Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-28


Yet in those spring swept. Attic ways.
On every ruin crowned hill.
Bred of those golden yesterdays
! The SOul of beauty fingers Stll.
| Charlotte Becker, in New York Sun.
The old year is on it's last legs and is
getting wobbly. .l o-.- -..
The merchants are not the only ones
who should take an account of stock
as December draws to close.
The Portland Express says that the
Maine fishermen are hoping Mr.. Taft
will spend his summer here, if for no
| other reason than to take him out deep
sea fishing and give him practical
| illustration of the dogtish evil.
| Brooks is now the center for quite d
business in cats. Forty-two were ship
| ped from that station one day last
| week Rose |. Forbes sent q Of them.
She has sent them as far west as Mon
tana. and supplies dealers in several
cities.
-
a pocket in pigs liver is a most
! unusual thing yet A. w. Bean OF
Phillips found just such thing wheE
he recently dissected a pig, the prop
erty OF Fred Davenport. The animal
in life was healthy and fat and in
death dressed $50 pounds. When Mr.
Bean took out the liver he discovered
fatty substance and in it there was
the partly burnt match. 1t was evil
dent the match had reposed within the
organ for some time, for the pocket
which enclosed it was perfectly
formed How the match got in the
liver is a mystery that is puzzling
local physicians who have become in
terested in the matter.
E. b. Hodgkins of Trenton will on
Jan. begin his Tooth term of school.
Mr. Hodgkins arrived home last week
from Larrabee, after an enjoyable
term for a vacation OF two weeks. AT
the close of school he received a beau
tiful gift from the school, and other
presents from the pupils individually.
Mr.. Hodgkins will return to Larrabee
the grammar school.
Captain Maynard H. Murch, retired
recently at Cleveland Ohio aged 81
years. was born in Ellsworth, Me. He
was one of the ablest navigators OF
the Great Lakes, in his early days.
During the latter years of his life he
was in the shipbuilding business. He
was Tor years superintendent of the
marine construction for the Great
Northern Railroad. He built the old
Moses yards at Euclid creek, the first
on the lakes. He was a pioneer in
Lake Superior trade, and was a men,
her Of the Pioneers Association Of Du-
luth. He leaves a widow and three
children, Mrs. Anna L. Hutchins, wifi,
of Prof. William j. Hutchins of Ober-
lin College; Maynard II. Murch, Jr
with Larprecht Bros, and William
Murch, of the American Shipping Co.
A Saco professional man had an in
teresting experience last week in buy
ing his Christmas turkey. He is some
what particular about his poultry and
desired a good specimen. The grocer
assured the professional man that the
bird WAS d sure native and he was
bought on that supposition. Arrived
at his home. the professional man
made Il close examination of the turk
and found in his insides a note from
the man who raised him BY this
means it was learned that the bird
q 1f ri
state.
Pressure Isle Star Herald: The Maine
Farmer thinks that farmers should
put more of their surplus on to their
farms and less in the savings banks,
and cites neighborhood in Andros-
coSgln County where each farmer has
fine stand of modern buildings, pipeG
throughout for hot and cold water,
bath rooms, electric lights and all
other needed home comforts This
little model community in Southern
Maine is merely practising the general
rule of Aroostook. The best farmers
Of almost every Aroostook neighbor-
hood have modern homes that will
compare with the best village resi-
by the village man is lacking and
where many advantages are had which
the village cannot have
Belfast Journal: Writing of potato
growing few weeks ago ii was es-
timated that the surplus crop of Wal
DO county this year might be $4,000
| bushels. AS we had no figures at hand
this was simply guess work and We
realized at that time that the Quantity
! was probably under estimated. We
have since learned that 200 car loads Of
potatoes, $50 bushels to car, have
already been shipped from this branch
road, total of 10000 bushels. At 50
cents a bushel this means $4,000 fol
the farmers of Waldo county. AS po-
| tatoeS are now selling at 65 cents, and