Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-17
Maine Gossip

y M.!9s Gossip {
| Attend to Business.
Poets Oft apostrophize
| Other men.
/ address my earnest cries
| to the hen.
Eggs are rising, day by day,
| Dealers vow.
| If YOU have an egg to lay
DO 1T NOW.
-Pittsburg Post.
| The Portland friends OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis R. Spaulding MARY
| Evans) will be sorry to learn of the
| death of their 15-year-old son Francis
at Vevey, Switzerland. The young
| man was a grandson of the late
| George r. and Katherine O. Evans of
| Portland.
| Forty years ago the late Nathaniel
| Lufkin of Walnut Hill found hand
| some pear shaped pearl in Teddy
|
| time ago he gave it to M. n. Royal of
| Mechanic Falls who recently had it
set in a ring which he gave to his
daughter, Miss Roselle Royal, on her
| birthday.
Thomas Pencil of Cathance who
recently celebrated his 9th birthday
was prominently identified with the
! shipbuilding industry of the State for
many years. He was employed at the
| kittery Navy yard during the War of
| the Rebellion and helped to build
| man vessels at that time.
Madison people are proud of their
| library and are adding to it's beauty
and usefulness every day. The rooms
We're open 25 days during the last
| month and in that time 1887 books
We're loaned. During the same length
of time in November of last year, the
| number of books loaned was 1899
William G. Hunton who was recent
ly elected president of the Maine State
Dairymen's Association, has an
| nounced his candidacy for the office
| of State Grange lecturer. Mr. Hun
ton is distant relative of the late
Jonathan G. Hunton. governor OF
Maine in 1880. He was born on the
farm which he occupies in 1852. He
fitted for college at the Maine Wes-
leyan seminary, Kent's Hill. and en-
tered Bowdoin College, graduating in
1870 He taught school in New York
for year and returned to Maine to
study law with Judge Bean of Read
field. Admission to the bar followed
in 1878, and for a season he practiced
law in Kansas. In 1880 he returned
to Maine to take up farming. Two
years later he was married to Miss
Elizabeth Mills of Augusta and since
the Hunton home has been in this
town. From 1896 to 1899 Mr.. Hun
ton was a member of the State Board
of Agriculture. and for the past Is
years has been popular institute
speaker on dairy topics. He has been
active in grange work and is master
of the Readfield Grange He is also
chairman of the Board of Selectmen
and president of the kennebec Valley
Contrasting Association.
Maine hunters have found wild cats
very numerous this season, Perley
Worster of Prentiss has a huge cat
which he recently caught in trap. 1t
measured six feet from tip to tip. Resi-
dents of DiXmont have been shivering
at the sounds made by a bob cat and
also saying things because of the de-
structlon of sheep and poultry by the
same animal. A short time ago Clyde
Holmes met the biggest cat he had ever
heard of and after getting some help,
started to trail the beast. 1t was dis
covered in its den which was strewn
with bones of sheep and calves. When
it came out to find who was making a
call it was promptly shot. Old residents
say that it was the biggest and ugliest
bob cat ever seen in that part of the
country.
Lloyd G. Palmer of the National
Home at Togus is passing several days
at his birthplace in Palmyra. Mr. Pal
mer says that of the q men that
cross the threshold of the Gale
schoolhouse at Palmyra TO go to the
defence of the country, only three are
left, Eli Hail. manager of the Soldiers
Home in Massachusetts; John Fair
brother and Mr.. Palmer, who is Y
years old.
A large deer shot in Orland by Harry
Slower of Bucksport had a strap
around its neck on which was a tag
bearing the name of A. D. Gray, Carl
bou. Mr.. Gray heard Of the shooting
and Mr.. Slower has received a letter
| from him reoueStiner the return Of tho
strap and tag. He says that his daugh-
| ter had the deer when it was a fawn
| and made a pet of it. The last time
| they saw it was on July r. 1907.
The total gross tonnage of the II
Bath built vessels documented at the
custom house this year is 10,43s. The
| tonnage of the Wyoming, the largest
| sailing vessel in the world to be
launched very soon. is 3,73O.54.
Master Lester Crane of Whiting is