Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-09
Maine Gossip
Quite a Shock.
Newed's tough luck
Was hard to beat;
In the small of his ~oack
He got cold feet.

NeWeU tOuS1f iuNh
Was hard to beat;
In the small of his >6ack
He got cold feet
Birmingham Age-Herald.
A man living in Ellsworth caused
sensation last week by walking
through the streets in his Shirtsleeves
in spite of the zero weather. He later
explained that he didn't travel that
way because he wanted to, but be-
cause a pipe set his coat on IRE ana
burned ii while he was at work.
Another big egg laid by Brunswick
hel. is reported by Elmer w. Nicker-
son The egg weighed little more
than six ounces and measured in
chcs by 81 in circumference.
Isaac Arnold of Bradford will 'cele-
brate his S6th birthday on Apr1l To.
He is the Oldest citizen in the town oil
Bradford. also the Oldest Civil war
soldier in that town. He served TWO
years in the 10th Maine. co. 4. wfth
Lieut.. Col. Farnham of Bangor. He
was taken prisoner at Widen Road,
Va; after that he was in the battle
Of Gettysburg. He is hale and nearly
and q great reader, a life long Repub-
lican and a great admirer of Teddy
Roosevelt He resides with his son.
Honator NJ. Arnold, who is one Of the
leading Changers of his town.
February was big month FOR I'M
portations of china clay at Portland,
the biggest for the present season
and probably unsurpassed for several
years. For all it was the shortest
month of the year there were oO42 tons
of the clay landed by the regular lin
crs and the tramp steamers from
Fowey. This represented a value or
So, 500. The exact amount landed was
5O42. 10 tons and the duty collected up
on it was $12,6O6.SS, quite tidy sum
added to the revenue OF Uncle Sam
for one month and from one comnod-
jtv. The china clay imports at Port
land for the present season by months
have been: october. 1861 tons; Nov
ember, 1896 tons; December. 2ol8 tons;
January, 21N tons. Ii china clay has
shown an increase there has been a
corresponding decrease in the receipt
Of souvenir postcards. During the
month of February. the value of the
cards received here was 1914. They
weighed 2S4O pounds and the duty
collected, s59O.3S, was nearly as much
as the value of the cards themselves.
Bishop Quayle will be the head Of
the annual Maine Methodist Episco-
nal conference in Portland, April -
to II. The sessions will be held in the
Congress street M. f. church, save
for a Sunday meeting at the Audi
torium; and the Munjoy Club has Of
fered it's rooms for social headquar-
ters. one floor to be devoted to rest
rooms for the women and the other
floor to dining room facilities. Bis
hop Quayle will be the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Lindsey B. Griffin at their
home on Eastern Promenade.
s. w. Rowell of Brunswick owns a
COPPER cent of date of 1887, for which
he has been offered 5000. but which
he will not sell He values the coin
above money, as it was given him
when young man by his mother with
instructions never to part with the
coin. Upon one side, at the top. is
embossed a sunburst, at the left OF
which around the edge is stamped the
Latin word Lucio, Il Shine. on the
right OF the sunburst along the ,edge
is the date of coinage, 1887. and at
the bottom the words, Mind your
Business" In the, centre, much
blurred by erosion, a coiled serpent.
On the reverse side. encircling the
edge of the cent, is an embossed chain
of 13 links, one for each state. "h''e
the centre contains the words. we
Are One" around this inscription ana
forming a small circular frame, the
letters reading, United States
with the prominence which Eagle lake
of the st. John river system is getting
in connection with the present COM
mittce of Interpretation and arbitra-
ton. it will surprise most present day
people to know that at one time dam
was constructed at the. foot OF that
lake for the purpose of raising its wa
ters to the level of Chamberlain and
turning them into the east branch OF
the Penobscot. Hon. Frederick Cum
mings. deceased. a prominent business
man of Bangor and one time mayor
of that city. told his son, Clarence
Cummings, now deputy collector of
customs as Nanceboro, that such a
thing was DONE 1t seems that a luln-
herman of the Penobscot secured
tract of timber ON Eagle lake. He
wanted to bring the logs into the Pc
nobscot and to Bangor. Without au-
thority from any one. he constructed
a dam. it is said. In the spring he
took his driving crew to the lake and
they proceeded to warp the logs
across, that is to say, they would take
an anchor. carry it long way ahead,
and throw it over board. Returning
to the head works by means of cap
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