Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-15


a twin sister living. Mrs. Mary j. Dun
ham, also of Ellsworth Falls, and they
are sharp competitors for the honor
of being the oldest twins in Maine.
Plans have been completed for an
other new elevator at the Grand Trunk
piers, Portland, which is to have a ca
pacity of 100000 bushels of grain.
The marble for the floor Of the new
Bath National Bank was on board the
burned steamer Manhattan anu the
marble work will be necessarily de-
layed.
o. S. Iarbox of Red Beach Is to
furnish the granite pedestal on which
will rest the Thomas B. Reed statue
which is to be set up at Portland.
Calais Advertiser; The citizens of
any prosperous town are always pub
lie spirited and united. Stand to-
gether, work for the interests of the
whole town. Always stand ready to
do your part. Don't grumble and
spend your time in prophesying fall
ure, but help to make every enter
prise q success be it great or small.
Be energetic and enterprising and your
example will be initiated.
Friends of Mrs. Byron WallinSford
of Portland are urging that she be
awarded a Carnegie medal for her
brave act in leaving sick bed to
extinguish fire in the clothing of a
domestic. who would otherwise have
been burned to death. Mrs. Wallng-
ford. who was dangerously i'll. ran
out into the snow and rolled the do
nestle. who had become a human
torch, in the snow.
Five barrels of salt pork that We're
stolen from a Calais storehouse about
three weeks ago, were found Wednes-
day morning in a door yard. case
Of where tile thieves got scared and
rather than have the goods discovered
BY the officers who We're on the trail.
they rolled their booty near Con-
stable Perry's residence. who took it
in charge and delivered the same to
the riShtfui owners
Portland Express: Dan Cupid
Portland Portsmouth express, which
is doing a tremendous business now
adays in the traffic of hearts took
two Portland passengers to the New
Hampshire end of the route Monday,
where they We're quietly married with
cut their Portland friends being any
the wiser. The happy young people
are Arthur H. Robinson. assistant
sealer of weights and measures and
Miss Isabelle S. Daniels. also Of this
city, and they were welded by the
Rv. Frank H. Gardner. Mr.. Robin
son was formerly Rockland man.
The plan to keep the famous Maine
authoress. Sarah Orne Jewett. in
memory by creating scholarship in
Simmons college in Boston. to be
known by her name, is such as would
have greatly pleased her to anticipate.
She was one of the most retiring and
modest of authors. giving out her
beautiful chronicles and interpreta-
tons of New Engnd life and charac-
ter without the least conceit. and new
err overrating her pleasant service.
Miss JeWett was much interested in
Simmons college. After a reading she
gave to the $50 students year or so
ago, Mrs. Annie Fields gave to North
hall IA photograph of Miss Jewett and
an autograph poem. framed for a place
al n f,l,a iS.
desired to raise $4,000, and any one who
would desire to contribute to her mem
DRY is asked to send sums, large or
small. to Miss Hester Cunningham,
Simmons college. the F'enway. Boston.
There are hundreds who owe delight to
Sarah o. Jewetts beautiful compre-
hension of the New England rural
character at it's best and she had also
fine divination in respect to the
newer elements in our constituency
1t should be said that acknowledge
ments Of gifts will be made privately.
LlSft-keeper Sawyer of the Egg
Rock light is harborng a carrier pig
con that came to the island last week,
resting after a long flight, and appar-
emily glad to find comfortable quarters
The blrd bears a silver tag with the
number 120040 engraved upon it. Mr..
Sawyer and his family found the bird
quite tame, prefering to take up its
quarters at the station, rather than
fly any greater distance, and it may be
found at the lighthouse.
Mr. and Mrs, Louis w Orr of Has
tinSs, Mimi, have been recent visitors
to their former home in Calais. Mr.
Orr is a Charlotte county boy. He was
born at the Ledge. 81 years ago, going
with his parents to Minnesota AZ years
ago, where he is a successful farmer
and stock raiser keeping only pure
bred animals. He is wintering twenty
thoroughbred registered horses of the
grey and blick French Percheron stock
the combined weight of five animals
being 10000 pounds. He has also %
registered shorthorn cattle. 125 oxford
down sheep and d large number of Po-
land China swine He cultivates 300
acres on the home farm, using all the
crops at home. This was Mr.. Orr's first
tett l., l.