Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02

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The fall train schedule goes into
effect next Monday.
A few smallpox cases are reported
from the Aroostook New Brunswick
border.
The Portland milk war is even more
exciting than the City hall con-
troversy.
WATERFORD hears that Portland CAPT.
talsts are to erect a bluebrry canning
factory in that town in 1909.
The record for subscribers paid in
advance seems to be held by the
Plttsfeld Advertiser which has a man
paid w to 1912.
The national encampment of the
Union Veterans Union paid high
compliment to the Maine veterans IN
selecting Patrick Hayes of Chelsea as
the head of their organization.
Capt Fred Squirting of Cranberry
Isles, in sloop yacht Nellie Frances.
has been breaking clustering records
He took 63s Holsters in one week. At
one haul, he took 165, which beats all
| previous records, according to the cap
| tain of the lobster smack, who has
been buying Holsters along the coast OF
| NJ aine for the past fourteen years
| Eber Squirting of Cranberry Isles
caught 1874 one day.
Ideal conditions prevail for the
| opening of the deer hunting season
| in Maine The timely rain has
| lessened the danger from neglected
| camplires and the touch of frost IN
| the air will make life in the woods
more worth the living. For the rest,
there's plenty of game and the ever
present appeal to the gambling IN
| stnct of the chance of being mis-
| taken for deer, being brought out
on a stretcher and getting your name
| in all the papers.
Roy Libby of Cary got surprise the
other night. On going to the door
to close it for the night he found
an envelope containing $50 pinned to
the panel. The envelope contained Il
note saving, eff you will go out in your
field you will find what this is for"
| Mr.. Libby took his lantern and Wcne
to the place directed and found one of
| his neighbours colts lying dead with a
| bullet hole through its brain. Who
| ever did the deed was evidently jack
| ing deer and sought to make the dam
age good in the manner described.
| The Maine White Ribboners think
! they can claim two Of the oldest mem
bers in the United States. These arc
! Mrs Salome Sellers Of Deer Isle and
| Mrs Margaret T. w. Merrill of Port
land Mrs Sellers is 10S years old and
this year the state w c. T. L. in Sos
| sion at Rockland sent greetings to her.
| Mrs Merrill is "a years old and each
| year when the convention is in session
she sends a gift of money OF these
| two old ladies the union is very proud
| A rare sight witnessed by residents
| along the New Meadows shore recently
| was to sec the three-masted schooner
| Charles H. Wolston sail into the river,
| run up behind Bush island and DROP
| anchor. She is loading lumber at the
mill of Morse Brothers and will carry
it to New York. Years ago vessels of
| good size, even ships. used to navigate
| the New Meadows but since the days
of the big ice shipments the number
of sailing vessels. larger than the or
| binary fisherman or yacht which have
come into the river to a point as far
| no as the Wolston has been. could be
| counted on the fingers Of one hand.
Here is the attempt of a Boston Post
| humorist to tell the vacation delights
at an ina ainary summer resort in this
| state: "Cobb's Corner, Maine, is a de
Gghtful place to go Down in Cobb's
| Corner they have a Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Mosquitoes.
| Nc screens are permitted on the Win
| dovs of any residence in Cobh's Cor
ner Mosquitoes are welcome 1T any
hour of the day or night and vaca
tioniats who so to CuDbs Corner are
| ulled to sleep by their sweet singing
Board and room at Cobb's Corne. is
| S. per week-meals are extra. BY
board we refer to what You have t"
| sleep on. If you should decide to spend
| your vacation at Cobb'S Corner, the
| residents there who cater to the sum
mer Sucker will MAKE you feel just
like one of the family. You will be
permitted to wash your face at the
pump, and will have the privilege Of
using the same towel which the entire
family uses and has used for 50 long
that it is priced not 50 much for its
intrinsic value, but for the historical
associations which cluster about it. AS
for soap, there is none. There used
to be two or three cakes of soap owned
| in the town. but there was 4 lard
| famine in Ccbb'S Corner. and all the
soap was used up for cooking pur-
| poses"
| Matrimonial trouhles were under dis