Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-25
City Journal.


Fred Stevens of Fairfield has freak
deer which is attracting lots OF atten-
ton. 1t has only one horn and that Is
curled up precisely like goats norm.
BY the explosion of big bank at
the Grand Trunk in Portland recently
something like $4,000 gallons OF 1resh
water went into the ocean in rush.
Master Farrias Stuber OF Gardner
picked some buttercups in the held on
Sunday after the snow storm. Llttle
Miss Ella Foss of Troy has presented
several branches of pussy willow 70
her friends as a result of a TRIP
through the woods.
The youngsters of Houlton are pc
wailing the arrival of a rain storm
which has effectually destroyed the
skating. Winter has really arrived in
that part of the State.
The Jonesport correspondent OF the
Bangor News says: We noticed in
recent issue of Bangor paper, that a
man in Lakewood, Me- has pullet
Matched in March, which has just
brought forth flock Of chickens. we
would have the Lakewood man know
that there are pullets down on the
coast that don't believe in race suicide,
either. The correspondent OF TINS
paper has a flock of chickens, Matched
in April; the pullets laid in August,
and one of the pullets stole her nest
away and Matched out brood of
chickens more than month ago.
When the doors of the Bradford
spar shop on Commercial street in
Portland are closed on Saturday night
one of the Oldest concerns on the street
will go out of business. Three gen.
erations of the family have made
spars since the first of the business
was started in 1921 The shop was the
one now to be vacated and old John
E. Bradford was the first of the fam
| lily to take up the work. The building
was taken down in 1873 from the foot
of Center street and set in it's present
| location.
About the size of a baseball and half
as thick is a watch which is the prop
erty OF Captain John G. Bartlett of
Kennebunk. 1t is finely designed on
the silver case and has an attachment
| for striking the hour. Captain Bart
| lett brought the watch in a Chinese
pawn shop on the island of Sumatra
| in 1856. 1t was made in London in
1926, specially designed for a powerful
Battak chief as a reward for certain
| valuable concessions granted. The
numerals. The watch is in good con-
dition.
Saco people are not in the least dis
turbed by the slight snowfall Of this
week and say that flowers are in
bloom as yet out of doors. Mrs. Will
liam Spofford of that city has large
bunch of pansies which she picked on
Monday and there will be more in
few days. Miss Annie Bowers Of the
same city is showing some particularly
large pansies and youngsters living
just outside the city gathered several
branches of golden rod recently.
Youn gsters in the Northern part of
the State have been busy gathering
the cold evenings. Up in Parkhurst
and on tine hard wood ridges it is est
mated thaat the yield this fall was at
least % bushels to the acre.
One of tine coming naturalists of the
future is Robert Woodwork of Bow
doinham wlnt is deeply interested in
bird and wood lore Master Rob has
two tame squirrels and has obtained
number of skunk skins which he pre-.
pared and sold Through the summer
he found NUMBER of new varieties OF
butterflies and has been active Ill pro-
curing 800 brown+tail moth nests. An
unusual companion of this naturalist
in his woodland jan nts is the big yell
low hunting cat 'Ttd, who has been
trained to assist in c;}tching butterflies
and birds "ithout inj1 lrinG them. This
cat has been in the family since its
days of early kittenhHd and takes as
great an interest in the nature work as
does his master.
The loss Of the school Ter Elizabeth
Arcularius brings to the T. lind the fact
that she was built in South Thomaston
and was an old timer. 81 was the
last of a big feet of vessels built there
to go to the bottom of the sa I and was
built in 1852.
Fort Fairfield folks say that the
great majority of 80 year old men can
not lift the load which ThoT.1as Fl.
Hoyt of that place handles. Mr.. Hoyt
is 81 years of age but takes Il back
seat for no person and just now h9 WIS.,
Using relatives in Corinna for some
time.
A Caribou letter says: Before the
snow storm Saturday one might wen
think the farm of r. H. Tozier, Few
miles from the village, was located in
some tropical country. for on all sides
blossoms of different kinds were to be
observed Dandelion and strawberry
blossoms in the fields, while in TIE