Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-23
icken and straighten and shine.
Answers a bluebird's flute.


Hear him t1outing it around and above!
Yet must we love him. a madcap, verify
For what he is herald of!
BY Clinton Scotland
A few High school senior classes still
prefer to graduate in the good old
fashioned way.
If any resort on the Maine coast has
not yet nominated itself for the honor
of being the nations summer capital,
it should promptly speak up.
They now say that March 81 will be
This does not mean that they will cell
citrate on April with mock session.
DR.. L. c. Chapman of DamariScotta,
who will be 81 years old May list,
thinks he is the oldest Democrat in
Lincoln county and the oldest practic-
ing dentist in the world. He was born
in Noblcboro, May 21st, 1922. and has
practiced dentistry in Dalnarscotta
since 1916, Il period of So years.
there are three doctors among the
highest officers of Bradford comlnan-
derry of knights Templar which has a
membership of over 300 They are DR..
Frederick p. Graves, eminent comman-
der. DR.. Edgar II. Minot, generalissimo
| and DR.. Roscoe l.. Graves, junior war
den.
Since Kora Temple of the Mystic
Shrine was established IS years ago
it's illustrious petentates have been:
Francis T. Faulkner. Turner; Charles
f.. Libby, Auburn: J. Frank Babbitt,
Augusta; George d. Rabbit, Lewiston,
now of Providence. r, L.; Henry A.
Torsey. Auburn; w. Freeman Lord,
Auburn; Clarence " Emerson Lewis
| ton: j. Putnam Stevens. Portland;
| Frederick G. Payne, Lewiston; Albert
| NJ. Penley, Auburn: Edward S. Stct-
| son. LeWiston: Frederick l.. Odlm,
lewiston; r. f. Atwood, Lewiston.
A Phippsburg letter in the Bath Ia
| dependent gives some interesting in
| formation in regard TO what a wealthy
! Island property There is no doubt
| but what he has purchased one of the
| finest pieces of summer property along
| the entire Maine coast and its develop
| ment is bound to come. Such beauty
| spots in good hands are sure to become
worth more and more every year aud
the coming Of such people to its shores
is a good thing for the town Of
Phippsburg.
A Maine born sculptor. Franklin
Simmons, formerly of Lewiston, has
again been honored by his country.
The new bust of Vice President Fair
| banks for one of the Senate inches at
| the National Capitol. is q product of
| Mr. Simmons art. Mr.. Simmons is the
sculptor who fashioned the statue of
Gen. John A. Logan. 1t is accounted
| the most artistic of the numerous
equestrian statues that adorn the
parks of Washington. He has some
| other work of note also among the
scuptural monuments of the federal
| Capitol.
| \ contemplate little bunco game
was played on poor Italian fruit
peddler in Portland the other morning
when a man. as yet unknown to the
police save by general description,
| passed $40 Confederate bill on the
peddler for some oranges and bananas
and received 1855 in change with
| which, needless to say, he dug out at
| a rapid rate. The Italian did not dis
cover how he had been buncoed until
| H., -,
| bill in payment for some grain for his
horse at a local establishment. The
| bunco bill was inscribed as issued at
Richmond, Va, February Il, 1864, and
was in an excellent state of preserve
ton
At the annual dinner and guest night
of the Maine Daughters club of Bos-
ton. recently held at the Parker House.
William s Crawford of Alston,
formerly of Belfast and a Colby gradd-
ate made the chief speech of the even
ing: You can tell a Maine man." he
| said AS far as you can hear him Drag,
and as for the Maine women-well. to
see them it's no wonder the men braS."
Maine" he continued. has best rea-
|
rills. her woods and tempted hills
Wherever in the country you see a fine
stone building. there you see Maine
| granite: the water power from her
rills is unequaled, and her forests. be-
sides the wood pulp that in news
papers and magazines give Maine the
largest circulation in the world. go to
your spools and your toothpicks, and,
it is said. nine -tenths of all the
checkers in the world
Says the Searsport correspondent of
the Belfast Journal: THE bill drawn
by Representative Campbell of King
man for the taxing of all Maine
bachelors of thirty years and upwards
$40 year for the support of old maids
is creating uneasiness among some of
the we'll known bachelors of Searsport.
The fund created by this tax. and it
| will no a tidy ono Ny Canphpl1 thinks