Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-15

Danced on sunny streams.
Time was when he whispered
Soft ana sweet and low,
"Ah.' the bare trees mufnlui'
That was long ago .,
Capt. Henry e. Dow of Searsport has
entered the employ of the American
Hawaiian Co. as first officer OF the
steamer Isthmian plying between San
Francisco and Honolulu.
Bert Batchelder of Rockland Sat
urday picked box of blue violets ana
brought the plants along to prove that
he had been there"
Mrs. Caroline Small and Mrs. Ada
Harding of Plymouth have recently
visited sister, Mrs John Aver, in
Monmouth, whom Mrs. Small had not
seen before in is years.
The old barn at Fryeburg built by
George Wiley in 1880, owned by Will
son Webb. was taken down Thursday
NOV. flH IL was llc OluS0I ioiiu
mark in the village.
A Portland boy visiting in Lowell
has set up a wireless receiving sta
ton, using a juniper tree as mast
On the night of the big wreck off the
Nova Scotia coast he caught the mes
sage and told the neighbors about it
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next morning.
Karl Krom of New York is touring
the State on 'high Wheel" the fore
runner OF the bicycle He has already
ridden the wheel nearly 10000 miles.
He is now 60 years of age, but bears
his years lightly.
Shingles We're recently removed
from a house in Limerick which mad
been on duty so years. They were of
the old hand shaved variety and were
supplemented by birch bark over the
cracks. The roof leaked but little.
The 14-year- odd daughter Of Her.
bert McAllister of Norway is engaged
in breaking in a two-year- colt,
mornings and nights after school 1t
is good looking colt and she handles
it in good shape. She says it is hers
and she must train it so that it will
will be a good horse when it is grown
up.
There has been a terrible tragedy at
North Sullivan, the sickening details
Of which have been suppressed. 1t
seems that a prominent young man of
that section was practicing with his
rife when a fine white WyandOlte
rooster attracted his attention. The
marksman took aim and fired and hit
the bird. He says it is just his luck,
for he had been missing tin cans all
the morning.
Capt. William NJ. Upper of Sears
port, who has been local agent of the
Mallory Lines and Clyde at Brunswick,
Ga. and of the Clyde lines at Jackson
eral superintendent of the Clyde and
Mrs. Stilson of North Arson, passed
her 95th birthday, Sunday. November
18th. Her sister. Mrs. Abbie Knowlton
of Pennington Falls is Sc years old.
and her brother, Mr.. Henry Hodgkins
of North Chesterville is IS years old.
The combined ages of these two sisters
and brother is 269 years making an av
erage of SO years and months. Few
families, indeed, possess such a record
of longevity.
A. copy Of the art section of the Troy
Times contains a writeup of one of the
fire companies of that New York city
and IN a cluster of pictures of the Oftic-
ers of the company appears the face of
William s. Canning, a trustee. Mr..
Canning was at one time amateur
champion of roller skaters of Maine
and has long been prominent in the
theatrical business.
Senator Hale desires to buy of the
Grand Army Posts at Ellsworth one
half of the G. A. r. property owned by
the Woodbine Cemetery Association
This lot is reserved for the burial of
soldiers and sailors, and the city OF
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