Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-09-23


The summer travel oyer the railroad
lines entering Union station, Portland,
Express says that it is con-
| siderably larger than last season.
| Wallace P. Plant. who runs q farm
in East Brunswick. has raised one OF
| the largest melon crops in Maine this
season. He has brought into the Bath
| market 1000 very fine vanilla cream
melons and is also picking several
hundred for a Portland firm. The
melons are unusually large and sound.
| A LiningtOn boy has just performed
| a remarkable reading feat, which
| probably has not been duplicated in
recent years. Nellie Small, who VIII
| not be II Years old until next \OVem-
| Der, has, according to the Lminston
correspondent of the Express Adver-
tser. read the Bible through in seven
| months and u days.
| Partridges are plentiful in the Maine
woods and local and out t-of-the- State
sportsmen are finding the hunting of
them great sport since the season
| opened a week ago.
| A. 3. Stantial of Belfast, according
to the RepublicanJourna has raised
this season crop of muskmelons that
are said to be vastly superior in size
| and quality to other melons of that
| kind. They are as large as three Of
| the melons that come from Colorado
and other states and in lusciOusness
also have them distanced. I'VE should
not be surprised another season to find
Mr. Stantial marketing home grown
| bananas and pine apples" says the
| Republican, Journal.
The BiddefOrd afternoon papers had
an unpleasant delay in getting out a
J few days ago. A fire behind the
| switchboard at the electric light sta
| ton IN that city cut off all the power
| for an hour and half. The accident
| came before many lights were in use
| by the residents of the city, but it un'
| fortunately happened just at the time
| the local papers were going to press
| and they We're delayed until $50 p. NJ.
| Oscar Shirley of Houton has re-
Gently sold a pair of horses, four
months old colt and a sucking for the
| tidy sum of S25O0. The price paid for
| the four months colt was $500, said to
be the highest price ever paid for a
colt of that age. This stock sold by
| Mr.. Shirley is the famous Suffolk
stock which was imported to Houlton
| from England.
| II. Columbus BarrOWS who died sun
day at West Sumner, aged - years.
| was one OF the six sons of the late
Joel Barrows. all of whom served III
| the Civil War. Two only of this 10y
| al family now remain. Fred BarroWS
of South Paris and G. Horace Barrows
of West Sumner.
| The Lisbon school board is planning
| to introduce q commercial course in
| Of Lisbon and Lisbon Falls. 1t is be-
| lieved by the board that such n course
| will keep many Of the young people in
| school longer and will also make 4
more practical addition to the course
| for those who wish to prepare them
| selves Immediately for business. The
| course will include shorthand. type
writing business law and bookkeeping g
| in addition to the studies along these
| lines already taught in the schools Of
| that town
Bangor residents are feeling very
4 proud over the gain made by that city
of s50OO00 in taxable property during
the past year. as shown by the an
| nual inventory of the board of assess
| ors of the Queen City The valuation
| of the city has more than doubled in
| the past 90 years, says the News.
| Manufacturers will be interested in
| the monster exposition of Portland
| products. which is to be held in the
| Auditorium in that city on the week
| Of Oct. 81, This exposition is under
| the auspices of the Portland Board OF
! Trade and Retail Merchants Associa-
| ton and will demonstrate many sur
| prising features. The big canning
| esta blishments. which flourish in tn"
| State metropolis. will show how the
| vegetables and fruits which help to
make Maine famous are cooked, canned
| and cased. Machines will be set up
| to do a great variety of skilful COM
| binatons of construction.
| f. W. Shannon. a prominent lawyer
| of Kansas City. who. accompanied by
| Mrs. Shannon, has just completed an
| auto trip from their home city to Port
| land. distance of over 1866 miles, is
| the son of the late Dr. Nathaniel
| Shannon. formerly a well known prac-
titioner of medicine in Cape Elizabeth
| and Portland. Mrs. shannon is the
| daughter of the late Joseph H. Tucker
| Of Portland and it is at the Tucker
house that the Shannons will pass the
| time of their stay in Portland.
| Prof. Frank Lamson Scribner. a
| graduate of the University of Maine
| in the class of '73 is in charge of the
| exhibit of the United States depart
ment of agriculture at the Internation-
| al Agricultural exhibition now beins
| held in the Argentine Republic at
Palermo near RuenoS AyreS Prof