Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-18

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! Friends of Charles +. Allen OF Bar
Harbor look forward to the time when
he will come hame bearing the silver
cup which goes to the man handling
the largest amount of new business III
| the company he represents. MI. Alien
| has won it for two months and next
month plans to make it his permanent
property.
| DR.. Osler evidently missed Fryeburg
in his rounds for despite the fact that
Uncle Elias Gould has passed his 18th
birthday, he was one of the busiest of
| the harveSterS this fall and is working
hard at present cutting wood for the
winter use.
Reports from Jackman are to the eff
| feet that a white deer was shot there
recently. 1t is the prettiest animal
ever shot in the vicinity of the Penob-
scot lake.
| Some Of those young people today
who complain of being tired and all
worn out if there is any hard work to
I be done, would do we'll to take pattern
after Nathaniel Dyer of South Port
land who is well On the way toward his
| 93rd birthday and confidently expects
| to celebrate his Tooth. Mr.. Dyer was a
well known ship builder for years and
weekly visits the scene of his labors at
| the Marine Railway. He is a Mason
| and attends the meetings almost every
pleasant lodge night.
Edward Tarr OF Mapleton is a mas
| ter hand at bee keeping and has his
| many hives of busy workers so that he
goes among them with perfect conf
| dence. Mr. Tarr keeps bees as a recre-
alton and despite his years is one of
the earnest workers i'm Grangedom.
| Miss Hattie Stone of Hampton, Va,
| taught school in the town of Scarboro
for six yeals, dividing the time between
Dunstan and Pine Point. Her many
| friends in this State have planned to
send her a postcard shower for her
birthday which comes on the Goth.
big bunch of dandeliOn blossoms
as yellow and pert as in the spring
| were picked by Q. H. Elliott of Bidde-
! ford few days ago. In South Port
| land Mrs. r. p. Woodside has a full
| blown rose III her garden and it is as
attractive and fragrant as in June
| Curiosity cost two small dogs their
| lives in Portland recently where men
were engaged in tearing down the ice
house on Deakes wharf The small
CANNES Ventured into the building to
see what was going on and instead of
one side giving way as was intended,
| the entire building collapsed sending
two members of the dog tribe to the
happy land of bones in short order.
The death of Octavius A. Hill in
Portland recalls the fact mat he con-
| sidered himself to be the oldest Mason
in the State, having joined the order
| more than "a years ago. He was in
New Orleans just previous to the out
break of the Civil War and took pas
| sage North on the last boat to leave
the city before the formal declaration
| of war.
In the Savings Bank at Skowhegan
is money belonging to five persons who
| have not for 20 years made a deposit
or Withdrawn any part thereof or the
interest. The depositors, who We're
all residents Of Skowhegan 20 years
ago are Adrian Strickland. Elizabeth
+. Morton, Henry w. Richards, Her
bert S. Wiley and NJ w. Bean.
Portland Press: "The employees Of
the Maine Steamship Company about
| Franklin wharf We're considerably in
terested recently in a peculiar speci-
mon of the finny tribe that was fished
out of the dock by one of the work.
| men about the wharf. 1t was a mon
ster, weighing about 80 pounds and re-
sembled considerably our species of
| Sculpin, but some of the more know
ing ones maintained that it was a toad
hsh. One of the workmen in relating
| the incident to the reporter maintain
Iod that the animal had mouth into
| which could be tucked a peck basket. ,
| The capture of the peculiar speci-
men was effected also in a peculiar
manner, as it was found caught be-
| tween the side of the steamer and the
large fender attached to the piling of
the wharf"
Orman Smith of Milo has great rea-
son to be glad that he had a wire band
around the rim of his hat on last Sum
day afternoon when he went out for
a walk. In company with a friend he
Twas strolling near the woods when a
shot struck the wire and glanced SO
as to make wound across his fore
head. Gunners in the woods We're
shooting at a target
The report comes from Woolwich
that there will not be a single turkey
sent to market from there this season
Bath has taken care of a number of
BIRDS from that section of the State
uh'll within a few years and this fall
1t is being remarked that turkey rails
ing in the good old State of Maine is
a lost art.