Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21

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How i'm his lady meet
The sweetness of the clover
The promise of the wheat.
Deer are numerous down Eastpolt
way
There'll be chickens to roast in
Maine by Thanksgiving. Nearly every
town and city has caught the poultry
raising fad. The Shipping City hen
yards are lvelier than those where
ships are built.
Congressman Amos l.. Allen, in a
letter received Tuesday i'm Portland,
says that the secretary of the navy
has informed him that the battleship
Michigan and torpedo boat destroyer
will arrive in Portland July j, to re-
main over the Fourth
This year ii is estimated that l5,M0.-
900 acres of corn has been planted in
the United States, against an area OF
lOS 0O0, 900 acres in 1909 In Maine more
corn is in the ground than last year,
The grass in Maine fields never was
lawmakers this week and next.
Up III MeddybempS they are seeing
Calais drove his team over one, a spe-
cies of water snake that measured four
feet six inches from head to tail and
SIX inches in circumference. It's
good year for water snakes az the only
water cart in commission is that OF
Jupiter Pluvius!
Plans are well matured for the open
ing OF hospital in Calais to be under
the control Of the Sisters of Mercy, fol-
lowing the plan of the Carney hospital
in Boston. Final arrangements for the
opening of the hospital will be made
at an early date. Option has been Sc
cured on a fine piece Of property here
which is suited to the requirements Of
such an institution.
An article in The Morning Star of
June 3, may be of some interest to
people in this section of the State as
it is the story of the life of Melville
w. Chase. For fiftyfour years he has
been teaching instrumental music, and
for forty-One consecutive years he has
been at the head of a College depart
ment of music. for twenty-five Of
which he has had entire charge of
choir and chorus. at Hillsdale Col
le2e, Michigan. Prof. Chase was born
at Minot February Is. 1912.
Exhibited in the window of an Au-
burn store is mounting Of a freak
cat. the property Of Mr.. Boyd Of Sa-
battus. It can neither be called a cat
nor kitten properly as 1T" is plural.
There is but one head while there are
three distinct pair of hind legs One
branches directly upward from the
middle of the back, while the other
two are at the proper place on two
separate bodies. merging into one near
the neck. The animal is not very
large, attaining only a five days
growth before its death.
Miss Sarah F. Bagley of WOolwich,
Me-, a graduate Of the New England
class of 1907. has just accepted posi-
ton as teacher of the pianofCrte and
voice at the Madison Female Institute
Richmond, Ky. Miss BagleN. who
taught for a year after graduation at
the Wesleyan institute, Kent's Hill.
has during the past year been pursuing
graduate studies at the Conservatory
in Boston. Although she took her di-
ploma for completion of the pianOforte
course she has also done much work
in the vocal department. She secured
her position through the teachers
bureau which is maintained at the
Conservatory for the benefit of its pu
pills and graduates.
David Longley is again in town. says
the Portland Express. He ordinarily
makes this village annually in his cross
country tours afoot about which he
says little though they rival the per-
formances of many a more lauded ped
estrian. Because Mr.. Longley does his
walking stunts without newspaper no
toriety does not put him in the tramp
class for he is an educated gentleman
and does not lack means. He simply
walks because it is his delight. From
Sanford he tramps through to Rock
land and Bar Harbor. where he will put
in several weeks He frequently walks
from the North to the South land in a
season and disdains any kind of con-
veyance. Mr.. Longley expects to make
Mexico next season and it is safe to
say that the railroads will not get one
cent Of his money. +
In all the country towns the cackle
Of many hens is heard In Phillips and
vicinity number of people are rails
ing on a large scale Miss Annie Wey-
mouth of Madrid has 500 chickens al
ready and proposes to hatch 500 more.
Harry Durham of Madrid, is raising
several hundred chickens for broilers
and roasters and some thoroughbred
Barred Plymouth Rocks for breeding
purposes. Town Clerk Cony M. Hoyt
of Phillips. has large flock of White
Wyandottes and good flock of Royal
Pekin ducks. Rev. Mr.. Millett, pastor
of the Phillips Methodist church. is
raising a lot of chickens, and A. w.
Bean has 125 fine ones growing for the
market, of various breeds. Herbert
Moody Of Salem has several hundred