Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-13

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| 1t had no thought of giving,
| But found, with neither strlfe nor pam
| What man in vain has sought 10 gam
Washington Star.
| The folks up Wilton way have taken
| to riding horseback, according to a
recent news note. The sport deserves
to be more popular in this State.
| The Madison Bulletin has discovered
q flock of ten hens which lay ten
eggs every other day and five eggs
on the alternate DAYS.
| NorrdgeWock is to have corn FAC
of corn have been promised. A site
for the factory has been selected and
the building will he ready for the fan
| activities.
Augustus big Labor Day celebra-
| ton will get a big boost at the annual
| convention of the Maine State Branch
| of the American Federation of Labor,
which is to be held at Biddeford the
| first Tuesday in June.
w II. Mccain. Il well-knoWn Lew
| iston veteran. in looking over the regi-
mental rolls, recently discovered that
of the lO2 men mustered into II.
company of the 18th Me, but II are
now known to be living.
improvements on the Rockland,
1homaston and Camden street railway
line are being made this spring. New
wire is being strung and new gen.
orator will be added To the equipment
at the power station. The new unit
will double the power available.
Capt. w. II. Sansbury of the Bath
Salvation Army is going 10 carry his
services to people along the kennebec
and nearby shore. He has acquired a
25-foOt motor boat which will carry
IS people and will cruise in kennebec
waters through the summer season.
Bath Times. David Deering has a
cat which was born on board the bark
Sea King on her long run here from
Tacoma. The cat has been landsick
many times since she has been ashore
and when other cats call she acts like
a log driver at a millionaire'S dinner.
An interesting relic at the home of
Mrs. Charlotte c. Ortiz in Phippsburg
is on of the boards bearing the name
of the ship Hanover which was
washed ashore when the craft was
wrecked. The Hanover manned
by a Phippsburg crew. was lost at
the mouth of the Kennebec and not
one of those on board was saved. 1t
was one OF the worst wrecks which
ever occurred along this coast as about
every man in the crew was within
sight of home when drowned.
The West Pttsfield correspondent
Of the Pittsfield Advertiser tells of the
following startling experience OF a
neignbor: Mrs. Fred Allen received
quite a fright on Tuesday afternoon
while busy sewing by hearing tiut-
tering and quickly looking up saw ii
chicken hawk flying around the room.
vas left open and it was thought the
hawk made the dive in after a canary
bird which hung in cage in the VIM
dow. He quickly disappeared out the
way he came.
Mrs. n. \. Butler of Easthrook.
writing OF the early history of that
| town. says the first campo built was
by Tugwassah and Sabatlus on the
place now occupied by John Piper.
who hunted and trapped in the vicin-
ity. AS TugwaSsah was bringing Il
jug Of molasses across the pond, he
fell, breaking the jug. The molasses
spread rapidly and over a large area.
The old fellow. on getting up. viewed
the scene about him, eXclaiming, this
| is all one Molasses pond" Hence its
name. The man who said that the
| only good Indian is a dead one, prob
! ably never knew Tugwassah. who was
always spoken very highly of by the
| first settlers
People living in the Sehasco neigh
| borhOod and others in Phippsburg are
interested IN the work Whlcn FREEMAN
| II. Merritt of White Plains. \. Y, is
havl"g done upon what he calls the
Sebasco estates. He is installing Il
model water system in his colony and
gets mis- supply from well which
gives forth 1900 gallons of fine spring
water every "a hours. The we'll is 15la
| feet deep and seven feet in diameter
and the water will be pumped by COM
pressed air into tank Of 1900 gallons
capacity. This water viii be piped to
| his three bungalows so that the oc-
cupants will have a supply equal TO
city water and of much purer quality
| This is only one Of the many improve
ments he is making in that place
Lewiston Journal: The OLD FARMER
came into Auburn this morning wear
ing a broad smile and when he saw
a journal reporter he shouted whoa!
Then, leaning over the wheel, ne
softly remarked: This is a wonder
full spring. The season is almost a
month ahead and I am already pegln-
ming to put in some of my crops.
There is only a small amount ol irost