Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-19

echoes with their shrill honKs
Charles w. Moves of the Castine VII
lage Improvement society announces
that he has discovered data indicating
that the town was settled in 1911 in
stead of in 1926, as commonly given
in histories, thus making Castine 'ne
second Oldest settlement in the coul-
try.
These who have farm land in the
vicinity of Eastport, are busy HAUL
ing fish heads and refuse from the
canning factories and using II lor Ter
tilizer. Cape Elizabeth farmers 40 not
have fish to use and so they gamer
great piles of seaWeed and KEEP anu
lust now are covering their pioushcu
land with 1t.
Friends of Police Officer Phillips OF
Bangor are admirng fox skin which
is a trophy of the genial offlcer re-
cent vacation in the woods Mr. Pnll-
lips says that he saw the FOX CHASING
a rabbit and he Immediately gave the
sly chap Wnack on the nose win d
stick stunning him, and then dlspatcf-
ed him in short order.
A story comes from SpringVale to
the effect that "Houdini' the much
advertised handcuff king and lock
manipulation is now busy earning $50
a week in a local shoe factory. 1t is
reported that Houdini gets more out
of the 500 for himself than he got out
of the $1,000 he was advertised to get
when playing on the vaudeville cir
cult.
Up at Waldo station near Belfast.
there is an up-to-date poultry farm
and an energetic young man is busy
taking care of his pet "biddies.' F.
Ray Neal has a colony of aristocTats
numbering something like $50 and
they live on cream and all good things.
The dainty birds have fields of clover
and fine yards to roam in and their
owner expects that they will call for
| Roman baths and wireless station
soon.''
| An Ash street, Lewiston, merchant
| Has UlSCON eFeu lHdl liSHl VII NeAAi'
will leak sometimes and that buying
| sugar in 100-pOund lots is not always
economical. The other day this deal
| err started out with these necessities
| for his suburban home and in the ride
| to the farm they got mixed in the wa
| gon. He is now trying to decide
whether to offer the "Kero-Sugar' as
| the fastest kind of cough medicine or
| to sell it for light confectionery.
| William D. Buck of Portland was
handed a pocketbook with a number
of valuable papers and tickets recent
| ly, the articles were stolen from his
| pocket on the evening of September
90 together with some money. The pa
pers and book We're found by man
who was clearing up a yard and We're
probably thrown there by the thief.
A. check and pocketbook were also
found nearby, the check being one lost
by Portland man on the same even
| ing Mr. Buck was robbed.
| It is reported that Commander Rob-
ert Z. Peary is negotiating for the
purchase of the schooner Polly, the
oldest vessel afoat The Polly was
built in Amesbury Mass, in 1908. max
| ing her nearly 105 years of age. She
was at first sloop-rigged, and went
through the Civil War as privateer.
She is 45 tons net, 81 feet long with
| 13-fOot beam, and has been rebuilt
several times. She appears to be
staunch craft and withstands the on
slaughtS of the seas as well and ably
as ever. The story originated in Ban
gor and nothing is said about the use
to which Commander Peary would put
her.
| 1t has developed that Capt. Marcus
A. Hanna of South Portland was the
youngest man ever appointed to care
| for light on the Maine coast. Capt.
Hanna was just getting settled down
after over four years service in the
Civil War when he was appointed
keeper of Pemaquid light at the age
of 26 years, and not quite four years
later, or when he was 80 years old,
Twas promoted and transferred to the
Cape lights. taking charge March 4.
I1S73 He also had the distinction OF
|
years., as any of his predecessors and
the longest term of any keeper except
that of Capt. Leander White, his direct
successor, who added two years to
Capt Hanna's long term as keeper
| There will be a total eclipse of the
moon, visible generally throughout the
United States on the morning of Nov.
q. The moon will enter the earth's
shadow from the southwest at 232 A.
NJ. and totally will begin at 3,34. The
total eclipse will last till 4.56 with the
middle of the eclipse at Ais. The
moon leaves the shadow at $50 and
the eclipse is over. During the year
1910 there will be four eclipses, two
of the sun and two of the moon. The
| eclipses of the sun are not visible
here, but both eclipses of the moon are
visible which will be total ecipses;
the first March 80 and "a, and the sec
ond Nov. IT,
Maine moose like it's people, like ap-
pies and Mrs. Stackpole of Surry was
treated to visit from big fellow re-