Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-18

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| The Twelfth week of the I'D Legisla-
ture and also the week when spring
makes its official appearance.
| Probably no man in Maine has held
town Office longer than ]. @. A. Butts
of Canaan who died last week after 81
years continuous service as town
clerk.
The Oldest member of the Oxford bar
is c. f. Holt of Norway who passed
his led milestone last week. Mr.. Holt
| has been in attendance at oxford
county court fcrty-seven years, and
has practiced law in three towns,
Bethel, Denmark and Norway.
A Joplin. Mo, paper records the first
meeting of Il New England club or
ganizcd there last month. Eighty-five
were in attendance, of whom the fol-
loving were from Maine: Mr.. and Mrs.
| Marion Staples, Mr.. and Mrs. r. S.
Ha2ar d. w. Pierce, J. \. Mitchell
| (Temple), c. S. Pooler, Mrs. Stella
Gerry, Mr.. and Mrs. N. Lewsen and
Mr. and Mrs. r. O. Small. OF this
number Mr. Small and Mr.. Hagar are
| BoNdoin graduates who have recently
opened 4 law office in Joplin.
| ArOoStnok is the place where money
can be made OH farm property, Geo
\. Fawcett has sold his farm of 16O
acres, located near Fort Fairfield viii
lage. to John and William Henderson
for $4,000. Mr.. Facet came from New
| Brunswick less than three years ago
and invested $4,000. since which time he
is reported to have cleaned up over
SIC, 900 from his farm.
With the stir il Ellsworth of build
ing the dam, real estate is taking
| boom ana several dwellings, have been
sold within the past few weeks. Other
transfers are being talked of, both in
dwellings and mercantileS and in
quirieS for farms in the section are
also being made. People from other
places are inclined to move in or near
err to the city, and everything looks
prosperous.
/ IL
173 bushels of potatoes We're shipped
over the Bangor & Aroostook railroad.
making the total crop of 1906 up to
and including Feb. 2Sth, 1907. 7,67S,873
bushels, an increase of 2,194,611 bushels
over the same period in 1906. The mar
ket remains quiet with the price AT
$1.00 to Sl.O5 and no immediate pros
| Dect for q chance either Way.
| Bath Anvil: In the natural course
Of events Bath will be the residence of
the heads of two of the most powerful
secret orders in the State, this year.
They will be Judge SANFORD L. Fogg
Iwho is slated for Grand Commander
of the Grand Commandery of Maine,
Knights Templar and Col T.. c. Plum
mer who IS to be the next Grand Chan
cellOr Commander of the Grand Lodge,
knights Of Pythias.
| At the town meeting of Hancock last
Monday, 5000 was appropriated for Il
soldiers monument. This suns is in
tended for fund to which shall be al :
ded subscriptions from time to time
1t is also expected that women of the
| place Will lend a hand and by circles
or fairs add to it, until there is a Suff;-
Icient amount to erect n handsome ln0n-
Hment. The residents of Hancock are
| very loyal to their dead soldiers and
the erecting of a suitable memorial has
been long in mind
The first experience that IlIbec pack
lcrs of fish products have had with the
pure food regulations is said TO have
Occurred recently when several boxes of
herring shipped to town in New York
state were returned for noncompliance
with the law. The herring are as
nearly bCnelesS as it is possible to get
| thcnl but III" pure food laN does not
recognize a near homeless product so it
is probable that the fish will be called
Ivy some ether name. for the reason
thiit To take all the bones out of a her.
ring there would probably be nothing
left to snip but the name.
1t is now lawful to take Holsters of
less than 1O}2 inches in length. and
even as short as AZ inches, but that
does not mean by the old way OF
dhtTS SflOulu take nOIe
that the new way of measuring is the
length of the back of the lobster from
the tip Of the end bone of the nose to
the end of the body shell. That affords
a rigid and invariable standard, where
as the old way gave a chance for
stretching. so that lobster actually
half an inch to an inch under the
legal length might be made to appear
10la inches.
Biddeford Journal: a news item in
a Portland paper says: Mayor Cliff
lord, on his way from Augusta yester-
'Iday afternoon. continued to Boston
where he will look at samples of NOV
liable chairs for the city hail. 1t is said
THAT the appropriation bill which W i'll
he submitted t. the city council
icontains provisions for the pur-
Ichase Of chairs Those who
nave ever experienced the eX-
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