Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-28
Maine Gossip
In tho Spring.

L III AVAAAAS M
In tho Spring.
In the spring a young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts OF love,
But the older married brethren-what
- may they be thinking or!
They may rise with hearts OF giadness
and with souls buoyed up py nope,
But they sniff the air with sadness when
they smell house. cleaning soap.
Chicago Post.
The 1910 hay crop has got good
start.
Saco has begun to talk again about
getting the county seat away from Al
fred. Such a change would be Sc
we're blow to Alfred and great heip
to Saco. The matter comes up on
referendum vote in September.
A Biddeford young man aged TOUR
dared his younger brother. aged three,
to permit him to chop off finger.
The younger one had the necessary
courage and physician was called
to repair the damage. The curtain is
mercifully drawn on what happened
to the young man, aged -FOUR.
A Lubec clerk tells this story OF his
pet cat: The man was wheeling wood
and to protect his hands wore a pair
of mittens When he had finished his
work he threw the mittens on the
wheelbarrOw and went into the house.
The cat played about for a while and
then being convinced that his master
was not coming back. took the mittens
in his mouth and carried them into the
house.
Writes the Lewiston Journal Old Or
char1 correspondent: Saturday morn
ing there was a great noise in the
vicinity of the campground. People
ran out to find the cause and discov-
cred large tree nearby simply loaded
with black birds. Every one was talk
ing at the same time They kept this
up for awhile and then flew into a
large elm across the way and after an
other noisy conference flew away and
We're not seen again.
Deputy Sheriff F. II. Boothby Of
Livermore is court crier at the term of
the supreme court now in session in
Auburn Mr.. Boothby is not an old
man but when he was almost forty
years younger than he now is, he
helped in laying the corner stone of
Lewiston's old city hall. Mr.. Boothby
thinks he is the only man now living
who helped do this work. The men
in ~ of
Leeds and Stephen Spencer of Liver
more.
The assessors of Lincoln have found
a number of interesting conditions.
The only pair of cattle in town is own
ed by Stephen Stanislaus. The near
est approach to another pair is a pair
Of three Odds. On a. number Of
the largest and best farms in town
there are absolutely no neat stock,
and on many others they found only
one COW. They find on the whole that
there are but very few cattle of any
kind in town, says the Chronicle.
Fort Fairfield Review: Gabriel
Brothers store, corner Main and
Bridge streets, contains the mounted
body and heads of a, TWO headed calf,
which Gabriel Brothers recently Sc
cured in Calais. Each head is perfect.
The whole forms a rare sight. Isn't
it too bad that these two headed
calves can not live? 1t would be in
teresting to see one mouth eating
straw and hear the other believing at
I ha iron grass
and the other drinking water stimuli
taneously, or eating hay while the
other is chewing it's cud.
Sumner has never been noted for
tropical fruits yet Luville Buck. the
mail carrier, shows a huge lemon
grown by him that weighs about IA
lbs. The little tree on which II grew
is only about two feet high. IS SIX
years old and began bearing last year
producing two good specimens. 1t
now has upon it 20 from the blossom
to those the size of a hens egg. The
limbs have to be supported to pre-
vent breaking. In the summer season
the tree is out of doors, but of course
is kept inside during cold weather.
in the country markets.
Talking with one of the good farm
ers Of Aroostook the other day, says
the Maine Farmer, after he had made
a pretty thorough canvass of the
county. the statement was made that
the acreage in potatoes in that county
will be as large in 1910 as in 1909, in
spite of the fact that prices are ruin
ously low now and every grower a
loser. Instead of giving up. these men
propose to hoe the row out and find
the money where they lost it. in the
potato fields. Another fact stated was
that the coming crop would be grown
under more critical conditions than in
any previous year. Instead of a great
falling off. as predicted by some, the
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