Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

we KIN take courage from the nell,
An make our profits double;
We must dig all the harder when
We're weighted down with trouble.
We've got to scratch an scratch away.
The hens good example:
Twill drown the sorrows of the day.,
An bring a Twin ample.
Washington Star
In the Maine college league they are
now getting down to business in the
pennant race.
At the Rangleys they have set for
ward to June l their predictions about
the breaking up of the ice.
Nobody is more anxious for the
building of that long promised Ma
sonic Temple in Portland than the
hundreds of delegates from all over
Maine who are packed into the pres
ent hall each May.
The West Boothbay Harbor Cor
respondent of the Boothbay Register
tells this: wood Slower while out
fishing heard the cry of a loon, and
every time he heard it saw fish
jump out of the water At last he
pulled in big fish with a looms head
sticking out from him. Truth is
stranger than felton,
According to an official of the BAN
gur & Aroostook railroad, large
amount of lumber will be shipped from
Aroostook county points to New York
via the great terminals at Stockton
Springs. He says the decline in the
lumber business at Stockton was due
to the poor condition of the New York
market, as Boston lumber is not ship
ped that way.
Youths Companion: Last summer a
typical down-easter furnished a New
York author. who had cottage in a
Maine village. with farm produce.
One day when the man called with a
wagonload of vegetables, the author,
wishing to make himself agreeable,
asked how much stock he kept on his
farm Five cows an a BULL emu
meratcd the farmer, Ind two Jokes
OF oxen. a calf. boss, an three shares
of Maine Central"
4. II. Greedy. the veteran Ellsworth
horseman, doubled up on his annual
spring sleigh-ride wager this year. The
terms of the standing wager are that
he will have a sleigh-ride after April
|. the condition being that there must
be snow enough for him to drive down
Main street at a three minute clip
or better. Mr.. Greedy had his April
sieighride this year on April 4, and
then ne WaSered that he would have
another on the same terms before
summer. He had it Saturday morn
| ing, May /. coming down Main street
at a $50 clip.
Talk Of the Sarah Ware murder
mystery which was the theme of so
many sensational newspaper articles,
not long ago, is revived at Ellsworth
by the finding of a skull supposed to
be that of the murdered woman. The
skull was taken to Ellsworth for use
at the trial. and it is understood was
left at the Hancock house. where it
remained for some time and finally
disappeared. The place where the
skull was found is only a few rods
from where ashes and waste from the
hotel are thrown.
The Great Northern Paper Co, is
| making another move in it's method
| of driving logs on the west branch of
| the Penobscot river. 1t is constructing
| hugh sluice several thousand feet
| in length from its dam on the west
branch at the mills. to point about
two thousand yards below the mill
| on Millinocket stream. In the future
all logs intended for below Millinocket,
will be sent through this sluice into
| the stream and from there driven in
| to Shad pond. Here the logs will be
turned over to the P. L. D., the old
log driving company, which takes them
from that point to their destination,
| the Bangor BOOM This change will
| obviate driving over Grand Falls and
will make great saving in water. It
| is estimated that the logs can be han
died in this way one-tenth the water
| it requires to put the drive over Grand
| Falls. The time occupied, too, will
| be less.
People who speak of the month of
April just closed as "the coolest ever"
have short memories. April this year
was decidedly warm beside April of
| 1874. Mrs. A. F. Greedy, of Ellsworth.
who has kept a record of temperatures
for many years. taking 1t three times
DAILY A. NJ, IL NJ. and P. M.-fur-
nishes figures Of the A. M. temperature
for april 1874. and April 1909, which