Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-21

| trains are due, just as well as he
knows when it is time for meals.
f. B. Tor-ey is rapidly getting ready
to manufacture his patent trolley a.
Richmond. He has discovered a
process for casting the wheels in q
| tube instead of in sand.
The Argus tells about nice little
girl" up in Cornish who is "some over
| twenty" and picks four leaved clovers
| by the handful wherever she goes.
Sounds as if the Argus had started a
matrimonial bureau.
Portland and Saco have had more
than their share of the Pythian Jubi-
lees say the Pythians Of several other
cities and next year there will be a
livly scramble for the place. Lewiston
is among the leading candidates.
United States Treasurer Charles II.
Treat, who has resigned, was born in
Frankfort, educated in East Maine
Conference Seminary at Bucksport,
and at Bates and Dartmouth. He was
appointed in 1905. He has been very
active in the politics of New York and
Delaware.
Alice Hackett of Biddeford, VINO
married Austin Purcell of Boston, has
again come to notice as the Countess
di Castelmola Alice Gaetani. She is
h. n ini,o
husband, who is a lieutenant colonel in
the Italian army
The Aroostook Republican comp!i-
ments the Aroostook farmers on their
industry, noting that most of those
prevented from harvesting their grain
by the wet weather, improved the
time to do their fall blowing.
Bangor now has five proposed sites
for a public library, one on state street
another on Harlow, third on Main,
fourth on Union and the fifth on East
Market Square at the lower end of
Center park. The city will ballot for
choice October 4.
Ferdinand Coombs, son of William
D. Coombs of Bath recently walked
from Small Point to his home. a dis
lance of l. miles. in less than four
hours. 1t is a fine record for a
younGster.
A thoroughly modern and up-to-date
clam canning factory is to be built
soon at Salsburys Cove by the
Twitchell- Champlin Company of Port
land, who have bought large piece of
shore land there The factory will in
no wise interfere with the summer
guests as it will be run only in the
winter.
We submit this from the Bath Times
without comment: when horse trots
fast the expression is, He feels his
oats This morning some horsemen
insisted that this was actually the case
and that the reason horse trots faster
after being fed oats is because the
sharp pointed grain tickles the lining
of his stomach
Portland Argus.-Some idea of the
way wealthy people who come to our
city and State leave money was shown
last evening when a man who has been
summering in the State left for his
home in the middle west accompanied
by his wife and son and a ret1nue of
fourteen servants, six dogs and innu-
merable pieces of baggage and other
truck" They paid their fares through
to New York of course which was the
tidy sum of $127.50 for the railroad in
addition to the Pullman fares amount
ing to $6S for the poor Pullman Com
pany. They had their suppers at the
station restaurant and it is sufficient
to say they fed well, dogs and all.
When one stops to consider what the
expenses of this family and servants
must have been during a stay of any
length in the state it is easy to see
how the money comes in and goes out.
With the issue of Sept. I'd, the Union
Advocate of North Arson closed it's
long career of usefulness, covering over
half a century. It's initial number APP
peared July, 1856, with the late Hon.
Albert Moore as editor. Under Mr..
Moore's management, it was power
full political factor, being the leading
Democratic paper of Somerset county.
After his death in 1895, his son, Ben
Moore. who was associate editor dur
ing the later years, took charge of the
Advocate, continuing one year, when
the paper was sold to J. o. Smith G.
Co. of The Somerset Reporter. Since
1886 it has been published by that COM
pany with Virgil D. Hilton as local ed
itor Mr.. Hilton has been connected
with the Advocate ever since he entered
the office in 1879, and had served con-
tinuously as apprentice, tourneyman.
reporter and editor, with the exception
of two years while in New York, MAX
ing his long connection with this paper
second only to that of the Hon. Albert
Moore. Mr.. Hilton is engaged in COM
piling the history of the town of An
son, and also a brief text book of local
history to be used in the public schools.