Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-01
Maine Gossip
A Toast.
To the moment that's the feetest,
Hold it fast;
The first kiss is the sweetest
Make it last.
New York Sun.


New York Sum-
Pennington Chronicle: Mention has
been made one or more times of late
of the fact that colonies of beavers
have located in recent years in Ches-
terville. A short time ago Is. II. heyes
of that town brought to TINS ONCE anu
left here stick of wood nearly TWO
inches through which had been gnaWed
| off by beavers. The stick is, perhaps
the trunk of a small poplar or alder
tree, but the same inclsors Whlcn cut
the stick from the stump removed the
bark and it is not easy to say what the
tree was. The stick does, however,
tell how persistently the little furry
carpenters ply their work. surely
they are always as busy as beavers.
A pet cat owned by c. w. Chick Of
Norway was run over by the electric
cars some weeks ago. She ran under
a building after the accident and was
not found for several DAYS. she
seemed badly hurt and so they had her
Ichloroformed and buried. Mrs. Chlck S
father saw the cat coming up the pain
soon after and let her into the mousse
and when the family came home, they
found the cat under the kitchen stove,
purring away as if nothing had nap
pened She was carried into the
furnace cellar where she generally
slept and fed, and is doing nicely II
lno other accident happens to her she
will probably live until she dies
natural DEATH This same cat was
locked into the Congregational church
vestry last summer for ten days with
out food or water. In about an hour
after she was brought dome she had a
family Of kittens.
Last October, when the apple pack
ers were packing l.. j. Strouts APP
pies at Limington. he wrote a letter
and enclosed a few stamps, request
ing the purchaser to write him the
date they were opened, the name
and residence of the purchaser. the
condition Of the apples, price paid per
barrels, etc Mr. Strout has re-
ceived a letter from the purchaser
dated Deg. 9th, saying he opened the
barrel containing the letter on the
twenty fifth of December and found
the apples in fine condition and very
| line lfult. lie lbs q
fruit stand in the Strabroke market
in Georgetown, Demerara, BRITISH
Guiana. South America. The price
| paid was nine dollars per barrel for
No. Is and eight dollars for No. ,.
The purchaser of this fruit wished
Mr.. Strout to send at once quite
quantity of like fruit as we'll as cab
bage, turnips, carrots, etc. This lot
,1e-
or more, was shipped south by a Port
| land firm.
The increasing care which is being
taken in preserving gravestone inscrip
tons in New England's abandoned
family graveyards, has been Of great
value in furnishing missing links in
many incomplete family genealogles'
according to the annual report OF
President Baxter, presented 70 me
New England Historical Genealogical
Society at it's Goth annual meeting IN
Boston. Wednesday. Jan. 26. The Of
fcers elected include: James 7. Baxter,
Portland, and vice-presldent. VIM. ID.
Patterson, Wiscasset.
The United States lighthouse tender
| Mayhower, which has been undergo
ing extensive repairs and changes at
the Bath Iron Works since October IA
last. is completed and has lately
been given a trial trip on the river.
The machinery was operated at full
speed and she made a speed of 10
knots, which is one knot faster than
she could so before she was over
| ,aI no it1r Ctp
steering gear, wndlass and electric
| outfit We're tested and found to be in
first-class condition and the work was
| satisfactory to the lighthouse officials
She will resume her station at once,
i'll the Second Lighthouse District
which extends from Portsmouth, n. H.,
TIC New Bedford, Mass. with headquar-
| ters at Boston.
Charles j. Donnell, q Well-lnown
has been stationed at Manila where
he is employed by the International
Banking Company, has recently been
ordered to Cebu on the Island of
| Cebu
\ man from Scion was in Portland a
few days ago with genuine silver
gray fox pelt of exceptional excellence
and when Boston fur buyer whom
| he chanced to meet in fur store Of
tered him $3.50 for it, he grabbed the
precious pelt and fled from the store.
NO one present has seen or heard
from MN since and his precipitate de-
parture is a mystery to them. Wheth-
ef he was frightened at the prospect
OF obtaining so much money for so
small an item as a fox skin or what
the state of his mind that caused him
to fleet in such haste is too odd and
eccentric to meet with a ready and ac-
curate explanation.
Capt. Isaiah Bowden of South Pc
nobscot. has received from the bureau
of navigation, navy department,
badge of honor in recognition for SER
vices rendered as an officer in the
United States navy during the Civil