Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-18


ed pint Of raspberries near her home
last week and sent some of them to the
Journal office. The twigs also carried
blossoms and green leaves, rare COIL
binatiOn for this season of the year.
Miss Clara Hathorne recently FOUND
an Old china plate in well near her
$50. Miss Hathorne was cleaning out
the we'll when she discovered the treas
ure.
The West is not the only place to pro-
duce two crops, for the town at CAR
land has a piece of fodder corn when
was cut several weeks ago but refused
to die. The stocks came up again ana
| the corn is now Spnding
| Aunt Mary" Baird Of Hartford fSe
had her first automobile ride at the
age OF 81 years.
Clarence S. Lunt for many years
! managing editor of the Bangor COM
| mcrcill owns a farm at Charlotte. New
York the products form which took SIX
prizes at a cattle fair held at Brock
pert New York. The surprising thing
! to Maine newspaper Gen is that ne
should go in for farming" says an tX-
| change. Had the news been received
| that he wandered down to Detroit ana
captured Tigers, or skipped over I"
Pittshurg and bought the Pirates. Il
| would have occasioned no comment, for
| in the days of the Big Eastern Name
State fair WHICH Lunt was working, in
! Bangor it was always the Ball stand
| for the "Maior' and to the Dickers
| with the cattle stalls.
What arc known as burned bricks
are being used in the New National
Bank building at Bath alternating with
ordinary brick The result is pleasing
| to the eye and also to the brick manu-
facturer for it enables them to dispose
of all their bricks.
The report comes from Jonesboro that
big bear mas been seen in the road
and that til" mighty hunters Of that
section are on his trail. The report
states that Clayton the eldest son of
CIas. Gay met Bruin in the road while
on his way to meet his father; that at
first he mistook Bruin for his father
but later discovered his mistake
Willia:r T;cnlick of Eliot, Maine, who
has reacned tha age of 20 years is still
in good health though he has had 4
varied career as a fishermen, sailor,
and ship carpenter. He contributes his
longevity TO his outdoor life and nat
| ur1lly strol constitution.
Mis-, Grace r. Eurgess of Belfast who
died recently in that city had been
member of the Maine Press Association
for several years and mad conducted an
extensive job printing business since
the death of her father thirteen years
ago.
Included in lot of second hand
books, pamphlets, broadsides and other
literary property retailed at public
venduc in Boston last THURSDAY was
copy Of the volume, entitled The Viii
lage,' which was written by Enoch
Lincoln when he resided here, and
1916. The copy was in good condition.
and on it's title page contained an au-
tosraph presentation inscription from
| the author, and yet it brought only
s1.5O, which is 1925 less than a some
what dllapitated copy brought at auc-
ton in Boston the Sd of last February
THE Village" is a volume of $50 pages,
consisting of q poem which ends on
page 80 and of a prose appendix which
fills the remaining 80 pages The ap-
pendiX is divided into three parts, Part
|, consisting of "Sketches of Slavery"
Part II, of sketches of the Follies and
CrueltieG Growing out of the Penal
Law, with an Introductory Section up
on Lawyers" ana Part III of sketches
of the Follies and Crueltes of Supersti-
ton Though the village from which
the volume takes it's title is, or rather
was Fryeburg Village, the beautiful
scenery and the social condition of the
village and its vicinity being the sub
Ject or which the poetic part of the VOL
lllne treats, yet very few if any copies
OF the book are to be found hereabouts
Inc volume was published anonymous
~ and IN the dedication of (which
was TO the peOple"-the author saws
l
that The name Of the author is con-
cealed because it is too humble to add
weight to his claims ard his pride is too
cautious to hazard the modification Of
pointed neglect" The author was, la
ter in his life, member of the National
House Of Representatives, and, still la
| ter was Governor of Maine, he being
an incumbent of the later office at the
time OF his death, Oct 8. 1929. (By the
way, William b. Lapham's History of
Paris, of which town Gov. Lincoln was
Tor several years a resident, erroneous
ly--page 343-gives Oct. II, 1929, as the
date of his death.) During Mr. Lin
coins term of service as Governor his
brother, Levi Lincoln, was, by curl
Gus coincidence, Governor of Massachu-
| sets.
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