Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-04
Kansas City journal.


EFT recently probated made provision
| that her property should go to the town
of Poland for the benefit of children
| under Is years Of age and old people
over 60 years of age. The town at a
special town meeting has voted to ac-
cept the provisions of the Will.
T. Fred Pierce anc Miss Alice NJ.
Pierce of Wellesley, Mass, have sent
to the Rockland public library Cap
roni bust of Abraham Lincoln. Inc
bust is a companion piece to that OF
LongfelloW donated few years ago
by Jarvis c. Perry and it will greatly
add to the beauty of the interior OF
the library. .ss
The Bangor Shoe Co. has begun the
work of making Goodyear welts and
from now on this line is to be the most
important one made at the factory in
that city says the Bangor Commerclal.
The factory now employs 60 hands but
within two or three weeks 1t IS eX-
pected that the number of hands at
work in the factory will be more than
doubled.
The Brunswick Record says that w.
l.. Hannah of that town will get
big Weld from jhis 81 acres of pota-
toes. Ten hills recently dug showed
44ih pounds Of potatoes or SO tubers.
Six hills had ono stalk and four hills
had two stalks. The. 10 hills indicate
yield of over 500 bushels to the acre,
York Harbor people just now are able
to ride over the Boston &: Maine Rail-
road from the York Harbor station to
Boston for $144, while in Portsmouth.
~ H., the fare to Boston one way is
81. 40, making a difference of only four
cents between Portsmouth and YORK
Harbor, although the distance is some
IL miles further from the last named
place The explanation of this seem
ing discrimination is very simple. how
ever. The interstate commerce law
compels railroads to file their tariff
changes in Washington 30 days in aG-
vance. but by some oversight when the
other changes We're filed the York Har-
Dor and Beach branch was overlooked.
A. A. Conant of Hebron is an ex
pert grower of small fruit. Mr.. Con-
ant mas a half acre of raspberries and
although the drouth of early summer
hurt them he has sold 1869 quarts this
season for nearly all of which he re-
ceived Is cents a quart. Mr.. Conant
has received orders already for up
wards of 1000 plants the coming spring.
state EntOmologist Hitchings exam
ined the plants short time ago and
pronounced them free from all plant
diseases.
The steamer May Archer. which has
been making daily trips during the
summer from rhomaston to Monhegan
and Boothbay Harbor. has made her
last trip for the season and is hauled
up at Port Clyde for the winter. A
number of Augusta people during the
summer made the trip to Boothbay
HarbOr on the Islander and then took
the May Archer around to Monhegan.
remaining there over night and re-
turning by the same route the follow
ing day.
A number of reports have been made
of the presence of moose in the thick
ly settled portions of Central Maine
but now comes the Wheelers Bay cor
respondent of the Rockland Opinion
VINO afiirms in the weekly letter from
that coast village in the town of st.
George in Knox county that very
large moose was seen crossing the
fields there. The moose did not appear
to be in any hurry. the correspondent
remarks.
Albert Robinson of Rockland had
narrow escape from drowning in COM
pany with his horse a few days ago
Robinson is the owner of blind
horse and with the animal attached to
a dump cart went down on one of the
wharves for load of coal. The horse
refused to be guided by rein or voice
and. despite the protests of the driver
walked off the edge of the wharf and
he and Robinson and the cart made a
big splash in the brine. The tide was
well up but Robinson kept his head
above water by standing on the cart
and with aid cut the harness and the
horse swan ashore. The cart was res
cued at low tide. Neither man nor
horse was injured to any extent
The will of the late Fred G. White
Of Belfast bequeathes $4,000 in trust
to the Belfast Free library. the income
Only to be used for the benefit of the
library. The conditions of the be-
quest, however, are somewhat peculiar
One clause provides that the income
shall be used under the direction of
the library trustees each year that
Edgar F. Hanson shall not be a MEM
Der of the Belfast city government or
| a member of the board of trustees of
| the public library; the annual income
| for such years as Mr.. Hanson is con-
nectcd either with the city govern
| ment or the library trustees to revert
| to the estate of the deceased. The
Edgar F. Hanson against whom the