Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-26

ducks belonging to one of the residents
of the town returned to their pen one
day this week after being up stream"
all summer.
The art of "swapping'' seems to be
inbred in the boys of the present age
and poor old billy goat in Bingham
wishes that they would forget about it..
Billy has been traded from one young
ster 10 another so RAPIDLY that It is
most impossible to know who really
owns him. AS his hair is most worn
off and a terrified look is taking the
place of the usually placid expression
the parents are hoping he will soon
change owners for the last time and
have chance to dispose of tin cans
and other dainties at his leisure.
Never using tobacco and having been
active most of his years are the two
principal reasons why James p. Thorn
as of Bowdoinham is a busy>man today
despite his so odd years. Born on the
farm where he now lives, he always
was hard working man and during
his years as teacher in the country
schools he kept up his farm work and
says he is better man for it. He is a
Mason and takes deep interest in the
work of the order.
Passengers on the electric cars on
the road to Saco greatly admire the
holnnninrr
man near that city. They are roomy
and warm and are being put to a good
use after having served for many
years as electric cars on one of the
lines when the electric system OF trav-
cl was in it's infancy. Another man
nearby has summer house made from
a trailer" and except for the addi-
ton Of a little paint it is the same as
when first built.
Fred Aver of Cornish and Clayton
Sanborn of Bridgton have been fish
ing at Woods Pond and in catch of
II beauties there was pickerel
nearly five pounds and meas
urng just two and one half feet in
length.
Elder Hiram Mains of South Port
land is a banner man as regards oddi
ties in his garden. This season he har-
vested several varities of melons and
had several hills of peanuts. He has
been very successful for years in
raising the last mentioned and says
that it only takes little care and pa
thence.
A Kittery boy got a whipping in
school a few days since and was in
clined to put up fight. The girl fin
ishcd her work and then told the lad
that she went out, at teachers bid
ding when child, to get a whip to
punish herself with. She got a long
birch tree, and incidently the worst
whipping a child ever had. 1t taught
the boy lesson to be good in the flu
ture and also to do as he is told.
There is one woman in the State of
Maine who is patriotic enough to suit
She is member of Esancy
Post, w. r. c. of Appleton and al
though she is 90 years old, she walks
three miles TO attend the meetings.
youngest being 81
Portland Augusta country lad tried
to mail letter in a fire alarm box yes
terday noon, as they do every once in
a while. This time it was box Ais, but
the man was cautioned not to pull the
hook, in his efforts to do something.
Then he got on to himself and put
his letter in the right box
If the gu spar buoys along the coast
of Maine were laid in a straight line
thty would cover many miles. Stood up
into tall shaft they would be higher
than Mount Mckinley by a mile and
five times as high as Mount Washing
ton. There is only one kind of buoy
on the coast which can be seen at
night, that is the gas buoy and only
two are useG, one is off the coast near
the entrance to Stockton harbOr and
the other is over Witch rock off the
entrance to Portland harbor. Maine
has 1900 miles of coast line and 1874
buoys of various shapes and sizes are
used to protect vessels
The late "Uncle'' Scion Chase was
born on the old homestead where he
made his lifelong home at Turner. He
was a quaint and kindly old man and
had hosts of friends among the old ana
young alike. He was an ardent poll
tician and it is well remembered how
during campaign times in the COS, he
hitched a pair of steers into a hayrack
and drove through the Middle West de-
livcring speeches from the rear end of
his chariot"
Searsport residents are greatly
pleased over the prospect of a public
library. Already the foundation has
been put in and the work on the super
structure will be started in a short
time.
There are some energetic men at the
National Home at Togus though most
of the veterans are getting along In
years. One old soldier who is fond of
outdoor life was chamniOn walker