Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-16

1 1cIIlpldl SCASAe'S Nv 1870 q
say that there were about $50 Sir
knights from Maine in line.
The Office of the WestbrOOk Chronl-
cle-Gazette has been moved to Port
land, but it will remain distinctlvely
| Westbrook paper as formerly.
The Chesterville tragedy was the
| outcome of "the eternal triangle"-two
men and woman. Sometimes the
| triangle is of this form and sometimes
| it is composed of two women and a
man. but in one form or the other II
causes u big share of the trouble in the
world.
Emma Eames wants Bar HarbOr to
call its new structure the "Temple OIL
Arts" not the Building of Arts
which has been the name commonly
| used AS it is built strictly on the
lines of Grecian temple the SUCCESS
ton seems very proper one.
If all Sundays until September
should be like last Sunday the railroad
and steamboat lines would be able to
declare extra dividends. The excur-
sion crowds were very large for nobody
with the price Of transportation could
stay at home on such day.
Commander Robert E. Peary. U. S.
n, has purchased of her Damariscotta
owners the ancient pinkey schooner
Mary and will have her restored in all
effort to perpetuate this vanishing style
Of craft. The Mary is strongly built
and in good condition. She is the sec
ond oldest merchant vessel under the
American flag, having been built at
Portsmouth in 1911. Commander Pcary
is much interested in these quaint
crafts and has for some time been at
tempting to secure one to prcscrv' ~ a
type example. as the pinkcy build wir
soon be extinct.
Here is a nature story from I,rln
"Not long ago a cat belonging
Clarence knowlton on the East aidc
took her new born kittens and deposit
ed them one by one in a hens nest
thinking, presumably. that II would
make Il fine bed for them She reckon
ed, however. without her host for when
the hen, who claimed the nest. return
ed she also claimed the kittens and
the mother cat has been unable to get
near them since. Every time she APP
proacEeS the hen flies at her and drives
her off, and at night covers the kit
tens with her wings as she would a
flock OF chickens. In order for the
mother to feed them the hen has to be
taken away from the nest
At least seven starch factories in
AroOstook county are now grinding
potatoes for starch-two owned by
John Watson of Houlton; one at
Bridgewater; G. NJ Colbath's,
Sprague's Mill; the Goodwin Starch
Company's, and Klippel & Richards,
Fort Fairfield; and Ward & Simon
sons. Limestone. Only one, the
Goodwin Starch Company's has been
going any length of time. The price
paid now is usually 20 cents barrel
but varies from 5 cents to %. The
Goodwin Starch Company bought sew
cral carloads the other day, all load
ed for 5 cents per barrel, but had to
pay the freight on them from Carl
bou. There proved to be rather more
potatoes in the country than most peo
pie had any idea of. 1t is predicted
that the factories will run till Au-
gust.
The late John c. Sanborn, who was
spoken of at the time of his death. last
week, as the Oldest lawyer of the Law
renee. Mass. bar. was a Maine man
and graduate of Bowdoin in the class
OF 1881. He had held many public
oiilceS ana was one of the leading and
most respected men of his section of
tie state. He was at Brunswick last
month in attendance upon the 5Oth re-
union OF his class which was held Mt
the Rowdoin Commencement. The class
graduated 81 men, and of the % SIR
vivors Is gathered at Brunswick while
all but two of the others were heard
from by letter.
captain George Prince who died at
Thomaston last week was the oldest
Odd Fellow in Maine His age was 20
years and he had had remarkablc
career. He was in trade in Thonaston
carly in life but the air of sea adven-
lure. which permeated Tbomaston at
that date caused him to run away and
Try the dangers of whale fishing in the
racine ocean for some years. While |
In Cniil he enlisted in the Gillian army
then at war with Peru. and after some
iand service. was transferred to the
navy on board the "Archilles Cant |
faul Dllleno. He was promoted to
while in the service Of |
Chill. subsequently. after soiourn
among the Araucanian Indians in
South America he returned to the
United states and was offered an an
polntment as midshipman in the L. s |,
Navy. He served as assistant in tho
custom house at Thomaston for num-
Der OF years. At the commencement