Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-31
Maine Gossip
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Different Ways.
Some grin and bear their woes;
| Make little din
And some Um one of those)-
| Omit the grin.
Kansas City Journl
Simpson will now proceed to reap
his golden harvest.
Lieut. Wentworth is among the win
ners.
The National Guard goes into camp
next week and the regulars within the
State go with them.
Baby farms have always been UNI
savory places and that in Portland is
keeping the average down.
Wilton is going to have a new pas
senger station and several other i'm
provements to railroad property.
The refusal of pardons for Or" and
Mrs. Paul Castor meets with the hearty
approval of those familiar with the
| case.
Abner Dunton of Hope, one of the
oldest members of the Grange will be
102 years old Sunday, Aug. l.
| Fort Fairfield fears that a deliberate
attempt is being made to blow up a
large mill with dynamite.
| West Rockport reports horse which
kneels when his check rein would pre-
vent him from procuring his food in
the ordinary manner.
| An object lesson in what Maine does
not have is a bunch of sage brush,
hanging in the office of D. E. Dinsmore
| of Foxcroft
We again have the rumor that Pres.
futile of the Boston s. Maine is to give
way to Pres. Mellen of the New Haven.
Maine is, or should be, deeply inter-
estcd.
Norway has currant bush that
grows in the forks of tree, twenty
feet above the sidewalk. 1t beers
currants in season just as other cur
rant bushes do.
Mrs. Alice Barney of Washington,
a summer visitor at Bar Harbor, has
attained some distinction as an anna
teur painter.
Esther j. White of Bath and Hazel
L. White of Topsham recently took
motor boat from New Meadows to
Potts Point, Harpswell, a distance of
20 miles The trip proved quite an ad-
venture.
Joseph Leman Vondel of Boston,
who spends his summers at Pemaquid
Harbor in the town Of Bristol, rec
ommends that the name of the town
be changed to Pemaquid. He is writ
ing "Pemaquid and PentagOet," his
tory of the district.
Augusta, owns the brown trotting mare
Theresa 225A by Nelson 200 dam
Lady dam of Van Helmont 2.19h) by
Gen. Knox: second dam by Garabald;
by Old Drew. Mr.. Elwell has bred this
mare to Lanyard, by Lancelot. the
black stallion in Howard Smalfs
stable here in Augusta. owned by F.
r. Wellman of Augusta.
Hon. George NJ Warren of Castine is
dead. He was county attorney for
Hancock county for several years; was
representative to the Legislature and
had been a member of the governor s
council twice and was one of the au-
ditors for the State for several years.
He was collector of customs for the
district of Castine from 1890 to 1884.
and from 1898 to 1906, three terms.
Charles A. Hooker of Bath, who re-
Gently disposed of his grain mill in that
city had been in business "A years. He
is native of Gardiner, and veteran
of the Civil War. In 1875, in company
with f. H. Jewett. now of TOLEDO.
Ohio, VINO will visit Bath this sum
mer, Mr.. Hooker started the grist mill
and grain business, which he has con-
tinued ever since, until last week. when
he sold out to Mr.. Trufent. Not only
did they start a grist mill but they
commenced to plane ship knees, which
Mr. Hooker has done on large scale
ever since.
Portland Advertiser: A COW belong
ing to William Ross. was run over, and
killed by large touring automobile,
on the Rangeley road about a mile
above Phillips. Sunday. The chauf-
feur was a woman, and the COW was
trotting along the road before the car
arrived. then it was under the, works
of the car which was not seriously in