Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-21

COt. JcIitt v. WflIe, odPt' $1,000 -
Clok and other officers of the Portland
Artillery District inspected Fort Pop
ham at the mouth of the Kennebec
Tuesday.
The consolidation of the Oakland Ma
tiOlal and the Gardiner National banks
of Gardiner marks the passing OF TWO
of the oldest banks in Maine. me new
institution will be known as the Ma
tional Bank of Gardiner
Cyrus Decker Winter of Kents' Hill
picked ripe strawberry in his garden
Sunday.
A SacO man furnishes Il fish story
which is fairly good for this time OF
year He claims to have caught four
smelts on one hook.
Leon GOldin, who was reported killed
Friday by being run over by a tram
running between Dexter and Gullford,
arrived at Dexter late Saturday even
ing and registered at the Exchange no
tel. Mr., Goldin is employed by the
Union Supply Co. of Portland. Inc
body thought to be that of Goldin mas
not been identified.
Will Vinton of Saco. while over
hauling the ballast in boat of which
he had charge, found badly discolored
ring. He showed it to a ieweller who
promptly offered him $500 for it as the
stone is a Ine diamond. The ring is
the property of the boat owner and
will be returned to him
j. F. Wilson, former resident Of
Belfast, is successful merchant at
Fort Collins, Colo. When in Belfast
he was in the furniture business, but
in the West he took up clothing and
haberdashery and has been unusually
successful.
Just to what extent automobile
lamps can be used to lack" game is
not clear. Certain it is that a resi-
dent of Old Town recently had good
luck. He was driving in Greenfield
when a moose attracted by the light
charged the machine. A couple of
shots from a rifle cleared the road and
yielded the driver his first moose for
the season.
one pleasant feature of the Maine
Teachers Association in Lewiston will
be the reunion of the graduates and
students of the Castine Normal School.
Bath Times. Here's a practical tenn
perance sernon:-"Tm tired of loaf
ing" said a Bath workingm2n to Il
Times man "Wednesday, and of drink
ing. While you've got a dollar in your
pocket, or pint on your hip, you're a
good fellow along the wharves, but
when you have spent the last dollar
and they've taken your last nip, it's
90 for you. I'm sick Of the game. Its
work for mine
George w. Patten of South Brewer
has just completed a unique vacation
on board the schooner Gov. Powers,
during which he made a trip from Bos-
ten to Baltimore and return. Mr.. Pat
ten says that the Gov. Powers was just
So hours in sailing from Matinicus to
Cape Henry and While she is supposed
to be a vessel rather than an airship,
there We're certainly times during that
strenuous voyage when the vessel APP
peared to barely touch the water. so
fast did she tear along through the ele-
ments, urged by q gale Of wind and
with an abundance of rain beating
down the waves. Mr.. Patten declares
that he wasn't seasici on the whole
trip. in spite of the rough weather and
that he enjoyed every minute of it.
The boys are beginning to get out
the sled and the skates and the old
hockey club that has been lying up at
tic for the best part of six months and
yesterday a little South Portland boy
was seen hauling an old red sled over
the very bare ground and he seemed
to be having a good time.
That extremely useful little volume,
the Maine Register, is out and is in
process of distribution. AS usual it
contains mass of information con-
corning the State of Maine that is
found nowhere else 1t is more COM
plete than ever before and thorough
ly up-to- date.
Michael F. Hanly who is dead at
Biddeford was the oldest member OF
the Knox County Bar he having been
admitted to practice GO years ago. He
was born in Appleton in 1922.
Rockland Courier Gazette: II q
fragrance of lemon blossoms. which
is not unlike that of lilies of the val
ley, has permeated the editorial rooms
the past few days. The blossoms
came from a tree which tiourishes in
the home of Mrs. Maggie Simmons,
James street This tree also contains
some immature fruit 1t has a tropi-
cal rival in the form of an orange
tree, which does some excellent stunts.
Pressure Isle has had it's first snow
furry for 19O9-1O
Col Frederick Robe, the venerable
former governor of Maine has started
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