Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-15

There are lots of shooting stars in
the skies these evenings.
| Vinalhaven is added to the list of
Maine towns that have dedicated
libraries this summer.
| There are several towns in the State
| that have not yet urged their claims as
the location of the State Home for
| Feeble Minded.
| An Auburn man. whose reputation
| for eloquence is only equalled by his
| modesty, tells a local newspaper that
seven towns have already tried to
| secure him as their 1908 Memorial
orator and urgent appeals are expected
| from many more.
Biddeford Pool had lots of excite
| ment the other day when a $4,000
touring car belonging to st. Louis
parties was wholly destroyed by fire.
There have been several such ac-
| cidclts in Maine this season.
| Portland's tax rate this year is the
1 highest it has been for over a quarter
| of a century. although the valuation CT
the city is about s2,OOO,OO0 greater than
| last year.
Sanford is to have special town
meeting next Saturday, mainly for the
| consideration of highway matters.
The plans for the enlargement of the
| Union station, Portland, were not made
| too soon. Sundays crowd was the
| largest ever handled there in a single
day and taxed the station to the
| utmost.
Names biggest raspberry farmer is
F. l.. Wyman of West Paris. He is
| sending the bulk of them to Portland
where he is getting a good price. He
has an average of about 20 pickers
working daily and harvested nearly
100 bushels of berries last week.
Portland Express: Shiloh comes in
to the limclight about so often. One is
disposed to believe that if it were not
for the newspapers and the resulting
publicity the institution would soon
fade away.
The largest and fastest automobile
owned in Knox county is that just
purchased by Dr. H. +. Gribben of
Rockland, formerly of Augusta. 1t is
of 60 horse power and has a seating
capacity for seven persons.
The mascots of the monitor Nevada,
which has been at Bath the past week.
are three nine weeks old kittens
Buster, Squarehead and Fool. The
kittens each have a miniature ham
mock, an exact duplicate of those oc-
cupied by the sailors, and at night the
kittens are put to bed by the men OF
the watch.
Deputy Sheriff Elliott Of Rumford
Falls came into town one day recent
ly in his automobile, bringing pris-
oner with one leg in splints. When
the sheriff left the machine for min
ute or two to do an Grand the pris-
oner gave the bystanders who inquired
of him Il startling story. This was
that he was fired at by some Italians
at Smiths Crossing, and that in
return he shot three of them dead! 1T
was a good story, but it was spoiled
when the fact was learned that the
prisoner was arrested sfor a plain
drunk, and that he attempted to escape
from the automobile and broke bone
in his leg in doing so.
The skeletons found in digging a
ditch at House Island in Portland
Harbor one day last week are be-
lieyed to be those of sailors killed
during the war of 1872 slate slab
found near one of the skeletons bore
the date 1912, but the name was
| illegible. Three skeletons We're found
| and in the skull of one was a bullet
hole. Had it not been for the slab with
| the date carved in it the finding of the
bones would have indicated mystery,
but it is believed that they were
| portions of the bodies of sailors who
were killed during the war. The bones
were uncovered by workmen engaged
| in building the quarantine station and
the ditch is being dug across the island
| near the line of the military reSerVd-
ton on which is Fort Scammell.
Here's a good story that has just
leaked out concerning two Lewiston
young women who attended the Bath
celebration, last week. 1t seems that
every other person one met had tiny
flag. These young women evidently
wanted to be in the swim and, there
fore. they tried various ways to secure
the red, white and blue and finally
asked little boy where they could get
some flags. He very kindly gave them
each one. Waving them triumphantly,
they did not hesitate to brag of thell
gifts to companions, who had none of
the souvenirs. But. It's well that he
who laughs last, laughs best" Turn
ing the tables, these companions in