Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-17

The thing to fail. dod rot it,
They kept predicting a cold wave
| Houston Post.
Somebody up in Norway who was at
loss for something to shoot at, final
Nv found a pet cat caught in a trap
The sports killed the cat skinned it
and threw the body into a nearby mill
pond.
Bath Times.--Five Bath men recently
| lined up in front of New York thea
tire box office and they all purchased
tickets for the same performance. They
held Il pleasant reunion after the play.
Ernest Hast of Atkinsons Mills has
been using steer harnessed to a
sleigh this winter. While the enjoy
ment is somewhat novel, it answers all
purposes of the owner.
The Monmouth correspondent of the
Lewiston Sun says that during the
last cold snap the town clock stopped
When a cold wave gets as serious as
that it is time to put on fur coats.
Fred Z. Averill, janitor at the Car
diner city building. has an interesting
relic Of the days when the old-fash-
toned handful was the principal APP
paratus with which fires were fought
in Gardiner 1t is a lantern that for
merly belonged to the outfit of the
Fire King" which handful was the
pride of the city in -bellum days
The town of Eden is taxed more than
One-tnird of the county tax for Han
cock, while the combined towns on the
island pay more than half the tax of
the county. The total taxes assessed
for the county is $463,335. The total
valile of real estate in the county is as
sessed at $a.O47194. Of this Eden is as
and has 1892 polls taxed.
Charles I.ittlefie;d of Oakland, Calf,
is the guest of SkcWhegan friends. Mr.
Littlefield vas born at Hartland, but
has not visited Maine before in 40
age. never enjoyed a sleigh ride until
the present visit
George T. Jacobs of Phillips received
from his daughter, Miss Angie b. ia
cObs, who is in San Francisco for
Christmas gift, one of the now eX-
tremely rare So gold pieces, which the
government has never issued but one
year, 1874. He showed this recently in
one of the Phillips stores, where the
man in charge said he knew of a man
who had $3.50 gold piece of United
States coinage. Mr.. Jacobs offered to
bet a quarters worth of cigars that no
Such com was in existence, and the
bet was taken. When the facts We're
investigated Mr.. Jacobs got his cigars.
j. A. Littletield of York has a hen
and chicken which hold the endurance
test record. 1t seems that biddy had a
nest in a field near the road, where she
had made up her mind to raise a fam
lily. despite the fact that winter was
due. and the weather pretty cold
Along came the big storm of Dec &c
and next morning where had been Il
contented and clucking hen, there was
nothing but white waste of snow. AS
it is about as hard to locate things in
a field after snow storm as it is to
find the proverbial needle no rescue
parties were organized. A week slipped
by and Mrs. Hen and family We're Civ
en- up as lost. Elezar CoulcOmbe, who
makes his home at Mr.. Lttlefield's had
occasion to go near the former home of
Mrs. Hen and his attention was attrac-
ted by queer noise in the snow. Not
being superstitious, nor afraid of
strange noises, EleZar dug away the
snow when, to his amazement, he I'M
covered the hen and chicken Unfor-
tunately the chickens, save one, had
persisted. one little chick, however,
had Weathered the gale, along with the
mother hen. EleZar gathered up the
two survivors and carried them to the
house. where they showed no ill effects
from their weeks stay under the snow.
and both are still living. But it's safe
to say that in the future tile little sur
vivor will see to it that he's under
cover when snow falls, while mama
Hen can he trusted to choose some COSY
corner under the caves of the barn for
her next brood
Fryeburg derives it's present name
from Gen. Joseph Frye, to whom the