Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-14

Ana Il SliolSuH always itSteu
No headlights cleaned on the ialht'
When | was the one who carried man.
The engineer sits as warm as toast
AS he perches high on his iron hoss.
But manys the time I've looked the Shost
When the norther swept the plalns
That endless. pitiless frozen plain
That whizzes past, through the Wi'do"
pane. ,,;
Denver Republican,
Portland has surrendered TO the
songsters.
Tie proceedings in the Charles W..
Morse case will be watched with more
than usual interest in Maine.
Sanford continues to keep before 'he
public by means of the blue law cases.
Miss Sadie Hutchin5 CT klnS1leld
found several blue violets OCTOBER {
and on the first day of this month MIS-.
l.. l.. Burr4ll picked strawberry dos
SONS.
Edwin +. Bearce of Auburn. grad
uate of The University of Maine IN the
class of 1905, played no small part IN
the erection of the mammoth pulp
manufacturing plant at Grand ans
| Newfoundland, in which Lord North
! clffe of England and the Anglo-New-
| foundland Development Co. nave m
vested six million dollars Mr.. Bearce
| has been at Grand Falls for the past
year and az half, and has superintended
| the erection of the immense power
house from start to finish.
The annual report of the Portland &
that the gross earnings from operation
| during the past year We're $4l,639n
against $37,67212 for the preceding year.
an increase of $3,96759, operating ex-
| penses, $37 ,220.4S against $35,96O.S' Tor
| the preceding year
Fifteen bundles of wheat harvested
from c. E. Bicknelrs five-acre lot on
| the old Thomaston road at Rockland,
attracted as much attention as any
thing in the agricultural exhibit at the
Pleasant Valley Grange fair last Week
Mr.. Bicknell raised about 200 bushels OF
wheat on this lot, and isn't AFRAID TO
compare it with any other that was
raised in Knox county.
Alonzo Mayhem, one of the pioneers
| of Whatcom county, Wash, who
short time ago died at his home there,
was a brother of the late Martin May
hew of East Machias, having been born
here. He was one of the best known
and most influential men in Whatcom
county at the time of his death, which
took place at the age of 79 years
An Old Town tailor has four legged
chicken in his window. The chicks ex-
ira legs do not grow near the normal
pedal extremities, but project from the
rear at acute angles. 1t was Matched IN
Lee.
Ar Wah, the Esquimo puppy brought
by Prof Donald Mcmillan of the Peary
expedition as a gift to his sister, Mrs.
w. c. Fogg of F'reeport, enjoys the dis
tinction of being one of the first pup
pies that has ever come from Etah, the
northernmost settlement in the world.
Ar Wah is one of litter of five pup
pies and his mother, a cream white dog
of great beauty, is at Eagle Island. Ar
Wah, who is three months old. is a
light tawney color with the head of a
wolf and his fore feet are remarkably
large and strong. He will weigh over
100 pounds when full grown and his
present weight is 90 pounds. Meat and
fish form his favorite diet and cracked
corn does not come amiss as Mr.. Fogg
found when he fed the chickens that
the little IIsquimo dog was decidedly
fond of this food. With his long fur
and wolf-like appearance. Ar Wah is
decidedly curiosity in the way of
dogs and his new mistress. Mrs. Fogg
is very much attached to this wanderer
from the Northland,
George Hamilton of Seattle, Wash, is
calling on friends of former years in
the vicinity of Houlton. Twenty five
years ago he was employed in mill at
since he went away.
Maine has deserted village" as the
result of the removal of the duty on
denaturcd alcohol 1t is the village of
Hastings near the New Hampshire line
in oxford county 1t is on the edge of a
big wilderness and now that the dwell
lingS are vacant, the SchoolhGuse and
store deserted. it is indeed desolate
place. The only inhabitants are a few
lumbermen.
Bangor Commercial.-An East Ed
dington man is bemoaning the fact that
he had loaned both of his shotguns be-
fore the arrival of the towns annual
influx of partridges He is an ardent
sportsman and as fond of a taste of
ruffed grouse as the next one, nor had
he been permitted to indulge his fond
| ness for wild biddies this season. I'M
agine his chagrin, on looking out of the
door on recent morning, to see par
| fridge cOntentedly resting itself on the
steps of the house across the way,
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