Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-14

Great brown heaps the sidewalks cover,
Knee deep in them children wade;
Overhead bare branches hover,
Cold and gray and disarrayed.
lack Frost brings the briefest freedom,
Winter drear will soon be king;
Scurry, skip, and hurry, hurry!
Dance your fastest, widest fling!
Selected.
Car Ne. 105 of the Portland Railroad
CO. stole pair of tongs, the property
OF the i3eechWood Ice Co., the other
day one of the company's ice teams
drove across Congress street IN front
aof the car and the jar Of the cart over
the track caused Il pair of ice tongs
to shake loose from the rear end ana
fan on the rails The car was coming
along close behind, and the motorman,
evidently not seeing the toEgS,
ran the car upon them in such a way
as to make them fly up quickly and one
of the corners caught i'll some OF the
undergcar of the car. The ice man
missed his tOngs and got off III" cart
to pick them up when the car should
have passed over them, hut when thdt
time came he found no tongs He
heard . suspicious rafting under
the car and caught d glimpse of his
company's property going up street
at . rapid rate. but refusing TO drop
off the car The Portland Argus tells
this remarkable story and suggests
that this kleptomaniac car b" placed
on probation for q year
Wctlnt sday, NOV. was the 10Th am
nivecsarv Of the opening Of the Cam
den & Rockland Water Co.'S. system.
The water was let into the pipes at
oyster River pond, now Mirror lake,
Nov. 2, 1885, but it was not until the
following day that the water reached
Rockland and ran clear Quite lit
tie local celebration was had upon the
arrival of the water. Hose was put
on the hydrant at the corner Of Main
and North Main streets and streams
We're sent as high rs 90 feet above tie
Rankin block. The church bells We're
rung to SignaliZc the event and Dig
crowds came out on the streets. The
anniversary was not specially ccle-
brateu although Superintendent Crock
err at the company's office reminded all
callers of the fact and libatiorS were
made in honor of the occasion from
the company's pipes.
3. F. Hamilton, 90 years old, one
of the most wonderfully preserved
men Of his years in Maine, was down
town in Biddeford early last Wednes-
day morning to get the election news.
Mr.. Hamilton is still as smart as most
men of 10.
b. Z. Allen returned Tuesday to
Brunswick from Trout Brook farm
near Patten with u curiosity in the
deer line He brought home two deer,
one a handsome buck and the other
a doe with three perfectly developed
| ears. Two ears We're i'll the regular
| position, while the third. which was
an exact duplicate of the other two
was on the undcrsidc Of the neck.
Brooksvillc aSpires to d place IN the
hall of fame with story of tobacco
chewing mice. These animals frequent
| the grocery store of Frank II. Billings
| and he says they prefer a particular
and cheese and almost anything else,
getting away with a good part Of
plug in u night or two. But he does
not object to that so much as to their
| splitting tobacco Juice all over the
| floors and counters. He thinks Of pro
viding cuspidors for them and fur
nishinS u supply of their taT"ritc
| brand 50 that they will keel, away
| from the other goods
The agitation among certain resi-
dents of the village Of SabattuS i'll
| the town Of Webster towards having
| that village annexed to Lewiston has
not by any means ceased and 1t is
understood that a concerted effort Is
| to he made to accomplish results.
| Those in favor of the annexation
movement declare that there are many
| advantages to be derived by SabattuS
| in being Il part of the city OF Lewis
! ton.
John T. Berry of RockIand has re-
! ccived from the Hydraulior Engine
and Hose Co Of Bristol. r. T.. a hand
some gold badge. made and engraved
to order, presented to him by the men,
| bcrs in token of their appreciation of
his cordial and hospitable entertain
mcnt of them when they were guests
| p few weeks ago of Americas Hook
and Ladder Go. of Rockland.
Not fer years past has game been
| more plentiful in Washington county
than during the present season, says
staff correspondent of the Bangor
Commercial. Despite the adverse con-
ditions which have prevailed in tho
woods in the vicinity of Calais as well
as in other sections of the State dur
ing most Of the fall, deer, moose bear,
wildcats and cartridges have been
killed in large numbers. The bounty