Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-20

Chicago News.
The new wharf which the Canadian
government has had build at campo
belle, N. B., is now all completed and
the Passamaquoddy Steam ferry
makes her regular landings at that
place.
The edict has gone forth that unless
the races at Newport track pay better
the land will be transformed INTO po-
tato patch and the grand stand INTO
potato house.
The purpose of the Maine CONFER
ence of Charities and Corrections Is
largely accomplished through cohVeh-
lions such as that at Bangor, When
there was an intelligent discussion OF
the conditions obtaining throughout the
country.
Maurice Tasker of North Bradford
has harvested 700 bushels of potatoes
from two acres of land, rather good
record for the rocky Maine farms.
The Festival paid" this year, some
thing it has not always SUCCEEDED IN
doing That shows that Maine people
appreciate a good thing if they once
get interested.
Pres. Fellows of the University OF
Maine seems to have the trustees with
him thus far.
The announcement that Bates college
has received a gift of $4,000 toward the
science building fund is of interest to
friends CT that institution. There re-
mains about $4,000 to be secured before
the college can take advantage OF Car
regies offer to give $4,000 If the college
would raise $4,000, for a science hall.
Il don't know much about this
naddling business or whether my son
was padded or not, but you tell him if
he don't go to school and BEHAVE, the
old man will do some padding, all
right" says the father of ore OF the
striking University of Maine freshmen.
More power to his good right arm.
The Bangor Company of the National
guard has a new range ard we may
expect some good marksmen to develop.
Mrs. Sarah Cram of Capitol street,
Augusta has a tree in her yard which
has yielded a quantity of Wolf River
apples. One weighed 10 ounces and all
the others are unusually large.
Three Portland boys who recently
visited Mt florist at Berlin, n. H.,
enjoyed the luxury of an October
snow storm. The boys We're without
adequate clothing, but luckily the snow
suuall soon passed. AS soon as the
air was clear they lost no time in max
ing the descent to town.
More than 20 candidates, many of
them from Massachusetts, have APP
piled for the position of superintend-
ent of the Portland schools made va
cant by the death of Supt. William II.
Brownson a few weeks ago. The only
candidate for the position
from Maine is Dr. Daniel H. Dole,
principal of the Jackson school in
Portland.
A Lewiston man aimed ar blue
iay and filled his fellow hunters scalp
full of No. shot.
A report comes from Bangor that
potatoes are rotting rapidly and that
40 per cent of the crop will be lost.
1, has practically been decided that
Franklin Simmons shall be the sculp-
tor of the statues which are to be
placed in front of Portlands new city
hall. William Pitt Fessenden is like
ly to be one subject, but there IS some
doubt as to whether Gen. Neal Dow
or Commodore Preble will be the other.
The following from the "Observant
Citizen column of the Boston Post
gives us a now idea of Maine and
Maine people: A correspondent writes
of an incident that occurred in one OF
our public schools There had been
memorial exercises for the poeL Long
fellow, and the pupils were requested
to write a composition on the subject.
This is what y0ungster of 10 turned
in: Henry w. Longfellow was the
greatest American poet. He was born
in Portland, Me, while his parents
were travelling abroad. He had the
fastest friends; among his fastest
friends We're Alice and Phebe Carey"
Reuben Williams. of West Franklin,
who recently gained considerable fame
by growing seventeen ears of corn I'M
der one husk, has just measured the
crop of potatoes which We're
grown in small garden patch near
his home and finds that he is entitled
to reward for raising the most re-
markable crop on record. One hun
dred and thirty-three brShelS were
harvested from less than a quarter of
an acre of ground. and as this tallies
up at the rate of five hundred and
thirty-two bushels or more to acre, it
is easy to estimate the possibilities,
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