Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

acre S in potatoes which he thinks will
yield close to 400 barrels to the acre.
A new club recently formed at South
Portland is composed of little misses
about s years of age who are dressing
dolls for the Chlldrens' Hospital. The
club is called the Jenny Wren CLUB,
and bnsier little girls it would be hard
to find.
A. /. Pepper. purser on the Boothbay
division of the Eastern Steamship COM
pany has earned the sobriquet of 1.-The
Ra!ncoat Man. because he carries
quite a stock of raincoats which he
lends t. grateful passengers during
stormy weather
Reports are current that Frank W.
Sandford OF the Holy Ghost and Us
sect now plans to transplant the en-
tire colony at Durham to a South
American sugar plantation.
A cat owned by Mrs. l.. B. Peary OF
Auburn recently swallowed a needle
with thread attached The accident
was not discovered until the needle
was found protruding through the cats
neck.
Few men, live TO be ninetyfour
years of age and possess their facul
ties as we'll as Roland Sylvester OF
Durham, who on the eighth day OF
October will be 81 years old. Mr.. Syl-
yester comes from a hardy and long
lived race of English people, the orig
inal Richard Sylvester coming from
England in 1850 and settling in Wey-
mouth, Mass. His grandfather, JOB
Sylvester, born in Hanover and moved
to Durham.
Living at Greene there is a man who
is a real Water Wizard" at least he
might as we'll be called that, for he has
the power of locating water by means
of a crotched stick which he holds in
his hands, as he walks over the
ground, where it is hoped to locate
water. Frederick Pollard is his name,
and he is seventy-One years of age.
He and his wife reside near the rail-
road station on the road which leads
to Sabattus. He has small farm
which he tills, and he works for other
people as well. They have no children.
Within his life he has located prob
ably over two hundred wells for peo-
pie in this vicinity, but he is not
anxious for the work, and often will
not go when asked to.
Ebert Hubbard of Roycroft fame
holds this opinion Of Maine: Maine is
one great epic poem. These Mills, VAL
leys, rocks, mountains, rivers and
streams are wonderful in their gran
deLr and beauty. l am so greatly I'M
pressed by their beauty that | should
love to lngcr among them. Why, it
almost seems to me that crime should
he Impossible amidst such environ
ments 1t is a poem and symphony
combined. Maine gives me loftier rev.
erence for nature and a higher respect
for her people. The fact is the seen
cry of Maine has broadened out the
minds of her people. 1t cannot be 9TH
erwise. The story of Aron and the
speckled RODS in connection with Ra-
well as fact. Environment is pro-na-
tai, and it's effects can be seen in the
superior men and women that are pro-
duced among Names beautiful hills
and streams"
The frierds of Captain George w.
Butler, formerly of the Signal Corps,
n. G.. S. NJ, and U. s. ", are watch
ing with interest the military career of
his youngest son, NJ. +. Butler, private
Of Co. r, Medford, of the Massachu-
sets National Guard. Co. E won the
state trophy in the regimental rifle
competition at Wakefield Private But
Ter having the second individual core.
When Private Butler was ready to fire
his last shot it was seen that he must
make a bulIseye Cor his team to win,
and following his shot, as the white
disk came up, there was much enthu-
siasm: Company e had tied the cham
picns and having made letter record
at 500 yards. captured the state trophy
and the regimental championship,
while to Co. G. went the regimental
prize. 1t was the first time in many
years that the Woburn company had
been Qe1eateu.
The first tavern in Portland of which
there is any record was kept by Rich
ard Seacomb at the foot of India street.
He was licensed to keep an ordinary
in 1851. The following year he was
lined 80 shillings for selling liquor to
Indians. The first tavern after the
settlement Of the town was kept by
Benjamin Ingersoll in 172S on the
west side of Exchange street About
1740 Joshua Freeman kept a tavern on
the north corner of Middle and EX-
change streets in a house of two sto-
ries. A famous tavern in the days of
the Revolution was that kept by John
Marston in Monument square on the
site now occupied by the American
Express Company. 1t was to this
house that Colonel Thompson carried
Captain Mowatt a prisoner, having
seized him on Munjoy Hill. This tav-
ern was for many years after the Rev
olution the stage house, and was re-
moved to make room for the present
block nearly IS years ago.