Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-02

throw away those wild cat stock
schemes and try Maine farms
Eden Hanks is scouting around the
circuit looking for good ones for the
Augusta speed meeting.
The Longfellow House was visited
by 1912 the past week, the largest at
tendance of the season.
Augusta wants that new electric
road to Warren, but we are not going
to stop growing until it gets here.
i Joseph Harmon of Lisbon Ridge has
1t proves that peaches can be grown in
Maine.
S. r. Haskell of Auburn is the only
one armed automobile driver in Maine.
| He is a veteran of the Civil War and
lost the other arm in the service.
DiXfield is to have new tooth pick
MILL Work has begun on mill 122
by 40 feet and it is expected that the
new enterprise will be in operation in
1910.
Oldtown has been offered an oppor-
tunity to open hardwood novelty mill.
Two gentlemen of experience in the
business. one of whom has invented
many wood novelties, are interested in
promoting the venture.
Prof. William r. Ham of Lewiston.
who was graduated from Bates in the
class of 1901. has completed post grad
uate work at Chicago University which
entities him to the degree of Doctor OF
Philosophy, Cum Laude.
| George DodwOrth of New York, who
owns a fine summer place between Bel
fast and Camden, wants $4,000 for dam
ages if the proposed electric line crosses
his property. The company believe this
sum is too much and the whole prop
osition is at a standstill
Boothbay is proud of it's tax collector.
Out of a commitment of $14,200, John
z. Kelley, the collector, has gathered
in $9,465, about SO per cent. through
| voluntary payments on the part of
| the citizens.
Miss Harriet Jones of Minot Center,
who is now 81 years of age,
was the first woman to climb Mt.
| Chi N tn n
in a single day. The trip was made
| Sept. s, 1854, in company with her
| brother.
| w. j. McDougald of Rockland. who
has been elected principal Of the Scitu-
| ate, Mass, high school, worked his way
| through Rockland High school, doing
the four year course in three years, re-
pcated the performance at BoWdolr
| and has taught at Good Will High at
| Hinckley and at Topsfield, Mass.
| Thomas c. Randall of kezar Falls
celebrated his oath birthday. Among
those in attendance were Susan Norton,
aged 96; Elias Gould, aged 50; Sarah
Pillsbury, aged 95; Sylvester Harris.
aged "a; Sarah Libby, aged 81; jon
athan Peary. aged 81; Hannah Gilpat-
rick, aged 80 and Eben Cousins aged
go. There is a sermon for the short
lived people of the cities!
Mrs. Alice Rogers Ropes) Kellogg
and her husband, Rev. Dwight Edwin
| I-nll,oo who xrora married last weel;
at Hancock Point, are under orders
from the American Board of Foreign
Missions to go to the station at Foo
chow, China. in November Mrs kei-
logg is the daughter of Prof. and Mrs
Charles ]. Ropes of Bangor Theological
Seminary and is a graduate of Bryn
Mawr. Mr.. Kellogg is graduate OF
the Seminary and will be the third
from that institution to take up work
III active foreign service.
Portland Argus-Three boys Were
exhibiting yesterday afternoon a curl
Gus blue fish they had caught off one Of
the wharves 1t was about the size
of the ordinary pollock, but it was as
blue as the sky and had three broad
stripes of a deeper blue around the
body about equally distance from each
other. Some wise men said it was q
pilot fish, that they had seen them Of
ten in the Caribbean sea, but never be-
fore in these waters. They said pi-
lot fish is supposed to go with shark
! always. Perhaps this one was the
companion and associate of that 4O
foot shark reported as being in the
harbor the other day waiting for q
nice juicy soldier to try another swim
to the islands from the city.
The Atlantic Shore Line Railway,
which serves the greater part of York
county will soon be in a position to
, transport freight and passengers from
its Cape Porpoise terminus to point:
along the Maine, New Hampshire an(
Massachusetts coasts as far as BOs-
ton. To accomplish this end, the
Southern Maine Steamship Company
has been organized. 1t is an oper
secret that the Atlantic Shore Line has
seen hard shedding and it is believed
that such expansion will result in max