Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
Maine Gossip

y Maine Gossip
Evened Up.
All things by Time are set to rights
And squared in divers ways;
Gay blades by frightening their nights
Are shortening their days.
Catholic Standard.
Everett Stackpole of Cincinnati,
Ohio, who left Arnold Al years ago,
is visiting his old home for the first
time since he went away.
Deputy sheriffS are sometimes call
ed upon to take strange things I'M
der replevin writs, but it remained
for Deputy Sheriff Wallace of Cum
berland county to recover a coon cat
by that process. He served the writ
and turned the cat over to the proper
parties without serious difficulty.
The young daughter of Sanford
man had pitiful experience Christ
mas lilllo WHICH, ouSII W 'SetSA NAN
parent to take the pledge. He was
fighting drunk and an officer who was
called in was compelled to ask the aid
of the daughter in order to get the
handouts on him.
c. E. futile of Rockland has an I'M
usually valuable and extensive prl-
Of 20 hooks
ing to the Courier-Gazette. He has
been years buying and selling old
editions and now has collection
which ove1flows the house and occu-
pies large part of the stable.
Charles Fogg of Old orchard in
speaking of the recent fire in the Hotel
Dewitt at Lewiston, said: My faith
err rang the first dinner bell that was
rung at that hotel. and my grand
father, Timothy Fogg, was mail car
rer between Lewiston and Bangor in
the good old times. Mr. FOgg owned
over seventy-five horses and it took
one ton of hay daily to feed Them"
A squirrel that was not afraid at
tracted no end of attention in Portland
recently. He was a lively fellow of
the common gray variety. and his
fearleSSneSS was remarkable. He
took up his station on one of the fence
ner OF Spring and Park streets and
there he waved his tail and chatted to
all the people that passed him. No
do Coil n1
to notice the handsome little creature.
He was so tame that he even per-
mitted some to pat him. Finally along
1870 he waved his tail in salute and
started up a nearby tree.
Christmas gift which may come to
no other Maine home, 50 far as re-
ported, fell to the lot of John NJ. Flan-
agan of Rockland, Friday morning,
when his wife presented him with
twins, thereby duplicating the feat of
a year ago. This is the third set of
twins born in this family, which at
present numbers ten children Mr.
Flanagan was member of the class of
1891 at the University of Maine and
has long been a member Of the force
at the ROckland pOstoffice
The largest of the three bath houses
owned and maintained by the city at
Portland was carried away by the
high tide of Sunday. There are three
public bath houses located near Fish
Point and the one which was deS-
troyed was used exclusively by little
girls 1t was the oldest of the three
and while in pretty good repair was
not just what was required The
board will have to build an entire new
house there and will do so before
spring.
r. D. Ellis of Brooks raised
"3S bushels of potatoes On ~.
acres, an average of 315 per
acre, and on one acre of old
ground with barn dressing plowed in
and 1900 pounds of fertilizer he
raised 3SS bushels. On one acre. spring
broke up. barn dressing plowed in and
1900 pounds of fertilizer, he raised 345
bushels, and on half an acre fall broke
up LOO pounds of fertilizer, he raised
2o5 bushels with no barn DRESSING
LIS was a. Iilt Idlc VI flV DuSElelS
per acre.
The Belfast Sea Breeze enumerateS
seven prominent things in Belfast as
follows:
LIST. Our grand old man." nearly
% years old. and with whom you may
shake hands any pleasant day on our
streets.
md. The smallest man probably in
the L. s. He is AZ years old, weighs
A. pounds and stands Al inches high.
Cd. The oldest and the best weekly
paper printed, 81 years,-Republican
Journal.
Ath. The smallest paper printed in
the y. s. regularly, for 80 years,-Sea
Breeze.
5th. Finest and handsomest bay.
Belf3st.
9Th. The most good looking. best and
smarteSt ladies.
eth. The nearest man: guess who
it is
Another Maine-built steamer is to