Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-28


You're talking too much"
says Parkhurst to Pankhurst:
well, that beats the Dutch"'
Chicago Tribune
Arthur T.. Little OF Boston, a native
of Portland is chairman Of the COM
mittee on arrangements for the big
convention of the American Chemical
Society which Will he held in Boston
next month.
Elmer Barker of New Vineyard has
made 1871 ,h!s fall trapping fur bearing
animals. The lot contained 10 fox, %
skunk, - mink and fodr coon skins.
Portland IS metropolitan in many re-
spects, but an auto furniture van from
Chelsea, Mass, made the older resi-
dents sit up. 1t contained the entire
household odtfit of some FAMILY getting
back to the good olG Pine Tree State.
Albion Boothby of Saco is showing a
small basket OF apples which he put in
his cellar in Sept amber 1908. Though IL
months off the trees, they are still
sound and have an excellent flavor
The Norwegian steamer Fornebo re-
Gently arrived in Portland with $3.50
tons of Cape Breton coal. 1t is an UNI
usually large cargo.
Sanford High school boys are con-
templating organizing a rifle team as
one of the members of the school cons
mttee, Myron E, Bennett has offered
10 furnish the necessary equipment.
A resident Of Harpswen who had not
visited Munjoy Hill in Portland for
over so years, lost his way on a recent
visit to that locality and was obliged
to ask aid of passerby in order to
lreach the house he was visiting. In eX-
planning his ignorance of the locality
he told of his last previous visit. which
was made when he was four years of
age at the time when ground was bro
ken for the Grand Trunk Railroad.
The splendid advantages afforded by
the Morrill, Corner section of Port
! land for industries have become more
widely known and more fully appreci-
ated year by year, until at present
| there seems to be something in the way
Of boom in store for the locality. The
| latest industry to assume tangible
| shape ere canning shops. that are t,
| ne built or site near the Boston &
Maine tracks, off to the left of Stevens
| avenue.
| Master Josiah C. Dutch of Scarsport
was assistant master-workman on the
| ive-masted schooner Gov Ames which
| was built in Waldobcro, in 1888 and
which was wrecked off Wimble shoals
! December 18TH. and the following
| Searsport chip carpenters were en-
ployed on the schooner during her con-
struction: Peter Ward, Chesley Mat
| hews, Nicholas Parse, Henry Whit
comb and Abram p Wentworth and
Wilson Carter of Belfast; ana all these
workmen considered her one of the
strongest and best built vessels ever
launched from Maine shipyard.
| Leon Flint of Norway has sold his
pet bear to people living in West Vir-
| ginia. The shipping crate bore the
words. "My name is Jennie, I have been
in captivity since I was one year old
and am quite tame. Please give me a
drink 1t was shipped by the Cana
'lian Express and needless to say will
| be taken care of.
NJ A. Trix in the Portland Press Of
fers the following regarding the foot
wear OF other days:
| While taking a tramp over one of
the roads in this vicinity one morning.
recently I wished that in place of my
shoes I had the same sort of f"otgear
that I used to wear at this season
when / was youngster-long-leg legged
cOwhide boots with copper toes.
Tucked away in a garnet out in the
country is what is left of a pair that
had when | was about II years of age.
land l always take look at them when
II am visiting there. I wonder how
many of my readers were country lads
and had the pleasure some day at the
beginning of winter of seeing a pair of
boots with copper toes awaiting them
when they came home from school.
Hw they used 10 examine them careful
lly to determine if they were Of rs good
quality as those worn for the first time
the day before by the boy sitting d.
rectly across the aisle! And how they
would give those copper toes trial by
kicking at the frozen hummocks and
the loose rocks in the road! These
Eoots were great things for little fell
llow-except when they became wet,
and then they gave him whole lot of
trouble. After they had been dried
they seemed to have been made OF wood
instead of leather, and it required
good deal Of greasing to make them
pliab1e again.
All of the food served to guest at