Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-26

! TIC !ndiHe 4ASSOCldtloH Oh tIle New
Jerusalem Church will hold it's an
nual meetings Saturday and Sunday
August q and %. in the New
Church Temple of Bath. The Satur-
day morning session will be devoted to
business and there will be a general
meeting in the afternoon. Saturday
evening the guests will be entertained
at New Meadows Inn. Rev. William
Wunsch, the present minister of the
Bath parish, will be installed as it's
pastor at the Sunday morning service.
F. Wilbur Brown writes to the Bath
Times Il saw an item in Saturdays
Times stating that Fred Stickney chal-
lenges me to enter contest with him
to eat green corn. | do not accept the
challenge. Stickney has no record that
we know anything about in the green
corn line If he desires to test his abil-
ity as an eater, let him take a day off
and make a hog of himself, as l did Is
years ago when / deVOured at one sit
ting % mammoth ears of corn. l am
not particularly proud of the record, al
though l have held the State cham
pionship for 10 years. ! consider Mr..
Stickney out of place in issuing such
challenge before demonstrating that he
is more of an eater than he says
he is. Stickney make a record"
Speaking of corn eating recalls to the
Journal Gossiper that, on one occasion.
a former Bath representative to the
legislature and yachtsman, made rec
ord of II ears of corn without half try
ing.
Androscoggin county has political
hot wave.
The driving horse, Marcus, which his
owner, Charles f. Lane Of Brooks, val
ues at $1,000, got what may prove IA
tai dose of Paris Green Monday. While
standing in the stable he licked the poi
son from box carelessly left Wltnln
his reach Several horse experts were
working vigorously to save the am
mails life.
VIM. Rice of East Boothbay has
new 3O-foot houseboat with 10 H. P.
engine. which makes miles an hour.
A very staunch houseboat was towed
into Portland harbor last week from
East Boothbay, where it was launched
Wednesday from the yard of w. l. Ad-
ans & Co 1t is named the Ibus and Is
owned by John Gullycole. prominent
business man of St. Louis, MO, VINO
spcnds his summers cruising along the
New England coast. The new craft Is
62 feet in length, with 1876 feet beam.
The Ibus has no motive power. depend
ing on towage. She has every residen-
tial convenience.
Senior Spain who won the Kings Cup
in the Sicilian automobile races. is in
main with his victorious brown painted
10G H. p. machine.
Brigadier General Arthur Murray. U.
s. A., chief of coast artillery and staff
inspected Forts Baldwin and Popham
this week in the course OF their tour
of inspection. of the Notifications on the
Atlantic seaboard. They arrived in the
kennebec river in the L. 5. mine
planter Gen. Frank.
Col. John ]. DOOiey is attending the
National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry
Ohio. Later he will visit Sea Girth. N.
J. '.-t I
Mrs. f. B. Blackboard of Boston. the
well-known water color artist has been
visiting in Belfast ana while there car
ried on her studies in mushrooms of
which she has made more than 4o0
studies in colors. She speaks enthu-
siastically according to the Bangor
News of Belfast as collecting ground
and has found about one hundred
different varieties near there. Glasses
have already been formed to learn the
difference between the edible and pol
sonous varieties
Charleston's Trustee House. 26 miles
from Bangor. is burned fiat. Loss 49,
900, partially insured.
On the Snow farm on New Meadows
west shore near Harding's Station is
beautiful little bronze fountain that
plays all summer in a corner of the
handsome grounds.
Chas A. Jordan of Bowdoinham, VINO
enlisted for the Civil War in 1862. was
captured in August 1864 and confined
at Libby, Belle Isle, and Salisbury
prisons 1T was not uncommon to
wake up in the morning" said Mr.. Jor-
dan, lin Salisbury and find % or 30 OF
our men dead"
At Camden this summer an interest
ing musical colony has included such
stars as Nine. Marie Rappold, who will
appear in October at Names Musical
Festival, Oscar Saenger, the New YORK
musical coach and Orville Harold. last
winter heralded as Hammerstein's
greatest find. At Camden, also, two
Bath society ladies are conducting a
fashionable tearoom.
Soon will the blue fringed gentian
bloom.
Northern Maine guides and wardens
report plenty of deer, moose and small
er game in Maine woods. Al