Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-09

Any youth who may aspire
Need not, seeking wisdom higher
Study by the kitchen fire,
Like his dad.
Hitch your wogon to a star.
That's the fad
Down each road the trolley car
Runs like mad.
Progress every where you see.
Education offered free.
Nothing's like it used to be
Amt you glad.
Washington Star
Major George Blakely commander at
Fort Preble. is the youngest major IN
the United States Army.
Rockland has peach tree ten years
old which stands Is feet high and bears
juicy fruit regularly.
The men who market Maine ever
green trees for the Christmas trade are
touring Washington county buying the
crop.
Westbrook has heard that it is to
have a hammock mandatory. The
new industry will be located in the old
Dana warp mill on the Presumpscot.
A Rumford Falls blacksmith recently
made and fitted set of shoes which
tipped the scales at ten ounces, two
and one-half ounces each. They were
for a colt
Rev. Forest E. Freeze of German
went hunting in his woodshed last
week and as a result the family had
partridge for dinner.
Mrs. Horace Richards of Chesterville
went down cellar the other day and
there She found large porcupine help
ing himself from the pork barrel. Mrs.
Richards has been missing food from
her cellar for some time and now
thinks she has the clue to the thief.
"Quoddy Girl" 2.48, a gray mare we'll
dead at PASSPORT. For years the horse
has been tenderly cared for by her
owner, William Folls. She was about
80 years old.
Portland has undertaken horse rae
ing again. A meeting was held at AL
lens Corner Wednesday night to or
ganize a corporation which will build
track near Prides corner.
Charles Rogers, native of Bath is
dead at Carson City, New. Mr.. Rogers
went West early in the COS and was
pioneer of the period. In 1886 he made
fortune in mining venture, but 1t
had disappeared
Lewiston Journal.-D. j. Callahan,
perintendent of schools, this week, has
held many public offices in the gift of
the city, but it is singular fact that
this is the first time he has been given
a salaried position. He was for many
years on the school board and there are
few men in the city, who have kept in
closer touch with school affairs in the
past % years than he.
Horace F. Milliken, of Fort Bragg,
Mendocino county, Cal. is in Ellsworth
1Of q WISH TO scenes Oh Ills DOyilOOu MI d.
Milliken is a native of North Bend,
Surry, a son of the late Horatio MILL
ken. He left Maine for California thir-
! ty-tive years ago, and this is his first
visit East. He will spend few weeks
in Maine. visiting a brother in Aroos-
took county, and his aged mother, who
is now living at Indian River, Wash
ington county.
Mrs. Margaret M. Brandt of Angus
ia, who is 81 years of age, remembers,
as few of the remarkable experiences
of her father, Capt Joseph Jackson,
that he was once captured by pirates
when three days out of Havana, bay
onet run through his thigh and a
sword broken off on his breast bone,
the sword afterward being exhibited in
the Boston museum. Mrs. Brandt was
born in South Pittston and moved to
Gardiner, where she worked in the old
cotton mill, then in charge of Robert
Thompson The plant was not very
prosperous and Mrs. Brandt is the last
survivor of a group of operatives that
joiner together and placed an attach
ment on the water wheel in order to
force the payment of three months
back wages. a process through which
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