Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-07

Mrs. Eugene Foss of Saco plucked
full blown Jacqueminot rose from her
garden Sunday The blossom was ex-
tremely beautiful and at this time of
the year is an exceptional find.
Morgan j. Flaherty's "Jingles and
Jangles of the Maine Legislative Jun
gle is out and it is an interesting lit
tie booklet. 1t is hard to separate the
JinSles from the Jangles but both are
we'll worth reading. Mr.. Flaherty is d
well known member of the Fourth Els
tate to whom the book is dedicated.
Gov. Fernald's visit to Sanford this
evening will be gala event for the
new York metropolis.
Capt. AlVah r. Jackson OF HarpS-
well with bis motor boat was employ
ed during the summer months by DR..
Loomis and Prof Tyler and three stu
dents from Amherst College, to hunt
among the islands in Casco Fay TOR
Indian relies. In deep pie of clam
oiiSio, tiiC JollcS VI llic ttttl, HipoSc
and wolf We're found, as Well as many
queer specimens of pottery, fish spears
made Of bone, stone arrOWheads made
of flint in good shape, and a beautiful
gray stone with black spots 2R inches
in length and sharp on one SIDE said
to be called q tomaz and used by the
Indians in dressing skins and fine
work. 1t was thought that this stone
was passed in trade from chief to
chief, as none was ever seen here Ike
it, and is valuable. Capt. Jackson
found an awl like a ROSTERS spur and
pottery that had the appearance OF
having been made in basket and
then burned away. DR. 'Loomis also
gave able lectures at the South Harps-
we'll laboratory on his travels in the
far West, hunting Indian relies.
Silas Owen, baggage master on the
Kennebec division Of the Eastern
Steamship Co, is one of the veterans
in the service, there being but two,
Mate Corbin and Porter Peacock, who
have been no Longer. Ny. Owen is
completing his twenty-flrst year, and
has the same position. baggage mas
ter, during all that time, and takes
pride in saying that he has not lost
a package during that time. Mr..
Owen had been deep water sailor be-
fore coming on the boat, anG had been
around the world.
Supt. Cyrilla Labranche of the city
farm at Lewiston has peculiar po-
tato which has grown in the shape of
a calls head, with ears, eyes and nose
nearly perfect.
The Maine town fairs are great
places to see family heirlooms which
have been handed down from genera
ton to generation without suffering
wear or change. Among the curious
old pieces shown at Greene fair We're
worn by Jane Mower, 20 years ago,
a blue spread $50 years old. done by
an ancestor of Mrs. Mehitable Mower;
towel woven by one of Burgoyne's
soldiers while a captive in the Revo-
luton, a curios pitchpipe of wood used
by Solomon Jackson while chorister in
a Winthrop church in 1900 and old iron
dishes shown by Mrs. Ann L. Fogg.
Then there We're Mrs Fred b. Parker's
"pumpkin hood" old-fashioned straw
bonnet, and home-woven articles: AMI
much pewter ware belonging to "Aunt
Polly" Sawyer. A bedspread, 1875
years old, made by Mrs. Dorcase Dear
born was shown by Augusta Daggett,
who also had a hand-carved hatchel
for combing flax.
Washington Kemp. former slave,
who came North with Gen. 0. o. How
ard at the close of the war, has sold
his place in Leeds and will move to
Monmouth. The Kemp family are
famous entertainers who have travel
ed throughout New England giving
concerts.
Frederick B. Tobey picked large
bouquet of blossoms from an apple
tree on c. F. Robes farm at Mon
mouth Center Sunday. The tree was
also well covered with fruit.
Their of William H. (Farmer) McLaugh-
lin will celebrate his S7th birthday in
December He was born and has all
ways lived on the old Mclaughlin
homestead which was cleared in 1874
by William Mclaughlin who came
from Londonderry, Ireland.
D. F. Burgess of Burgess Hill, near
Rumford has a dog which has acquired
a taste for chewing tobacco. The dog
was taught to chew tobacco when he
was about six months old and has con-
tinued its use for about twelve or thir-
teen years, chewing three "cuds" every
day, and never fails to manifest his de-
sire for the stuff when by chance he is
forgotten or deprived of it.
III. Fleming of South Paris has a
book which was presented to him by
Queen Alexandra of England. The book
is Conan Doyle's "a Study in Scarlet, -
and it was presented to Corp. H. Flem-
ing, srh Co. 1st Battalion, Irish Guards,
while in the hospital at Milibank. In
1895,