Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-01

buildings etc, about 10 dwellings were
erected in Bangor in 1906.
Every day now brings out a report
or two from State departments and
officials and they all make valuable
and interesting reading matter.
This is moving day at the county
buildings i'm the 16 counties and ~
some instances many changes take
place.
Madisons new Carnegie library Is
nov open To the public. the books nay
ing been moved last week from their
old quarters.
One little Bath girl who desired t.
make Santa'S visit to her home as
happy as possible, got her brother to
write the following note which Was
left on Il chair near the tree: Dear
Santa, You will find the dish Of candy
on the chair, please help yourself
A great gray owl, rather uncor-
mon bird in this section. was received
by Bangor taXidermist last week.
This bird is one of the most deceivinS
as to weight that one could imagine.
The bird is large enough to fill half
bushel measure and one would think
to look at it that it would weigh ten
pounds at least. but its size is due to
its very thick plumage and it doesn't
,.rh haIT ~ Str
hat.
There is a mystery at house on
Grove street, Auburn, that is puZzlinS
the police department. There are taps
on the outside and inside doors and
ringing of doOrbellS at all hours of
night. A large bulldog in the house
is terrified by the strange sounds. The
police have made an investigation, but
have come to no satisfactory cOnclu-
sion. Many believe the strange noises
are caused by spirits, and some of the
family think something terrible is to
happen.
Robert Sutherland of Bath, who
raises chickens as an avocation. had a
chicken five months old which was a
perfect bird until about six weeks ago
when it began to get lOp-sided. Mr..
Sutherland watched the bird and at
last resolved to kill it and find out
what was the matter. He did this and
on disecting the bird found a piece of
bone two and three quarters inches
long by three quarters of an inch
across and three quarters of an inch
thick. in the gizZard of the chick. He
kept the bone as d souvenir and threw
the bird away. 1t is puZZling Mr..
Sutherland to know how the chick
mana ged to get the bone down through
its crop and into the gizzard.
Rev. H. w. Norton of Dover has
pocket piece in the shape of pine tree
was the property of his mother and
has a singular history. A great many
years ago while Il farmer and his son
were hauling cedar from a swamp
near what is now CaStine. one of the
oxen Slumped. and when he pulled his
foot out the boy saw something shining
on it which proved to be Il coin. Dig
ging revealed a few more pieces. but in
the spring after the ground had thav-
ed, they dug up coins of several ma
tionalities to the value of 5000 and thil;
piece was in the lot. 1t is supposed
that the money was buried for safety
during one of the several attacks on
Castine by the French or English, and
the owner never reclaimed it. A pc
cuiarity of Mr.. NortOn's coin is the
fact that Massachusetts is spelled
Massachusetts,. Although so old. the
coin is well preserved.
Perhaps auburn and Lewiston have
nothing to be more thankful for at the
close of 1906 than the prosperous con-
dition Of the shoe shops. Figures show
that for the past seven years none has
such a record as 1906. The total num-
Der of cases shipped Were 445S Will,
in 1905 they We're 352.OS3. The amount
of leather received was S.336, 43S in 1906
and S,515.633 in 1905. The ordinary
weekly shipment is about 5000 or 1000
cases yet for the first half of the year
they reached nine. ten and eleven
thousands for several weeks.
One of Names remarkable old
women is Mrs. Hannah H. Cole of
South Sanford. within four years and
a lew months of 100. She claims the
distinction of weaving some of thu.
very first wide sheeting ever manufac-
tured in New England. and probably
the first ever made in the United
States. and also of performing her own
marriage ceremony according to the
Quaker rites. 1t was after she had
finished her common school education
and taught school few terms that she
went to SacO and entered the employ
of the first factory ever built by tn.
York Manufacturing Company on what
is Known as Factory Island. She
worked there for a few years weav;ry
cloth. Mrs. Cole has always. even in