Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-02

| At Wednesdays Democratic picnic
in Topsham a dinner will be served
in the church.
| Pollock fishing with fly hooks along
the Maine coast is gamey sport.
| The Bath Marine Construction Co.
shipped last week to Henry P. Scott,
| Delaware City, Della, a duplicate OF
the famous Viper H. 1t has a % H. P
engine and will speed % miles an hour.
| 1t has wings at its side This firm is
making several Of these winged fly
| ers.
| Maine boys in khaki on Monday
mornings trains bound to the war"
| Mrs Abel Manley of Old Orchard
adopted hen into her family some
months ago. This hen is of the Rhode
Island Red breed and soon showed
| more intelligence than the average
hen, going about the house like any
| other member of the family and
| walking up and down stairs. Mrs.
Manley declares the hen can talk and
that she can understand what it says.
This hen is also fond of being petted.
II VIII stand in front of Mr.. Manley
| chatterng away and if he fails to take
notice, she will get into his lap. She
| does not care to mingle with other
| hens. She will walk out of doors for
| awhile and then re-enter the house.
| Mrs. Manley has a number of cats.
The hen and the cats are friends but
| at times if the cats have tempting
| looking piece of meat Mistress Hen
will walk up and pull it from their
mouths. Mrs. Manley is very much
attached to this hen and the hen in
return loves her mistress.
| Belfast not only has a gasoline fire
iengine but there recently has been
placed at the disposal of the depart
ment a big Packard automobile. the
| property of Horace Chenery, a wealthy
and public-spirited resident of the city.
| The Chenery car is kept at the Read
| garage and the night Waterman has
orders to light the lamps and other
wise get the car in readiness for use
| whenever fire alarm is sounded, and
the chauffeur is to place it at once
at the disposal of the fire department.
| of which Mr.. Chenery was made an
| honorary member last year. He has
many times rendered good service in
carrying the firemen to fires and rem
fering other assistance, but this ad-
ditional facility for getting to a fire
| quickly will doubtless be greatly APP
preciated.
A crew is working on the new filtra-
ton plant for the Bangor Water
| Works and a large number of men
will be employed until January Is. 1t
| will be an up-to-date filter.
A sale of 1000 acres of timber land.
| all in the towns of Union. Liberty,
! Appleton and Montville, remarks the
| Rockland Opinion. will be surprise
| to many who are not in the habit of
considering Knox and Waldo counties
as wild lands. Such a sale was re-
Gently made. nevertheless, by Mr.. S.
J. Gushee. of Appleton. to the Fernald
| Lumber Co, of Berlin, n. H. The big
strip Of ,timberland brought the owner
$50, 600. and Mr. Gushee has not dis
posed of all his holdings by any means.
Capt. John F. Kennedy brought into
Portland big sword fish Saturday.
the first of the season. caught off the
Jeffries fishing banks Friday. The
| monster weighed $50 pounds and was
I Is feet long. He fought for half an
hour before he gave up. Captain Ken
ne6y having hit him securely with
his big harpoon. The sale was made
to w. L. Daggett & Co, for $62.
Captain Silas Adams of Waterville
| is soon to write a history of Bowdoin
ham
Lawyer w. II. Halves is one of the
| few fine gardeners in Skowhegan vii
lage. Everything in his garden he has
planted in such way and he has
studied the growth of the particular
thing so that he can reckon ahead al
most to day when he can pluck the
fruit for his table. He has a method
of growing cucumbers that is re-
| n.arkabe He can grow them about
twice as quickly as they are ordinarily
grown. He does it by keeping water
near the roots all the time by
trench system, with the sun contin
| uaily keeping warm the water which
is being taken up by the plant.
Col, Adam Clifford head of the Sal
walton Army of New England. will de-
liver Wednesday and Thursday illus
trated lectures at the Army's encamp-
ment at Old Orchard.
Two other Massachusetts cars forced
the car of o. NJ Fisher of Lynn, bound
for Squirrel Island, into a ditch near
Hillside Saturday. J. H. Davis of
Portland gave first aid to the injured,
helping the Lynn man get his car
which had toppled over. out of the
ditch.
On the Walker estate, Norway is
summer cottage made out of an old
time photograph saloon, one Of those
that so years ago used to be drawn
through Maine for the making of
daguerreotypes. This particular gall
lery was made in Canada. In it many
of Names famous men and women