Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-09
Filtration moon is shining.
Cottagers are enjoying sylvan life al
Dresden Campground


Dresden Campground
Thomas X. Niedringhaus of ST
Louis. prominent member of the
summer colony at the Pool. Biddeford
whose family is now at that resort. is
one OF family of 10 children of Will
liam F. Niedringhaus among whom an
estate of s7,000,000 is about to be
divided. Mrs. Mary Niedringhaus
widow of William F. Niedringhaus
died in jamestown, r. l., this week
and by her death the s7,000,000 estate
of her husband left to her in trust at
his death in 1908, reverts to her four
sons and six daughters to be divided
among them. William f. Niedring
haus founded Granite City, ILL.,, as an
industrial community
Irving Paris of New York. grand
nephew of Washington Irving, was
among the guests at the LongfelloW
House in Portland the other day.
The Argus says that 1T is informed"
that the President won't come to
Portland August 81
young boy who lives on upper
Main street. Saco, says the Biddeford
Journal, recently counted the number
Sunday between 7.30 in the morning
and 7.30 in the evening. He made the
number 21S. large number go
over Main street regularly early in
the morning and late in the evening,
so it is probably a reasonable estimate
to add at least 100 more to the young
mans count for that day.
D. J. Hathorne is one of the best
known farmers in Woolwich and
keeps some of the finest stock to be
return from the Maine fairs laden
with blue ribbons. He recently sold
a COW and calf to Alden Perkins of
Bath for $40 which he believes to be
the best price ever paid in Woolwich.
He has two years old heifer which
attended six Maine fairs last year
and brought home a blue ribbon
from each. She already weighs over
500 pounds. He cut over so tons of
hay on his farm this year and has
about four acres sowed to oats.
which he tells the Independent. are
looking finely. He has about Is
head of fine stock and they attract
the attention of many who visit his
neighborhood He planted an acre
of potatoes this year and an acre of
corr.
The reason for the Cubans naming
their gunboat now at Bath Hatuey is
thus given by A. J. Louney. clerk at
the Bath Iron Works: July Is, 1911.
the Indian prince 'Hatuey,' who had
fled from Haiti. his native country to
Cuba. in order to free himself from
the tyranny of the SpaniardS. fell into
their hands and was condemned to be
burned alive. Upon the execution of
this sentence, he said to the priest.
who attended him during his last mo-
ments, If the SpaniardS go to
heaven, | never want to go there.
Hatuey was burned in the public
square of East Yara. In this place
grows large, leafy tamarind tree
which former generations pointed
out as the scene of his barbarous ex-
ecutiOn."
A. NJ Goodwin, a B. &, M. r. r. sta
tion agent at Saco is the last Chris
tian Adventist to prophesy, He fore
tells this worlds crash in 1914. 1t is
a Goodwin to bet he's wrong like all
his predecessors in the world smash
ing business.
while ago two men We're driving
over one of the roads in Harpswell
when one of them saw something in
the road which looked particularly at
tractive. He stopped the horse. got
out and picked up a crisp one dollar
bill. Hardly had the horse started
before his friend jumped out and
picked up a five spot. With money
coming this way they decided to hunt
for some more but that was all that
they found.
AT the Augusta House. Monday. the
GoSSiper ran across Fred A. Willis,