Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

Hedge crickets sing, and now with treble
soft
The abreast whistles from sardef
And gathering swallows twitter in the
Keats
The Eastern Steamship Co. passen-
ger traffic announces that on Monday
Oct 81 the Boston terminal of the
Portland division will be moved from
Union wharf to Central wharf Nc
changes will be made in the present
| terminals of the international ano
| Kennebec divisions at Union wharf
and the Bangor division at Fosters
| wharf.
Skowhegan boasts So automobiles
| which is going some for a town of its
size
Postmaster f. H. Wootlside of Sa-
| battus has a handsome young horse
| that attracts much attention in tha'
| section. The horse was sired by
| Philip from a good Glenarm mare
| weighs 1850 pounds and stands l53
He is an animal that shows road
| full and is not obliged to take every
ones dust Mr. Woodside has re-
| fused several good offers for him.
The first electric lighting plant IN
Waterford has just been installed by
w. X. Hamlin for the lighting OF ms
| new house. stable, carding mill and
grain store
Mrs Addison S. Bean of West Beth
ell has piece of silk curtain from the
carriage window Of the Confederate
President Jefferson Davis. taken by
Franklin Chester Leach Of the 4th
Michigan Cavalry Co, who was one
of the picked company of % men to
capture jefferson Davis, when he was
endeavoring to escape the country at
ter the surrender of Gen. Lee. Mr..
Beach cut the curtain from mis- car
riage window and carried it home to
Michigan. Mis- mother came to Maine
on a visit. and being Il relative or
Mrs Rean, while here gave her the
piece of curtain.
George Stone Of Fort Fairfield has
raised this year on 1912 acres OF
land 14,2SS barrels of understandable pO-
tatocs. This large crop was dug with
one digger and crew of ~ men.
Practically the entire crop has been
stored in Mr. stones private potato
house.
The town of Easton is agitated over
the question why the $50 raised at
the last annual town meeting has not
been laid out on repairing the lookup
as voted. A correspondent from that
town writes that last Sunday an Of
ficer had occasion to arrest drunk
and put him in the cooler. but owing
to the condition of the building and
the GOODNESS of the day he thought
best not tc leave him confined in the
lookup very long. The correspondent
declares that the building is not a
suitable place in it's present condition
to tic up cattle in. let alone placing a
human being in.
The North Bridgton correspondent Of
the Portland Express Advertiser says.
that unusual activity is noticed just
now i'll North Bridgton village A
crew of men is hurrying the laying Of
the village water system for which the
trench is already we'll dug toward the
south end of Main street. The over
flowing of the spring supplying this
system was measured on a recent day
and found to be in excess of 80 gallons
per minute.
The prestige which Harrington once
had as vessel building town like its
ships, is nearly extinct, says the Har-
rington correspondent of the Machias
Republican. In the 70's when the
shipping industry was at its height
that town was producing and inter-
ested in more tonnage than any town
i'm the customs districts in Washington
county. Since then the off shore fleet
has either gone out of service or been
sold elsewhere until the last was gone.
The last to go was the barkentine.
Herbert Fuller. built in 1890 and par
TALLY burned this season. the hull
having been sold to the Swans in New
York. OF the coastng fleet but now
and then one remains.
There was a peculiar accident re-
Gently. in front of the Caribou Opera
house. An automobile driven by n
Fort Fairfield man was travelling west
on Sweden street and as he neared the
Opera house building he noticed a
horse being driven from f. G. Far
rell's stable. The driver did not OBJ
serve the auto as his eyes were fas-
tened on another team and he drove
nearly into the machine before see
ing it. Although Mr.. Bishop steered
to the extreme left of the road the
horse fell uror the glass shield of the
machine, slivering it into million
pieces. The wagon came into contact
with the tenders bending them.
Aside from that no particular damage
was done and no one injured.