dor
| three-masted schooner of the bald
headed' type, that is. without top
nasts. She is the George +. Phillips
or Seaford. Del, lumber laden. But
one other such craft has been there in
recent years, the Nnwh,lrg of New
York. The rig is common. however. on
the southern Atlanta. coast. The other
| Is the ketch ActaeOn of K"Chlan nd nov
In the ccasting trade hut formerly Il
yacht. She had an ind .r-:icck cargo
presumably fish, ana W.t# anchored in
Little HaIbor. She IS he only coast
ing vessel of her rig on the coast.
"A peculiar find was male & few days
ago by j. NJ. Sedgley of Tol,sham while
repairing the sidewalk Opposite the site
of the Red Mill. Undc~ the Did side
walk was il coffin plate. which bore
this inscription: M. John Hunt r.
Died Sept. u, 1915. Aged - years"
There is "nrI" curiosity us - how this
old plate came to be i'll suck az unusual
place.
Scarsporc, il Walio cpur-v, it is said.
claims to nc one Of tn, rnaithicSl towns
in the state. 1t is sad there never has
been a Ease Of TYPHOID fever in the
town, cX ,e.h it has oeHa brought ther,
from some ether place. IT." condition
OF affairs is attributed i'y Il local phySi-
clan to the absence IF Well: in the
town. There is hardly :, GozCn of thcs.
sources Of water supply in the town.
Practically ali the drinking water used.
up to Tie mstallnicnt Of the 2cx water
SYSTEM, iias' been cisterr water.
A Maine guide who is very good
shot with a>rifie had little experience
a few days ago that proves that he can
MI SpHlctllHS besides deer Wnen Oc-
casion requires it. AS his wife is not
fond of cats and does not keep any in
the house, an occasional mouse shows
up and he's not. as rule, very much
afraid of Icing disturbed. The guides
son has an airgun that proves a great
source of enjoyment to the youngs3cr
and the guide decided that he could get
rid Of the mice by bringing this weapon
into play So one evening when he had
nothing else to do he sat down in tho
kitchen and waited for game" 1t
wasn't long before a mouse pcercd ont
around the wood box and finding things
satisfactorily quiet he soon appcarC in
full view. The guide was ready and
when the mouse showed up he ''lct him
have it" with the airGun. He got the
mouse the first time he tried AMI with
in a few minutes he killed another one
the same way. Now this house does
not feel the need of cats. Thcy simply
shoot the mice.
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