Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-09
Maine Gossip
or Trouble.

|
a-hangin' roun'.
Dey doesn' do much wo'k but dey is
| maxim fearS q SCUM.
If you squares right up befo' him, he'll
| go drlftin out o sight
He likes de conversation, but he doan'
| want to fight,
Washington Star.
north by Peary were made in Mon
| mouth.
The Bangor actress. Bernice Wiley
| Colder, is playing in keith's Stock
company, Portland. for the summer
1t IS wise man who knows what
hot weather advice to follow and what
to ignore.
The clouds of dust from the automo-
biles make the burden of life for
country housewives especially heavy
this summer. ~ ytT
Charles FL. Briggs, leading bust
IN June, was born in Norway, Maine,
in 1912. ;
For the 50th time on the Fourth of
July j. T. Small of As Prospect street,
Portland, had on his table green peas
from his Cwn garden. Mr.. Small is an
enthusiastic gardener and has always
made it a point to have peas from his
own garden July 4.
S. G. Hatchs father came to Norway
SO years ago and for that length of
time a certain piece of grass near the
residence has been cut and nine out of
len times the cutting Of it has pro
duced rain. There was no exception
this year but the amount of rainfall
was exceedingly small. This is what
S. G. Hatch tells the Norway Advert-
ser.
The largest mackerel ever brought
to a Portland market came in this
week when the Gillom brothers of
Small Point arrived with a large fare
among which was mackerel weighing
SIN pounds and measuring rs inches in
length. This is the largest mackerel
ever seen in Portland. At first it was
thought that the large fish was a had
dock but it proved to be a mackerel.
While Stockton Springs doesn't yet
put its head above PASSPORT, as a sar-
dine canning factory town, it says it
may yet give the PaSSamaquoddy city
a run for it's money. Within d few
weeks the new sardine packing plant
will be Put in operation there The
packing is located about a mile and
half from the village 1t is all ready
for the machinery and on the night of
July 3rd, there was big dedicatory
ball held there. The building was pro-
fusely decorated and music was fur
nished 10y a full band. Over 200 per-
sons were present
The biggest fish to be seen around
Moosehead this year was displayed for
"a brief time at Parke's taXidermy stu
dio at Greenville, but it didn't come
from Moosehead. 1t was the record
fish of Big Benson pond, near Lake
OnaWa on the Canadian Pacific, be-
tween Grcenville and Henderson. 1t
was monster. however and was land2
ed by Henry D. Moore of Haddanfield,
N. j.. who with a party of friends has
been for his usual spring fishing trip
to his camp there, where he annually
makes several trips to enjoy the live
air, the pure water and the unsur-
passed fishing of his native state. This
was the largest fish ever taken from
A.
pounds. No wonder Mr.. Moore is hay
ing it mounted, for it is the largest
togue ever taken in that region, out
side of Moosehead waters and success
fully contradicts the theory that big
fish only develop to fullest size in
large bodies of water like MOosehead
Reports from the Belgrade lakes tell
of wonderful sport there among the
bass, and an occasional trout, during
June. Charles Mallory of New York
is credited with landing i'll a single day,
12G pass and a trout. He ought to be
satisfied, whether the fish are or not
l.. b. Adams, an angler of the same
city, had the great sport incident to
landing IS bass, and other anglers We're
very successful. But with the devel-
opment of trout fishing at that chain
of lakes within few years, the num-
ber of beautiful specimens of the trout
family steadily increases, and June
has been no exception. II. B. Goodrich,
of Haverhill, Mass, took in a single
day in mid-June, four trout weighing
Is pounds the largest five-pounder
and the least but two pounds lighter,
and the next day duplicated his feat.
f. 4. Dudley, of the same city. on
the previous day. caught two trout
that weighed and Az pounds. Nor
was the string Of Mrs. Robert Mallory
of Port Chester n. Y, to he sncezed
at for She landed in one day three
trout of 4. 31a and 3 pounds The five
trout caught by George W. Jenkins of
Morrislown. n. j., weighing 13h2
pounds and ranging from pounds
down, was one of the finest brought
in during the week. although for beau
ty and weight it had a close rival in
three trout landed by w. c. Wyckoff
of New York City, whose three trout