Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-20

Greenbush w. Richardson. the her
nit of Richardson Hill is dead at -.
He was single and lived in Auburn IS
years. He observed Saturday as Sun
day.
Portland has Il newly married couple
who are spending their honeymoon
worrying. The cause lies in the fact
that when they applied to City Clerk
Cummings several days ago they made
a false representation as to the name
of the prospective bride. and also gave
the wrong names of her parents. There
can be no doubt that the couple are le-
galiy married. The law protects the
sanctity of the marriage contract in
such 4 way that The mere classifying of
names cannot viGate q ceremony per-
formed by q competent magistrate: but
playing fast and loose with such a SOL
el1n matter is discouraged by the i'm
position of heavy penalties and no end
of trouble. Mr.. Cummings has written
to State Register Young at Augusta for
instructions.
The deadly house-fly now sticketh
closer than a politician to a doubtful
voter
Secretary of State Philander G..
Knox and Mrs. Knox, also Mr.. and
Mrs. Phlander G. Knox, Jr., who have
been recent guests at Poland Spring
are at Belgrade. Secretary Knox is at
Belgrade to enjoy the fishing. as the
place was recommended to him by
friends. If the fish bite well, as it is
said they WILL the secretary will send
for former Senator Joseph B. Foraker
of Ohio. who is at Poland. TO come up
and wet line with him. He expects
to be at the Belgrade for three or four
days The Knox family have engaged
quarters at Belgrade for two weeks in
September.
The NJ. G. r. r. has published a
booklet devoted to the Maine hen. The
hen responds "Cut-cut -cut-k' dark ut"
Schooner F.. T. Hamor Capt. w. T.
Simmons. has come into the limelight
again. Since he succeeded to the COM
mand OF this schooner, he has made a
number of quick trips but the one that
was completed at Portland. the 18th.
will go on record as the best ever He
made a round trip of $50 miles. stopped
at three different ports. discharged and
put on cargo. and got back to Portland
all in 81 hours.
Belfast has a Republican Club which
holdS Monday evening sessions and is
doing admirable work
A handsome individual communion
service has been presented to the
Phillips Free Baptist society. by those
have di6d. of a number of persons who
joined the church together in 1876 The
gift is a memorial of that event.
1t is interesting to note observes the
Portland Express, that the Old Brick
House. on the road from Bar Mills to
Mrs. Kate Douglass Riggs home in
Hollis. which is occupied by Miss Re-
'becra Randall Usher is the house used.
with notifications, as the model for
the brick house which is seen in the
play, Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm 1t
is wrong to infer from this. however,
that Miss Usher. who is SO years old, or
the house is in any other way connect
ed with the story OF which airs. Riggs
is the author. 1t is merely a coinci-
dence of names and scenery which
might very naturally lead to wrong
conclusions.
Fifty years ago mill operatives in
Lewiston and Brunswick, in fact all
over Maine worked 10 hours week.
Now they are employed but 5S hours.
Flag ship Hatuey of the Cuban NAVY
originally was the yacht Pantooset,
built at Bath 1907 for the copper king,
A. $. Bigelow of Boston. She is the
hrst foreign ship to come to Maine for
repairs.