Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-29

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wn over and above the common
han in 1882 under the Democratic Ad-
he Democrats to be given the power
We them beer saloons under license
bear had killed a full grown ram pre-
viousl! and the farmers saw her cross
ing the field. it being moonlight. They
killed her. and the cubs, coming along
behind Jared likewise.
VIM. True of Philips, who is fire
warden on Dallas plantation, reports
seeing a loupcervier catch rabbit a
few DAYS ago, after a very lively chase
through the woods.
At the reunion of the 18th Maine
regiment in Biddeford a committee was
raised to secure subscriptions for a
monument to Gen. Charles P. Mattocks.
former colonel of the regiment and
brigade comma nder in the Spanish war.
The movement has the endorsement of
the LOYAL Legion and G. A. r. 1t is
planned 20 erect the monument in Port
land. 8
Commander Peary and family are
passing August at Lakeside Manor in
Norway, Me.
u EQEl
Down in Sagadahoc county the wynn
burg Grow is published every evening
or therea bouts at Wynburg, thriving
city OF two houses and large barn. 10
Gated on the nOrtherly neck of lanG
which divides the New Meadows river
from Phippsburg basin The brilliant
editor and printing press is Allan Dex-
ter, who is ably assisted by Miss Janet
Dexter as staff artist, society gosslper,
circulation manager and assistant
printer. The sheet is letter size, two
pages, neatly printed with pen and ink
The state of Names insistent policy
of education has impressed itself upon
the states of the Pacific coast. The late
John r. Rogers of Brunswick. at one
time . druggist in Bath, was twice
elected Governor of Washington A
part of the inscription on his monu-
ment in Olympia reads: Author of the
barefoot law in this state. which gives
every poor son Of the commonwealth
fair education"
o,,r ,c,,,or.. aro cautioned against
new kind of caterpillar which devours
all of the leaves of trees except the
skeleton. veins and is making havoc in
State forests to the south of Maine.
Speaking of Augustus Betsey How
ard hill. on which there is a spring
of water as pure as that Of Poland
Spring and gushing sufficient water for
hotel baths, the Journal learns that
three miles out of DamariscOtta there
is a pond from which the village OBJ
tains it's water supply the water be-
ing perfectly pure according to analy-
sis To obtain the health giving bene-
fits of this water every summer peo-
pie from far off states as well as those
nearer Maine visit Damariscotta.
Frank Pierce, keeper of the fog horn
station on Mananas' is Mayor" of
Monhegan.
At Lewiston a crew of 80 men in
charge of John A. Greenleaf is at
work on the borings and soundings of
the proposed dam at Clarks Rips,
lewiston
The Remington Arms Co. gives to the
Central Maine Fair one of it's auto
loading rifles, which the Fair people
offer for the best mounted deer head.
Daniel Wilcox OF Biddeford is con-
big trout pond on his farm
The proposed site of the pond has al
ready been stripped of the timber and
a large part of the stumps removed.
Mr.. Wilcox plans to start at once clean
ing to hard pan, depth of from Is to
20 inches. When Mr.. Wilcox finishes
with the clearing, he hopes to have
nothing but clean white sand for the
bottom Of his lake. Construction of the
uutii iiuS lIot yet OcCli DcSuh Dut Will DE
in few days This dam will be of
about 200 feet long, eight
feet high at the highest point, two feet
through at the top and four feet at the
bottom. 1t will be laid in cement. Mr..
Wilcox plans to stock his pond with
brook trout. He will also erect ice
houses and enter this business. 1t is
his intention to place $4,000 trout fry in
the pond this fall or early next spring.
w. r. Ashby THAT Parkhurst Man."
in the Mars Hill Review tells few
bits of his own interesting. biography.
One of the most exciting stories is of
his babyhood when a lOupcervier
jumped through the window of his par
entS' log cabin in the absence Of his
mother and dragged him from his era
die ont through the open door as a
breakfast for the animals half grown
in the Aroostook forest nearby.
father shot the wild cat. Sc
cured it's cubs and the stuffed skin OF
one of the kittens given to the baby as
a plaything was perhaps the first Ted
DIV Bear ever provided a child in