Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-20


Or it's effects are nil.
| wrote this lay to help me pay
An irate grocer's bill
Kansas City Journal.
Weighing 10 pounds and as sound and
sweet as a nut, is citron which E. w.
Hardy of North Deer Isle raised in his
garden in 1908.
John Sofia Of Rockland had a cucum~
Der for dinner Monday. He found one
in his garden measuring six and one
half inches in length and two inches
through, and perfectly sound.
An old plow which has been lately
given Parkhurst Grange is made of
wood, strapped with iron and fastened
with hand-wrought nails. 1t is
thought to be at least $50 years old.
Master James Kierstead of Rumford
is proud younster and is receiving
lots of compliments on his skill with
rifle He was out in the woods a
few days ago and brought home
craftsmanship.
With an account in a recent Aroos-
took paper of snow storm in Houl-
ton and the news in Ellsworth that
climbing roses are in bloom out Of
doors, Maine folks are sure of one
thing and that is, that the weather
Is not "fxed" for the winter as yet.
The city clerk of Lewiston opened
a new book on Tuesday for registering
the names of those who have fallen
victim to little Dan Cupid and his ar
rows. The book closed on Monday
had been used constantly for eleven
years and was a big one, though the
new one is much larger.
Many interesting meetings are be-
ing held this week among old friends
and schoolmates in the Pennington
region for Mrs. Lovina Pelker of Pres
que Isle is visiting relatives ana
friends there after an absence of 30
years. She has found many changes
and having delightful time getting
acquainted over again with her school
day friends.
Orono's exhibition of the treasures
Of the town is being greatly admired
and a rare old 'Tappet-hen'' of pew
ter, a communion set of odd design and
some china tea pots with curious jade
handles are the subject of great COM
ment. There is a varied list of an
cient and modern articles and the
women folks are having the time of
their lives.
Ellsworth American: Mrs. Caro-
line Moore has a plant that certainly
is a curiosity to those who never saw
one like it. She took a flower pot
inserted a sweet potato. covered it
well with earth a short time ago, and
now has pretty plant with a num-
Der Of stalks with deep green glossy
leaves more than six inches high. It
is said that it will grow to a height
of six feet.
South Portland is getting into line
as regards the blue laws and has two
men before the courts recently for
working on their buildings on the Sab
bath day. One man sarcastically re-
marks that he supposes coal and other
dead freight might spoil if allowed to
stay in the yards over Sunday, indi-
eating that he is of the opinion that
some unnecessary work is being done
there, also.
In the "shipyard" at Georgetown are
several weather beaten and decayed
bed logs on which the keels of several
famous clippers of others days were
stretched. The site is the same one
once used by old General Joseph Berry,
an old time ship builder. The logs are
well preserved considering that more
than quarter of century has elapsed
since they We're first used
Genial Ben Littlefeld, for years the
stage driver between Rockland and
South Thomaston, was probably held
up more times in his 80 years of ser
vice than any other stage driver living.
But the one who hailed him were
friends and neighbors and he holds a
record of carrying more articles than
most any one else in Knox County.
anything from a stove to yeast cake
was cheerfully "toted" along and he
was general errand boy for everyone.
Kittery residents recall the fact that
the only other steam four-master ever
on the coast at one time hailed from
Portsmouth. She was the Wake