Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-21

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happened in Damariscotta, says the
editor of the Herald. was the case of a
man threatening to turn out of doors a
tenant. who is Il helpless cripple, be-
| cause he owed two weeks rent.
The joke is on a WcstbroOk woman
who on getting ready to leave the
church, recently, was unable to find
one of her rubbers, 50 she walked home
| with one shoe exposed to the wet
When she arrived home she remarked
to one of her family how heavy the
| foot with one rubber felt. This was
explained in part when she attempted
to remove the one OverShOc, and found
| she had both on one foot.
! we notice that some of the state pa
pers are predicting from twenty-five
| to fifty per cent. increase of ArooS-
| looks potato acreage this season" COM
mcntS the Fort Fairfield Review What
| moonshine! If the INCREASE goes much
| beyond five per cent. it will do wCll.
| Even Aroostook can't 90 on making
| % to so per cent. increases indefinite
ly. 1t doesn't have to- either. in order
to show something like Il dozen million
bushels of the finest potatoes ever
grown outdoors"
One Of the most striking and catchy
| turnouts Of the season has recently
made its appearance in the ncighbor-
| hood Of South Portland Heights. Some
Ia fan =
| fashion with wheels that look as if
| AT one time they were a part of swift
| moving bicycle. The gig is not of
large proportions and has Il seat ex-
actly adapted to the use of the young
| driver who proudly holds the rcins
over spirited dogs who whisk the
thing along at a surprisingly rapid
pace.
Mrs. George Hawkes. of South Wind
ham is the owner of an interesting and
valuable relic. 1t is an old fashioned
powder horn which was given to her
| father, Deacon Hiram Chase, by Pen
jamin Chamberlain. The horn is made
from an animals horn and is one foot
long and three inches in diameter. In
dians carved it and it bears several
figures. Among them are several deer
Il heart. Il bow and arrow and wig
wan. Besides the carving the horn
| has on it some letters in printing, also
the date 1745.
Of one Of WcStbrook'S former well
known citizens. long since departed,
the following amusing story is relat-
Ell. He was Il great smoker seldom
being without pipe in his mouth. ON
one occasion while driving in from
Portland when he had been unusually
attentive to his pipe. he WAS suddenly
taken with a hot pain in the region Of
his heart. The moment he reached
home he went to bed and n doctor was
sent for in post haste. After the ply
stefan had given the patient q thorough
examination he discovered that he had
not q sick but-a burned man
to treat. 1t seems that Mr.. b had
put his pipe in his pocket before it had
cooled off his coat vest and shirt soon
gave way under the Scorching heat of
the impromptu blaze and the skin WAS
bliSt2rcd in most approved fashion.
The pain" was, no doubt. real enough
to satisfy the most pronounced unbc-
lever in the existence of such an evil
Reference was made in this depart
mcnt Friday to the record of the first
blossoming of the fruit and shade trees
kept by Mr.. Adam Newbegin of Port
land for many years. The Journal has
received an interesting communication
from Mr.. Newbegin bearing upon his
record. Mr.. Newbegin does not think
that if he lived in Central Maine that
he would have to revise his opinion
that this is an average early spring
He writes:
Thirty years ago friend said to me
This spring is thirty days later than
last year | was going to accept it as
true when l recOllccted that the
previous year another friend had made
the same remark, and, thought |, the
season cannot possibly be two months
late. While ponderng over it later [
noticed that an elm bough which hung
near my winder was in blossom, and I
made note Of the date on the window
| sill, and 10! there We're two other notes
of the two preceding years of the
blossoming of the elm. and all three
We're about the same time Then I
| realized that all of us. always, think
spring is a month late. To demonstrate
| it I chose the cherry tree because it
| blossoms early and always attracts at
| tention, so that I found many records
of it in Parson Smiths Journal during
the 18th century. I found that il
| blooms from the LIST to the 3Oth of May.
variation of month. and the average
1 nd
18th. Thus the spring may be a fort
night earlier or a fortnight later than
| the average. but not more. But it al
ways seems late because we are long
ing for it."
Bath Enterprise Independent: Some
| one has suggested that in yacht clubs.
like our own. when the number Of
launches is so much greater than that
l of h1f ba