Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-17

TodIIiiiiS tHTOuSn tIle "oo ~
city, found and brought home eight
fully bloomed mayflowers when made
quite a stable fragrant bouquet.
James Deering, manufacturer OF
farming machinery. has given $l5oo0
toward a church to be erected in his
former home town. South Paris
An Eastport jewclry store is exhibit
ing an old fashioned brass door knock
er which is reputcd to have done duty
100 years ago. 1t is now the property
of Charles M. Buxton, former mayor
The eagerness with which Maine
towns welcome the remote possibility of
a new industry, was instanced IN the
courteous treatment of a "Mr. Reed
at HallOwell, Sandford, SkoWhegan and
other places, ought to be a good tip for
a man with legitimate proposition
to advance.
Tho poultry institute is now on at
Orono and Maine town dWellcrS will.
give up cheerfully for the college if
the hens are persuaded to do their
duty.
An Iceboro man on his way down the
Kennebcc to Bath recently, discovered
a strange object swimming in the river.
Upon further investigation it proved
to be young pig, which he rescued
from watery grave At present
writing the pig is doing well, none the
worse for its bath in the cold river
waters.
James. Joseph. Hugh and John Riley
of Richmond were at home last week,
the first time that the brothers have
been together for several years. The
first two are members of the crew of
a large private yacht and the other
two are employed at Windsor, VT.
1t is hard to believe that moose are
so seldom seen in York county, but
the Portsmouth Chronicle states that
a moose hanging in front of an Eliot
meat shop was sufficient excuse to
stop the cars so that all the passengers
could rubber
+. F. Palmer of Syracuse, n. Y, one
of the pitchers of the Syracuse league
baseball team, is in Bangor fer a few
days, visiting F. H. Thompson of this |
city, formerly of Syracuse. Mr. Palm |
er expects to visit Dover, MoOsehead |
Lake and other points of interest in
Maine before his return to New York. |
S. C. Whitney of Harrison has a hog
of monstrous size at his stable. 1t is !
estimated by some that it will weigh |
one thousand pounds. 1t is quite a |
curiosity, his hogship receives many
callers daily.
Calais and st. Stephen horscmen
have obtained permission from the st. |
Stephen town council to convert the |
Eastern end of Queen street into a |
winter speedway and have already |
raised 5000 to keep it in order. The |
roadway will be widened SO as to per- |
nit of three or four horses coming up |
abreast, classes will be formed, the |
course kept in good condition, and q |
lot of interesting matinee races are an |
ticipated
Capt. A. A. Daley is moving his |
hoop shaving plant from Burnham to |
He had intended locating |
in Belfast, but was unable to secure a |
suitable building He has some large |
The machine used was in |
vented by Capt. Daley. who was sew
eral years in perfecting it. He had
had experience in shaving hoops by |
hand when a resident of SearsmOnt.
Josiah F. Boardman of Camden has |
reached the age of 9o years. Mr.. |
great grandfather Joseph |
was member OF the ia |
nous Boston tea-party' in Dec. 16, |
1878 At one time he was the largest |
owner of Dark Harbor and Boardman's |
Point and is now buried in that place. |
At the Pettengill school. at Rumford |
the three upper classes have been or
into a municipality. under the |
supervision OIL the prlnclpdl OF the |
building, Edgar Callahan, and the pu-
pills take great interest in the carrying |
out of all the formalities connected !
with municipal government. A mayor |
has been elected each day. a consti- |
tuition has been darwin up, and is to be |
printed. 1t is said that a news sheet |
will be connected with the scheme A
Judge of the municipal court judges
daily. and the court room is place of
ndent-Reporter-The Bidde-
ford Journal remarks: Skowhegan is
laying claim to being the second larg-
est town in population in Maine and is
considering becoming city. 1t is gen
orally supposed that Brunswick is our
largest town, but this is a mistake.
Sanford in York county, is the largest
and SmartcSt town in Maine, but San
ford knows enough not to want city
charter. Evidently the Journal does
not think city charter is a good
thing. Give us the reasons. Journal.
Dexter Gazette: The latest story
of frost defying vegetation complete