Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-01


Harry K Thaw, the murderer of Sam
ford White She is visiting in Castine
and vicinity.
Portland has discovered that of all
the "eating saloons" in the city 40
years ago, not one remains.
Camp Durrell, near Friendship has
been abandoned until 1910 and 40 boys
have returned to Massachusetts and
Rhode Island the better for having
spent a summer in Maine.
A majority of the joint library COM
mittee of the city of Bangor favor the
site originally selected and the Queen
City is back at the point where she
started.
John Newton Porter of New York is
between New Haven, Ct.
and Boston, enroute, from Daytona,
Fla, to Bar Harbor, aboard his house.
boat Stroller. He is making the trip
of 1900 miles to win a wager. The
Stroller is IS feet long, 16 feet beam,
feet inches draught, is of As tons
register schooner rig with powerful
gasoline engine. She carries a crew of
five. Mr. and Mrs. Porter have as
guests Mrs John Allen Dougherty, H.
f. Waltham and Mr.. and Mrs. J. A.
Mitchell
Col. E. c. Plummer of Bath the
attorney and admiralty expert, whose
work in Washington in favor of the
shipping interests and for the ship
subsidy bills won for him an internal
tional reputation says that he expects
another ship subsidy bill will be pre-
scented this winter in Congress and he
hopes that it will be Of such charac-
and receive favorable consideration.
I'VE have not given up hope of such
measure Sas yet" said Col. Plummer
recently.
Portland PresS.-EdWin l.. Smith of
Kcnnebunkport has a small bed of
Strawberries, Pan-American variety
80 plants in all, that are in bearing
now and will undoubtedly bear until
freezing. They are full of green ones
with 100 blossoms on a plant. He has
sold the past week six boxes to hotels
at the Port for S1.00 per box and ex-
poets to sell 20 boxes more, as he has
that many engaged at the same price.
Mr.. Smith is not a crank on straWber-
nv raising or anything else. He is lev
el-headed and first-class, all around
farmer and at the present time is Sell
ing from his farm two wagon loads of
produce per day. For one thing he is
selling five to seven bushels of lettuce
and has enough to last until frost
comes.
A woman whose home is not far
from Rowes Corner has been market
ing large quantities of eggs this fall
and the revenue therefrom has amply
paid for the care and feed admins
tered to the hens and left a handsome
profit beside according to the Lewis
ton Sun. However, this enterprisin3
woman decided that she would reduce
her flock of hens by killing off those
that were not laying. She thought 1t
an easy matter to distinguish the lay
ers from the non-layers and proceeded
in a sympathetic way to convert about
half of her entire flock into dressed
poultry. The day following the sale OF
said dressed poultry there were M
eggs. The second day brought the
same returns and now the woman is
wondering whether by mistake She
killed off the layers or that the re-
mainder of the flock are on strike.
A Livermore Falls man knows thai
| it pays to shut off the gasoline supply
| when he leaves his auto at the door
A thief started away with a machine
| in that town recently, but the gasoline
| pipe wasn't working. The thief was
frightened away before he discovered
what the matter was.
/! Postmaster King of Portland, ha
received a letter from Minot st. Clai
Francis, the noted negro desperate
but the postmaster is not greatly dis
turbed by this. The letter was writ
ten on the official paper Of the fedora
prison in Atlanta, Ga, and bore all tn