Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-10

avail 10 keep the boys away from the
danger.
1t seems to be the general belief that
Shiloh Is in for hardship and trouble
TINS winter. The signs of famine and
dieSention are numerous.
When the steamers Dominion and
Corinthian sailed from Portland Satur-
dav afternoon they carried the largest
number of passengers ever leaving that
port on one day. Nearly a thousand
were taken by both ships, the steam
er Dominion of the Dominion line had
% FIRST cabin passengers, 100 second
class and 62O Steerage passengers. The
Corinthian Of the Allan line which
sailed for Glasgow at o'clock car
ricd 80 second cabin passengers and
| $50 steerase passengers.
Auhurn has two Congregational
clergyman who We're born in foreign
lands. Rev. Herbert Pekin Woodin
who has just accepted Il call to the
High Street church was born in Pekin,
| China, where his parents were mission
| aries and is said to have been The first
| American child born i'm the Chinese
canital, hence his middle name. Rev.
Mr.. TaiSne of the Sixth Street COngre-
gational church, Auburn, was born in
Paris. France.
Do not think there is anything re-
niarkable in this weather. A Bdde-
ford man recalls that in the winter OF
| 1913 there was no snow until March.
| A terrific SnOwstorm Of two or three
DAYS duration then came and this in
turn WIS followed by pouring rain
hicn caused The biggest freshet ever
| Known Oh the SdcO.
| George Griffin of Lincoln Centre
| holds the belt as the champion bear
hunter of that vicinity. Mr. Griffin re-
Gently shot two large bears near Mat
tamiscOntis mountain i'm one day ard
they are now hanging in his barn with
two big bucks and q curiosity in the
share of a white hedgehog To keep
them company. This makes Mr. Grif-
! fms third bear this season. The fact
| that he Went after bear makes his sue
cess more noteworthy. Both were good
sized specimens and in prime condition.
| The new city clerk of Portland. a. l..
7. Cummings. is one of Names best
konwn and best liked newspaper men,
Everybody in western Maine knows
"AbC" Cummings-his whole name is
Abraham Lincoln Thatcher Cummings
and it is Uncomfortable that anybody
ever knew him except to like him. His
| first work was in his native city of
Biddeford and for a number of years he
WIS editor of the BiddefOrd Daily
Times now out of existence, and did
the Boston Herald and Associated
Press work for that city and section
For the past decade he has been To-
Gated in Portland and has devoted his
time to the Boston Herald work for
! western Maine. He is one of the best
newspaper men, that ever did business
| in Maine About Il dozen years ago
| he had Il little political experience by
serving on the Bddeford Board of AL
darrnen.
| The Maine newspaper world extends
its sympathy to Liston P. Evans, edi-
tor of the Piscataquis Observer who
has been having serious difficulty with
a small cancer near the eye. 1t be-
came necessary to remove the eye. the
operation being performed by DR.. Hall
OF Dover and DIR. Clough of Bangor at
| private hospital in Bangor Mr.
Evans IL recovering as rapidly as can be
/ exDected considering the serious nature
Of the operation.
Eight barSes of 100 to 1900 tons, and
one steamer. have been transferred by
the BOntell Steel Barge Co to the
White Oak Transportation Co. Maine
corpora ton of which III. G. BuzZell of
Searsnort is clerk. and are now regis
tered at the Belfast custom house and
hail from SearSport. The steamer is
the Bay View, and the barges are the
Baravia. Baroness, Britannia, Bombay,
Eadgcr, Bay State and Buckskin. The
barees and steamer will no doubt be
emploved in bringing coal to Macks
Point.
Mary Agnes Thicker who died re-
Gently in Dorchester, Mass, was a ma
tive Of Maine the daughter of the late
Hon. Richard Thicker and Mehitabel
GellisoD Thicker and was widely
known for her literary work. Miss
Thicker was educated in the public
schools of Ellsworth and in the acad-
envy at Bluchill. AS early as thirteen
years of age she began to teach, later
becoming teacher in a Catholic
parochial school. She began to write
anonymously when about fifteen years
of age, and soon gave up teaching to
devote her entire time to writing.
During the Civil War she volunteered
as nurse and was in service in
Washington. D. c. In the early
seventies Miss Thicker went abroad.
where she lived for nearly fifteen years,
chiefly in Italy. with visits also in
Spain. France and England. Some Of
her works which have been best
known are: 1.-THE House of Yorke.' "a
Winged Word" Grapes and Thorns.
six Sunny Months "Signor MonaI-