Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-08
Maine Gossip
Second Choice.

Second Choice.
! If Sherlock Holmes won't referee
The Jeffres-Johnson fight,
| And give the function tone, you sec
| Perhaps Doc Watson might
| Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Scion Putnam of Rumford, who
spent several years in the klohdlke
gold fields, says that some OF the
weather we have had the past week
EQUALS any he experienced in Alaska
for cold.
To preserve a perfect optimism Tor
Ill you are alone in a 15-foot dory
| ithout food miles out to sea ana not
y sail in sight is easier to talk ABOUT
han to do, but that is what n u.
Sears, a native of Nova Scotia dId,
| I'd he kept it up for 43 hours until ne
| was finally rescued and brought INTO
| rcrlland by the fishing schooner Ed
| uund +. Black.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Jordan OF Me-
hanic Falls in celebrating the 25th
anniversary of their marriage, re-
ceived their guests while standing on
fht same rug which covered the tloor
- wears ago, While Mrs. Jordan wore
| H., wedding dress which figured at the
-,ne ceremony. She also carried a
| handkerchief which was carried by her
nother at her wedding, many years
previously.
The Brunswick Club Of Brunswick
| Gently held a smoker in honor of its
.ldest member, Capt. William NJ. Otis,
who is 90 years of age. Capt. Otis
1oasts that during his As years at sea
his vessel was never dismasted, never
but once made port with his vessel
aleak and never experienced any other
disaster except the final one, when
his vessel piled up on the rocks at the
entrance to the Golden Gate.
The blue prints and detail drawings
which guided the contractors and
builders in the erection OF the new
Cumberland County Court house at
Portland filled an express wagon OF
the ordinary size.
Oscar McCausland of Farmingdale
recently found a copy Of the New York
Herald, dated Saturday April Is, 1865,
which contained accounts of the as
sassination of President Lincoln as
well as the war news of the period,
with columns about the positions of
Grant, Sherman. Lee and others.
Prof Harry r. Fling of Oshkosh,
Wis, is visiting friends in Maine after
an absence of 20 years Prof. Fling
was graduated from BoWdoin and is
a brother of DR.. Fred Nj. Fling, pro-
fessor Of European history in the Uni
versity of Nebraska. who visited
Portland last September for the first
time in many years. DR.. Fling is also
graduate of Bowdoin and has his
degree of Phi. D. from the university
of Leipsic, where he made extensive
ost-graduate studies.
Capt. Coffin of Harrington, master
Of the schooner Elizabeth Gilbert, has
arrived in Portland after a strenuous
six weeks. Going out from Portland
he broke his right arm. Five days
later, when the vessel reached Jack
sonville. it was necessary to break the
arm again for the bones were improp-
erly knit. Just before the vessel
started on the return trip, Capt. COT
fin was nearly run down by an auto
mobile in the streets of Jacksonville
In jumping to escape the machine, the
arm was twisted in such manner
that Il second reduction Of the fracture
was necessary.
The Warren postoffice has a unique
history. In 1898 individuals hired
man to go from Castine to Wscasset
and carry letters and papers once a
fortnight. He walked the whole dis
lance over the route. The next year
postmasters were appointed and mail
sent once a week by carriers on
horseback. Rufus Crane. the first
postmaster in Warren collected 20
cents as his pay for his first three
months of work. Since then Jesse
rage held the office from 1910 to
1888; A. II. HOdgman, from 1888 to
lS4l; :. B. Wetherbee, from 1871 to
lS4S; A. H. Hodgman. from 1S4S to
1919; S. B. Wetherbee from 1S49 to
1853; j. w. Smith, from 1853 to 1861;
A. NJ. Wetherbee, from 1861 to 1869: ].
NJ. Studley, from 1859 to 1885; George
W. Brown, from 1885 to 1889; G. d.
Gould, from 1889 to 1898; L. H.
Vaughan. from 1893 to 1897, and VIM.
l.. LaWry since 1897.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.