Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-14

Mrs. A. S. Harmon of Washington
avenue, Old Orchard, has in her pos
session a unique ink well. at one time
the properly of John Brown of Har-
per's Ferry fame. 1t is. Of an odd
style of pottery, a pretty shade of
brown, and represents young wom-
an, her head Testing on d stump of
tree, her hattlying beside her. How
Mrs. Harmon came into possession Of
it the following story tells. Some 80
years ago Mrs. Harmon was living in
Massachusetts. Hearing of the illness
OF a neighhOr, she called to see if she
could in any way be of assistance.
She found, very i'll, a man who said he
was q nephew OF John Brown. The
mans illness continued until it was
thought necessary to remove him to
the hospital. Before going he called
Mrs. Harmon, to his bedside and said:
There are q few things that my I'M
Gle gave me that | would like you to
take care of for me, the ink we'll being
one of the articles. If | never come
back they are yours" He never came
back, so Mrs. Harmon is the possessor
of the unique little inkWelI."
Bangor NeWs.-Searsport seems to
be becoming a center for the phGs-
phate trade for this section in addi-
ton to the American Agricultural
Chemical Co., and Hubbard plants
now situated here, the Martin & White
Company of Baltimore has made ar
rangements to distribute from Mack s
point and will ship some 5000 tons
mere the present season to be bagged
barreled and shipped in their Maine
territory. The firm will employ so or
more men and will use one of the big
warehouses on the point for a shed.
Inc boarding house at the Harhor,
owned by Eugene Carver. of Boston,
winch has been closed for two years
or more has been opened for the ac-
commodatlon of the workmen The
making of Searsport a distributing
point. by the Martin & White Co. will
doubtless mean that the company will
build here another season. Searsport's
Board of Trade welcomes all new in
dustrles and takes pleasure in answer
ing all communications from firms
H. l. true OF Wilton is doing quite a
business making skewers. He has a
machine of his own invention that
works finely The skewers are made
very fast. They are polished and put
mp in pasteboard boxes. 1000 in each.
and Grated, 20 boxes in a crate. then
ChlnnpH &c
use S7O06O worth of skewers per wear.
Mr. true employs six or eight hands.
Lewiston Journal-No enc around
these parts knows more about the art
of trapping than Waldo Dean of Liver
more Falls. He knows what best
brings the various fur-bearing animals
to the trap or traps (for he usually
sets two that the game may not get
away, but once in a while he gets
fooled. For instance, one morning this
week on goint3o his skunk traps, what
was his surprise to find an unusually
hne fox caught fast, the fox having
disregarded all the warnings Of which
! reynard is usually wary.
n. M. Lincoln cut on his farm at
Llncoln's Mills in Corinna what has
| been called for many years in this To-
cality the big pine, it being AZ inches
IN diameter, making six logs 16 feet
lorg and about 20 feet of the top was
not used in lumber The tree has
been hauled to Mr.. Lincolns new mill
which has been built the past winter
to replace the one burned April 2 The
first cut scaled $50 feet of fine lum-
Der. Isaac Bates follows with a pine
cut on his farm 81 inches in diameter
the first cut Il feet long, scaling 46
feet.