Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-29


Rear Admiral w w. Kimball, who
was born in Paris, Me-. is now on duty
in Nicaraguan waters. though on the
retired list. Such a compliment was
never paid naval officer before.
Small pigs sold in Pickering square
| in Bangor last week for $2.7o each
while the Searsport brand sold for "a
q niece and quick sales at that More
pigs have been bought this season
than for years.
Th. ferrvboat between Portland and
Peaks Island is loaded to it's capacity
with furniture vans every trip now
| adays. and is making extra trlpS an
the time. This presages al cary
opening and a big season AT feaNs
| this year. '
Mrs. Iuville Buck of East sumner
has a lemon tree on which there are 81
| lemons. ranging in size from men
egg to fully ripened fruit Weighing
IN mounds With our warm winters
and tropical fruit raising. people no
| longer need migrate to Florida
| Through the efforts OF the l-adies
Club, a fountain has recently been
| placed in the North Turner cemetery.
| A new iron fence has also been or
| dered. Mrs. Lillian Johnson is chair
| man of the committee who has labored
Il co.,
| Nassa chusetts cities and towns are
| making their annual raid on Name
teachers Many of the best OF those
| now doing service in that part OF New
England were natives of the Old Plne
| Tree State. Every effort should De
made to keep our good teachers win
| us.
! Two strangers walked into the no
| tel at West Bethel recently and in
| ouired of the lady in charge if she
| could direct them to the bar she
| said she could, and showed them out
| the back door. She understood them
| to say the barn. They caught the
| Joke and laughed heartily.
| Arnold Holmes of Jay set trap FOR
| mink a few days ago and going to
| the place was surprised to lind Il
| Canadian lynx caught in the trap. He
| returned to the house for his gun and
| dispatched the creature when is Il
| fine specimen over three feet long.
1t would have been an ugly customer
| for an unarmed man.
| NJ q, Foster of Sunset View farm,
| Manchester. has entered one of his
| white Wyandotte hens for the egg
! record. At this stage the hen looks
| like a winner in the smallest egg
| class" The specimen brought to the
| Journal Office was seVen-elehthS '1
an inch in length, about five-eighthS
OF an incn in diameter and weighed
fifth of an ounce.
The Bangor Chamber Of Commerce
| is taking hold of the shoe factor!
| proposition in earnest The sum of
500, 900 must be subscribed before
Saturday night April 80, or the pres
ent opportunity to reopen the Parker
& Peakes factory will be gone forever.
| For this reason solicitors Will make
every effort to dispose of the Inv"
shares at 500 each. or at least the
remaining shares, this week.
Farmers along the line of the Lew
iston, Augusta and Waterville rail-
way are interested in the proposal TO
La; no
price will be based on the market ana
the bare cost of handling, there beng
no desire to make any profits in TINS
part OF the business but rather to
promote prosperity among the farm
ers along the line Of the road and with
their prosperity, get their return
through the regular channels of pas
sengcr travel.
The steamer from Bucksport re-
Gently took $4,000 trout fry from the
government hatchery at Orland for
Swan Lake. The fish were secured by
Congressman Burleigh at the request
of A. 3. Smalley of Belfast. and were
to have been sent here last fall, but
orders previously received had eX-
hausted the supply and it was the
first shipment made this spring. The
first land-locked salmon were put INTO
Swan Lake June 16, 1883, ana were
brought from Burnham by j. FL Sulli-
van, where he received / them from
Commissioner E. NJ. Stillwell and
brought them to Belfast whence the
| twenty cans of salmon were taken in
teams by F. E. Whitcomb and j. A.
Clement RI Swan axe
A. s. Goody, who is the census emu
merator for Lisbon Falls. is a young
| man who has seen a good deal of the
world. A number of years ago he
went to the Philippines where he was
| school teacher for three years. Then
| for two years he was the deputy treas
urer of Isabella Province and for part
| of a year was acting treasurer. He
| was stationed in Manila as collector
of licenses and fees He made a visit
to China and Japan and sailed nearly
around the world. Two years ago he
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