Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-22
Maine Gossip
Nothing.

Nothing.
There are worlds and worlds beyond our
gaze,
The earth is like a whirling, nudge;
But what's all this to him VINO plays
An ardent game of bridge:
| cleveland Plain Dealer.
York Observation-Disclosures Ray
mond, Marshall Putnam ana Ray-
| mond Weare expect to leave York
| shortly for Guatemala, Central Amer
| lea. They will enter the employ OF the
| United Fruit Co. as toremen on d
plantation, where they Will nave charge
| of large number of natives, engaged
in fruit gathering. All three young
men are we'll known in York, ana their
many friends wish them success IN
| their new venture.
| George f. West of the Portland
Yacht Club has sold his steam yacht
| Philomena, the largest in the club fleet,
| to Boston parties.
| Lewiston Journal:-What lot of
trouble a little matter maketh. If you
don't think so ask Joe Tarr who is the
expert tinker finder and repairer of the
New England Tel. & Tel. Co. in Lewis
| ton and Auburn. All the morning FIJI
| day he had been working over an IN
| tricate box in the Lewiston journal
editorial rooms. The signals kept go
ing wrong and keeping the lights gong
in the central office. So they worked
and worked amid a tangle OF wires ana
| buttons until all at once they cried
| Eureka! and out of the giZzards OF the
machine they took tiny nut not pig
ger than the head of "A pin. 1t had fall
| len into place. where II SPARED
| across the circuits and fused up the
| machine worse than a boil on the back
| of the bridegroom's neck will fuss up
| a wedding. Our time is taken up
said Joe, "by one trouble after another
| and most of them are small | never
| swear or else | could quote Gilbert
| Hubbard and say that the life of the
telephone repairer is just one damn
| thing after another.
| Lewiston Journal: Maine newspa-
pers should give wide publicity to the
success OF Charles E. Hardy of Hollis,
n. H, in resuscitating an old orchard,
ao hundreds of Maine farms have
| similar apple orchards which are prac-
| tically worthless in their present con-
ditlOn and produce nothing but a few
| cider apples. According to the pub
| lished statements regarding Mr.. Har-
| dv's success, it was five years ago that
| he took charge OF an old orchard which
| contained $50 trees. The orchard mad
been neglected and was overgrown
with bushes, While many of the trees
were infested with the San Jose
scale" Mr.. Hardy thinned the orchard
fertilized and sprayed the trees, using
lime and sulphur and also sprayed for
J the coddling moth with the Bordeaux
| mixture. The first year he gathered
| from the $50 trees $50 barrels of apples
The next year he harvested 600 barrels
| from 400 trees. In 1907 he gathered S35
barrels; in 1908, 1850 barrels, and in
| 1909, 1000 barrels. In 1907 the apples
We're marketed for $2400, the next year
for $780, and in 1909 for $500, making
a total receipt in three years of over
| $4,000.
Deer are so numerous in Westport
| that a big buck recently followed a
| lDdu VI nay d long anu ulu
not seem to fear the driver at all.
Horace Chenery of Belfast has enter
ed a Russian hound in the Boston Dog
show and expects to get a ribbon.
Capt. Henry Gillespie of the Sea King
the old bark which has arrived in
Bath to be dismantled and converted
into a barge, visited friends in Port
land Sunday for the first time in %
years.
Capt. Benjamin Y. Havener, who
halls from Searsport and got his edu-
cation at Belfast and Kent's Hill has
since been engaged in the newspaper
| business on the Pacific coast, did
business in Australia and later in ia
| pan and then went to sea. During his
sea faring career he has been under
| fire from batteries in the hands of mu-
| tlneers. His most exciting experiences
have occurred while transporting pris-
oners for the Russian government.
Among recent applicants for member
ship in the Pennington chapter, D. A.
r., is Mrs. Sophronia White of New
Sharon. who is now in her 95th year.
She has an excellent Revolutionary
record, her grandfather, Elisha Hol-
man OF Sutton, Mass, having been one
Oh military organization who march,
ed all night on learning of the fight at
Lexington, and later served in the
army for several months, or till the
seat of war was changed to other parts
OF the country. Mrs. White is also a
grandnlece of Gel. Jonathan Holman,
who commanded the Fifth Massachu
Sets regiment in the war for Indepen-
dence.
Captain McDonough of the Portland
police department is authority for the
statement that juvenile delinquency
has dropped off so per cent. since the
organization of the Mass. Boys Grub
ono y-ear aUc Mrs Rnrnb1m notice