Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-07

| town but it can boast of two banks
soon as new one has just been Or
ganized at South Monroe under the di-
rection of Prof. H. 0. Divoll.
Fred D. Matheas, Bangor's Oldest
I fireman in point of length of continu-
Gus service. resigned Wednesday from
Hose |. after serving SO years as a
member of this company. 1t is for no
particular reason that Fred now leaves
the department and it is with feelings
of regret and many urgent invitations
to stay. to change his mind and still
run with the boys that his resignation
was received
The fiftieth wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Goodwin was
| quietly observed at their home in
Stetson on Sunday, Jan. 2, a unique
feature of the program occurred at
high noon, when S. j. Ridlon, Esq,
over the telephone, repeated the mar
riage ceremony which had united them
| half a century ago.
| The Pilgrim Publicity Association
informs US that at least 40 New Eng
land papers used the Credo which APP
peared on this page Jan. l.
During conversation in regard to
the weather a prominent Portland
politician gave the following as an
example of the cold weather of years
ago He stated that where he was
living it was the habit to put several
sticks of wood in the oven over night
SO that it would be dry and ready to
burn the next morning when the folks
got up to make the days fire. one
cold night the fire went out and when
he got up in the morning the oven
door was frozen to the stove, the sap
and water from the wet wood having
run as far as the door and frozen.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland who is to
spend the winter at Lausanne, Swift
zerland, where her two daughters are
at school, has been the guest OF
Countess Lazzari of Florence, for a
few days and during her stay there
was entertained by Mr.. and Mrs. Z.
r. Parke of Florence, with whom as
hosts she went to FiesOle and other
nearby points in an automobile Mrs.
Parke was Miss Alice Scammon of
Saco, daughter of the late John
Quincy Scammon, and granddaugh-
ter Of the late Capt. Richard f. Z.
Hartley of Saco. DR.. Parke was
young physician of Bradford, Pa, at
l1o of
Scammon. He is now one of the
most prominent and successful prac-
titioners of Florence and favorably
known in professional circles through
out northern and central Italy.
A Biddeford gardener picked pan
sizes from his garden Jan. 3. At the
approach of cold weather he covered
his pansy bed with sail cloth to pro-
tcct the blossoms as long as possible
Monday he went into the garden
shoveled the snow from the bed and
lifting the sail cloth exposed large
number of the flowers in full bloom
and as bright looking as pansies ever
are in summer time.
Just when many are discussing the
use of cement as building material it
is interesting to note that the resi-
dence of Mrs. Josephine II. McCorklc
in Cape Elizabeth, one Of the most
beautiful residences in this country, is
of concrete on expanded metal.
Foxes have become so numerous on
Rogue Island, near Machias, that the
caretaker, Frank NJ. Smith, has pur
chased Kentucky fox hound and will
indulge in a little sport.
South Portland and Wcstbrook re-
port having seen an airship going
across the heavens Monday night. 1t
is in South Africa by this time if that
gale struck it.
The Andover stage came to grief
during the recent gale. The wind
caught it on the broad side and tipped
it over into the ditch. smashing it so
badly that it was abandoned by the
driver
The steamer Massasoit which car
ries freight along the Maine coast lost
her smokestack off Cape Ann Monday
morning.
Strange are the turns of fortune
which come to gallant ships. In 1881,
there was built at Bath the full rugged
ship y. j. Fuller which in the years
since then has sailed on many seas
Had she followed the destiny of many
old-time square riggers. the Fuller
would probably have been transformed
into a barge to be towed alongshore
With cargoes, but instead of that she
is to have a taste Of life in the Arctic
The Fuller in her later years has been
on the Pacific. She was recently
bought by the Northwestern Fisheries
company which owns fleet of vessels
sailing from Seattle to engage in the
Alaskan fisheries. The Fuller will be
operated in connection with the com
pany's station on Cooks inlet.