Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-29
Maine Gossip
Growth of Arbitration,

Growth of Arbitration.
Who says the world is growing worse?
Who says that peace is not in sight,
When cen the pugilists converse
Instead of getting up fight?
Washington Star.
J. p. Forrest of Fort Fairfield who
is greatly interested in the accounts
of the Cook-Peary North pole expedi-
ton, says his interest in following
these explorers is enhanced by the
fact that his father, who served in the
English navy, was in one of the eX-
petitions sent out by the English gov
eminent in the futile search for Sir
John Franklin. The account of their
thrilling experiences is to him some
thing like hearing the wonderful eX-
periences of his father retold.
The Railroad and Steam Traffic
Agents Association met in annual con-
vention at Portland Monday night.
When men in that business choose tn
hold the annual convention in Maine,
it is very good sign that Maine is q
good place to visit.
Bath owners of maple trees are w""
ried because the trees in many pIa-,j
about the city show the work of the
maple borer, a BEETLE that makes his
abiding place on or within the bark of
the tree and by it's constant boring
does much harm.
Three small schooners ran into a
school of mackerel off Cape Elizabeth
Sunday and, as the Portland market
was bare of fresh fish, the fares were
easily disposed of at a high price. The
fishermen report a considerable num-
Der of big mackerel outside the light
ship but they are scattered over a
large area. With three or four cold
nights the fish will bunch up together
and it is expected that some good
hauls will be made by the METERS in
the vicinity of the lightship this week.
Frank S. Bunker and Son of Phipps-
burg will have a schooner ready to put
overheard in November
E. Milton Cutting of Andover is So
years of age and the oldest resident of
that town. Mr.. Cutting was guide
at Richardson Lake for one man on all
his trips covering a period of 40 years,
and how he is remembered every
birthday with a present of a check for
as many dollars as he is years old; his
friends think this speaks eloquently
for the mans character. His longevity
is attributed to a hardy constitution,
outdoor exercise and a simple, regular
life
Yesterday the torpedo boat destroy
err Flusser left Bath for the Charles
town Navy Yard where she will be
formally turned over to the United
States Government by her builders
the record breaker of the entire Navy.
The Reid crew Will go on the Flusser,
returning to work the Reid.
The sidewalks at Popham Beach
have been removed and put away safe
ly On the banks until another sum-
mer The town has lost so many picc-
cs of walk there by leaving them all
winter that the last one was built in
sections and is taken away in the fall
where winter storms cannot reach it.
The largest load of potatoes ever
hauled into Houlton was received last
week from the BuzzelI farm, located
about three miles out of town, and
consisted of rs barrels or rather 80
barrels and As sacks each of barrel
ID ~x,i
ately six tons These potatoes were
owned by McCluskey Bros. and were
drawn by one pair Of horses and driven
by Andrew Fortier.
Austin +. Frisbie of Eumford has a
cane which has been handed down
from father 10 son through five gener-
atoms 1t came to his father from
John A. FriSbie, an old Whaler from
New Bedford. Mass. The cane is made
from the backbone of a whale caught
on the shores of Greenland as early as
1920. The story is that Mr.. FriSbieS
great great great grandfather was on
the voyage, and helped in the capture
of the whale, and scraped the bone
that forms the body of the cane him
carved or ground out a head for the
cane. The body now is a little bent
and may have always been So but that
is the only indication that it has great
age, as a cane. AS whales live to a
great age, the bone may be three hun
dred year Old The head is whittier
than the body, and is capable of taking
high polish. The cane has passed
through the ownership (since the first
owne) of Austin S. Frisbie who must
have come into possession of it about
the time of the Revolutionary war;
Col. Austin S. Frisbie, jr. about the
time of the second war with England;
George +. Frisbie, about the Civil war
time, and into the hands of Austin f..
Frisbie, the present owner, 1894 From
him it will go to his oldest living son
at the time of his death.
The Old Town Enterprise, which has
for many years been owned and pub
lished by G. w. Robbins, has been sold
to A. Fl. Brown, well-known Old
Town man.
The night Waterman in a BiddefOrd