Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-03

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When bowed at eve for BENSON,
Grant that upon the uphill way
Our passing smile has gladdened one,
On this one day.
Edna S. Valentine.
The welcome is all warm and wait
ling for those Boston merchants.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Masonic bodies will be held in Portland
this week.
1t is Acting Governor Brown for the
next two weeks and nobody questions
| that he is equal to the occasion.
Four weeks to Memorial day, and the
veterans and all others interested
which should mean everybody-are
making their plans.
| Considerable interest will be mani
fest in the trial of Charles A. Wilson
for murder to be held in Pennington
in the later part of May, because of his
daring escape from Jail, four years
having elapsed before his recapture.
| Miss IIstella Neuhaus, who gave pi-
ano recital at the White House, Wash
ington, d. c., last Thursday on invita-
ton of Mrs Taft, is former Houlton
girl and has made for herself in the
musical world name of which Maine
has reason to be proud.
Some nature faker, or perhaps plain
liar would be a better term, has i'm
posed upon western newspaper syn
dictate to the extent of column story
| about an enormous skunk farm, COW
ering nearly a whole township, in the
State of Maine There are some
skunks in Maine, it is true, but rails
ing them for profit is not yet reckoned
among even our infant industries.
| In one of the ponds at the Green lake
hatchery there have been held since
last fall some fifteen large salmon,
from four tC six or seven pounds in
| weight 1t was tine intention to send
| these to the exposition at Spokane,
Wash, but it is now getting so late
| that the shipment of these large fish in
| warm weather would probably prove
| fatal to them, and orders have been re-
ceived to release them in Green lake.
They will be put in the lake this week.
+. HI. Wilson, president of the Bruins
| wick Board of Trade, became so i'm
pressed with the recent agricultural de-
velopment in Brunswick and Topsham
and it's possibilities that he contempla-
| ted planting ten or fifteen acres of po-
| tatoes, but after taking thought of the
laborious work OF digging from 1000 to
5000 bushels he gave up the idea, and
| instead has made a contract with John
Coffin & Son for the planting of 10000
pine trees. These trees will be planted
| on the tract of land where the famous
| Pine Spring is located, Mr.. Wilson be-
lieves that the planting of pines is a
good investment.
An incident in connection with the
recent Maine Methodist Conference at
Berlin, N. H., which shows possibly a
decline in the old.fashioned religious
| intolerance, was the visit of the mem
| bers of the Conference to the beautiful
| Catholic church in that city. The invi-
| tation was given by the Catholic priest
received by the Conference, and gen.
orally accepted. The Methodist minis
tiers were deeply impressed by the
| beauty and elegance of the church,
which was erected at cost of about
$4,000 ard is considered one of the
best in New England.
| The handsome new clubhouse of the
Moosehead Lake Yacht club at kineo is
practically completed and in 10 days
time it is expected that the last of the
interior work will be done and the
building ready to turn over to it's new
owners. The exterior work was COM
pleted some time ago The fOrma
opening exercises will be held about
July l. The clubhouse is build on the
Old English lines of architecture and
cost about $4,000. The piazza which
runs around two sides is 1876 feet long
and Is feet wide. 1t is the same or
the second floor. The club has q mem
bership of $50 and includes many New
York and Philadelphia people.
In the four months just closing -four
murders have been committed ir
Maine, three of the murderers commit
ting suicide ard the fourth attempting
it, March Is. VIM. Raymond Heath, al
aged resident of Bucksport, cut his
Wifes throat with razor, and Their
committed suicide with the same ra.
ZOr. Mrs. Claude II. Hutchinson o.
Bangor, aged 81, is charged with cut
ting the throat of her four months ole
baby on March 10Th, afterwards at
tempting suicide. She is now under OBJ
servation at the insane asylum. April
IS, Herbert Nettage of Lexington shot
: and killed his wife at Bingham. The
following day when surrounded by Off.
GERS, after a hard chase, Nettage sho
himself. Samuel Kline of Portland
killed his young bride April II, ant
, promptly shot himself. What ma,
J prove to be another murder is the
shooting of a Harmony girl, Ethe
Steen, alleged to have been shot by
Griff Jones in Monson, who is now il
Dover Jail awaiting the outcome of thu
wound. The girls mother believe.
> Jones is insane. An Italian shooting
affair at Stonington may possibly enc
, fatally. the wounded man being Mar