Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-27

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All Brunswick is interested in a
beautiful handmade silk banner show
ing the American coat Of arms elabo-
rately woven with gold thread and
commemorating the visit of the Ameri-
can fleet to Yokohama, which is being
exhibited in a store window in that
town. 1t was sent home by j. Roy
Hennesey who is now stationed ut
Brooklyn navy yard.
Yarmouth gets into the limelight on
two counts this week. She thought she
had the missing link in the Lynn trunk
mystery and she is preparing to well
come a shoe factory from Lynn.
Mrs. Samuel Overushire of Washing
ton, D. c., who is a summer guest at
Ogunquit has received a post card
which was dropped overheard some
where between San Francisco and
Manila. picked up and mailed to her.
relative put it into a cask containing
similar messages which was dropped
into the sea.
At the Kittery Navy Yard work has
commenced on the Ajax which will
cost between $4,000 and $4,000; the
Eagle is to be repaired at cost Of
$4,000 to $4,000 and the Hist is also
to be extensively repaired
Portland had hold up in broad
daylight
A. R. Sweetser of Saco is at work
on a unique cement house. The walls
consist of panels of cement set between
ordinary studding There is but one
other like it in Maine.
Mrs. Robert Treat Whitehouse, who
was shocked severely and rendered I'M
conscious when lightning bolt struck
a telephone line in Raymond over
which she was talking, has recovered. |
She was partially paralyzed when dis
covered.
Michael Graustein of Milo, who died |
a short time ago. was the father of the |
famous Boston milk contractors, w. A. |
and A. H..GrauStein.
Bangor Commercial: F. E. Lovejoy of
Old Town has in his possession several |
pieces OF old Continental script that |
appear to be pretty rare and are at
tracing the attention of local collectors |
of rare coins and script The script was
found in an old Bible in New Hamp |
nd nv,o
is an old S. bill issued against the Wal |
do Bank of Belfast in 1886, heavy paper |
and plain on one side, the bill is we'll
preserved and perfectly legible. Sever |
al 81 pieces issued in 1776 at Philadel- |
phia and several for one-half, one
sixth and one third of dollar. all leg
BILE and engraved in the old style
scrint. The pieces are curiosities all
right but their real value is not known.
Lewiston Journal-Big clusters of
blackheart cherries picked Thursday
from the Spaulding estate, Hallowell,
prove that in one section Of the town
at least the famous Hallowell cherries
are still unrivalled for size and flavor.
In the old days these blackheart cher
res were noted thruout the State and
the greater part of them came origin
ally from CRAFTS brought to Hallowell
by Benjamin Vaughn on London where
he built the colonial home at the far
Their end of the town overlooking
Kennebec waters. Here he brought
his family to rear his children in the
broader faith and freedom of the new
world; and with him came his gar
dener and workmen and it was in the
Vaughn orchard where the gratis Of
the English cherries first came to
fruition. Now the best blackheart
cherries are those on the Spaulding
estate that at this month attain per-
lection and he who would judge their
excellence should eat and be convinced.
Among the gifts which have been re-
Gently received by the Maine Historical
Society is the cane that was carried by
Parson Thomas Smith of the First Par
ish, who was born in 1902 and died in
1875. having been over So years in the
ministry. The cane is the gift Of the
family of Hon. Thomas Laurens Smith
of Windham. A mortar and pestle left
| in the house of Abel Rogers of Castine
by the British after the War Of 1872,
| and a piece of the keel of the British
transport st. Helena, sunk in Castine
Harbor in 1879, carved in the form of a
| book, are gifts of Mrs Susan p.
| Thompson of this city A Breaches
Bible. published in $780, piece Of the
| flag that inspired the writing of The
| Star Spangled Banner at Baltimore in
1872: a piece of the flag that flew ar
| Fort Sumpter in 1861; a fragment Of
the flag that was on the Marshall house
| when Colonel Ellsworth was shot in
1861, and the medal given Commodore
Perry for opening the ports of Japan
to the world. have been loaned the So
| ciety by George H. and Miss Susan T.
| Preble.
Ashland Gazette-A phenomenon
| seldom witnessed in fhiS looa1if,, qua