Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

YarInouth's independent telephone
company has been absorbed by the
New England.
However they differ as to the facts,
the sportsmen agree in the hope that
Maine deer are increasing.
A panther or some other mysterious
varmint is filling the nights with terror
over in East Auburn and Turner.
There were 4,495 arrests in 1907 in
Portland, but less than half of the ar
rested persons were taken before the
court. according to the city marshals
report.
Briehton's new fire alarm system
worked in a most satisfactory fashion.
The Congregational churches at AL
fred. Kennetunk and Kennebunkport
get requests of $1,000 each in the will
of George Parsons, the New York
millionaire. He was born in Alfred
and spent his summers in Kennebunk.
According to the Amhurst catalogue
there are only two Maine boys among
the 5l3 students of that institution.
They are Leo Kane Of Gardiner and
Franklin r. Chesly of Saco. both of
the freshman class.
! Mr. Harry Z. Merrill announces that
publican nomination for representative
| in the class composed of Monmouth,
Winthrop and West Gardiner. Mr..
Merrill was member, Of the last
Legislature.
George L. Noyes, artist and natural
list of F'rycburg Center. had the un-
usual experience of seeing a wolf the
other day. It was supposed that these
animals had been long extinct i'll
Maine. MIR. Noyes writes of his ex-
perience to a friend as follows: This
is something good to think about. IT
kind Of takes one back to old CraW-
ford. passaconaway, and Wannalancet
days and the good old days when the
good old primeval forest stood: The
other day, l was coming along under
the hill and out Of the woods came a
large wolf within A few rods of re. so
that I could look him over thoroughly.
He went down on the irtervale5 and
circled about and then disappeared III
| the woods on the other side.
| Peter A. Foley, the ''lightrinE t2lscr
of Portland. is the most wonderful
telegraph operator in the world. Foley
is totally deaf, an affection which or
dinarily would be supposed 20 make
telegrapny an utter impoSsibllity Ia
him. but since he became deaf eight
years ago. Foley has developed what
may be called a sixth sense and by
touch and siGnt he can detect the I'M
est movements of the instrument and
correctly interpret them. His nervous
system is a part and parcel Of te!e-
graphy and by means of the sense of
touch in his finger tips he takes mes
sages transmitted from the ends of
| the continent. He can read a message
by watching the sounder. With his
left foretinger placed lightly on the
shoulder. he can be his wonderful
sense of touch take a message as ac-
curately as any man in the office.
| The library Of the Maine Historical
society has been favored by the gift of
Il handsome marble bust Of John &.
Brown. made ty Franklin Simmons in
1874, when Mr. Brown was 81 years Of
age. With a handsome marble pedes-
tai it is the gift of the family. John
Bundy Brown was born in Lancaster
n. IL. May 81, 1905. His father,
Thomas Olcott Brown. was a native Of
Tolland, Conn, but removed 20 New
Hampshire. and finally to Gray. Maine
from where young Brown came t.
Portland. He was a clerk. proprietor
and later became the greatest mer-
chant Portland ever had. He engaged
in everything that would benefit the
! city. He was eminently public
spirited citizen and did more TO inn
prove the architecture of the city,
buildings than any one man whc
ever lived there He was Portland's
largest taxpayer His death occurrec
Jan ~, 1881. caused by fall upon tbs
/ ice. his age was IS years. When he
was buried the people ceased the;l
iabors and the stores closed their doors
The death Of Samuel Fessenden a,
Stamford. Connecticut. removes anoth.
or of the family so long identified witt
Maine. The other day there appeared
the lately published biography of one
OF Names greatest statesmen, viii.
nam Pitt Fessenden, whose son, Gen.
eral Francis Fessenden. died in Port
land last year. One of the nephews OF
" illlam was Samuel, who has just die6
at stamford. He was the son of Sam.
uel c. Fessenden. a younger brother O,
W lillian p. who passed away som.
years since. The elder Samuel gradu.
ated at Bowdoin in the class of 1884