Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-13

With their quilts and their frills.
Until fear our pleasure kills.
Lest they swipe us passing by
With their edges in the eye,
Leaving us as blind as bats,
Oh, those hats!
There is cold wave due today along
with the returning legislators. !
Other cities would like to know how
Portland gets up so much interest in
its Board of Trade meetings without
any banquet attachment.
Who is the Oldest real daughter.
the oldest Baptist, the oldest white rib
boner and the oldest New Englander,
low that Aunt Salome Sellers has died
at the age Of los?
The collection of brown tail moths
nests is booming industry in Port
land. The city treasurer paid out $54S
for them last Saturday
Bangor's report of the fire depart
ment for the year 1908 shows that the
loss was nearly five times as large as
for 1907. In comparison with the total
value of property involved, however,
the loss figures compare favorably.
Here is a Parkhurst item: Johnny
Argraves had a bad attack of the
toothache last week and after he had
tried a dozen remedies and got no re-
I'll, 49, ,i,vn mt Il
pinch Of cayenne pepper in his eye.
johnny did so and the tooth stopped
aching Immediately, but Fred has been
put up on the barn for a day and a
half and Johnny stands at the foot Of
the ladder with sled stake waiting
for him to come down."
In thanking the Kennebec Journal
| for the loan of the half tone pictures
of the Oxford county legislative dele
CATION the oxford County Democrat
says: "The only valid criticism these
suggest, which it may not be out of
place to mention, is that Senator Has
tings really ought to have new pic
| ture taken. While he is Still a young
| looking man, his appearance is hardly
so boyish as the portrait presented be-
low"
There is sad echo of the great
| earthquake tragedy here in Maine in
| that Portland item telling of the at
tempted suicide of an italian there
whose wife and five children were all
| lost ir. the destruction of Messina.
In Mondays issue Of the BiddefOrd
Journal there was a local item stating
| that the editor of the paper, r. F.
| Wormwood, had departed on a two
weeks business trip to Nebraska. BY
a cheerful coincidence the man who is
taking his place inserted the following
squib in the editorial column: 1T isn't
| to be presumed that every man who is
out of town just now was indicted by
the grand jury"
Stephen A. Porter of Bridgton on his
74th birthday anniversary. was kindly
| remembered by one of his neighbors
| with a slight token of friendship in
| Some plug tobacco for smoking. Sum-
| day after dinner he was cutting up one
of the plugs for a smoke, when his
knife ran across something metal.
| Thinking it was nail or piece Of tin
| which had become embedded In the
plug, he worked it out and was sur
prised to find that it was a ten dollar
gold piece. There is some suspicion
about the neighborhood, however, that
the money found it's way into the plug
after it had left the local store.
| Was the AroostoOk potato crop Of
| 1905 as large as even the conservatives
estimated it' If it was, when will the
| tremendous balance be offered for ship
mento If the farmers hold on to the
other half of the crop much longer how
are they to get it to market when they
do decide to sell? In view of the fact
that only about 100000, bushels of the
| 1908 crop grown in that country have
been shipped, potato buyers and others
are beginning to feel worried over the
| attitude of the producers. The crop is
| estimated by various we'll informed
men all the way from 1S,00O.00O bushels
| to 25.00O,090 bushels. Yet the Bangor G.
| ArOostOok railroad hauled from Aug.
to Dec. IL. 5.S11.243 bushels. an in
crease Of only G14.6SO bushels over the
haul for the same months in the great
est previous year in the history of
Aroostook potato shipping, that Of
1906. Some say As per cent. has been
shipped other estimates go to 60 per
cent If the shipments are anywhere
near the latter figure, then the county
never harvested the vast crop that
was reported in the early fall