Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-24


was 9s cents for each ton. At that
rate it seems impracticable to talk
about transporting freight for 81 per
ton.
J Maine Gossip n
w.
The Better Way.
Just you learn to say no,
Young man, and then
You won't always be saying
Never again"
kansas City Journal.
Campmeeting time!
Fire inquests are the order of the
day.
All the fairs announce first-class
racing cards.
Bangor seems to be having quite an
epidemic of deaths by accident.
Reports from every part of Maine
indicate better than average crops.
The Togus veterans are having the
time of their lives at Bangor today.
Belfast is very much in favor Of
getting that electric road at once.
The Maine farmer has only pity for
the summer visitor who wonders how
Maine people live here in winter.
Maine green corn and Maine pota-
toes are of such high standard that
few states claim to be able to COM
pete.
The annual report Of the Portland
railroad shows that that company
has done more business this year
than last.
Apple thieves are abroad and they
do not hesitate to destroy more than
they carry away Trees that are rified
this year will bear again in 1910 il
they are not torn up by the roots.
Portland joy riders abandoned the
automobile in the heart of the city. !
That is some comfort. In most cases
the smash occurs so far out of town |
that it costs pretty penny to get the
machine back to civilization.
One Fred James" is wanted at Au-
burn for the larceny of a COW. AS it |
is difficult to conceal this sort OF
portable property there is doubt that |
don't get the thief.
A e-year-old Portland boy who |
was at Old orchard Sunday, stayed |
on the train and finally reached Lewis
ton. 1t was an exciting experience |
for the boy and still more exciting for
his parents.
Moses Briggs of Winthrop Centre |
was born in this town December rs, |
1913, and is consequently 95 years and |
7 months old He has lived in town |
all his life, with the exception of a few
years spent in st. Adams. He was a |
blacksmith by trade, a lifelong men,
Der of the society of Friends, has been |
twice married and the father of four |
children, three of them living.
Rumford Falls Times: One of the |
local story tellers tells the latest as to |
back sliding, but not pertaining to
creeds or platforms. Last Sunday |
near the Swift River bridge, party |
of bathers had two horses in the river
and were using them as RATS to dive
from. One man mounted a horse and |
proclaimed that he was a backslider
and Immediately slid over the horses |
tail into the water.
This year Calais the Border City of |
the State is to entertain the Forty
first Annual Convention of the Inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL Sunday school Con-
vention, October 10, IA and Is, and |
plans are well under way for enter |
tanning of delegates and Chairman W. |
A. Murchie with his corps OF helpers |
will spare no effort to provide for the |
comfort of delegates
Bangor News: At meeting at |
tended by the management of the Milo |
Driving park, on Thursday evening. |
together with number of interested |
citizens, made up of representative |
farmers, movement was started ID !
awaken public interest in revival of
the old time cattle show and fair, |
which used to be known as the East |
ern Piscataquis Cattle Show and |
Fair
Among the early settlers of Win
throp were John Chandler and John
Cole who were at the village proper,
and a family by the name Of Esty at
East Winthrop. In each of these fami-
lies there were fifteen children, so that
a school of forty-five pupils could
have been made up of these three
families alone. Not one person bear
ing the names of Chandler, Cole or
Esty is now living in the town, and, so
far as the writer knows, not a de-
scendant of the last two is an inhabi
tant.-Communication in Winthrop