Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-26
Maine Gossip
A Toast.

A Toast.
Here's toast to the prettiest girl in
II Is needless to disclose her
Name, or even describe her gown,
FOR every young fellow knows her.
Detroit Free Press
one of the men in Houlton who
believes in taking a chance on pota-
toes this season is Charles II. Berry.
Four men are now engaged in cut
ing seed for a plot of Is acres that
VIII be devoted to the raising OIL
spuds this year-Aroostook Pioneer
Ana another man who believes in
taking chance on potatoes this
season is A. j. McDuugal of caribou
who is planting $50 acres to potatoes.
-Aroostook Republican
John A. WOodman, eXhOtel man
of Norway, had the table on which
Sylvanus Cobb wrote his famous
stories while living in Norway. Mr..
Woodman also has the cabinet with
pigeon holes and door 10 close 1t up
all tight and snug where Sylvanus
Cobb kept his manuscripts and notes
in the different stages of the stories.
AT a sale of rare books recently
held in New York, 1851 was paid for
a few volumes from the collection of
Mrs. n. Q. Pope of South Portland.
Among the important Volumes solo
We're: st. Dunstan illuminated
| edition of Dckens's "PickWick Pa
pers"; PURCHASES "Pilgrimes and Pill
grimage"; Tour of the River
| Thames; Henry Fielding's History
of Tom Jones'; John Gays FABLES
| and Edmund Spencers "Fairie
Queene.'
| Bath Times: With characteristic
| modesty, the Quincy shipbuild~rs evil
with the information that the Sterrett
| launched this week. was The pioneer
of the new type of ocean going de
| stroyers." Possibly they forgot that
| the Paulding had been launched some
| weeks before in this city, was ten
| per cent. further advanced on May l
! than the Sterrett and would shortly
| be ready for trial. The Bath-built
boat was first of her type in the wa
| ter and promises to be the first on
| the trial course and first in commits
| sion. Ii any of the sisters is entitled
| to the definite article. it is scarcely
| the Quincy boat.
Old York Transcript: While digging
| in the ground near his home last
In
| dian arrow head. The specimen is a
large one, and is very good. At first
glance one would take the arrow head
| for merely a sharp pointed stone. but
closer inspection reveals the marks of
crude workmanship, in an endeaVor TO
make the instrument pointed and
| sharp. AS the place where the relic
was found is known as former haunts
| OF Indians, there can be but little
| doubt about the find. The arrow head
will be placed in the Old Jail, where il
may be seen by visitors this summer
ROckland Courier Gazette: Walter
G. Lenfest, a former, Thomaston boy,
who is with the Soledal Sugar Co.,
Cienfuegos, writes of a very successful
| season, finished April 30 They made
$4,000 bags of sugar, averaging 1926
pounds per bag, and ground 24,019R
| tons of sugar cane to make it. The
| crop was the largest they ever made
| There has been no rain since last
| October, everything is brown and dried
up, and the cattle are dying by the
hundred every day. The company is
| to put up new sugar house this
| summer which is coming from Scot
| land and is all iron. Mr.. Lenfest ex-
| poets to come north some time this
summer.
w. V. fainter Of South Carthage is
one of the few persons living who saw
Halley's comet when it last visited us
| in 1885. Mr.. Fainter now in his S8th
year is straight as an arrow and as
active as most men at 60 years, al
ways busy in the fields and orchards
of Wildwood farm" Mr.. Tainter
plainly remembered the comets visit
10 years ago, and relates interesting
facts regarding the season. 1t was
very dry, and April Is of that year a
| great fire started in Weld spreading as
| far as Wilton burng fiercely over the
lands covered with tree tops and
burning large amount of pine logs
| which the lumbermen had been forced
to leave i'm the rivers because of the
low water Mr.. fainter was present
at the founding of the Republican
party in Maine at Strong: and has
been a staunch Republican ever since
| He has attended every county con-
vention of his party since. Mr.
FAINTER is prominent Granger. Past
master of Mt Sugar Loaf Grange but
was member of Mystic Grange of
East DiXfield
The old Walsh mansion in Waldo
boro is a perfect museum of valuable
antique curios. the massive mahogany
furniture and quaint family portraits
are fascinating collection. The
parlor is indescribably interesting, the
walls being covered with the land
| scape paper so much in vogue in
| those days-and the hanging of which
necessitated sending to New York for
a paper hanger capable of placing it
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