Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-01
Maine Gossip
Posies as Presents.

Posies as Presents.
For roses he fondness has;
They fade away
And are not apt to figure as
Exhibit A.
kansas City Journal.
Pittsfeld Advertiser-While Select
man E. F. Pennell, who lives in the
south part of the town. has been busy
for the past month assisting in closing
up the town affairs for the past year
at the Selectmen's office in the village.
one of his hens has been taking mat
ters into her own hands and improving
the time in raising very nice flock of
early chickens This hen is one of the
up-to-date breed and evidently believes
in getting onto the job and finished
and out of the way before the other
blddleS begin to think of raising
family, so she chose her own method of
providing nest which was carefully
hidden away from the curious egg
gatherer. and has been diligently work
ing overtime to get her incubator filled
SO as to bring her chicks out before her
master got through with his work at
eAi'~ iAio6C. IAoSl Euli'ieNy -'Ai'' 'iN ~
proudly brought forth ten lively little
chicks. every one of the ten eggs which
she laid having been successful
ly Matched. This early date of Feb
ruary goth for the bringing out of
good setting of eggs without any arti-
fetal help beats the record in this town
ard will be hard to beat elsewhere.
Eastport Sentinel-Customs Inspec-
ter Kane who acts as paymaSter for
the revenue-cutter Woodbury. whose
headquarters are at this port, when on
board the other day was interested in
the inscription in an old Bible that had
Deen presented to the Woodbury. by
the New York Bible Society in 1864. A
notation in the front of the Bible
reads: This volume is placed on board
for the use of the ships company and
passengers and should any changes oc-
cur, it is requested that it may be al
lowed to remain as permanent part
of the cabin furniture. When launched
in 1864, the cutter was not known as
the Woodbury. her original name being
the "Mahoning." She was one of five
steamers of similar type built at that
time. At the close of the Civil war,
the other four vessels were sold to one
of the South American republics. while
the Woodbury. was assigned to the rev.
enue service in which she is still en-
ployed today.
During the fiscal year closing June
10, 1909, the E. d. A. railroad, according
to figures recently made public, had
total net income of $1,i27,649. its total
payment being $1,0S4.515, leaving a sur
plus of $43074. II is thought by some
that, on account of the reduced potato
shipments, that 1910 income will be
less but with increased mileage, tap
ping new countries, new markets, new
numbering regions, the income ought
not to be reduced very materially.
F. l.. Norris of Augusta has pre-
sented two eggs to the editor of this
column which are unusually large
ana especially remarkable because
they We're laid by two-year-old
brown leghorn weighing but four
pounds. one egg is 67s by 57s and
the other is by 81. A hen like that
is winner.
Fort Fairfield Review: The Review
editor got an egg the other day from
his Il hens, the first one for four
months. He promptly tumbled into
fit. Two doctors got him out, but
somehow the overwhelmed editor
couldn't get that egg out of his mind,
and for days was on the verge OF St.
Nitus dance, nervous prostratlon, de-
Iirium tremens and cerebro spinal
meningitis. On having proved to him,
however, that the egg was not a real
live hens egg but only a china nest
egg. the editor began to improve, and
may soon be around again.
Milford is about to organize a
Board of Trade to further the towns
interests industrially and in such
other ways as may appeal to them.
Already the residents, recognizing the
splendid facilities for the location OF
a big industrial plant and with its
nearness to the railroad, are looking
with ambitious eyes toward the cot
ton mill project. in hopes that the
promoters may be persuaded to ac-
Cept an offer of free land and abated
taxes to locate in the town. Through
the generosity of one big landowner,
Milford is able to offer the land for
such mill or some other desirable
manufacturing enterprise, free of
cost to any reputable industry. The
citizens also guarantee eXemp-
tion from municipal taxes and the
interest on $4,000 to help give the en-
terprise a start. The first meeting of
the new board will be held very soon.
J. A. Flanders. Jr, clerk in the
passenger department of the Bangor
& Aroostook railroad, is in New York
where he will have charge of the h.
& A. exhibit at the SpOrtsmen's show,
which opens this week in Madison
Square Garden. DR.. Edward Breck,
author of this years B. & A. guide
book, will be there to give informa-
tion about fishing and hunting in
Maine and also as an official repre-
sentative of the Newfoundland gov
ernment. B. NJ. Packard of Sebec
and r. F. Fowler of Shin pond will
also be with the B. e A. exhibit